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Hondureños eligen nuevo presidente y Congreso tras campaña plagada por denuncias de posible fraude
Por MARLON GONZÁLEZ
TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — Los hondureños acudían el domingo a las urnas para escoger a su nuevo presidente entre una candidata que representa el continuismo y dos opositores abanderados por partidos tradicionales que buscan retornar al poder tras una tensa campaña marcada por denuncias de posible fraude.
Más de seis millones de hondureños podrán sufragar en otra jornada electoral en Latinoamérica observada con atención por la administración del presidente Donald Trump, quien ha vuelto su mirada a la región.
A pocos días de la votación Trump envió un mensaje de respaldo a uno de los contendientes en la liza: el empresario conservador Nasry Asfura, del tradicional Partido Nacional del exmandatario Juan Orlando Hernández, extraditado y sentenciado en Estados Unidos.
El viernes el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, indicó que indultará a Hernández, quien en 2024 fue declarado culpable de narcotráfico y sentenciado a 45 años de prisión. En su cuenta de Truth Social, Trump explicó que “según muchas personas a las que respeto profundamente”, Hernández fue “tratado de manera muy dura e injusta”.
Tres de los cinco candidatos en la boleta presidencial llegan en un virtual empate en el primer lugar, según las encuestas: Rixi Moncada, una abogada y aliada de la mandataria saliente Xiomara Castro que se postula por el oficialista partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre), de izquierda; el popular expresentador de televisión Salvador Nasralla, que busca por cuarta vez la presidencia esta vez por el también tradicional Partido Liberal, y Asfura.
Moncada, de 60 años, ayudó a fundar Libre tras el derrocamiento del entonces presidente Manuel Zelaya, esposo de Castro, en 2009, y se lanzó a la carrera presidencial con el fin de seguir los pasos de Castro, quien se convirtió en la primera mujer presidenta del país. Ella busca capitalizar algunos de sus logros en lo social y políticas de seguridad a pesar de la perenne insatisfacción de los votantes hacia sus gobernantes y las dificultades en uno de los países más desiguales e inseguros de América Central.
Las tasas de homicidios y desempleo han mejorado durante los últimos cuatro años bajo la presidencia saliente —incluso el Fondo Monetario Internacional aplaudió la responsabilidad fiscal de su administración—, pero no está claro si los votantes recompensarán a la candidata oficialista.
Moncada, exsecretaria de Finanzas y Seguridad en el gobierno de Castro, habla de “democratizar” la economía con medidas como una estructura tributaria más progresiva y un acceso más fácil a créditos asequibles.
Nasralla, de 72 años, quien se sumó a la fórmula de Castro en las pasadas elecciones y fue vicepresidente durante un breve período, se ha centrado en erradicar la corrupción en su discurso de campaña. Se presenta aún como un outsider a pesar de haberse aliado con varios partidos a lo largo de los años. Al igual que Moncada, él ha lanzado advertencias durante la campaña sobre un posible fraude el domingo.
Asfura, de 67 años, se postula por segunda vez a la presidencia por el Partido Nacional. Dirigió la alcaldía de Tegucigalpa durante ocho años y se presenta como un constructor práctico capaz de abordar las necesidades de infraestructura del país. Sin embargo, también ha sido señalado por malversación de fondos públicos, acusación que rechaza.
Trump envió el miércoles un claro respaldo en las redes sociales a favor de “Tito” Asfura, al tiempo que vinculó a Moncada con Fidel Castro y describió a Nasralla como “prácticamente comunista” y lo señaló de estar involucrado en un “intento por engañar al pueblo”.
“El único verdadero amigo de la libertad en Honduras es Tito Asfura”, escribió Trump. “Tito y yo podemos trabajar juntos para luchar contra los ‘narcocomunistas’ y llevar la ayuda necesaria al pueblo de Honduras”.
Temores de posibles irregularidades
Tanto la candidata del oficialismo como el de la oposición se han acusado mutuamente sobre la posibilidad de una manipulación de los resultados.
Moncada afirma que es el bipartidismo tradicional (Nacional y Liberal) el que está fraguando supuestamente un plan de fraude y que los sistemas de cómputo están hackeados. Nasralla señala, por su parte, que el gobierno busca presuntamente manipular los resultados y que tiene a extranjeros en el país para generar caos y robar las elecciones.
“En el actual ciclo electoral de América Latina, Honduras destaca”, apuntó a The Associated Press Michael Shifter, de Diálogo Interamericano, con sede en Washington. “Es la única elección regional que probablemente será impugnada, con acusaciones de fraude, independientemente de quién gane”.
En los comicios también se renovará el Congreso.
Qué piensan los hondureños
José Caballero, un contador desempleado de 71 años que padece una enfermedad renal, aseguró estar listo para votar a pesar de los viejos problemas de desempleo e inseguridad. Contó que se gana la vida en el comercio.
“En este país después de los 40 años ya no hay trabajo”, dijo. “Aquí en Honduras si usted pone un negocio, le cae rápido el extorsionador; al delincuente no le importa si usted ha vendido o no, siempre le tiene que pagar semanal, entonces no dejan trabajar a la gente”.
Blanca Pineda, una secretaria de 50 años, coincidió. “Los hondureños a una sola voz queremos seguridad, empleo”.
Miles Scott’s 2 late interceptions secure Illinois’ 20-13 win over Northwestern on a snowy Saturday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Miles Scott had two interceptions in the final five minutes Saturday to lock down Illinois’ 20-13 victory over Northwestern.
Ahead 14-10 at halftime on the snowy night, the Illini (8-4, 5-4 Big Ten) scored only six points in the second half of a pair of field goals by David Olano, but that was enough to defeat the Wildcats (6-6, 4-5).
Luke Altmyer, one of the nation’s top quarterbacks, was 10-of-15 passing for 136 yards in his final regular-season home game for Illinois. Ca’Lil Valentine rushed 14 times for 74 yards and a touchdown.
Preston Stone was 19 of 36 for 163 yards passing and a touchdown for Northwestern, but threw three interceptions. The Wildcats also lost a fumble.
Hayden Eligon II had eight catches for 99 yards for Northwestern and third-string running back Robby Preckel ran for 82 yards on 22 carries.
Down 17-10 early in the fourth quarter, Northwestern was in the red zone twice with opportunities to tie the game, but came away with only three points on a 26-yard field goal by Jack Olsen.
The takeaway
Northwestern: The Wildcats lost 24-22 to Michigan two weeks ago on a 31-yard field goal by Dominic Zvada with two seconds left, and beat Minnesota 38-35 last week on a 33-yard field goal by Olsen with 53 seconds to go to end a three-game losing streak. Because of the weather conditions on Saturday in Champaign, there was little chance Northwestern would have a third straight game decided by a late kick. Instead, it was four turnovers that killed the Wildcats.
Illinois: Talk of the Illini being a contender for a spot in the College Football Playoffs ended when they stumbled down the stretch after a 5-1 start. But they’ll be going to a bowl game in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2010-11, and they’ve won at least eight games in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1989-90. Illinois went 10-3 in 2024 and tied the program record for victories in a season.
Up next
Northwestern: The Wildcats are bowl eligible.
Illinois: The Illini await a bowl invitation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/illinois-fighting-illini-northwestern-wildcats-snow-game/
Duncan Robinson logra victoria en su regreso a Miami; Pistons vencen 138-135 al Heat
MIAMI (AP) — Cade Cunningham anotó 29 puntos, Duncan Robinson sumó 18 en su regreso a Miami y los Pistons de Detroit, líderes de la Conferencia Este, resistieron ante el Heat para imponerse el sábado por 138-135, con lo que cortaron una racha de dos derrotas consecutivas.
Miami estaba abajo por 22 unidades con 8:09 minutos restantes. Se acercó a 133-131 cuando Bam Adebayo anotó tras un rebote ofensivo con 34 segundos por jugar.
Sin embargo, Cunningham anotó en la siguiente posesión de Detroit y los Pistons escaparon con la victoria.
Tobias Harris acertó diez de 12 tiros de campo y anotó 26 puntos por los Pistons, que tienen una foja de 16-4, su mejor inicio en 20 partidos desde que comenzaron con 17-3 la temporada 2005-2006. Detroit tuvo un 59% de acierto en tiros y sumó 76 puntos en la pintura.
Andrew Wiggins anotó 31 tantos por Miami, que recibió un aporte de 28 puntos de Norman Powell y otro de 24 de Tyler Herro. Adebayo totalizó 15 puntos y diez rebotes.
Fue la primera vez que Robinson regresó a Miami como oponente. Fue traspasado a Detroit el verano pasado.
Robinson pasó sus primeros siete años con el Heat.
Tiro de último segundo de Siakam da la victoria a Pacers sobre Bulls por 103-101
INDIANÁPOLIS (AP) — Pascal Siakam encestó un tiro de media distancia con un segundo restante para darles el sábado a los Pacers de Indiana una victoria de 103-101 sobre los Bulls de Chicago.
Siakam lideró a los Pacers con 24 puntos y nueve rebotes, mientras que Bennedict Mathurin anotó 19. Isaiah Jackson sumó 14 puntos y 11 rebotes desde el banquillo.
Josh Giddey terminó con 17 unidades y 11 rebotes por los Bulls. Tre Jones anotó también 17 y Nikola Vucevic añadió 16 tantos y ocho tableros.
Chicago comenzó el último cuarto con una racha de 15-2 para tomar una ventaja de 95-88 con poco menos de cinco minutos y medio por jugar.
Con un marcador de 97-90 en contra, los Pacers lograron una racha de 8-0 para tomar la delantera a 2:19 minutos del final, cuando T.J. McConnell encestó en suspensión.
Después de que los Bulls recuperaron brevemente la ventaja 99-98 con dos tiros libres de Vucevic, los Pacers se beneficiaron cuando una decisión de interferencia de canasta contra Jay Huff fue revocada. Tras un enceste de Siakam, Andrew Nembhard convirtió uno de dos tiros libres para darle a Indiana una ventaja de 101-99 con 10,7 segundos restantes.
Jones anotó en una penetración para empatar 101-101 con 7,5 segundos por jugar cuando se sancionó interferencia de canasta contra los Pacers.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
The United States Of Delusion
The United States Of Delusion
Authored by Buck Sexton via DailyReckoning.com,
If I looked you in the eye and told you the Rocky Mountains don’t exist, you’d think I was crazy.
But give me time, and I could make you believe it.
I wouldn’t need threats or force. I wouldn’t really even need a good argument.
All I’d need is steady, confident repetition. The kind that comes from the voices you already trust.
Say, you lived out on the eastern plains of Colorado. The land is flat and the horizon looks empty.
You’ve got a job, a family, responsibilities. You’re not driving hours west to confirm whether a mountain range is sitting there; it’s not like it’s urgent.
So you don’t push back. You just absorb the disinformation.
And soon enough, you’re not just accepting the idea, you’re defending it.
Your identity becomes wrapped in the belief that the world is exactly as you were told it is.
Any challenge to that belief feels like a personal attack.
Then one afternoon, you drive a little farther than usual and there it is. The massive, immovable Rockies, exactly where they’ve always been
And instead of asking, “Why was I misled?” you lash out.
Who put these mountains here? This disrupts everything! Who do I blame?
And people just like you begin insisting that the problem isn’t the lie… It’s the chain of mountains.
Nothing changed about the Rockies, only your relationship to reality changed.
This is how real manipulation works.
Not by controlling your actions, but by controlling the lens you use to see the world. So when reality finally shows up, you treat reality itself as the enemy.
And that is exactly where America is right now.
The Mountains in Plain Sight
The same psychological trick is being played on the entire country.
For years, people have been told certain problems simply don’t exist and that the “mountains” rising out of our national landscape are illusions.
You know the list: The border isn’t wide open, crime is down, failing schools are fine, our cities are flourishing. Nothing is wrong with the country’s direction.
Millions of people have accepted these claims not because they’ve verified them, but because they’ve heard them repeated endlessly by institutions they once trusted.
And when the evidence becomes undeniable, their instinct isn’t to reconsider…
It’s to rage.
This is Manufactured Mass Hysteria.
And that’s the single greatest danger facing the U.S. now…
Millions of Americans walking straight into the shadow of mountains they’ve convinced themselves don’t exist.
This Is What Actually Breaks a Country
I’m coming out with a book on this phenomenon, called Manufacturing Delusion. I’ll share more about it in a moment, but the core idea is simple:
Americans can handle hardship. We cannot handle insanity.
This country has survived world wars, economic depressions, political violence and cultural upheaval. We adapted. We endured. We rebuilt.
Hardship isn’t new to us. But widespread derangement will break us as a nation.
And unfortunately, that’s exactly where left-wing politics has taken us. We’re in a very dangerous moment when mass delusion is the preferred weapon of mobilization.
They make people crazy… And they make them crazy on purpose.
Totalitarian systems have used these methods for more than a century. The architecture of mind control has been studied, refined, tested and deployed across the world.
Propaganda, psychological conditioning and censorship operate on predictable principles.
Once you understand these principles, you’ll start to see them everywhere.
This is the material I lay out in my book — the mechanics of manipulation, the scientific foundation of how it works, the incentives that keep it running and why it’s happening right now.
We don’t have the luxury of viewing this as an academic exercise, because the consequences are unfolding in real time.
The cost of this engineered insanity is rising, and the country is feeling it.
How the Conditioning Nearly Killed a President
You don’t have to look far to see what manufactured delusion produces.
Look at what happened this week.
The country already knew that a young man tried to assassinate President Trump in July 2024. That part has been public for more than a year.
Only now do we have a clear picture of who the attacker actually was.
And the profile is exactly what you would expect in an era shaped by psychological destabilization…
A self-identified “they/them,” furry-obsessed, left-wing tranTIFA extremist.
Someone whose entire online presence is a collage of ideological confusion, identity instability and rage manufactured by years of propaganda.
This guy wasn’t writing insane stuff in his basement somewhere…
This was a person shaped — deliberately — by the emotional machinery of the modern left.
And he came within inches of killing a president and derailing a U.S. election.
Inches.
We were one breath away from a national trauma that would have set the country on fire.
We’re still processing and grieving for the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk — the most important conservative activist in the country.
In just a little over a year’s span, the American right nearly lost both its leading grassroots architect and its most consequential political leader.
A society does not produce this level of violence by accident.
It produces it through years of cultivated derangement.
I noticed the build-up long before most people did. I can’t share every detail, but anyone paying attention knew where the pressure was building.
That’s why I wrote Manufacturing Delusion… to explain exactly how a country ends up in the place we now find ourselves with institutions saturated by hysteria and individuals pushed to the brink by narratives designed to destabilize them.
This is the outcome of widespread psychological manipulation.
Trump Derangement Syndrome
This week, Fox News had psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert on to talk about this exact problem.
You know how we operate here at Money & Power. We don’t give into theatrics. But what Alpert described is staggering.
According to him, roughly 75% of his patients are hyper-fixated on Donald Trump.
They can’t sleep, they feel restless — traumatized, in fact, by President Trump.
One of Alpert’s patients told him she couldn’t enjoy a vacation because anytime she saw Trump in the media, she felt triggered.
Alpert calls it a profound pathology. And he’s right. It’s the defining pathology of our time.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mass psychosis, a mass psychosis that has been manufactured using similar tactics to what you would expect from authoritarian regimes like communist China, North Korea or the former U.S.S.R.
This is the terrain of my book — and the results are in plain sight…
People aren’t simply opposed to Trump. They are obsessive. Clinically obsessive.
They absorb propaganda until it becomes part of their identity and then recoil from reality with the intensity of someone defending a cult.
Beware the Anxiety Machine
Trump Derangement Syndrome is only one expression of the larger psychological breakdown we’re living through. The same conditioning that drives people into obsession over Trump shows up everywhere else on the left.
Start with the basics…
The constant lies about men becoming women. And remember, that’s just the opening move. It’s the first step in the process.
Tell people to deny something obvious, force them to repeat it and, eventually, you condition them to accept any contradiction.
Then look at climate hysteria.
There are grown adults — not children, not teenagers, adults — who lose sleep because they’ve convinced themselves climate change is going to make humanity extinct.
That’s a real, documented phenomenon on the left. But think about what that means…
For instance, people refusing to have children because of what left-wing propaganda has done to their minds.
People who sincerely believe there is a “genocide” against trans people because we don’t think a 200-pound bearded man should be competing in girls’ athletics.
That which was once on the fringe has now become the left’s mainstream opinion.
And of course, COVID fits right into this: The madness of Fauci-ism was never just about public health.
It was about Pavlovian-style social conditioning.
The idea is simple. Create a stimulus, attach an emotional reaction, repeat until the reaction becomes automatic and bypasses the rational mind entirely.
That’s why the reality of anti-Trumpism is what it is today — absurdity on a loop.
The Russia-collusion hoax
The endless prosecutions
The Epstein insinuations.
The constant, coordinated lies.
For people rooted in reality like you and me, we haven’t handed over our brains to the system. You’re part of Money & Power precisely because you still trust your five senses! As well as your gut.
But ask yourself this:
How many people you know — especially in big blue states, people who voted for Kamala Harris — believe things that are flatly impossible?
How many talking points are repeated that make no sense?
How many become enraged when you question the narrative?
How many behave like they’ve been absorbed into a cult?
That’s what happens when a political movement trains millions to surrender their judgment and react emotionally on command.
Recognizing the Pattern
Once you understand what’s happening, the scheme becomes impossible to miss.
Manufactured delusion doesn’t rely on persuasion. It relies on process — the same process you see in every society that tries to control how people think, not just what they think.
It starts with constant emotional pressure: fear, outrage, shame, moral panic. Keep people in a heightened state of emergency and their rational defenses weaken.
Then comes isolation. Not necessarily locking people in their homes, but walling them off from honest dissent.
Next, you elevate certain narratives until they feel morally mandatory. Good people believe [fill in the blank with leftist ideology]. Bad people question it.
Then you punish doubt. You don’t have to arrest anyone, you just make skepticism costly. People learn to self-censor long before anyone has to silence them.
Once a person believes the sky is yellow instead of blue, power trippers can do the real work of rewriting his worldview from the inside out.
At that point, you don’t need to win arguments. You just need to keep reinforcing the script.
That’s when you can tell someone there is no mountain, and they’ll defend that narrative to the death, even when they’re standing at its base.
You can tell them men can become women, and they’ll treat skepticism as a moral failure.
You can tell them the climate will destroy humanity in ten-years time, and they’ll rearrange their lives accordingly.
If you don’t understand how that disconnection from reality happens, you can’t arm yourself — or the people you care about — against the same process.
The Fight for Your Perception
Everything I’ve described follows a predictable pattern. I recognized that pattern years ago because I’ve seen versions of it up close.
When you spend time inside the intelligence community, you learn quickly how fragile perception is.
You learn how easily a narrative can be constructed, how rapidly an entire population can be steered and how dangerous it becomes when the people shaping those narratives stop caring about the truth.
I’ve seen what happens to countries when their citizens lose the ability to distinguish reality from manufactured emotion.
It never ends well. And for the first time in my life, I’m watching that same process unfold here in the U.S.
So, I wrote Manufacturing Delusion as both a warning and a manual.
It took two years to write — in part, because it had to go through the same clearance process that every former intelligence officer faces.
There were details I’ve never spoken about publicly before; I was determined to handle them responsibly.
And what you’ll find in my book isn’t available anywhere else.
We’re now living in a country where millions have been conditioned to doubt what they can clearly observe. They don’t arrive at that point alone. They’re guided there, pushed there, conditioned there.
If you want to understand how that happens, why it works and how to protect yourself from the same machinery, that’s exactly what this book is for.
Manufacturing Delusion comes out February 17, 2026.
And I’ll be blunt… Preorders matter.
They determine how widely this book is distributed, how seriously publishers and retailers take its message and how much reach it’ll have when the country enters the most turbulent political year of our lifetimes.
If you want this information in the hands of people who need it — and if you want your own copy guaranteed when it launches — you can click this link to preorder now.
This is the moment when clarity becomes a survival skill.
Because once you learn how the delusion is built, something important happens…
No one can ever convince you the Rockies aren’t there.
You may stand on the flat plains, but you’ll know exactly what’s on the horizon.
And you’ll never mistake a manufactured narrative for the landscape right in front of you.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/29/2025 – 23:20
Antetokounmpo anota 29 y supera los 21.000 puntos en victoria de Bucks, 116-99 sobre Nets
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo anotó 29 puntos y superó la marca de 21.000 en su carrera para que los Bucks de Milwaukee cortaran una seguidilla de siete derrotas, al doblegar el sábado 116-99 a unos diezmados Nets de Brooklyn.
Antetokounmpo, en su segundo partido desde que volvió tras perderse cuatro por un tirón inguinal, se convirtió en el 42do jugador en llegar a 21.000 unidades. Es el sexto más joven en alcanzar el hito en la historia de la NBA.
El griego logró la marca al atinar un triple a la mitad del tercer cuarto. Acertó 12 de 15 tiros en 19 minutos y consiguió ocho rebotes.
El base de los Bucks, Kevin Porter Jr., anotó 13 puntos en el partido que marcó su retorno tras torcerse un tobillo en el duelo inaugural de la temporada. Porter se lesionó luego el menisco derecho mientras se recuperaba y se sometió a una cirugía a principios de noviembre.
A.J. Green sumó 15 puntos y Bobby Portis Jr. agregó 13 por Milwaukee.
El novato Danny Wolf, quien jugó su quinto partido, logró un récord personal de 22 puntos por los Nets. Wolf atinó ocho de 16, incluyendo cinco de nueve desde más allá del arco. Jalen Wilson añadió 13 puntos.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Last-second jumper lifts Indiana Pacers over the Chicago Bulls, 103-101
INDIANAPOLIS — Pascal Siakam sank a 14-foot jumper with a second left to give the Indiana Pacers a 103-101 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night.
Siakam led the Pacers with 24 points and nine rebounds, while Bennedict Mathurin scored 19. Isaiah Jackson had 14 points and 11 rebounds off the bench.
Josh Giddey finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls. Tre Jones also scored 17, and Nikola Vučević added 16 points and eight boards.
The Bulls started the final quarter with a 15-2 spurt to take a 95-88 lead with just under 5 1/2 minutes left.
Trailing 97-90, the Pacers went on an 8-0 run to grab the lead when T.J. McConnell hit a pull-up jumper with 2:19 remaining.
After the Bulls briefly regained the lead at 99-98 on two free throws by Vučević, the Pacers were helped when a goaltending call on Jay Huff was overturned. After a basket by Siakam, Andrew Nembhard hit one of two free throws to give Indiana a 101-99 advantage with 10.7 seconds left. Jones scored on a drive to tie it 101-all with 7.5 seconds to go when the Pacers were called for goaltending.
The Pacers shot 49% in the first half and took a 61-54 halftime lead. After the Bulls scored the first seven points of the third quarter to tie it, the Pacers regained an 86-80 lead heading into the fourth.
Huff scored Indiana’s first 14 points, hitting all five shots, to give the Pacers a 14-9 lead. He didn’t score again, but finished with eight rebounds and four blocks.
Nembhard, who had 14 points, returned after missing Friday night’s game against Washington with a bruised right quadriceps.
The Bulls were without Coby White, averaging 24.2 points in five games this season, because of a right calf strain. Chicago coach Billy Donovan said this was the last time White will have management limitations in a back-to-back situation.
Up next
Bulls: Play at Orlando on Monday night.
Pacers: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/29/chicago-bulls-indiana-pacers-jumper/
No Mercy For Repeat Offenders As “Iryna’s Law” Takes Effect In North Carolina
No Mercy For Repeat Offenders As “Iryna’s Law” Takes Effect In North Carolina
The murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August 2025 drew national attention because of the random brutality caught on camera. But beyond that, it brought into question the ongoing decline of America’s prosecution and punishment policies, especially within Democrat controlled cities.
The trend within progressive enclaves is to reduce prosecutions in order to reduce crime stats. Far-left district attorneys and judges also have a habit of cutting deals with repeat offenders in order to keep the prison system from being “overwhelmed.” Often, they use the excuse that suspects require mental health services rather than long prison sentences.
Violent assailants are set loose on the unsuspecting public over and over again.
The Iryna Zarutska murder suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., is a repeat offender with a history of 14 arrests including armed robbery and assault. He was released without bond months earlier. The reason? Brown was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia. But doesn’t this mean he should have been locked up for good instead of being released over and over again?
The notion of “rehabilitation” for such offenders is a fantasy. Numerous psychological studies have failed to produce even the slightest change in the recidivism rate for violent criminals. Though politically unsavory, the fact is that high recidivism rates are the historical norm and have never substantively declined. Criminal behaviors are habituated and manifest from early callous and unemotional traits in childhood that seamlessly unfold into antisocial personality dysfunction throughout adulthood.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) study between 2008 and 2018 found that 66% of people released from prison in 24 states in were re-arrested within three years. Of those re-arrested, 48% had an arrest that led to a conviction, and 49% returned to prison. A review of 110 homicide suspects found that 82% had serious prior criminal convictions, 59% had a prior weapons offense, and 44% had prior violent crime convictions.
Multiple studies from countries around the world indicate that 1% of repeat offenders are responsible for over 60% of all violent crime and convictions.
Under progressive policies, these criminals enjoy consistent protection from long term imprisonment. Arguments include the claim that criminals are a “product of their environment” and that American society is to blame, not the perpetrators. Leftists also assert that rehabilitation is superior to incarceration and that most criminals are “not bad people”, they simply face mental health obstacles.
None of this is accurate. Instead, leftist judges and politicians have created an system in which psychopathic offenders of certain demographics receive special treatment in the name of “equity” despite the risk they present to the general public. Beyond that, leftists want to deconstruct the prison system, not expand it, because they view it as an “oppressive mechanism” of white supremacy.
The passage of Iryna’s Law in North Carolina is triggering a panic among Democrat officials who claim that requiring a bond for repeat offenders is going to pack their prisons; the very prisons they would prefer to defund.
NC officials: “We are bracing for Monday, as you do when there’s a hurricane or a tragic storm that is coming.”
The new Iryna’s law will require violent criminals to be jailed instead of being released on the streets. pic.twitter.com/YD0xY9sH86
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 28, 2025
Critics also worry that harsher penalties for repeat offenders will open the door to the return of the death penalty. The bill passed the state House of Representatives 82-30 and the state Senate 28-8. Initially a bipartisan effort, 10 Democrats crossed party lines to vote with Republicans in the House. No Democrats voted for passage in the Senate.
Its main provisions enforce stricter pre-trial release conditions, mandate mental health evaluations for some defendants and expedite the process for implementing capital punishment. The death penalty changes were a last-minute amendment introduced by Phil Berger (R), president pro tempore of the state Senate, which caused Democrats to walk out.
The statute virtually eliminates cashless bail for “violent offenses” and certain repeat offenders, as well as expanding the definition of “violent offenses.” For all offenses, it completely removes the condition to release a defendant on a written promise to appear.
In other words, common sense crime reform which should be the standard across the US. Liberal crime theory has been an abject failure. Rather than targeting the primary source of violent crime (repeat offenders) and locking them away for good, Democrats have chosen to hide stats by reducing prosecutions and convictions behind the facade of a mental health crusade. Where they have failed in protecting the public, Iryna’s Law is likely to succeed.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 11/29/2025 – 22:45
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-mercy-repeat-offenders-irynas-law-takes-effect-north-carolina
Tadeo Allende, el hombre que lidera con Lionel Messi el ataque del Inter Miami de cara a la final
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — No fue Lionel Messi quien puso a Inter Miami en el marcador durante la primera final de conferencia del club.
Fue Tadeo Allende, el argentino de 26 años que lleva apenas un año en Inter Miami, cedido por el Celta de Vigo, quien aportó un hat-trick en la goleada de 5-1 sobre New York City FC para conducir a las Garzas a su primera final de la MLS.
En 31 partidos durante la temporada regular, Allende ha marcado 11 goles. En los playoffs, ha conseguido ocho. Anotó los tantos de Inter Miami en el arranque del primer tiempo el sábado, y luego consiguió el gol final para la victoria contundente.
El impacto de Allende comenzó en el duelo decisivo de la primera ronda de los playoffs contra Nashville, cuando anotó dos veces para llevar a Inter Miami a la semifinal de la Conferencia Este. Facturó dos goles más en la victoria sobre Cincinnati.
Messi, que parece estar en camino a otro Premio al Jugador Más Valioso en lo que serían campañas históricas consecutivas, es el jugador con más contribuciones de gol para Inter Miami durante esta racha.
Ha proporcionado a Allende tres asistencias durante estos playoffs, mientras que Jordi Alba le ha prodigado dos.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Oficiales del ejército de la dictadura argentina y simpatizantes se manifiestan en Buenos Aires
Por CRISTIAN KOVADLOFF e ISABEL DEBRE
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Exoficiales militares que prestaron servicio durante la brutal dictadura de Argentina y sus familias organizaron una inusual manifestación el sábado para exigir la liberación de compañeros oficiales encarcelados por abusos a los derechos humanos cometidos durante el régimen de la junta entre 1976 y 1983.
La manifestación del sábado fue vista como una provocación en el país del Nunca Más, el lema que representa el compromiso de Argentina de no volver al autoritarismo.
Elevando aún más las tensiones, los oficiales se reunieron en la Plaza de Mayo, el sitio histórico para las protestas de las mujeres que buscan a niños que fueron secuestrados, detenidos y “desaparecidos” por la junta. Rodeando la plaza en protesta silenciosa cada jueves durante décadas, las mujeres llegaron a ser conocidas como las Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo.
Para los críticos de los oficiales del ejército, incluidos decenas de contramanifestantes que también acudieron a la Plaza de Mayo en el centro de Buenos Aires el sábado, la audaz manifestación marcó una señal preocupante de que comenzaban a aparecer fisuras en el consenso nacional sobre el sangriento legado de la dictadura.
Milei promete poner fin a la “demonización” del ejército
En un cambio drástico respecto a gobiernos pasados, el presidente derechista Javier Milei ha justificado frecuentemente el terrorismo de Estado de la dictadura, el cual ha descrito como una guerra complicada contra guerrillas izquierdistas.
Su vicepresidenta, Victoria Villarruel, es hija de un teniente coronel argentino y una abogada ultraconservadora que pasó años defendiendo a las fuerzas armadas y a los argentinos asesinados por guerrilleros de izquierda, a quienes ella llama las “otras víctimas” del terrorismo.
El impulso del gobierno por reconsiderar los crímenes de la dictadura ha enfurecido a los grupos de derechos humanos, que lo ven como un intento de legitimar los asesinatos extrajudiciales sistemáticos de civiles por parte del ejército. Se estima que la junta mató o desapareció a hasta 30.000 argentinos.
Milei tomó otra medida controvertida la semana pasada, cuando nombró al jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército, el teniente general Carlos Alberto Presti, como nuevo ministro de Defensa de Argentina.
Su oficina dijo que esto convierte a Presti en el primer oficial militar en ocupar un cargo ministerial desde el regreso de Argentina a la democracia en 1983, “inaugurando una tradición que esperamos que la dirigencia política continúe de aquí en adelante y dando por finalizado la demonización de nuestros oficiales”.
Los partidarios del ejército envían un mensaje
Una queja común entre los manifestantes que se reunieron el sábado para cantar el himno nacional y levantar pancartas en las que exigían libertad para los militares encarcelados es que la sociedad argentina le roba al ejército el respeto que merece.
“Pedimos la reivindicación moral de todos los veteranos”, dijo María Asunción Benedit, la organizadora de la manifestación, cuyo difunto esposo, un capitán del ejército, ayudó a liderar una brutal campaña en 1975 contra las guerrillas en la provincia norteña de Tucumán.
“El pueblo argentino sigue el relato oficial. ¿El relato de quién es? Del enemigo, de los terroristas…, de aquellos que lucharon contra nuestros soldados”, dijo, refiriéndose a cómo los gobiernos peronistas de izquierda de principios de los 2000 hicieron de la recuperación de la memoria de la dictadura y de la búsqueda de justicia para los perpetradores un sello distintivo de sus administraciones.
Ella y otros enarbolaron pañuelos negros, una respuesta a los pañuelos blancos bordados con los nombres de los niños desaparecidos que tradicionalmente usan las Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo.
A diferencia de otros países latinoamericanos que ofrecieron amnistía a quienes cometieron crímenes militares después de restaurar la democracia, Argentina ha juzgado y sentenciado a más de 1.000 funcionarios y oficiales del ejército por su participación en terrorismo de Estado, muchos a cadena perpetua. Cientos aún esperan juicio.
Pedro Nieto, un veterano de la era de la dictadura que viajó 36 horas desde la provincia norteña de Salta para asistir a la manifestación del sábado, dijo que sentía que estaba enviando un mensaje potente al pedir la liberación de sus colegas encarcelados en la simbólica Plaza de Mayo.
Estamos “orgullosos de haber combatido y eliminado a los terroristas”, comentó.
Una contramanifestación indica una indignación más amplia
Alejandro Pérez, cuyo tío fue secuestrado y desaparecido por la dictadura, dijo que le aterraba ver a veteranos como Nieto —que participaron en la letal represión estatal— “enfrente de la casa de gobierno, protegido por la policía, protegido por vallas, pudiendo hacer un acto para pedir la libertad de los pocos genocidas presos”.
La policía acordonó la manifestación de los exoficiales militares, manteniéndolos a una distancia segura de los contramanifestantes enojados que gritaban insultos y sostenían carteles con lemas como “Nunca Más” y “los 30.000 están presentes”.
“Se siente en el cuerpo”, manifestó Pérez, empapado por la lluvia mientras marchaba entre defensores de los derechos humanos y organizaciones de izquierda.
Las manifestaciones contrapuestas se producen un día después de que el Comité Contra la Tortura, perteneciente a la ONU, entregara un informe en Ginebra que generó alarma por el desmantelamiento por parte del gobierno de Milei de programas que habían investigado las acciones militares durante la dictadura, así como “sus recortes presupuestarios a varias instituciones que trabajan en temas de memoria, verdad y justicia”.
También criticó la falta de transparencia del gobierno sobre el pago de reparaciones a las víctimas de la dictadura.
Milei, un libertario radical elegido a finales de 2023, se ha propuesto lograr un superávit fiscal mediante recortes al gasto estatal en un país notorio por sus enormes déficits. Pero aun cuando recorta el gasto en salud y educación, se ha comprometido a aumentar el presupuesto del ejército.
Al pronunciarse en la reunión anual del Comité Contra la Tortura este mes, Alberto Baños, el principal funcionario de derechos humanos de Milei, disputó los hallazgos del informe e insistió en que su gobierno estaba comprometido con una memoria histórica completa, imparcial y no intrusiva.
“Más allá de que a muchos no les guste, se hizo un negocio de la defensa de los derechos humanos, y nosotros no lo vamos a tolerar”, aseveró.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
