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El régimen de Cuba amenazó con un “baño de sangre” si Estados Unidos ejecuta una acción militar contra la dictadura

El régimen cubano endureció este domingo su discurso contra Estados Unidos y advirtió que cualquier intervención militar sobre la isla derivaría en un “baño de sangre”.
La amenaza fue pronunciada por el canciller de la dictadura, Bruno Rodríguez, después de que trascendiera información de inteligencia estadounidense sobre la compra por parte de Cuba de más de 300 drones militares y posibles planes para utilizarlos contra intereses norteamericanos en el Caribe.
“Cuba es un país de paz, pero si es atacado militarmente, ejercerá su derecho a la defensa propia hasta las últimas consecuencias, con el apoyo masivo del pueblo”, afirmó Rodríguez en una entrevista difundida por Clash Report. El funcionario agregó que una ofensiva de Washington provocaría “un baño de sangre”.
Las declaraciones llegaron en medio de un fuerte aumento de la tensión bilateral, luego de que Axios revelara, citando fuentes de inteligencia de Estados Unidos, que el régimen cubano adquirió centenares de drones militares de fabricación rusa e iraní y habría comenzado a debatir escenarios de uso contra la base naval de Guantánamo, buques estadounidenses e incluso zonas cercanas a Florida.
Según la información publicada por Axios, funcionarios norteamericanos consideran que el creciente vínculo militar entre La Habana, Moscú y Teherán representa una amenaza estratégica para Estados Unidos, especialmente por el desarrollo de tecnología de guerra con drones a solo 150 kilómetros de territorio estadounidense.

“Cuando pensamos en ese tipo de tecnologías tan cerca, y en una serie de actores malignos que van desde grupos terroristas hasta cárteles de la droga, iraníes y rusos, es inquietante”, dijo a Axios un alto funcionario estadounidense bajo condición de anonimato. “Es una amenaza creciente”, añadió.
El canciller cubano Bruno Rodríguez sostuvo que Washington intenta justificar una eventual escalada militar y acusó a la Casa Blanca de mantener una política hostil contra la isla desde hace décadas. En ese contexto, recordó además la presencia de la base naval estadounidense en Guantánamo.
“La única base militar extranjera que hay en Cuba, la única presencia militar extranjera que hay en Cuba, es la indeseada presencia de la base naval de Guantánamo que usurpa Estados Unidos a nuestro territorio”, afirmó.
Las declaraciones del canciller cubano se producen pocos días después de la visita a La Habana del director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe. De acuerdo con Axios, el jefe de la agencia estadounidense trasladó personalmente una advertencia a la dictadura cubana y le exigió abandonar cualquier acción hostil contra intereses de Estados Unidos.
“El director Ratcliffe dejó claro que Cuba ya no puede servir como plataforma para que los adversarios avancen agendas hostiles en nuestro hemisferio”, señaló a Axios un funcionario de la CIA.

Washington observa además con preocupación la presencia de asesores militares iraníes en La Habana y la cooperación en materia de inteligencia entre el régimen cubano y gobiernos considerados adversarios estratégicos de Estados Unidos.
En paralelo, el vicecanciller cubano Carlos Fernández de Cossío denunció lo que describió como una campaña para preparar políticamente una agresión contra la isla.
“El esfuerzo anticubano en función de justificar sin excusa alguna una agresión militar contra Cuba se intensifica por hora, con acusaciones cada vez más inverosímiles”, escribió en redes sociales. “Estados Unidos es el país agresor. Cuba, el país agredido”, añadió.
La tensión también escaló después de recientes declaraciones del presidente Donald Trump, quien volvió a mencionar públicamente la posibilidad de avanzar contra el régimen cubano tras la caída de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela a comienzos de año.
Rodríguez respondió además a versiones sobre un eventual despliegue del portaaviones USS Gerald Ford cerca de Cuba. “Tomamos en serio siempre las palabras del presidente de los Estados Unidos”, dijo, aunque ironizó sobre la posibilidad de que el buque pudiera acercarse demasiado a las costas cubanas por cuestiones de calado.
Mientras tanto, las autoridades estadounidenses continúan evaluando nuevas sanciones contra La Habana. Según trascendió en medios norteamericanos, el Departamento de Justicia también analiza presentar cargos contra Raúl Castro por el derribo en 1996 de dos avionetas de la organización Hermanos al Rescate.
El deterioro de la relación entre ambos países ocurre en un contexto de crisis profunda dentro de Cuba, marcada por apagones masivos, escasez de combustible y una creciente presión económica sobre el régimen de Miguel Díaz-Canel.
(Con información de Europa Press, EFE y AFP)
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Birth tourism crackdown expands as House chairman raises criminal conspiracy case

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A House task force chairman says companies helping foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children obtain U.S. citizenship could be engaging in a criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, told Fox News Digital that his panel has subpoenaed several so-called «birth tourism companies» as it investigates firms advertising services to help foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth.
«Right now, under current law, birth tourism is illegal. You cannot come into the United States for the purpose of giving birth,» Gill said.
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Rep. Brandon Gill speaks on birthright citizenship. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«And I believe that there’s a compelling legal case to be made that these businesses that are facilitating this process — facilitating somebody coming into the United States to give birth — lying on their immigration forms or on their visa forms — are engaging in a form of criminal conspiracy, and that’s what we’re going to get to the bottom of,» Gill said.
State Department regulations prohibit foreign nationals from obtaining visitor visas when consular officers determine that their primary purpose is traveling to the United States to give birth so their child obtains U.S. citizenship.
While Gill’s task force has been quietly looking into several companies since at least 2025, the national scrutiny intensified after photographs circulated in July of a billboard advertising for the Women’s Center at Mission Regional Medical Center in Mission, Texas – a stone’s throw from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The Spanish-language billboard advertised a now-defunct «Have My Baby In Texas» website, and quoted Mission Regional providing births for $3,950 and Caesarean Sections for $5,525. It also displayed a phone number that included «001» – the country code required for international calls to the U.S.
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Demonstrators holds up a banner during a citizenship rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Gill and others have since issued responses to the controversy, with the State of Texas also launching its own investigation of the hospital.
«I think it’s astounding,» Gill said. His task force is investigating several similar operations, including one in Miami, and has requested records from that business and three others nationwide.
Gill said birth tourism is an «obvious and clear abuse» of the U.S. immigration system and of the benevolence of the American people and the nation’s institutions.
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Demonstrators rally in support of birthright citizenship outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 1, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
«We are the ones who often end up picking up the tab for a lot of these services,» he said, arguing that birthright citizenship was intended for former slaves and their children when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868.
«It had nothing to do with hordes of illegal aliens crossing our southern border and giving birth in America and using those babies to anchor illegal aliens into our country. And for all of America’s history, we’ve always had a very clear understanding that there are certain people who are born within America’s boundaries, within America borders, who are not American citizens, the children of an invading army.»
The latter point was captured by Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and put into legislation Fox News Digital exclusively broke earlier in the week.
That proposal would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order deeming the illegal immigration crisis an «invasion» and cite the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court case’s exemption of citizenship for people not «bound to render obedience to the sovereign (U.S. government) whose domains are being invaded.»
Gill said he had heard about but not fully read Banks’ bill – but underlined he believes it to be a «phenomenal» plan of action.
«I think that that is the type of legal clarification that could help us out quite a bit in the long run,» he said.
«Remember that the goal is to make sure that our children’s birthright isn’t being taken away from us because foreigners are coming in and having babies in our country and then buying up our homes and taking American jobs and using welfare that the American people are paying for.»
Gill said the crisis touches on the biggest issue from the 2024 election cycle, which he considered to be the illegal immigration crisis writ-large.
«In this case; seeing people cross the border so that their children can be anchored into the United States. That is such an obvious abuse of the American People economically, socially, culturally. It’s a huge risk to America’s national defense.»
A Mission Regional spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday the hospital remains an «award-winning, nonprofit» infirmary that has been operating as such since 1954.
«We recognize that a very limited marketing campaign may have caused unintended misunderstanding and was immediately discontinued. The campaign was meant to highlight services available to the communities we serve and was never intended to encourage any unlawful activity and Mission Regional Medical Center remains committed to serving the Rio Grande Valley with integrity, compassion, transparency, and full compliance with all applicable laws,» the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said the billboard campaign returned very little patient volume and no financial benefit to a community they said has a high uninsured-patient rate and limited maternity care.
«The hospital does not support or facilitate unlawful activity and has never operated its obstetric program with the intent of attracting individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States, promoting birth tourism, or encouraging travel to the United States for the purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child,» the spokesperson added.
Citing a separate order from Austin, the spokesperson said 99% of all emergency and inpatient patients who responded to a state-required survey were legal U.S. residents or citizens.
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«Birth tourism should never be big business in the United States. This tactic exploits U.S. immigration law, and those who willfully mispresent their intentions to temporarily come to the U.S. are breaking the law,» Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the greater Oversight Committee said in May.
In a concurrence to the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order, Justice Brett Kavanaugh indicated that Congress could still act through legislation. Gill, Banks and other lawmakers have said they plan to pursue that route as they seek to restrict birthright citizenship.
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Incoming UK PM Andy Burnham rejects Thatcher-era policies, signals leftward shift

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Britain’s incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first speech as Labour leader Friday to condemn the economic model established in the 1980s by Margaret Thatcher and promise greater public control of essential services, signaling a shift to the left from outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Burnham, who will formally become prime minister Monday, said that Britain had taken «a series of wrong turns in the 1980s,» when political power was centralized and economic power was transferred to private companies. He was unopposed to run as party leader, having been nominated by 379 Members of Parliament to lead it.
«The country surrendered control of the essentials — housing, water, energy, transport — and left people exposed to higher costs,» Burnham said during the July 17 speech in London, according to a transcript of his remarks.
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He declared that four decades of neoliberal economic policy had «not been kind» to the working-class and industrial communities that traditionally supported Labour and described his ascent as the country’s most significant political turning point in 40 years.
«The government I lead will confidently lay that path out starting next week,» Burnham said. «That is why this change today is the most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years.
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said Burnham’s speech offered a clear ideological signal but little detail about how his government would carry it out. «With Burnham, there is a lot of light and heat, but not much actual substance,» he added. «We are all still waiting to see what that substance might be.»

Britons suffer through the ‘Winter of Discontent’ as a man walks past a pile of rubbish in London. Sanitation workers joined other unions across the U. K. on strike in February 1979. (Graham Morris/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Mendoza said, «If he thinks Britain has been on the wrong track for the last 40 years, what is the right track? Is it socialism of a past kind? Is it some form of statism? What does he actually intend to do?»
Burnham’s speech offered the clearest indication yet that the former Greater Manchester mayor intends to move the party away from Starmer’s more cautious economic positioning and toward greater state ownership, expanded council and social housing, giving more power to regional government and increased state involvement in essential services.
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Burnham said Labour would no longer attempt to imitate the right and far-left parties. «We won’t try to out-Green the Greens or out-Reform Reform.»
Although he did not explicitly advocate returning Britain to the 1970s or refer to the late Lady Thatcher by name, free-market critics portrayed his attack on her reforms as an effort to revive the state-dominated economic policies that preceded her government.
Britain experienced the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79, when millions of workers participated in widespread strikes over pay that disrupted daily life. The strikes left trash uncollected, reduced hospital services and affected public transportation. The unrest is widely seen as a major factor in the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in 1979 as voters turned against the unions and the Labour government of that time.
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Andy Burnham, who is expected to become the U.K.’s next prime minister on Monday, speaks to supporters after winning a by-election in Ashton in Makerfield, England, on Friday, June 19, 2026. (Jon Super/AP)
The Adam Smith Institute responded to his speech by publishing a lengthy defense of the Thatcher era, highlighting reductions in income and corporate tax rates, privatizations, rising homeownership and fewer days lost to labor strikes.
«Since you mentioned the 1980s, Andy Burnham, here’s a reminder of what was achieved,» the free-market think tank wrote before listing economic indicators it said improved during the period.
According to the free-market think tank, the top rate of income tax fell from 83% to 40%, the basic rate dropped from 33% to 25%, and corporation tax was reduced from 52% to 35%. It said inflation declined from a peak of 21.9% in 1980 to 2.4% in 1986, while the number of working days lost to strikes fell from 29.5 million in 1979 to 1.9 million in 1990. The institute also said homeownership rose from 55% to 67%, the number of individual shareholders increased from 3 million to 11 million, and national debt fell from 47% of gross domestic product to 28%.
Emma Schubart, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who previously worked at the Adam Smith Institute, told Fox News Digital that Burnham’s speech demonstrated what she described as a fundamental misunderstanding of taxation and economic incentives.
«The biggest takeaway is that he comes across as pretty economically illiterate,» Schubart said in an interview Friday. She called Burnham’s «demonization» of Thatcher polices «strange and needless.»

Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, addresses a Press Conference at Conservative Party Headquarters in Smith Square, London on June 8, 1987 during the General Election campaign. (David Levenson/Getty Images)
Schubart argued that Burnham’s message was internally contradictory because he presented his leadership as a national renewal while proposing to dismantle reforms associated with the 1980s.
«He keeps saying he’s bringing a renewal to the U.K. and a new chapter,» she said. «But then he also says, ‘We’re going to go back to the ’70s.’ You have to pick one.»
Burnham nevertheless insisted he would be a «pro-business leader,» while calling for greater public control of essential services, new powers for regional governments and closer cooperation with private businesses.

U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wave as they board Air Force One at Prestwick Airport ahead of a flight to north-east Scotland on July 28, 2025 in Prestwick, Scotland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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The ideological shift presents an immediate political gamble. Burnham must unite Labour’s competing factions, reassure financial markets and respond to Reform UK’s growing challenge — all while taking office without winning a national election.
Mendoza warned that Burnham’s effort to appeal to the left could complicate relations with the Trump administration. «The government could most definitely clash with the United States under Burnham’s vision, because the voters he is trying to bring back into his tent include many of those who are deeply hostile to America.
«If he adopts U.S.-friendly policies, he risks alienating the voting coalition he is trying to create,» he continued. «But if he decides to pick fights with the United States, he risks damaging British national security and the alliance with America, which matters far more to the country than any electoral coalition.»
Burnham is expected to be sworn in as prime minister on Monday by King Charles III.
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