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How and where is Donald Trump after the attack on him?
Former President Donald Trump, victim yesterday of a failed attack during a political rally in Butler (Pennsylvania), spent Sunday in detained at the Bedminister golf club, in New Jersey, of his property.
The accesses to the golf club in this wooded area of New Jersey have been closed this Sunday both north and south, and the different roads that lead to the facilities are protected by the security services, which only allow access to some vehicles, and are extreme security around the former president.
Journalists were forced to be located about 5 kilometers from the entrances, next to the Bedminster public library. Many of them have been stationed in the place for several hours with the only hope of seeing their entourage leave on the nearby road at some point in the day, although they could also leave by helicopter or even not leave until tomorrow.
Trump, who yesterday saw himself in apparent good shape only hours after the attack – he lowered the stairs of the plane on his own foot when he arrived at Newark airport -, has promised to be at the Republican Party convention tomorrow where his candidacy will be proclaimed and where he could appoint his vice president.
Taking advantage of the presence of journalists, a group of Trump fans defied the temperatures of this Sunday and mounted a small demonstration of support next to a road crossing, to which the neighbors of this rural place with little urbanization were joining.
There were numerous vehicles that passed by them and repeatedly honked the horn to support them, or that took their thumbs out the window to encourage them. Many of them carried American flags in the wind or others with the slogan “Make America Great Again”.
One of the protesters, Nancy, 65, in a dress xerographed with a montage of photos of the former president, assures that God has marked everyone’s destiny and yesterday was not Trump’s time; about the attacker, she said that “everyone who hates Trump knows that only killing him can prevent his victory.”
On board his Harley Davidson came Miguel Madero, a Puerto Rican who works in construction and who left because he believes that only Trump “can save this country from socialism,” an idea that according to him all his clients share with whom he talks about politics.
All the participants in this small demonstration blamed the press for what happened yesterday, because according to them the “mainstream” (dominant) media have long been sowing a rhetoric of hatred against Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular that has led to this attempted assassination.
International
Austrian man arrested in Croatia with deceased woman as passenger in his car
A 65-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested at a border checkpoint in Croatia after attempting to enter the country in his car with a deceased woman sitting as a passenger, police announced on Tuesday.
The man was detained in a routine check in late November in Gunja, a border area separating Bosnia from Croatia, the police told AFP. Suspicious because they saw “no consciousness or movement” from the passenger, Croatian officers called a doctor, who confirmed the death of the 83-year-old woman, also Austrian, according to her identification.
The woman’s relationship to the suspect is unknown. She had died in Bosnia, and the man intended to repatriate her body to Austria to “avoid the formalities related to transporting a corpse,” according to the police. Croatian media reported that the man was her legal guardian.
Once her death was confirmed, a funeral service took charge of the body.
International
Colombian nationals arrested for human trafficking and disappearance of migrant boat
Colombian authorities arrested two nationals accused of the illegal trafficking of migrants to the United States and of endangering lives due to the disappearance of a boat with 40 people aboard, U.S. Department of Justice officials reported on Tuesday.
Hernando Manuel de la Cruz Rivera Orjuela, 52, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, 40, both Colombian citizens, were arrested on December 13 in Colombia at the request of the United States for their alleged involvement in a “transnational human trafficking operation,” the department said in a statement.
According to the charges, the detainees were transporting migrants to San Andrés Island in the Caribbean, where they would then be taken by boat to Nicaragua. The goal was to reach the United States through Central America and Mexico.
The accused are said to have advised the migrants on how to reach San Andrés Island, where they personally received them, arranged accommodations, and “took them to the boats that transported them to Nicaragua so they could enter the United States illegally,” the statement reads.
“These defendants put several migrants on the boat that disappeared off the coast of Nicaragua in 2023,” said Deputy Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, as cited in the statement.
Both men are “directly and personally responsible for the illicit trafficking of migrants on that vessel,” according to the indictment dated October 23.
International
Homemade landmine explosion in Michoacán kills two soldiers, injures five
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The attack occurred on Monday morning in the municipality of Cotija, a border area between Michoacán and the state of Jalisco, when the military was conducting a reconnaissance mission after receiving information about an armed camp in the area, explained Secretary General Ricardo Trevilla.
“At that moment, an improvised explosive device detonated. Unfortunately, two soldiers lost their lives, and five others were injured,” the military leader detailed. The affected soldiers were airlifted to hospitals in the region by a military helicopter, while the rest of the team continued with the reconnaissance of the area.
Trevilla stated that before the explosion, the military unit had located the dismembered bodies of three people, and upon continuing the mission, they confirmed the camp was abandoned.
Asked about the individuals responsible for placing the explosives, the general suggested they could be criminals linked to the local group Cárteles Unidos, which operates in Michoacán and uses these tactics in their territorial dispute with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.
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