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Woman critically injured in Illinois Medical District drive-by shooting
A 23-year-old woman was left critically injured after a drive-by shooting Monday morning in the Illinois Medical District, Chicago police said.
The woman was parked on the 600 block of South Paulina Street at 5:24 a.m. when a dark colored sedan approached, and the occupants opened fire. The woman was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, according to police.
The offenders fled the scene, and no one is in custody. Area 3 detectives are investigating, police said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/12/woman-critically-injured-medical-district/
Cambio de regla permite a Semenyo jugar con Man City en semifinales de la Copa de la Liga
Associated Press
NEWCASTLE, Inglaterra (AP) — El nuevo fichaje Antoine Semenyo está disponible para jugar con el Manchester City en las semifinales de la Copa de la Liga Inglesa debido a un reciente cambio de regla, y eso no ha sido bien recibido en Newcastle.
Semenyo ya ha jugado para el Bournemouth en la Copa de la Liga, habiendo entrado como suplente en su derrota 2-0 ante el Brentford en agosto.
Sin embargo, el internacional ghanés, que se unió al City en un acuerdo de 87 millones de dólares la semana pasada, puede jugar contra el Newcastle en las semifinales debido a una regla introducida para esta temporada que permite a un jugador representar hasta dos clubes en la competición en una sola campaña.
El partido de ida es el martes.
“Sí, fue agradable descubrir que la regla había cambiado después de enterarnos de que lo habían fichado. Tengo que decir que probablemente no apoyaría ese cambio de regla en este momento”, señaló el entrenador del Newcastle, Howe sonriendo con resignación cuando se le preguntó qué pensaba del cambio.
Semenyo debutó con el City el sábado y fue uno de los nueve goleadores en la goleada 10-1 sobre el Exeter de tercera división en la FA Cup.
“Antoine ha tenido una temporada increíble. Soy un gran admirador suyo y marcó en su debut, así que bien por él. Creo que el Man City ha fichado a un jugador muy, muy bueno”, comentó Howe sobre el jugador que ya ha marcado diez goles en la Liga Premier.
Con Jeremy Doku potencialmente regresando a la alineación titular contra el Newcastle, el entrenador del City, Pep Guardiola, podría optar por cambiar a Semenyo a la banda derecha en St. James’ Park, ya que Oscar Bobb y Savinho están actualmente lesionados.
“En algunas acciones (contra el Exeter) mostró lo que mostró en el Bournemouth, y espero que pueda continuar haciendo eso aquí”, dijo Guardiola.
El partido de vuelta está programado para el 4 de febrero.
Chelsea y Arsenal se enfrentan en el otro enfrentamiento de las semifinales. El partido de ida es el miércoles.
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Dentro de los Globos de Oro: Encuentros y momentos que no se vieron en televisión
Por LINDSEY BAHR
BEVERLY HILLS, California, EE.UU. (AP) — Emma Stone parece sentirse más cómoda fuera de su asiento que en él durante las ceremonias de premios.
En los Globos de Oro el domingo, la estrella de “Bugonia” se rodeó de un elenco rotativo de compañeros, desde Kirsten Dunst hasta Jennifer Lawrence, no en el salón principal, sino en una sala lateral mucho más pequeña con un bar, una estación de té y café y un suministro siempre renovado de postres decadentes, sushi de Nobu, copas de caviar y, quizás lo más importante, sin cámaras de televisión.
A continuación, algunos detalles que no viste en la transmisión de los Globos de Oro.
Una reunión de “13 Going on 30” (“Si yo tuviera 30”)
Antes de que comenzara el espectáculo, Jennifer Garner y Mark Ruffalo se encontraron cerca del bar y charlaron un rato, no sobre planes para un baile improvisado de “Thriller”, sino sobre cómo Jay Penske, cuyo imperio mediático incluye publicaciones comerciales de Hollywood como “The Hollywood Reporter”, “Variety” y “Deadline”, también es copropietario de los Globos de Oro. “¿No es una locura?”, dijo Ruffalo. La conversación luego se trasladó a cómo casi el actor se pierde su propia categoría el año pasado por el cerco de seguridad en el área de llegada. Finalmente lo logró, pero por poco y tuvo que sentarse en el pasillo.
Madres, tiritas y baile antes del espectáculo
A medida que el reloj avanzaba, Glen Powell acompañó a su madre al salón de baile, tomándola del brazo para navegar los escalones que Alicia Silverstone acababa de esquivar. Vieron su mesa a un lado y Powell se detuvo un momento: “¿Quieres ir al bar entonces?”.
Sin embargo, Silverstone estaba teniendo sus propios problemas, y otra madre pronto vino al rescate: Mila Kunis estaba en una misión para entregar algunas tiritas a Silverstone, quien le agradeció profusamente.
En otro lugar, Colman Domingo bailó hasta su mesa. Teyana Taylor, flanqueada por seguridad que intentaba apresurarla a su asiento, se tomó una selfie con un invitado. Rose Byrne se detuvo para abrazar a Elle Fanning, mientras la presidenta de Universal, Donna Langley, hablaba con Benicio Del Toro. Y Kylie Jenner llegó en el último minuto, sin Timothée Chalamet y con solo minutos para el inicio de la gala.
Los premios comienzan, y algunos salen de la sala
Stone se dirigió directamente a la sala lateral después del primer premio, llevando a su director de “Bugonia”, Yorgos Lanthimos, y a su coprotagonista Alicia Silverstone con ella. Stone y Lanthimos estaban profundamente en conversación, con breves interrupciones para solicitar selfies.
En la estación de café y té, Kirsten Dunst estaba a mitad de servir una taza de café cuando se detuvo y le dijo a su esposo Jesse Plemons: “No quiero esto, ¿tú quieres?” Su pedido en su lugar fue arándano y algo espumoso, que Plemons le entregó diligentemente durante toda la noche. Ambos también estaban emocionados de saludar a Wagner Moura.
Después de la victoria de Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Penn se dirigió a la mesa de “Sentimental Value” (“Valor Sentimental”) para darle un gran abrazo a Renate Reinsve, mientras Megan Everett-Skarsgård, quien acababa de recibir un impulso muy público de su esposo, celebraba con Elle Fanning.
Seth Rogen, mientras tanto, siguió su primera victoria de la noche con lo que parecía ser un martini muy, muy sucio.
El grupo más genial del baño
Ariana Grande lideró un glamuroso tren hacia el baño de damas, diciéndole a Jessie Buckley y Reinsve que “¡agárrense de mí!”. Las tres hicieron una breve parada para saludar a Tessa Thompson y posar para una foto antes de llegar a su destino. En la fila para los baños, Grande suspiró “uf, lo logramos”, levantando su voluminoso vestido lo mejor que pudo. Aún así, alguien pronto pisó una parte de él, disculpándose profusamente. Grande la tranquilizó de inmediato, insistiendo: “No, el problema soy yo”.
Sushi, bebidas y Emma Stone
Más tarde en el espectáculo, Jennifer Lawrence se dirigió al área del bar donde abrazó a Jeremy Allen White antes de encontrar a Stone, quien dejó su vino blanco y tomó el rostro de su amiga entre sus manos. Se esponjaron el cabello cuando un fotógrafo pidió una foto antes de decidir tomar su propia selfie también.
Dunst vio a Lawrence cerca también, diciéndole a la cineasta de “The Testament of Ann Lee” (“El testimonio de Anne Lee”), Mona Fastvold, y a Zoë Kravitz que quería saludar. Plemons pronto llegó con tres bebidas para repartir. Una no era para Lawrence, quien se unió a la fila para pedir su propia bebida.
En otra parte de la sala, Gayle King, quien picoteaba un pequeño bocado de postre, parecía haber conseguido una caja para llevar para el sushi y pronto estaba junto a las mujeres de “KPop Demon Hunters” eligiendo algunas piezas selectas.
Patrick Schwarzenegger echó un buen vistazo a la mesa de postres antes de pasar, con las manos vacías, al sushi. No había batidos de proteínas para el astro de “White Lotus”.
¿Pequeñas charlas o sueños de futuras colaboraciones?
De vuelta en el salón de baile, los descansos comerciales son una carrera para socializar. Dondequiera que miraras, había conversaciones interesantes sucediendo: Dwayne Johnson y Steven Spielberg, Macaulay Culkin y Parker Posey, Maya Rudolph y Selena Gomez, Johnson y Timothée Chalamet y Oscar Isaac con Ethan Hawke, por nombrar algunos.
Otros se quedaron en sus asientos a medida que avanzaba la noche. Julia Roberts, George Clooney y Adam Sandler parecían contentos de quedarse en su mesa muy estrellada. (¿Por qué levantarse cuando la gente puede venir a ti en su lugar?). Jessie Buckley dejó que su hijo de “Hamnet”, un Jacobi Jupe de aspecto cansado, se sentara en su regazo por un momento. Y Eva Victor se tomó un momento para volver a aplicar su lápiz labial antes de que fuera el turno de su categoría.
Preguntas candentes para las fiestas posteriores
¿Estaban Marty Supreme (Chalamet) y The Smashing Machine (Johnson) hablando sobre la grandeza? ¿Sean Penn estaba fumando dentro del salón? ¿Qué le susurró Britt Lower a Grande? ¿Y qué escribió Grande luego en una servilleta y le pasó a Lower? ¿Por qué la esposa de Ethan Hawke, Ryan Hawke, llevaba una bolsa que decía ‘Kit de Supervivencia de Snoop’ y qué había dentro? ¿Y qué le dijo Stone a tres oficiales de policía de Beverly Hills que los hizo reír tanto?
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Chicago police officer fires gun in Austin neighborhood traffic stop
A uniformed Chicago police officer fired a gun during a traffic stop overnight in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.
Officers from the Harrison (11th) District were on patrol when they conducted a traffic stop in the 4700 block of West Fifth Avenue at 12:38 a.m. Monday. A man was driving the vehicle, and police observed a firearm on his lap. Police requested more officers to the scene, and during the encounter with the driver, the officer fired a gun, according to police.
There were no reports of anyone struck by gunfire, police said.
Both officers were transported to a hospital for observation. The Chicago Fire Department treated the driver at the scene for minor injuries caused by broken glass. The driver was taken into custody, and a firearm was recovered at the scene. The Investigative Response Team was at the scene, Chicago police said.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the specifics of the incident, including the use of force. The officers will be placed on routine administrative duties for a minimum of 30 days, police said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/12/chicago-police-fires-gun-austin/
DHS Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters Sharing List Of Hotels Allegedly Hosting Agents
DHS Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters Sharing List Of Hotels Allegedly Hosting Agents
Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times,
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Jan. 11 that federal agents in Minnesota were put at risk after a list of their alleged hotel locations circulated online.
“Revealing their locations puts them at enormous risk of retaliation from these monsters,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote in a statement to The Epoch Times.
Sunrise Twin Cities, a youth-led group against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, is publishing a weekly list of hotels where they suspect that immigration agents are staying.
The Minneapolis-based group has spent weeks urging locals to hold “noise demonstrations” outside hotels, hoping that management will become fed up, kick out the agents, and cancel future reservations.
DHS would not confirm or deny the accuracy of the list.
“We would never confirm where our officers are staying and put their lives in jeopardy, that would be insane,” McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin said these lists of locations can be harmful, as officers face a surge of assaults, vehicular attacks, and death threats, many of which have already been directed at the agent involved in a deadly altercation with a protester last week.
The hotel demonstration on Jan. 9, hosted by Sunrise Twin Cities, resulted in 30 people being detained after an unlawful assembly was declared outside the Canopy Hotel.
“I felt like I was in ‘The Purge,’” a Canopy Hotel staffer told The Epoch Times on Jan. 10.
A staffer from the Canopy Hotel told The Epoch Times that he felt like he was in a horror movie when anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters tried to barge into the building in Minneapolis on Jan. 9, 2026. Jacki Thrapp/The Epoch Times
The Canopy Hotel was up and running on Jan. 10 with seemingly no signs of damage inside or broken windows outside.
But that was not the case for the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, just a few blocks away from the Canopy Hotel.
The Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel had damage worth approximately $6,000 done to windows from graffiti on Jan. 9.
By the afternoon on Jan. 10, the graffiti was removed, and fencing and “no trespassing” signs were scattered across the property and surrounding area.
Fences and “no trespassing” signs were placed outside the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel in Minneapolis on Jan. 10, 2026. Jacki Thrapp/The Epoch Times
A large number of police officers were present both inside and outside of the hotel on the night of Jan. 10.
The hotel bar inside was also standing by to close early if another round of protesters decided to brave the 20-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures to hold additional noise demonstrations.
The anti-ICE hotel demonstrations—and repeated phone calls to front desks to demand that they cancel reservations from agents—also had an effect at a Hilton-affiliated hotel in the Minneapolis area.
“We have noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS, and we are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property,” an email from a hotel employee shared by DHS in an X post on Jan. 5 reads.
“If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation.”
Protesters face off with federal officers in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 9, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
DHS slammed the cancellations.
“This is UNACCEPTABLE,” the department posted on X.
On Jan. 6, Hilton said it would sever its ties with the hotel. The Lakeville, Minnesota, hotel is now listed as “permanently closed” online.
Hilton did not respond by publication time to a request for comment.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/12/2026 – 10:35
Mamdani Hails Rat-Infested Bronx Slum As ‘Model’ For His Housing Agenda
Mamdani Hails Rat-Infested Bronx Slum As ‘Model’ For His Housing Agenda
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on a slew of socialist promises marketed under the banner of affordability.
On his first day in office, he signed three executive orders to address the housing crisis. The first revives the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, led by tenant advocate Cea Weaver, to coordinate agencies and crack down on abusive landlords. Another creates the LIFT task force to fast-track city-owned sites for housing, while the SPEED task force will cut red tape that delays construction. Days later, he picked 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx’s Morris Heights to introduce Dina Levy as the new Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) commissioner.
Back in 2011, Levy, who will now earn a $277,605 annual salary as Mamdani’s HPD commissioner, helped flip the 102-unit building from private ownership to the nonprofit Workforce Housing Advisors. Her group, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, teamed with HPD on a $5.6 million city loan.
Mamdani touted that move as a win. He told the crowd that Levy organized tenants against a predatory buyer. The building stayed affordable. “Dina will no longer be petitioning HPD from the outside,” Mamdani said. “She will now be leading it from the inside, delivering the kind of change that can transform lives.” He painted Levy as the perfect person to implement his affordable housing agenda, which leans heavily on replacing private landlords with nonprofits.
But what Mamdani didn’t say at the event was that this model for his housing agenda is a rat-infested slum.
According to a report from the New York Post, the building “as of Saturday had a staggering 194 open housing-code violations dating back to 2016 – including 88 ‘Class C’ violations considered ‘immediately hazardous.’”
Records show that rat and roach infestation, broken doors and refrigerators, and mold were among those violations.
Tenants of the building say conditions were better under the building’s former private landlord and that the property has steadily deteriorated since being turned over to a nonprofit.
“I have been here over 20 years, and I preferred it when it was under private management because they used to screen people in and out of the building,” longtime tenant Mordistine Alexander told the paper. She has been in the building since 1999.
Today, the building is plagued by chronic heat and hot-water issues, crumbling bathrooms and kitchens, broken windows, and months-long delays in basic repairs. She said she has been without a kitchen light for months and fixed a serious rodent problem herself because she “couldn’t wait any longer” for Workforce Housing Group to act. “Since [the nonprofit] took over, the building has deteriorated. They lack porters. No one is maintaining it, and the complaints fall on deaf ears – especially if you complain a lot,” Alexander said, adding she wishes Levy had never succeeded in transferring the building to nonprofit control. Despite these complaints, Mamdani is pushing for more buildings like the Sedgwick Avenue complex, backing communist policies that restrict private property sales to allow nonprofits to take over more rent-stabilized apartments.
“You have to laugh at the hypocrisy,” Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) said. “These nonprofits are proving themselves to be little more than taxpayer-funded slumlords, and this blatant double-standard is all part of the administration’s planned attack on private ownership in New York City.”
The Sedgwick Avenue site has more open HPD violations than roughly three-quarters of the privately owned, rent-stabilized buildings in NYC — but Mamdani is “too focused” on pushing the abolition of private property, said Kenny Burgos, a former Bronx assemblyman who heads the New York Apartment Association that represents landlords of rent-stabilized units.
Nonprofit-managed housing “consistently run higher violation counts despite having government-backed loans and [being eligible to avoid] paying property taxes, so they should have a lot more freed-up cash to make these buildings run efficiently, and yet are unable to do so – even with good intentions and no goal of profit,” added Burgos.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development defended the rat-infested slum and Levy’s involvement in the sale of the building to Workforce Housing Group.
“When the building was at risk of being purchased by a predatory buyer, Dina Levy organized alongside the tenants and kept the building affordable,” spokesman Matt Rauschenbach said. “And now the building is undergoing an $8 million preservation renovation to improve conditions and make sure it is a safe, affordable place for the tenants who live there to call home.”
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/12/2026 – 10:25
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mamdani-hails-rat-infested-bronx-slum-model-his-housing-agenda
Sheinbaum habla con Trump después de que EEUU pidiera resultados tangibles contra los cárteles
Associated Press
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum mantuvo una llamada el lunes por la mañana con su homólogo estadounidense Donald Trump después de que la víspera Estados Unidos pidiera a México resultados más tangibles en la lucha contra el crimen organizado.
“Hablamos de distintos temas, incluyendo la seguridad con respeto a nuestras soberanías, la disminución del tráfico de drogas, el comercio y las inversiones”, dijo Sheinbaum en un breve mensaje en su cuenta oficial de X en el que calificó la conversación de “muy buena”. “La colaboración y la cooperación en un marco de respeto mutuo siempre dan resultados”, agregó.
El domingo, a poco más de una semana del ataque de Estados Unidos a Venezuela y de la intensificación de las amenazas de Trump a otros países, entre ellos Cuba, el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, habló con su homólogo mexicano Juan Ramón de la Fuente y le pidió “resultados tangibles” y una “cooperación más sólida para desmantelar las violentas redes de narcoterroristas en México y detener el tráfico de fentanilo y armas”, según un comunicado del Departamento de Estado.
En la última semana Trump ha reiterado su interés en actuar contra los cárteles en México. “Hemos eliminado el 97% de las drogas que llegan por mar y ahora vamos a empezar a actuar contra los cárteles en tierra. Los cárteles controlan México. Es muy triste verlo”, indicó el jueves.
Trump ha coqueteado en numerosas ocasiones con la posibilidad de lanzar acciones militares en territorio mexicano y ha ofrecido esta colaboración a México, pero Sheinbaum siempre la rechazó.
La semana pasada la mandataria dijo en varias ocasiones que los comentarios de Trump son “su manera de comunicar”. No obstante, el viernes dijo que había pedido al canciller De la Fuente buscar una llamada con Rubio y, si era necesario, con el propio presidente estadounidense.
Los expertos no ven probable una acción unilateral de Estados Unidos en México porque la administración de Sheinbaum está haciendo casi todo lo que pide Washington en materia de seguridad y ambos países son socios económicos vitales, pero consideraron que esas amenazas continuarían como una forma de presión junto con el planteamiento de nuevas demandas.
Aurora earns statewide award for fleet sustainability
The city of Aurora last month earned a statewide award for its commitment to making its fleet of vehicles more sustainable.
The Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation, a statewide nonprofit that promotes environmentally-friendly vehicles and cleaner air, announced that Aurora had won its 2025 Clean Transportation Leadership Award for fleet suitability at its annual program and holiday reception on Dec. 11, where the organization also gave out other awards.
“We are honored to receive this award,” Aurora Superintendent of Fleet Maintenance Chris Linville said in a city news release. “We will continue to modernize our fleet, working hard to reduce emissions and support our sustainability goals.”
A separate news release from the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation said Aurora was given the award for expanding its “clean fleet” and its electric vehicle charging capacity in 2025 despite complex procurement, budgeting and supply chain challenges.
Aurora added 13 new electric vehicles and 32 hybrid vehicles to its fleet in 2025, bringing its total up to 19 electric vehicles and 47 hybrid vehicles, according to the city’s news release.
After last year’s additions, 10% of Aurora’s licensed motorized fleet is now electric or hybrid, Linville told The Beacon-News. The city departments and divisions currently using electric vehicles include police, fire prevention, street maintenance, water and sewer, downtown services, central services, property standards, engineering and water production, he said.
The city also increased its electric vehicle charging capacity by 90%, the city news release said, with nine new dual-port Level 2 chargers installed in 2025.
“This award is a result of some of the small steps we have taken towards a more sustainable Aurora,” Mayor John Laesch said in the news release. “We will continue charting a more robust path towards energy efficiency programs that save more money for home and business owners in Aurora.”
At a committee meeting last week, Laesch presented Linville with a Mayor’s Award of Excellence for bringing in the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation award. Laesch said it was important that the city recognize Linville’s hard work, and he also recognized the city’s grant writers for helping fund the initiative and all the employees who had to adjust to getting a new type of vehicle.
As a result of the fleet upgrades, which were led by the city’s fleet maintenance, electrical maintenance and purchasing divisions, Aurora is seeing lower fuel use, reduced idling and emissions and longer periods between required fleet maintenance, according to the news release.
Investing in fuel-efficient vehicles is one of the goals stated in the city’s 2019 Sustainability Plan. And in a video posted to Aurora’s YouTube channel in September, Linville said the Public Works Department has a “green fleet policy” that prioritizes the purchase of the most fuel-efficient or eco-friendly vehicle possible for a given role.
Aside from the reduced emissions, electric vehicles are also simpler to maintain, Linville said in the video. There’s a lot less moving parts, he said, and they don’t require oil changes.
Director of Sustainability Alison Lindburg said in the September YouTube video that, when it comes to climate change, it is important to address the transportation sector. About a third of Aurora’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, she said.
“That’s why it’s important for people with their own personal vehicles, or with a city fleet, to be looking at EVs as a way to address climate change,” she said.
Aurora has recently been making strides towards being more sustainable in other ways too. For example, Lindburg’s position was created this year, and since her hire the city has started looking into energy stretch code adoption and has placed a temporary moratorium on data centers, partially citing environmental reasons.
Her new division, she said in the YouTube video from September, is working within the city’s existing economic development department to create jobs through sustainable actions.
City staff are also in the early stages of developing loan programs to support sustainable upgrades for commercial and residential properties.
Sustainability, particularly through green building, was a large part of Laesch’s campaign platform last year.
As a mayoral candidate, he told The Beacon-News that he would work to attract higher-paying jobs by “positioning Aurora for the green collar economy that’s coming,” at least in part by encouraging businesses that create innovative building materials to move to the city. Later, during his inauguration speech, Laesch said Aurora would be looking to partner with the local CEJA Workforce Hub to help train students for that coming “green collar economy.”
rsmith@chicagotribune.com
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/12/aurora-earns-statewide-award-for-fleet-sustainability/
Cuba desmiente conversaciones con Estados Unidos tras advertencias de Trump
Por ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
LA HABANA (AP) — El presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel desmintió el lunes algún tipo de conversaciones con Estados Unidos luego de que el mandatario norteamericano advirtiera que era mejor para la isla avenirse a pactar “antes de que sea tarde”.
“No existen conversaciones con el gobierno de Estados Unidos, salvo contactos técnicos en el ámbito migratorio”, escribió Díaz-Canel en su cuenta de X.
Agregó que “siempre hemos tenido disposición a sostener un diálogo serio y responsable con los distintos gobiernos de Estados Unidos, incluido el actual, sobre bases de igualdad soberana, respeto mutuo, principios de Derecho Internacional, beneficio recíproco”… Sin injerencia en asuntos internos y con pleno respeto a nuestra independencia”.
La víspera Trump aseguró que era mejor para isla pactar con Washington toda vez que ya no recibirá petróleo venezolano, al tiempo que sugirió que sería una buena idea que su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, fuera presidente de la isla.
Rubio, nacido de padres cubanos emigrados a Estados Unidos en los años 50 antes del triunfo de la revolución, no ha visitado jamás la isla.
“Existen acuerdos migratorios bilaterales en vigor que Cuba cumple escrupulosamente. Como demuestra la historia, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, para que avancen, deben basarse en el Derecho Internacional en vez de en la hostilidad, la amenaza y la coerción económica”, agregó Díaz-Canel en su mensaje el lunes.
Cuba atraviesa una dura crisis causada por la paralización durante la pandemia de COVID-19 y las sanciones de Estados Unidos que se incrementaron radicalmente a partir del primer gobierno de Trump para presionar por un cambio de modelo político.
Según un reporte ante Naciones Unidas, Cuba perdió unos 7.500 millones de dólares desde febrero de 2024, una cifra dramática para una isla cuyos ingresos por turismo en su mejor momento de la década pasada llegaban a unos 3.000 millones de dólares anuales.
La crisis produjo además una gran ola migratoria, sobre todo hacia Estados Unidos –adonde los cubanos tienen prebendas migratorias como exiliados que ahora se han visto limitadas– , antes de que el propio Trump cerrara las fronteras.
Los comentarios de Díaz-Canel y Trump se publicaron luego de que Estados Unidos capturara la semana pasada al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro, un fuerte aliado político y comercial de la isla y quien vende a la nación caribeña parte del crudo que necesita para su economía y la generación eléctrica.
El gobierno cubano ha informado que 32 de sus militares murieron durante la operación estadounidense que capturó a Maduro. El personal de las dos principales agencias de seguridad de Cuba se encontraba en Caracas como parte de un acuerdo entre Cuba y Venezuela.
Man dies after New City house fire
A man died in a fire Sunday afternoon inside a house in the New City neighborhood, Chicago police said.
At 3:18 p.m., a man was inside the residence when the fire happened in the 4700 block of South Damen Avenue, according to police. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The man’s age was unknown.
Detectives were investigating, police said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/12/1-dead-in-new-city-fire/
