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Latin America rebel groups urged to form ‘super guerrilla’ alliance against Trump
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Latin America’s most powerful guerrilla groups are being urged to set aside years of bloody infighting and unite against President Donald Trump, according to reports.
The calls intensified in the wake of the arrest of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which has fueled fears among groups of a looming US-backed military intervention.
The recent call came from Colombia’s most wanted insurgent leader, Nestor Gregorio Vera, or «Ivan Mordisco», who released a video appeal to rival rebel factions, even despite years of brutal infighting, according to Reuters.
After decades of waging a bloody conflict over territory, drug routes and illegal economies, Vera said the time had come to put differences aside.
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Colombia’s most wanted rebel leader appeals to ELN and other factions to form an insurgent bloc spanning Colombia and Venezuela. (Photo by DANIEL MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)
«The shadow of the interventionist eagle looms over everyone equally. We urge you to put aside these differences,» Vera said in the video, in which he appeared in camouflage flanked by two heavily armed fighters, Reuters said.
«Destiny is calling us to unite. We are not scattered forces, we are heirs to the same cause. Let us weave unity through action and forge the great insurgent bloc that will push back the enemies of the greater homeland,» he added.
Among the groups singled out was the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s largest and most powerful guerrilla organization, which controls vast stretches of the 1,400-mile border between Colombia and Venezuela.
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Police patrol in Tibu, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, following guerrilla attacks that have killed dozens of people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Catatumbo region. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
«The war between Mordisco’s Farc dissidents and the ELN has been very, very bloody with a huge humanitarian impact,» Jorge Mantilla, a security analyst and expert on Colombian guerrilla groups, told The Telegraph.
«So it calls my attention that, despite that, Mordisco is still saying, ‘stop this, let’s unite against our enemy, which is the US and its intervention’. So the cards are on the table.»
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, himself a former guerrilla fighter, had seized on the threat of a united insurgent front to call for a concerted effort to «remove» drug-trafficking guerrillas.
He said he had invited Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodriguez, to cooperate in rooting out the armed groups.
But reports of a potential joint military operation involving the US, Colombia and Venezuela also raised the prospect that the ELN could finally be dismantled after more than 60 years of insurgency.
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Colombian insurgent leader Nestor Gregorio Vera has called for guerrilla unity after Nicolas Maduro’s capture and targets rival factions along the border.
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, guerrillas now operate along Venezuela’s 2,219-kilometer border with Colombia and control illegal mining near the Orinoco oil belt.
The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian Marxist guerrilla group with thousands of fighters and designated a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, has operated in Venezuela as a paramilitary force.
The group is believed to have around 6,000 fighters and controls key cocaine-producing regions, illegal mining operations and smuggling routes, per reports.
Following Mr Maduro’s capture, the ELN vowed to fight to its «last drop of blood» against what it called the US empire.
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«Today, the main goal of the ELN is not the takeover of power in Colombia or to rebuild a Colombian state, but more so to defend the Bolivarian Revolution, because they consider themselves a continental guerrilla [group] because their ideological inspiration is Latin Americanist, so they feel the struggle of Venezuela is their struggle,» Mantilla told the Telegraph.
«I think ELN is, right now, in a very vulnerable position,» Angelika Rettberg, political science professor at the University of the Andes in Colombia told the outlet.
«I also don’t think that even if they are able to build this unified organization, that would make them less likely to be hit by an eventual US attack,» Ms Rettberg said.
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El Gobierno de Bolivia reemplazó al presidente de YPFB y anunció medidas ante la crisis por combustible de baja calidad
El Gobierno del presidente boliviano, Rodrigo Paz, resolvió este lunes relevar al presidente de la estatal Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Yussef Akly, y designar en su lugar a Claudia Cronenbold, en medio de una creciente crisis por la calidad del combustible que se comercializa en el país y tras protestas de transportistas en las principales ciudades.
El mandatario tomó juramento a Cronenbold en un acto en La Paz, poco después de que el ministro de Hidrocarburos y Energías, Mauricio Medinaceli, comunicó el cambio en la conducción de la empresa estatal junto con un paquete de medidas orientadas a garantizar el abastecimiento de carburantes y responder a los reclamos de usuarios afectados. Paz agradeció a Akly por su labor en esta “primera etapa” desde el cambio de Gobierno en noviembre pasado y destacó la trayectoria de su sucesora. “Por apostar por el país como siempre lo ha hecho en su carrera profesional”, expresó al dirigirse a la nueva titular de la compañía.
El jefe de Estado afirmó que la designación marca el inicio de “un segundo tiempo para YPFB” con nuevos objetivos estratégicos. Entre ellos, mencionó la aspiración de que Bolivia produzca su propia gasolina y que la empresa recupere su papel como una compañía “pujante”. En ese marco, remarcó la necesidad de enfrentar irregularidades dentro de la estatal. “Estaremos firmes para respaldar toda la lucha que sabemos va a ser muy dura contra la corrupción que hay en la estatal, para recuperar una empresa estatal para los bolivianos y que deje de ser una empresa de unos cuantos grupos de poder”, sostuvo.
Por su parte, Cronenbold expresó su compromiso al asumir el cargo y subrayó la relevancia de la empresa dentro del esquema energético del país. “Total compromiso y dedicación” para hacer “un buen papel en una empresa estratégica y muy importante”, declaró. La funcionaria se convierte en la segunda mujer en liderar YPFB, después de la designación de Katya Diederich en octubre de 2020 durante el Gobierno interino de Jeanine Áñez.
Antes del acto, el ministro Medinaceli destacó ante la prensa la experiencia de más de dos décadas de Cronenbold en el sector y la definió como un “ejemplo de liderazgo femenino en una industria estratégica”. Además del cambio en la conducción, el funcionario anunció una serie de decisiones orientadas a resolver la crisis por la calidad del combustible.
Entre las principales medidas, Medinaceli informó que el Gobierno firmará nuevos contratos “y con más variados proveedores de gasolina de mayor octanaje sin modificar el precio”. También indicó que la Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) organizará un cronograma de limpieza de tanques en todas las estaciones de servicio del país, con el objetivo de garantizar el abastecimiento continuo. Según explicó, el plan se ejecutará mediante un calendario “que garantice el abastecimiento sin suspenderlo en ninguna zona del país”.
El ministro agregó que se “acelerará” el resarcimiento estatal a los propietarios de vehículos que denunciaron daños en sus motores por el uso de combustible contaminado. Asimismo, anunció que se impulsará la instalación de equipos de conversión a gas natural vehicular (GNV) tanto en el transporte público como en el privado, con el fin de reducir la dependencia de combustibles líquidos.
El paquete incluye además la aprobación de un decreto que habilita la importación de vehículos que funcionan con diésel “de menos de 4.000 de cilindrada”, así como la creación de un “equipo de supervisión permanente de hidrocarburos” para reforzar los controles sobre la cadena de suministro.
Las decisiones del Ejecutivo se producen tras meses de denuncias de usuarios que reportaron fallas mecánicas vinculadas a la calidad de la gasolina. De acuerdo con la propia YPFB, el combustible presentó niveles elevados de goma y manganeso. La situación generó protestas en distintos puntos del país.
La semana pasada, sindicatos de transportistas de La Paz y El Alto realizaron un paro con bloqueos durante dos días, en reclamo por la calidad del carburante y para exigir una compensación más ágil por los daños sufridos. Las manifestaciones intensificaron la presión sobre el Gobierno para adoptar medidas inmediatas.
Según datos oficiales, Bolivia depende en gran medida de las importaciones para abastecer su mercado interno, con casi el 100 % del diésel y alrededor del 60 % de la gasolina provenientes de países como Argentina, Chile, Perú, Paraguay y Estados Unidos. En ese contexto, el Gobierno busca estabilizar el suministro y recuperar la confianza de los consumidores tras la crisis.
(Con información de EFE)
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rahm Emanuel is shrugging off the Democratic Party’s identity debate and emphasizing that the showdown for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination should be about ideas and not gender.
The former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama is mulling a White House run of his own in 2028 in the race to succeed term-limited Republican President Donald Trump. But in a party that has made diversity one of its core tenets, Emanuel will have to face the question: will the Democratic Party elect a straight White male to represent it?
Emanuel told Fox News Digital on Monday that Democrats should be asking potential presidential contenders different questions entirely, such as: «Do you have the ideas of how to make sure the American Dream is alive and well, accessible and affordable to another generation?»
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama lamented in a podcast late last year that the U.S. is not ready for a female president. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)
In the wake of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat to Trump in the 2024 election, former First Lady Michelle Obama made headlines late last year when she emphasized in a conversation posted on YouTube that the U.S. has «a lot of growing up to do» and that the nation is «not ready for a woman» as president.
And former President Joe Biden, in an interview last year on «The View,» argued that Harris lost to Trump because of sexism and racism.
Harris was the second female Democratic presidential nominee to come up short to Trump, following Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 election.
That’s got some in the Democratic Party suggesting that in order to recapture the White House in 2028, it might be better for the party to nominate a White male as their standard-bearer.
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While Democrats take pride in their party’s diversity, an Axios article this past weekend, headlined «Some Dems’ 2028 strategy: a straight, White, Christian man,» included quotes from party operatives and strategists suggesting that parts of the American electorate are too biased to back a female or other diverse presidential candidate.
Emanuel disagrees.
«More important is the voters’ take. They’ll make a decision. And so to me, that’s the wrong thing. The question is, do you have the ideas that address the challenges that are facing America, regardless of who’s speaking it,» he said.
Former U.S. ambassador Rahm Emanuel, a former Chicago mayor who previous served as White House chief of staff in then-President Barack Obama’s administration and a former U.S. House member, speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, on March 30, 2026, in Manchester, N.H. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News )
Emanuel spoke with Fox News and other news organizations after headlining «Politics and Eggs,» a speaking series at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics that’s a must stop for White House hopefuls visiting the which for a century has held the first presidential primary in the White House race. And hours earlier, on Sunday evening, he was the main attraction at the latest «Stand Up New Hampshire» town hall hosted by top Democratic activists.
Emanuel has been crisscrossing the country in recent months, as he considers a presidential bid, including stops in two other crucial early primary states, Nevada and South Carolina, where he heads later this week.
On whether he’d become a presidential candidate, Emanuel said «if I think I have what it takes to answer what I think is ailing this great country, then I will jump into the deep end without my water wings.»
Emanuel, who hails from the more moderate center-left wing of the party, emphasized that in order to win in 2028, Democrats need to «centralize and ground ourselves in middle class values, tough enforcement at the border, put more police on the beat, and get kids, guns and gangs off the street, and invest in education opportunities.»
«Get to the core of what they expect from us and don’t get caught up in some cultural cul-de-sac that leads nowhere,» he added.
Potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender Rahm Emanuel greets audience members at ‘Politics and Eggs,’ a speaking series at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics, on March 30, 2026, in Manchester. N.H. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
As Democrats look for a fighter in 2028 to win back the White House, Emanuel is showing off his scrappy side.
«These are tough times that require a tough leader that knows how to do tough things and get them done on behalf of the American people. That’s the measure,» he told Fox News Digital.
And Emanuel also repeatedly took aim at Trump and his administration for their handling of the president’s efforts to acquire Greenland and the month-long strikes against Iran.
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«It’s a war of choice, and it’s a bad choice,» Emanuel said of Trump. «He could have gotten everything he wanted without going to war.»
And taking another shot, he said, «If they ever run a sequel to ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ I have recommendations for the lead roles, and there’s lots of competition in this administration.»
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