International

Biden says that Trump was the victim of an “attemnation of assassination” and they will be extremely safe

US President Joe Biden defined the shooting attack against his Republican rival Donald Trump on Sunday as an “attemnation at assassination” and promised “high” security for the candidate and the Republican convention that begins this Monday.

In statements from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Biden asked Americans not to speculate about the motivations of the alleged attacker, who was shot down on a roof near the campaign act in which Trump suffered a slight injury from one of the bullets that tore his right ear.

“The investigation is in the initial stages. We don’t have any information about the shooter’s motives. We know who it is. I urge everyone, please, not to speculate about the reasons and affiliations,” said the president, who promised all the necessary resources for the investigation.

“The first thing I want to do is that Trump, as former president and nominee of the Republican Party, already receives a high level of security,” Biden said.

Trump is not yet officially the candidate for the presidency of the Republican Party, which usually causes the Secret Service to increase security, although Trump as former president already had the right to protection from that executive protection body.

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Biden announced that he has asked the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, to review “all the security measures for the Republican National Convention,” which begins tomorrow in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and will last until Thursday.

As a third measure, the president has requested an independent review of the events that occurred on Saturday at the rally in Butler (Pennsylvania).

Biden said that he will speak to the nation in more detail tonight from the Oval Office. The already tumultuous electoral campaign has just reached an unprecedented level of tension with this assassination attempt.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 years old and from a neighboring town, fired several shots at Trump with an AR-15 rifle from a nearby roof outside the perimeter of Saturday’s event, which was attended by thousands of people.

In addition to insuring Trump, evacuated by a group of Secret Service agents, the attacker killed an assistant, who today Biden recalled that he died protecting his family, and seriously injured two others.

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The attacker was killed by Secret Service snipers, but television analysts criticize that that vulnerable point in a nearby building was not considered to prevent anyone from accessing a point with a clean shot towards the stage

Central America

Nicaragua revokes legal status of 10 more NGOs, bringing total to over 5,600

The Nicaraguan government canceled the legal status of 10 more non-profit organizations on Friday (March 28, 2025), including the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation, bringing the total number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shut down since December 2018 to over 5,600.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation, which had been registered since March 9, 2002, was found to be in non-compliance for failing to report its financial status for 2024 and for having an expired board of directors.

Among the 10 NGOs whose legal status was revoked were religious organizations, educational groups, consumer associations, and aquaculture organizations, all dissolved “voluntarily” or closed under similar reasons.

As of today, more than 5,600 NGOs have been dismantled following the popular protests that erupted in April 2018 in Nicaragua. In most cases, the assets of these organizations have been ordered to be transferred to the state.

International

Marco Rubio warns Venezuela against military action against Guyana

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Venezuela on Thursday that a military attack on Guyana would be “a big mistake” and “a very bad day for them,” expressing his support for Georgetown in its territorial dispute with Caracas.

“It would be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if they attacked Guyana or ExxonMobil. It would be a very bad day, a very bad week for them, and it would not end well,” Rubio emphasized during a press conference in Georgetown alongside Guyanese President Irfaan Ali.

International

Ecuador oil spill worsens as containment dam collapses

The collapse of a containment dam holding back part of the 25,000+ barrels of oil spilled from a pipeline rupture nearly two weeks ago has worsened the environmental crisis in northwestern Ecuador, contaminating rivers and Pacific beaches.

The Ecuadorian government attributed the March 13 pipeline rupture—which led to the spill of 25,116 barrels of crude—to an act of sabotage. The spill affected three rivers and disrupted water supplies for several communities, according to authorities.

On Tuesday, due to heavy rains that have been falling since January, a containment dam on the Caple River collapsed. The Caple connects to other waterways in Esmeraldas Province, a coastal region bordering Colombia, state-owned Petroecuador said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven containment barriers were installed in the Viche River, where crews worked to remove oil-contaminated debris. Additional absorbent materials were deployed in Caple, Viche, and Esmeraldas Rivers, which flow into the Pacific Ocean.

Authorities are also working to protect a wildlife refuge home to more than 250 species, including otters, howler monkeys, armadillos, frigatebirds, and pelicans.

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“This has been a total disaster,” said Ronald Ruiz, a leader in the Cube community, where the dam was located. He explained that the harsh winter rains caused river levels to rise, bringing debris that broke the containment barriersthat were holding the accumulated oil for extraction.