International
Evo Morales accuses Luis Arce of aligning with Donald Trump and the U.S.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) stated this Sunday that President Luis Arce is a “close ally” of U.S. President Donald Trump, citing several events he sees as “alignments” with right-wing politics and imperialism.
“I don’t know how things will go for Donald Trump, who is clearly Lucho’s [Luis Arce] great ally now—it’s becoming evident,” Morales said on his Sunday radio program, broadcast by Kawsachun Coca.
Morales referenced the participation of Debra Hevia, the U.S. Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires in Bolivia, in the official celebration of the anniversary of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on January 22.
“That picture we saw of the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires sitting next to people wearing ponchos and polleras (the skirts of Aymara women)—please,” the former president criticized, referring to Hevia’s seating arrangement alongside indigenous and peasant leaders.
He also claimed that President Arce “congratulated” Trump just hours after the latter was sworn in as president of the United States.
“Lucho congratulated a president who punishes Cuba, expels migrants, and disregards our policy of universal citizenship,” said Morales, the former leader of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS).
Bolivia and the United States have maintained relations at the chargé d’affaires level since 2008 when Morales expelled then-U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), accusing them of allegedly conspiring against his government.
In November 2024, Morales accused Trump, who was not yet the U.S. president, of funding a “coup” in 2019 when Morales was in office. He also accused Trump of supporting President Arce’s government today.
This Sunday, Morales declared that “the empire orchestrated” the military uprising of June 26 last year, which he referred to as an “auto-coup.”
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.
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.
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