El presidente chileno José Antonio Kast presentó este lunes ante el Congreso la primera cuenta pública de su gestión en la que hizo una balance sobre los primeros pasos de su gobierno y detalló la hoja de ruta para los próximos cuatro años.

Kast asumió la presidencia el 11 de marzo —tras imponerse con casi un 60% de los votos en las elecciones del año pasado — con la promesa de implementar un “gobierno de emergencia” para resolver los principales problemas.

En una ceremonia en la sede del Congreso en la costera ciudad de Valparaíso, el mandatario ultraconservador subrayó que la prioridad será devolver el “rumbo” al país a través del refuerzo de la seguridad, de reformas económicas y la recuperación del empleo.

Para eso, pidió la cooperación de todos los sectores políticos con el fin de avanzar en las áreas de la seguridad, el empleo, la educación, la salud y la vivienda.

Kast llegó al poder con un discurso centrado en el combate al crimen organizado y la delincuencia, la recuperación económica y solventar la compleja situación migratoria en el país, donde se calcula que viven más de 300.000 personas indocumentadas.

En su mensaje, anunció la puesta en marcha del plan Retorno que será implementado en los próximos días para “acelerar” la salida de inmigrantes ilegales y “desincentivar su permanencia en el país”, aunque no detalló medidas concretas para ello.

“Lo haremos sin perder de vista la dimensión humana de este drama”, dijo. «Entendemos que detrás de la migración irregular hay también familias engañadas, niños usados como pasaporte y personas explotadas por el crimen organizado transnacional».

En ese marco, recordó la reciente cumbre internacional encabezada por Chile, donde cinco países de la región se comprometieron a crear estrategias conjuntas para un mayor control fronterizo.

En cuanto a la seguridad, la mayor preocupación de los chilenos, anunció que mejorará las remuneraciones de las policías y otras fuerzas de seguridad y creará grupos especializados para el combate de secuestros y sicariato, ciberdelitos, crimen organizado o finanzas criminales.

Anticipó, además, la entrada en vigor de un registro de vándalos e incivilidades que tendrá como finalidad suspender los beneficios sociales de cualquier persona que cometa actos de violencia o vandalismo. También el lanzamiento de un plan para recuperar los barrios considerados “críticos”.

“La seguridad no es algo que cambie de un día para otro. Pero las cifras muestran que se empiezan a consolidar mejores resultados”, destacó.

Kast igualmente detalló medidas económicas con las que confía en “ordenar las finanzas públicas», aunque reconoció que algunas de ellas podrían generar molestias. “Va a haber dolor, aquí no se puede prometer milagros”, expresó.

El gobernante planteó un ajuste del aparato estatal y una reducción del gasto administrativo a través del proyecto de Reconstrucción Nacional y Desarrollo Económico y Social —considerado el buque insignia de su administración para crecer y que actualmente se encuentra en discusión en el Congreso.

Kast apuntó que es necesario acelerar la inversión, destrabar permisos y reducir el gasto fiscal, aunque aseguró que no habrá recortes de beneficios sociales.

Otro de los ejes centrales es recuperar el empleo. La tasa de desempleo alcanzó la semana pasada su nivel más alto en los últimos cinco años tras rebasar el umbral del 9%.

“Son más de 940.000 personas las que buscan trabajo y no lo encuentran. Es una de cada cuatro personas que trabaja en la informalidad, sin contrato y sin una red que la sostenga”, dijo. «Son 40 meses seguidos con el desempleo sobre el 8%».

Por eso, el mandatario anunció una serie de proyectos que buscan la modernización de las empresas y la reducción de la burocracia, sobre todo en el sector minero. “El Estado tiene que ser un aliado, no un obstáculo”.

También manifestó su intención de reformar la Ley indígena buscando eliminar las restricciones al uso de tierras indígenas y la prohibición de sus arriendos a fin de alcanzar “una política indígena coherente”.

Finalmente, anunció que propondrá una estructura ministerial más “racional” para un Estado “más moderno», reduciendo el número de carteras, entre otras medidas. “No le podemos pedir austeridad y eficiencia a las familias chilenas si el propio Estado no es capaz de ordenarse a sí mismo”.

Isaac Asimov famously declared that he didn’t believe in «flying saucers.» Asimov countered that he believed in «evidence» and «observation.»

«I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there’s evidence for it,» Asimov said. «The wilder and more ridiculous something is however, the firmer and more solid the evidence should be.»

The Trump administration released another batch of UFO files recently. This is part of making good on a promise to release videos and documents related to UAP, unidentified aerial phenomena. Bipartisan lawmakers pressed President Donald Trump to make good on this promise back in March. This release is the second group of material publicized by the government.

And what’s in it?

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A space oddity. Some 57 years in the making.

«They thought it was something, you know, penetrating the spacecraft, if you know what I mean,» said Apollo 12 Command Module 12 pilot about what he and his colleagues saw in outer space in late 1969. That’s one snippet of audio which is now public.

The baffled astronauts tried to unravel a cosmic conundrum when they spotted weird beams of light bouncing around their spacecraft more than half a century ago.

«The streaks I saw were ones that I saw on the horizontal,» said Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. «The horizontal streaks were always a little bit above the center.»

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These were clips of audiotape the government recently dumped. Tales from tape never heard before about what some of humankind’s first space explorers experienced and observed when they slipped the surly bonds of Earth.

The president pledged to publicize as much unexplained material as possible.

«It’s been in the minds of people for a long time,» said President Trump in late April. «And I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people.»

President Donald Trump pledged to publicize as much unexplained material as possible. (Aaron Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s a document dump that is out of this world. But it’s hard to quantify and understand exactly what it all means. Let alone if it provides «evidence,» as Asimov would say, «which explains something, which to some, could be «ridiculous.»

No one knows exactly what these videos and documents reveal. Especially when it comes to demonstrating that UFOs exist or that there are visitors to Earth from another planet.

But that doesn’t mean that the information isn’t remarkable.

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«Virtually speechless!» is how one military pilot characterized strange «orange orbs» which materialized near his helicopter during a flight last year.

Then there was a stationary pill-shaped object in the Middle East zipping off at ludicrous speed.

Then there was a celestial trinity of objects synchronously hovering over water in Iran.

«The stuff they’re dropping right now is just Deep State classic,» Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., has said of the releases. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

One lawmaker who has long called for UAP transparency isn’t starstruck at the releases. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., was skeptical before the Pentagon put out the latest tranche of information.

«The stuff they’re dropping right now is just Deep State classic,» said Burchett. «They won’t show us some of the stuff that we’ve seen. They’re going to show stuff that is easily identifiable.»

But this information is far from easy to identify, quantify or even understand. The government can explain some weird sightings. At a 2022 House hearing on UAP, the Pentagon demonstrated how light refracting through certain military visual aids created an optical illusion. But the stories are legion about what can’t be explained or defined. The difference now is that Congress mandated the Pentagon create an office to document and study UAP.

And the government either can’t – or doesn’t want to explain a lot of what’s out there.

«We have been stonewalled. We have been blocked. We have had witnesses intimidated,» said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., on Fox. She asserted that former workers at the Pentagon UAP office were even «attacking» some witnesses and whistleblowers who have come forward.

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But here’s the other challenge: understanding exactly what documents and videos the government has in its possession.

«This is not an easy thing to do. There’s not one huge repository of all of these documents and videos and photos,» said Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., on Fox.

Burlison is now suggesting the government «reverse engineer» what they find at certain «crash locations» or where people have discovered weird physical material here on terra firma.

«The White House and the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) is now looking at places to go investigate,» said Burlison on Fox.

Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., suggests the government»reverse engineer» what they find at certain «crash locations.» (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

So people sift through the files in a quest to unearth evidence that is definitely un-Earth. But more information often yields more questions. And that’s to say nothing of the other-worldly expectations set the pending release of files and information. The bar is high. And while the release of information is intriguing, no one quite knows what it all means.

If you wanted proof of ET or revelations of a government conspiracy, you’re better off watching an old VHS tape.

We just don’t know what these files mean. And, in many cases, even are.

The document dump isn’t a nothing-burger. But a something-burger. Still, that doesn’t sate the appetite for those who are on a quest for the truth. And it likely just angers those who are convinced the government has something to hide.

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On Fox, Burlison said he «personally» experienced «frustration» about declassifying information. But Burlison cautioned the Trump Administration against holding material back.

«I’ve seen those kind of videos,» said Burlison. «I’m telling the administration through you at this moment that if they don’t release those, then I have the capabilities of getting those videos released.»

In the meantime, people are sorting through the recently released material, trying to decode it.

«There’s a whole bunch of big ones out my window now. It’s just bright. Looks like the Fourth of July out around the window,» exclaimed one astronaut in a just released soundbite.

So we’re accumulating a lot of «evidence» and «observation.» Kind of what Isaac Asimov was looking for. But signs of life from other worlds? Not necessarily. This is why the Pentagon says there’s no evidence that the videos reveal something from outer space. But the military concedes that it can’t explain everything.

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So the evidence will pile up.

Figuring out what it means is not the final frontier. But the next frontier.

France has added a ninth European country to President Emmanuel Macron’s growing nuclear deterrence initiative as European governments move to take on a larger role in its own defense following years of pressure from President Donald Trump to shoulder more of NATO’s security burden.

Norway announced Wednesday that it will join France’s so-called «forward deterrence» initiative, becoming the latest country to participate in discussions over how France’s nuclear arsenal could contribute to European security. The effort also includes Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Greece and the United Kingdom.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre stressed that «our deterrence will continue to be provided by NATO» and said France had consulted both NATO and the U.S. as the initiative expanded.

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The expansion comes as European governments race to strengthen its militaries amid concerns that Russia could eventually push beyond Ukraine and threaten NATO territory. It also marks another step in Macron’s effort to position France at the center of a more self-reliant European security framework as NATO allies increase defense spending and military cooperation.

It also follows years of warnings from Trump that the U.S. should not continue carrying a disproportionate share of Europe’s defense burden.

«If they don’t pay, I’m not going to defend them,» Trump said in 2025 when discussing NATO allies that fail to meet defense spending commitments.

Trump repeatedly has argued that European countries relied too heavily on American military power while underinvesting in their own defenses. At NATO’s summit in The Hague earlier in 2026, alliance members agreed to a new goal of spending 5% of GDP on defense and defense-related investments by 2035, a dramatic increase from NATO’s longstanding 2% benchmark.

France has not announced plans to permanently station nuclear weapons in nations participating in the initiative and retains sole authority over any decision involving its nuclear arsenal.

Members of the French Navy are aboard a submarine awaiting the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron at the nuclear submarine navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat /Pool via Reuters)

Instead, participating countries will take part in discussions, planning and exercises related to French nuclear deterrence while France signals that the security of its European partners is increasingly tied to its own. Macron also has said participating countries could temporarily host French strategic air forces as part of the initiative.

Macron has increasingly positioned France as a leader in Europe’s push to take greater responsibility for its own security. France is the European Union’s only nuclear-armed country, and the French president has argued that France’s nuclear deterrent should play a larger role in protecting the continent as governments across Europe increase military spending and expand defense cooperation.

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France built an independent nuclear deterrent during the Cold War under President Charles de Gaulle. France conducted its first nuclear test in 1960 and developed its own arsenal in part to ensure the country would never be entirely dependent on Washington for its security.

The arrangement leaves open questions about exactly what commitments France is making.

French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the troops during his visit to the nuclear submarine navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, March 2, 2026 (Yoan Valat /Pool via Reuters)

For decades, Europe’s ultimate nuclear backstop has been the U.S. which stations nuclear weapons in several NATO countries including Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as part of the alliance’s broader deterrence posture. France’s proposal is less explicit, seeking to strengthen deterrence by making Russia consider the possibility that threats against European allies could implicate French security interests without offering a formal nuclear guarantee.

The initiative highlights how some European governments are looking to strengthen regional defense arrangements even as the U.S. remains NATO’s dominant military power and primary nuclear guarantor.

It also comes as Trump and Macron continue a relationship marked by both cooperation and public disagreements.

In March, Trump rated Macron an «8 out of 10» as an ally while discussing French support for a U.S.-led effort to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

«Not perfect, but it’s France,» Trump said. «We don’t expect perfect.»

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At the same time, Macron has increasingly pushed for Europe to take greater responsibility for its own defense and has publicly broken with Washington on several foreign policy issues, including criticism of U.S. military actions in the Middle East.

Those tensions reflect a broader challenge facing NATO as European governments seek to strengthen their own military capabilities while continuing to rely heavily on the United States for much of the alliance’s military power and nuclear deterrence.