Guatemala, el Mspas y Unicef acordaron incorporar el Suplemento Nutricional Lipídico a la atención integral de la niñez en los primeros mil días de vida para extender el programa a 205 municipios priorizados en los próximos tres años, en un país que mantiene uno de los índices de desnutrición crónica más altos de la región y del mundo.

La expansión parte de una fase inicial que ya alcanzó a 14.000 niñas y niños de entre seis y 23 meses en siete municipios de Alta Verapaz y Totonicapán, dos departamentos con altos niveles de vulnerabilidad nutricional. El convenio prevé que esa experiencia sirva de base para escalar la intervención desde los siete municipios y nueve distritos del piloto hacia la cobertura priorizada a nivel nacional.

Según informó el Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social, el ministro de Salud Joaquín Barnoya encabezó la firma del acuerdo y sostuvo que la medida busca reforzar la respuesta frente a la desnutrición infantil. “Esta acción contribuirá a reducir la mortalidad y la anemia, y favorecerá el desarrollo físico e intelectual de la niñez”, afirmó.

En el acto también participaron el viceministro de Atención Primaria en Salud Donato Camey y el representante adjunto de Unicef Guatemala Vincenzo Placco. El suplemento se incorporará al Modelo Demostrativo de Atención Integral como parte de la estrategia de atención a la primera infancia.

El SQ-LNS es una pasta de pequeña cantidad, de unos 20 gramos diarios, destinada a niñas y niños desde los seis meses. Aporta 24 vitaminas y minerales esenciales, además de proteínas y ácidos grasos saludables como omega 3 y omega 6.

Su función es preventiva y no terapéutica. Está diseñado para complementar la alimentación en una etapa en la que las necesidades nutricionales aumentan y las dietas suelen presentar múltiples carencias.

De acuerdo con datos citados por Unicef, un metaanálisis de 14 ensayos controlados aleatorizados con más de 37.000 participantes mostró que quienes reciben este suplemento presentan una prevalencia de desnutrición aguda grave 31% menor. El mismo análisis registró una reducción del 17% en la desnutrición crónica grave y una caída del 64% en la anemia por deficiencia de hierro.

La misma fuente indicó que la mortalidad infantil entre los seis y los 24 meses disminuye alrededor de 27% con el uso del SQ-LNS. Los datos también muestran que los niños suplementados tienen entre 16% y 19% menos probabilidades de ubicarse en el decil más bajo en pruebas de lenguaje, habilidades socioemocionales y motricidad.

Esas mejoras equivalen a entre uno y cinco puntos de cociente intelectual, según el nivel de desnutrición de la población, de acuerdo con la información difundida por el organismo. La evidencia sitúa el impacto del suplemento más allá de la supervivencia y lo vincula también con el desarrollo infantil.

El Ministerio de Salud no distribuirá el SQ-LNS como una intervención aislada. La cartera lo integrará en un paquete de acciones que incluye promoción de la lactancia materna, consejería nutricional, control del crecimiento y otras atenciones de salud.

Esa decisión sigue las recomendaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, que establece que los suplementos lipídicos deben acompañarse con orientación sobre alimentación infantil y no reemplazar una dieta diversa. La lógica del programa es sumar el producto a una estrategia de cuidado más amplia durante la primera infancia.

La medida apunta a responder a un problema estructural que golpea con mayor fuerza a comunidades indígenas y rurales en Guatemala. En ese contexto, el convenio firmado entre el ministerio y Unicef fija una ruta de ampliación territorial para los próximos tres años sobre la base de la experiencia ya aplicada en las zonas piloto.

The State Department on Saturday raised its Travel Advisory for Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta to Level 3: Reconsider Travel after tens of thousands of migrants surged into the Spanish territory from neighboring Morocco, prompting a major security response.

The updated advisory warns that the «massive and uncontrolled arrival of migrants from Morocco to Ceuta may lead to unpredictable and dangerous security situations.»

«Spain has deployed the Spanish military, Spanish National Police, and Guardia Civil as a result of this serious situation,» the advisory states. «Americans should reconsider travel to the area given the risks posed to their safety and security.»

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The advisory applies only to Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city on the northern coast of Africa that borders Morocco. The rest of Spain remains under its existing travel advisory level.

Spanish officials have scrambled to respond after tens of thousands of migrants crossed into Ceuta this week. Ceuta President Juan Jesús Vivas said Friday that about 60,000 migrants entered the enclave over a 24-hour period, while Spain’s Interior Ministry later estimated roughly 50,000 arrivals since Thursday. Authorities said thousands have since returned to Morocco.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain would boost the presence of security forces in Ceuta, deploy a physical sea barrier to help facilitate repatriations and continue working with Moroccan authorities to combat human trafficking networks.

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Authorities have linked the migrant surge to a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling involving migrants arriving by sea. Sánchez said human trafficking organizations misrepresented the decision, triggering the influx.

The crisis also drew comments from President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting Friday at Camp David.

«You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected,» Trump said.

Migrants cross on foot into the North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco by attempting to swim, according to Spain’s Guardia Civil, near the border with Ceuta, in Fnideq, Morocco, July 30, 2026, in this still image obtained by Reuters (Reuters)

Earlier Friday, Trump also told Fox News chief White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich: «It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in.»

Ceuta, along with the Spanish enclave of Melilla, has long been a flashpoint for illegal migration into Europe because both territories sit on the African mainland while remaining part of Spain and the European Union.

A Massachusetts federal judge has once again blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia, issuing a new administrative stay after plaintiffs rewrote their lawsuit around constitutional claims just days after a federal appeals court threw out similar stays terminating TPS for Ethiopia and South Sudan.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued the administrative stay Friday after African Communities Together and other plaintiffs filed an amended complaint alleging the Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment by terminating Somalia’s TPS designation based on racial and national-origin discrimination.

The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and emergency motion on Thursday in a renewed bid to keep Somalia’s TPS protections alive after the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Mullin v. Doe sharply limited lower courts’ ability to block TPS terminations.

Burroughs’ latest order has intensified growing criticism over whether district judges are using administrative stays to work around higher court rulings. It comes just days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed similar administrative stays issued by U.S. District Judges Brian Murphy and Patti Saris, who had temporarily delayed the Trump administration’s TPS terminations for Ethiopia and South Sudan.

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The First Circuit based its rulings on the Supreme Court’s Mullin decision, which ruled lower courts generally cannot block TPS terminations based on non-constitutional claims.

The latest order drew an immediate rebuke from DHS General Counsel James Percival, who accused Burroughs of continuing a pattern of judicial obstruction.

«Judge Allison Burroughs just entered yet another order preventing the termination of Somalia TPS. There is no serious debate about what is going on in these cases — defiance, obstruction, and delay,» Percival wrote on X.

Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan argued Burroughs’ order improperly grants emergency relief despite what he described as legally deficient claims.

«I looked at the amended complaint in the Somalia TPS case,» Wessan wrote on X. «The district judge has entered a novel ‘administrative stay’ to sort out the claims. She has declared the TPS termination ‘void’ for now, while deciding whether any of the claims can justify a more permanent pause.»

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Wessan argued that the order «turns the law upside down,» writing that four of the lawsuit’s five claims are foreclosed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Mullin and describing the remaining claim as «frivolous.»

«Even if this was a fresh lawsuit without the baggage, the claims cannot justify any relief– much less meet the high bar for interim relief,» Wessan wrote. «This is very bad. I hope that, with time to review, Judge Burroughs vacates her administrative stay to allow the correct status quo to continue.»

The plaintiffs contend, however, that their amended complaint presents a fundamentally different case than those recently rejected by the First Circuit.

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The amended lawsuit argues the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to revoke Somalia’s TPS designation was predetermined, pointing to President Donald Trump’s November 2025 Truth Social post announcing the end of TPS months before DHS had completed the review process. Plaintiffs argue that deprived Somali TPS holders of the fair process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause because the decision had effectively already been made before the agency completed the review required by law.

The complaint also alleges the administration violated the Fifth Amendment’s Equal Protection guarantee by targeting Somali nationals based on race and national origin. It cites Trump’s past remarks describing Somali immigrants as «criminals,» «gang members,» and «low IQ,» as well as his statements that he doesn’t «want them in our country» and to «send them back.»

President Donald Trump announcing the establishing of the first ever self-deportation program which incentivizes illegal migrants to voluntarily leave the country. (@realDonaldTrump via Truth Social)

«These statements evince the Administration’s racist and xenophobic motivations to exclude Somali people from the country. At the same time, the Administration has expressed preferences for white immigrants as ‘nice’ and welcome in the U.S. and created protections for white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa,» the plaintiffs wrote.

Burroughs has presided over the Somalia TPS litigation since earlier this year. On March 13, she initially entered an administrative stay preventing the Somalia TPS termination from taking effect while the litigation proceeded.

Fox News Digital reached out to African Communities Together for comment.