International
Fabiola Yáñez breaks the silence about the alleged mistreatment of former Argentine President Alberto Fernández
Former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez spoke for the first time about the alleged violence she underwent by former President Alberto Fernández, who, she said, constantly threatened her with suicide and whom she took care of “so many things that he has done,” as she confessed.
The 43-year-old actress and journalist made these statements in an exclusive interview in Madrid, where she lives with her 2-year-old son Francisco, granted to the Argentine portal Infobae, the first since the complaint she filed before the Justice of her country against the former president (2019-2023) for physical violence and harassment became known.
Yáñez affirmed that Fernández committed numerous infidelities during their relationship; she denounced having been mistreated “for five years”; and she acknowledged that her last months as first lady, until last December, she lived separately from the then president in the guest house of the Quinta de Olivos (presidential residence) and not in another home for avoiding “a scandal.”
Fernández’s ex-partner was consulted for the dissemination of the photographs in which she is seen with bruises on several parts of the body, which were leaked to the press this week from the judicial file.
“I destroyed myself, but I was destroyed by my son. I would never have wanted a photo like that to come out of me. What woman do you want to see in all the television programs and in the media of the world like this? I don’t understand how the chats were leaked and that the photo was saved for the last moment (…) I don’t think there is a woman in the world who wants to look like this. There are other causes of violence that are always private,” he said.
However, he acknowledged that all the material disseminated “comes out of someone else’s phone,” alluding to a secretary of Fernández, whose cell phone is being investigated for a case of alleged corruption that could also affect the former president.
Yáñez, who failed to give more details about the alleged physical abuse out of respect for the judicial case, reported having suffered “telephone harassment” and “psychological terrorism.”
“This person (Fernández) was there for two months – there are all the chats and many people know it – threatening me day by day that if I did this, if I did the other thing, that he was going to commit suicide. That’s not done, that’s a crime. How am I going to be whole for my son if I have a person telling me those things? Day by the other, for two months. But it was the last thing this person did,” he said.
The former first lady acknowledged that her love story with Fernández lasted 14 years, but that it was broken in recent times and asserted that he committed infidelities with several famous women, whom she did not identify.
“I have taken care of this man; I have taken care of so many things that he has done, of so many things, that those videos that appeared the other day are little next to the things that he has done,” Yáñez said in reference to the filming allegedly taken by the then president at the Casa Rosada of a well-known radio and television journalist, who seems to flit with him, although from this one only his alleged voice is heard in ‘off’.
Yáñez said he had not obtained help from the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, created by Fernández in 2019, and stated that he had made the decision to denounce “for all women who feel that they can’t do anything and that they are victims of this type of violence, whether psychological and/or physical, whatever it may be.”
“I was never a feminist but violence against women is one of the most reprehensible things that can exist in this world,” she said.
After the complaint filed on August 6, federal judge Julián Ercolini prohibited Fernández from leaving Argentina and ordered him not to approach or contact Yáñez by any means.
That day, in a brief statement, the former president denied the accusations against him and said that he would present evidence of his falsehood to Justice.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links
A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”
The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
International
Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?
This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.
The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.
While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.
Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.
Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.
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