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‘Maryland man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia exposed in police records as ‘violent’ repeat wife beater
A now-deported illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member that was living illegally in Maryland has a record of being a «violent» repeat wife beater, according to court records filed in a Prince George’s County, Maryland, district court by his wife.
Fox News obtained the written domestic violence allegations filed in court against 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez, in 2021.
In the filing, written in Vasquez’s own handwriting, she alleges Abrego Garcia repeatedly beat her, writing: «At this point, I am afraid to be close to him. I have multiple photos/videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises he [has] left me.»
Vasquez alleged that Abrego Garcia punched and scratched her on her eye, leaving her bleeding. He also allegedly threw her laptop on the floor.
WE DON’T WANT KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA BACK, SAYS AG PAM BONDI
As Democrats and media outlets clamor for the return of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to a maximum-security prison in his home country, publicly available domestic violence court records cast doubt on the media narrative about his innocence. (Alex Peña/Getty Images; Fox News)
She wrote that on another day, Abrego Garcia got angry again, started yelling, and ripped her shirt and shorts off before grabbing her arm and leaving marks.
Vasquez recalled two times in 2020 that Abrego Garcia hit her.
«In November 2020, he hit me with his work boot,» she wrote. «In August 2020, he hit me in the eye leaving a purple eye.»
Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released court documents regarding Abrego Garcia, which cast further doubt on the Democrats’ narrative about his innocence.
DHS released new documents this week, which it says definitively proves Abrego Garcia, who was deported to the El Salvadoran mega prison «Terrorism Confinement Center» (CECOT) last month, is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang.
According to a Prince George’s County Police Department interview sheet shared with Fox News by DHS, local police discovered Abrego Garcia during a murder investigation. Police found him loitering in a Home Depot parking lot with other known MS-13 gang members in possession of illicit drugs in 2019.
LIBERAL SENATOR SAYS HE IS FLYING TO VISIT DEPORTED MIGRANT IN PRISON, OTHER DEMS PLANNING TRIPS
Justice Department attorneys on Friday said they are unaware of Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts after he was deported to a Salvadoran prison last month. (Fox News)
The police department’s Gang Unit MS-13 Intelligence Squad conducted an interview with Abrego Garcia and contacted a «past proven and reliable source» who identified him as an active member of MS-13 with the «Westerns» clique, with the rank of «Chequeo» and the moniker of «Chele.»
The news comes as Democrats clamor for the return of Abrego Garcia, who they say was «wrongly deported» to a maximum-security prison in his home country as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal migrant crime.
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision ordering the Trump administration to arrange Abrego Garcia’s return. The court required the «government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.»
The Trump administration agreed to clear any administrative obstacles keeping Abrego Garcia from returning to the U.S., but Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that returning him is «up to El Salvador. If they want to return him. That’s not up to us.»
KRISTI NOEM CRITICIZES ‘LIBERAL LEFT’ FOR TURNING ACCUSED GANG MEMBER INTO ‘MEDIA DARLING’
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, a man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is led by force by guards through the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland via AP)
This has caused outrage among Democrats, many of whom have begun referring to him as a «Maryland man» who was wrongly deported. Some have even suggested he was kidnapped by the Trump administration.
«Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador as part of the Trump Administration’s government-funded kidnapping rampage,» Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., posted on X. «He is rotting away in a foreign prison where his life is in danger. We need to go there now to make sure he’s okay.»
On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., flew to El Salvador to visit Abrego Garcia in prison and work to secure his release. His trip has been criticized by many, including the mother of Rachel Morrin, a 39-year-old Maryland mother who was raped and murdered by a Salvadoran illegal immigrant in 2023.
«To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge, or barely acknowledge, my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen. Why does that person have more rights than I do, or my daughter, or my grandchildren? I don’t understand this,» she said.
BONDI DEFIANT, SAYS ABREGO GARCIA WILL STAY IN EL SALVADOR ‘END OF THE STORY’
According to a Prince George’s County, Maryland, Police Department interview sheet shared with Fox News by DHS, police discovered Abrego Garcia during a murder investigation. Police found him loitering in a Home Depot parking lot with other known MS-13 gang members in possession of illicit drugs in 2019. (Prince George’s County Police Department)
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security doubled down, saying Abrego Garcia has a «history of violence and was not the upstanding ‘Maryland Man’ the media has portrayed him as.»
DHS shared court filings in which Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez, sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, claiming he «punched, scratched, and ripped off her shirt.»
And a 2019 DHS interview document shared with Fox News shows Abrego Garcia admitted to being in the U.S. illegally and claimed to have «walked across the desert for many days entering illegally into the United States near McAllen, Texas on or about March 25, 2012.»
As a result, Abrego Garcia was marked as eligible for deportation in 2019.
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Through it all, the Trump administration continues to maintain it was right to deport Abrego Garcia to CECOT.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
A federal immigration court in Baltimore further determined Abrego Garcia was not eligible for release because he «failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others, as the evidence shows that he is a verified member of MS-13.»
The court held that «the fact that a ‘past, proven, and reliable source of infonnation [sic]’ verified the Respondent’s gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member» and that Abrego had «failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.»
«Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a ‘Maryland Man’—he is an MS-13 gang member involved in human trafficking who entered the United States illegally,» DHS posted on X. «His deportation to El Salvador was always going to be the end result.»
DHS bashed Van Hollen for advocating Abrego Garcia’s release, saying the senator «has done more to bring a MS-13 gang member, human trafficker and illegal alien back to Maryland than he has to help keep his American constituents safe or advocate for the victims of these vicious gangs like MS-13.»
«While Sen. Van Hollen and the mainstream media peddle a sob story about a brutal MS-13 gang member, Secretary Noem stands with the victims of illegal alien crime,» said DHS. «We hear far too much about the gang members and criminals’ sob stories and not enough about their victims.»
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin posted some more details about his arrest, saying, in addition to being apprehended with other MS-13 members, he was found with «rolls of cash and drugs» and «wearing what is effectively MS-13’s uniform.»
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Speaking with Fox News on Monday, McLaughlin said Abrego Garcia is «exactly where he belongs, home in El Salvador.»
«The media would love for you to believe that this is some media darling, that he is just some Maryland father, but Osama bin Laden was also a father, and yet he wasn’t a good guy, and they are actually both terrorists,» she added. «He should be in this El Salvador prison, prison for terrorists, and I hope he will remain there.»
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Energía renovable gana peso en Panamá, Gobierno busca aumentar su participación en la matriz energética
Panamá aspira a que más del 85% de su generación eléctrica provenga de fuentes renovables en los próximos años, una meta que, según las autoridades, debe construirse sin descuidar la seguridad energética ni la estabilidad del sistema.
Así lo afirmó el secretario nacional de Energía, Rodrigo Rodríguez J., durante el Foro de Energía organizado por la Asociación Panameña de Ejcutivos de Empresa (APEDE), al señalar que actualmente el país registra cerca de 65% de su matriz energética basada en fuentes limpias, principalmente hidroeléctricas.
Rodríguez explicó que, aunque el objetivo es elevar progresivamente la participación de las energías renovables, Panamá no puede prescindir completamente de un componente térmico que respalde el sistema en momentos de baja generación solar, ausencia de viento o períodos de sequía que afecten a las hidroeléctricas.
“No todo el parque puede ser renovable”, sostuvo, al subrayar que la confiabilidad del suministro sigue siendo una prioridad para el Estado.
El funcionario detalló que, en términos regionales, Panamá parte de una posición favorable, ya que su matriz histórica ha sido mayoritariamente limpia en comparación con otros países.
Entre el 60% y 65% de la generación anual proviene de fuentes renovables tradicionales, especialmente plantas hidroeléctricas de embalse y de pasada. Sin embargo, reconoció que el desafío está en diversificar esa base con solar, eólica y almacenamiento energético.
Durante el encuentro, la presidenta de APEDE, Giulia De Sanctis, destacó que el tema energético es fundamental no solo para las empresas, sino también para los hogares y la competitividad del país.
Afirmó que el foro permitió debatir sobre redes, hubs y el potencial de Panamá como un centro energético regional, así como los retos regulatorios y tecnológicos que enfrenta el sector.
De Santis subrayó que uno de los ejes centrales de las discusiones fue el desarrollo de licitaciones públicas con reglas claras, transparencia y criterios técnicos actualizados. “No basta con los avances tecnológicos, también se necesita seguridad jurídica y procesos confiables”, indicó, al referirse a la importancia de atraer inversión privada en proyectos de generación y transmisión.
En ese contexto, Rodríguez confirmó que el Gobierno prepara dos licitaciones clave: una para plantas nuevas, principalmente eólicas e hidroeléctricas, y otra para plantas existentes.
La primera está prevista para inicios de marzo y la segunda para finales del mismo mes. Según el secretario, existe un alto nivel de interés empresarial, tanto de inversionistas locales como extranjeros.
El funcionario señaló que estas licitaciones forman parte de una estrategia para fortalecer la capacidad instalada, reducir la volatilidad tarifaria y mejorar la resiliencia del sistema eléctrico. Añadió que los procesos se han diseñado para garantizar competencia sana, participación abierta y criterios técnicos acordes con las nuevas demandas del mercado.
Otro de los ejes abordados fue el impulso al bioetanol como parte de la transición energética. Rodríguez recordó que el Ejecutivo presentó en octubre pasado un proyecto de ley ante la Asamblea Nacional para establecer una mezcla obligatoria del 10% de etanol en las gasolinas. De aprobarse la iniciativa, el país podría iniciar la producción local y la mezcla comercial hacia finales de 2027.
“El proceso legal es clave”, afirmó el secretario, al indicar que el proyecto se encuentra en manos de la Comisión de Comercio, donde se desarrollan consultas con los sectores involucrados. Estimó que, si el cronograma se cumple, la primera producción nacional de etanol podría concretarse entre 2027 y 2028, marcando un hito en la política energética.
De acuerdo con estimaciones del sector azucarero, la puesta en marcha del programa de bioetanol implicaría una inversión inicial cercana a los $500 millones, destinada a la compra de tierras, construcción de destilerías e instalación de infraestructura. También se requeriría ampliar la superficie cultivada de caña en unas 22 mil hectáreas para abastecer el 10% de la demanda.
El gremio azucarero ha señalado que el proyecto podría generar más de 30 mil empleos directos e indirectos, principalmente en el interior del país. Además, destacó que el financiamiento multilateral y bancario ya ha mostrado interés, condicionado a la estabilidad normativa y al respeto de los plazos legales.
Desde APEDE, De Santis respaldó el enfoque del bioetanol como una oportunidad para fortalecer la autosuficiencia energética y reducir la dependencia del petróleo importado. No obstante, insistió en que cualquier política pública debe construirse con consenso, claridad regulatoria y garantías para los inversionistas y consumidores.
En materia de planificación, Rodríguez adelantó que en marzo se lanzará oficialmente el proceso para elaborar el nuevo Plan Energético Nacional 2026-2040, cuya formulación tomará alrededor de 18 meses. El documento definirá las metas de generación, transmisión, almacenamiento y eficiencia energética para las próximas dos décadas.
El secretario también se refirió a los avances en la digitalización del sistema eléctrico, incluyendo procesos tarifarios y operativos. Explicó que la modernización debe realizarse de forma escalonada, para evitar impactos abruptos en las tarifas, especialmente en un contexto de transición tecnológica.
Rodríguez respondió además sobre los estudios para explorar posibles hidrocarburos en aguas del Caribe panameño, desarrollados en cooperación con Colombia. Ante la pregunta de Infobae sobre el tema, el funcionario indicó que el tema está siendo retomado, aunque por ahora no existe ninguna decisión concreta. “Se hicieron análisis preliminares, pero estamos en fase de revisión”, precisó.
El funcionario aclaró que cualquier avance en esta materia estará sujeto a evaluaciones técnicas, ambientales y económicas, y que no se trata de un proyecto inmediato. La eventual exploración, dijo, deberá alinearse con los compromisos de sostenibilidad y transición energética del país.
Para el sector privado, la combinación entre energías renovables, respaldo térmico, biocombustibles y planificación de largo plazo será determinante para mantener la competitividad. De Santis destacó que Panamá cuenta con una base legal sólida, pero necesita fortalecer la ejecución y el seguimiento de las políticas públicas.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Clintons call for open Epstein files hearing after months of defying subpoenas
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Since there was such a tempest over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, perhaps there’s a solution at hand. This compromise would satisfy both red and blue America. And the exhibition would transfix the country: Have former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump testify at halftime about the Epstein files.
Republicans believe former President Clinton has something to hide about Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats think the same about President Trump. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the former president and Hillary Clinton to testify about the Epstein files. After a lot of wrangling, the Clintons are due to appear for closed-door depositions later this month.
But both Bill and Hillary Clinton are now calling for open sessions. And Democrats believe that such an appearance at a public session — by a former President — would establish a precedent to lug in President Trump to answer questions about what he knew about Epstein.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL TO APPEAR BEFORE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE LAWMAKERS FOR EPSTEIN PROBE DEPOSITION
Hillary Clinton addresses her staff and supporters about the results of the U.S. election as her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, applauds at a hotel in the Manhattan borough of New York, Nov. 9, 2016. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
One architect of the law compelling the release of the Epstein files, applauded demands last week by the former First Couple to testify at a televised open hearing. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said the former president is an important witness.
«As long as [the hearing is] focused on Epstein, and it’s not a wild goose chase — it’s not trying to score political points or embarrass either President Clinton or President Trump, it is asking legitimate questions about what they knew took place and who they knew were participating in heinous acts,» said Khanna. «That should be a legitimate point of inquiry.»
After agreeing to a closed-door deposition later this month, Hillary Clinton took to X. She wrote to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., saying, «If you want this fight let’s have it in public.»
Former President Clinton echoed his wife the next day on X, also calling for a public session. The former commander-in-chief declared that he won’t be used «as a prop in a closed door Kangaroo Court.»
A spokeswoman for Comer accused the former first couple of «moving the goalposts.» Comer was always open to a hearing. But after a closed-door deposition.
«Depositions have historically been much more substantive than hearings,» said Comer. «Hearings unfortunately, have become more of an entertainment thing.»
It’s hard to track exactly what the Clintons wanted.
The House Oversight Committee voted on a bipartisan basis last August to subpoena both Bill and Hillary Clinton for depositions — along with a host of other prominent figures like former Attorney General Bill Barr. After a lot of haggling, the committee subpoenaed them to appear at dates in October. The Clintons defied those. Then the committee assigned them dates just before Christmas. But neither showed then because of a funeral. The committee requested that the Clintons give them dates for January appearances. They didn’t. The committee then assigned them additional dates for January testimony. They skipped out on those. That’s when Comer threatened to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress if they didn’t appear in January. The Oversight Committee voted — in bipartisan fashion — for contempt. The House Rules Committee planned last week to prep a measure to force the entire House to vote on contempt — and send criminal referrals for the Clintons to the Justice Department for prosecution after they defied the subpoenas.
REVEALED: TRUMP CALLED POLICE CHIEF TO SUPPORT EPSTEIN PROBE, AND LAWMAKERS NAMED 6 MEN SHIELDED FROM EXPOSURE
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., alongside Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, speaks to reporters after a closed-door deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and confidante of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
But the Clintons finally agreed to depositions at the end of this month. And once that was on the calendar, the duo began calling for public hearings.
There is a method behind this madness. There isn’t a loyalty among younger Congressional Democrats to the Clintons. In fact, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was steamed at some Democrats for wanting the Clintons to appear. Younger Democrats don’t have the same reverence for the Clintons as older Democrats. Hillary Clinton ran for president a decade ago. She hasn’t been a senator since 2009. She last served as Secretary of State in early 2013. President Clinton left the Oval Office more than a quarter-century ago.
However, this is the Democrats’ gambit:
If former President Clinton appears about the Epstein files, it may be tough to make the case that President Trump shouldn’t appear.
«Certainly it does set the precedent. President Trump was subpoenaed during the January 6th investigations and didn’t come in. He cited some form of executive privilege. And so we’re kind of forcing the Clintons to come in with the threat of criminal contempt. Then that is a precedent that we are setting,» said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va. «In other countries, like the UK, the Prime Minister regularly comes before the Parliament. And so it’s not like it’s unprecedented around the world.»
Granted, that’s a parliamentary system where the prime minister is a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer regularly appears for «Prime Minister’s Questions» every Wednesday at noon in London. Members of Parliament usually pepper the prime minister with questions and scoff in a scene which resembles something out of Monty Python.
But the American and British systems are fundamentally different.
Getting a sitting or former President — and even first lady — before Congress is rare but not unheard of.
BONDI TO FACE GRILLING IN HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OVER EPSTEIN FILES, WEAPONIZATION ALLEGATIONS
Former President Bill Clinton was seen in photos with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a DOJ Epstein files release on Friday, Dec. 19. (Department of Justice)
There are three prominent examples of sitting Presidents appearing before Congress. President Abraham Lincoln testified voluntarily before the House Judiciary Committee in 1862. The New York Herald published his «State of the Union» message to Congress just before it was sent to Capitol Hill. Presidents sent written «reports» in those days. They did not give speeches to Congress. Lawmakers probed the leak of the message to Congress. It was speculated that Herald reporter Henry Wikoff got the message ahead of time thanks to his friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln. The House Sergeant at Arms briefly held Wikoff — and released him after the president spoke to the Judiciary Committee.
President Woodrow Wilson appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1919 to discuss a treaty with Germany and establishing the League of Nations. Wilson’s push for the League of Nations failed. The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
President Gerald Ford had been in office two-and-a-half months before he appeared voluntarily before the House Judiciary Committee in the fall of 1974. Ford told lawmakers that his pardon of former President Richard Nixon wasn’t something they bargained about. Ford told the committee that he pardoned Nixon because his physical and mental health fell into a steep decline.
Former President Harry Truman appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1955 to testify about the United Nations Charter.
Ford came back as a former president in 1983 for a Senate hearing on the bicentennial of the Constitution.
And there are examples of both sitting and former first ladies testifying, too.
Eleanor Roosevelt testified twice as first lady. Once about labor issues. Then, about the organization of volunteers for the civilian defense agency before World War II.
Rosalynn Carter testified about mental health as first lady.
Hillary Clinton famously testified about her husband’s health care plan — even though it was dubbed (often derisively) «Hillarycare» in the fall of 1993. She testified multiple times as Secretary of State. Most notably in early 2013 regarding Benghazi.
And, first lady Laura Bush was en route to Capitol Hill to testify before a Senate panel about early childhood education on 9/11. The committee cancelled the hearing after the attacks in New York and at the Pentagon.
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So, many Republicans are game to hear from the Clintons about the Epstein files. Frankly, some were more interested in just holding them in contempt than actually gleaning anything about Epstein. But it looks like the Clintons will at least sit for depositions in a few weeks. Whether there’s a hearing or not is unclear. Some Republicans may even push for that. But caveat emptor. An open session for the Clintons will only intensify the push by Democrats — and some GOPers — to hear from President Trump.
Their testimony might not come during the Super Bowl halftime show. But open testimony by a former President and a sitting President would be a political Super Bowl.
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