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Democrats win Virginia redistricting fight, threatening Republican House majority
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Democrats scored a major victory Tuesday when Virginia voters narrowly passed a congressional redistricting referendum that could give the party a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year’s midterm elections, The Associated Press reported at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.
The referendum, which follows President Donald Trump’s push for rare but not unheard-of mid-decade redistricting in Republican-led states, would give the Democrats four additional left-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms as the party tries to win back control of the chamber from the GOP, which currently holds a razor-thin majority.
Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who in many ways became the face of her party’s push to pass the ballot initiative, said in a statement that «Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they approved a temporary measure to push back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.»
«Virginians watched other states go along with those demands without voter input — and we refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box,» the governor said.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger speaks during a Virginians For Fair Elections canvassing event in Woodbridge, Va., on April 18, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin emphasized that «Virginians refused to let Trump play games with Americans’ right to fair representation.»
But Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that «Virginia Democrats can’t redraw reality. This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn’t be represented by a severe partisan gerrymander. That’s exactly why the courts, who have already ruled twice to block this egregious power grab, should uphold Virginia law.»
And Hudson predicted, «Even under this map, Republicans will hold our majority based on our record cleaning up Democrats’ mess and a historic war chest to litigate the Democrats’ failures.»
Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Ryer said in a statement, «I know we are disappointed by tonight’s result. Evidently, a sufficient number of Virginians trusted the blatantly dishonest language the Democrats placed on the ballot to make our Commonwealth the most severely gerrymandered state in the nation.»
The standalone spring referendum capped months of political crossfire and court battles, sky-high early voting turnout and tons of national attention and money poured into the ballot box showdown.
Even though a majority of voters gave the ballot initiative a thumbs-up, it still faces legal challenges.
The Supreme Court of Virginia allowed the referendum to move forward after a lower court struck it down. But legal challenges to the referendum, filed in part by the Republican National Committee, the NRCC and the state GOP, remain unresolved and are still before Virginia’s highest court.
Republicans had railed against the Democrat-backed referendum.
«It’s the most partisan map in America,» former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin told supporters at his final campaign stop in northern Virginia on the eve of the election.
Pointing to the Democrats pushing new maps, Youngkin charged, «What they are doing is immoral.»
Teaming up with Youngkin to crisscross the state in leading the GOP opposition to the ballot initiative was former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who told the crowd the Democrats’ map is one that «you draw when you’re drunk with power.»
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Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, right, and former state Attorney General Jason Miyares lead a chant of «no» as they lead Republican efforts to defeat a Democrat-backed congressional redistricting referendum April 20, 2026, in Leesburg, Va. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of their final election eve rally, Miyares charged that «Democrats want to take away the voices of millions of Virginians and gerrymander the state.»
Youngkin, pointing to the duo’s relentless campaigning in recent weeks, said, «What we’re hearing over and over and over again is Virginians want fair maps. And what the yes vote represents are unfair maps.»
And the two Republicans reiterated their charge that the referendum was an «unconstitutional power grab» by Spanberger and the Democrats who control the state legislature.
As Youngkin and Miyares spoke in Leesburg, Trump took to the airwaves on a popular Virginia-based conservative talk show and later teamed up with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to urge voters to defeat the referendum.
Pointing to congressional Democrats, Trump warned that «if they get these additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.»
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President Donald Trump headlined a tele town hall on the eve of Virginia’s congressional redistricting referendum urging voters to cast a ballot against the initiative. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Democrats countered that the redrawing of the maps was a necessary step to balance partisan gerrymandering already implemented by Republicans in other states at Trump’s urging.
«By voting yes, you have the chance to do something important — not just for the commonwealth, but for our entire country,» former President Barack Obama said in a video released Friday on the eve of the final day of early voting. «By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms.
«By voting yes, you can take a temporary step to level the playing field. And we’re counting on you.»
The video by Obama was the former president’s latest effort for the referendum. He had previously appeared in ads released by Virginians for Fair Elections, the Democrat-aligned group working to pass the ballot initiative.
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But Virginians for Fair Maps, the leading Republican-aligned group opposing redistricting, used past comments by Obama against political gerrymandering in its ads opposing the referendum.
«Because of things like political gerrymandering, our parties have moved further and further apart, and it’s harder and harder to find common ground,» the former president said in an old clip showcased in the spot.
Republicans pointed to comments from Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, who acknowledged over the weekend in a «Fox News Sunday» interview that the new maps don’t represent Virginia’s partisan breakdown.
«Ninety percent of Virginians are not Democrats, that’s true,» Kaine said.
But Kaine added that «about 100% of Virginians want election results to be respected.»
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And Republicans took aim at Spanberger, who won November’s gubernatorial election by over 15 points as Democrats also captured the lieutenant governor and attorney general offices.
«Abigail Spanberger told everybody last summer that she had no interest in redistricting, and then the first bill she signs is a bill to enable the gerrymandering of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginians don’t like this and that’s why independents and a lot of Democrats are voting no too,» Youngkin told Fox News Digital.
Minutes later, Youngkin told the crowd that Spanberger is «trying to disenfranchise millions, millions of Virginians.»
Republicans trained their redistricting firepower on Spanberger since a poll two weeks ago by The Washington Post indicated that the new governor’s approval rating was barely above water, with the highest unfavorable rating for a new Virginia governor in two decades.
«She’s an unpopular governor with an unpopular agenda, and she lied to the voters,» Miyares charged.
Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, left, and former state Attorney General Jason Miyares, speak with Fox News Digital on the eve of Virginia’s congressional redistricting referendum in Leesburg, Va., April 20, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And Miyares and other top Republicans accused Spanberger of pulling a «bait and switch.»
Spanberger, in an ad in support of the referendum, said she was backing the measure because «it’s directly in response to what other states decide to do and a president who says he’s quote entitled to more Republican seats before this year’s midterms. Our approach is different. It’s temporary. It preserves Virginia’s fair redistricting process into the future.»
Supporters of redistricting dramatically outraised and outspent groups opposed to the referendum, with Virginians for Fair Elections outraising Virginians for Fair Maps by a roughly three-to-one margin. Much of the funding raised by both sides came from so-called «dark money» from nonprofit public policy groups known as 501(c)(4) organizations that are not required to disclose their donors.
Despite the Democrats’ funding advantage, recent polling suggested support for the ballot initiative was only slightly ahead of opposition amid a surge in early voting, which ended on Saturday.
«They have outspent us three to one. They’ve raised over $70 million. And yet this is a close vote,» Youngkin said.
Pointing to the ads in support of the referendum, Youngkin said Virginians «aren’t believing the mistruths. They aren’t believing the lies on TV. They’re actually doing the work themselves and understanding that a no vote is for fair maps and a yes vote is for the most gerrymandered maps in America.»
And Miyares emphasized that Democrats «outspent us, but we have the truth.»
Virginia is the latest battleground in the high-stakes fight between Trump and the GOP and Democrats over congressional redistricting.
Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump last spring first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.
The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, «Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.»
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.
But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.
Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night news conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento Nov. 4, 2025. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.
The fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.
Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.
In blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.
Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. The showdown in the Indiana statehouse grabbed plenty of national attention.
Florida is next up.
Two-term Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers in the GOP-dominated legislature are hoping to pick up an additional three to five right-leaning seats through a redistricting push during a special legislative session that kicks off April 28.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 22, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service)
Hovering over the redistricting wars is the Supreme Court, which is expected to rule in Louisiana v. Callais, a crucial case that may lead to the overturning of a key provision in the Voting Rights Act.
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If the ruling goes the way of the conservatives on the high court, it could lead to the redrawing of a slew of majority-minority districts across the county, which would greatly favor Republicans.
But it is very much up in the air when the court will rule and what it will actually decide.
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Another NATO ally signs onto European nuclear umbrella as continent boosts self-defense
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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.
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2025. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)
«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.
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Elecciones en Colombia 2026: cuándo es el balotaje entre Abelardo de la Espriella e Iván Cepeda
El excéntrico abogado Abelardo de la Espriella emergió en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia como un duro rival para el senador progresista Iván Cepeda, con quien se disputará el balotaje en junio en medio de acusaciones mutuas y cuestionamientos al sistema electoral.
Cepeda, aliado del actual presidente Gustavo Petro, había liderado en los últimos meses gran parte de las encuestas y parecía confiado en que podría ganar en primera vuelta, un hito que nadie ha conseguido en casi dos décadas.
Pero los resultados del domingo, que corresponden a un conteo preliminar, le dieron la ventaja a De la Espriella con 43,74% de los votos frente a 40,90% de Cepeda, lo que los llevará al balotaje el 21 de junio.
Petro no aceptó los resultados y dijo que esperará a que los jueces electorales realicen el escrutinio, resuelvan eventuales reclamos sobre irregularidades y declaren formalmente la elección. En la misma línea se pronunció Cepeda.
La primera vuelta presidencial era para los analistas un medidor de la aceptación o rechazo a la agenda política de Petro, quien no se puede reelegir.
Mientras Cepeda promete profundizar los programas sociales para los más vulnerables y continuar los diálogos de paz con los grupos armados, De la Espriella ha dicho que dará un vuelco total y reducirá el tamaño del Estado, beneficiará a empresarios y presionará con operaciones militares a los grupos ilegales.
“Hay una polarización enorme en el país, lo que los votantes en su gran mayoría sugirieron es que no quieren una continuidad al gobierno Petro”, aseguró a The Associated Press el analista político Sergio Guzmán. “De la Espriella ganó la primera vuelta, eso es un golpe de opinión muy difícil de derrotar”, explicó.
De la Espriella calificó a su contrincante de “bandido aliado de narcoterroristas”, mientras Cepeda lo tildó de buscar regresar al país a un pasado “mafioso y corrupto”.
Con una diferencia de más de 673.000 votos, De la Espriella y Cepeda lucharán por mantener a su electorado y conquistar a los votantes que en primera vuelta apoyaron a los otros nueve aspirantes. Cepeda retó el lunes a De la Espriella a un primer debate público para medir propuestas.
De la Espriella se autodefine independiente y se postuló sin el apoyo explícito de partidos tradicionales. Sin embargo, tras los resultados del domingo comenzaron a tejerse alianzas políticas. La candidata Paloma Valencia —quien se ubicó en tercer lugar con 6,9% de los votos— y su padrino político, el expresidente Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), anunciaron su apoyo al conservador, así como el exmandatario Iván Duque (2018-2022) y el partido Cambio Radical.
Por su parte, el expresidente Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) renovó su respaldo a Cepeda y se sumó el exembajador en el Reino Unido y candidato en primera vuelta Roy Barreras, quien no obtuvo ni 1% de los votos.
De la Espriella es un abogado conocido en Colombia por sus clientes de alto perfil como Uribe, así como de figuras controvertidas como Alex Saab, un estrecho aliado del derrocado presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro que enfrenta cargos en Estados Unidos.
Se hace llamar “El Tigre” y dice que con la ferocidad de ese felino enfrentará a los grupos armados. Es vocal en su simpatía por el presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele y el argentino Javier Milei, de quienes dice que tomaría algunas de sus políticas como referencia.
“Me gusta mucho el tema de las cárceles y la seguridad del presidente Bukele, haciendo la salvedad de que son dos países muy distintos, con conflictos y situaciones muy diferentes”, explicó De la Espriella a AP antes de la primera vuelta. “Me gustan del presidente Milei algunos de sus manejos económicos; ha reducido sustancialmente la inflación”, agregó.
De la Espriella se une a un número creciente de líderes regionales, desde Chile hasta Honduras, que buscan adoptar el “modelo Bukele” a medida que los votantes latinoamericanos abandonan a los políticos con ideas progresistas destinadas a abordar las causas del conflicto como la falta de oportunidades, la pobreza y la corrupción.
“Es una marca política que, por así decirlo, llegó a Colombia. No creo que De la Espriella inventara nada”, aseguró Guzmán.
El candidato también es seguidor del presidente Donald Trump y miembro del Partido Republicano. Ha prometido que, de llegar al poder, estrechará la relación con Estados Unidos y dará resultados en la disminución de cultivos de hoja de coca, la materia prima de la cocaína.
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La presidenta de Costa Rica reclama intervención del Congreso ante escalada delictiva en Crucitas
La presidenta Laura Fernández lanzó un llamado urgente a la Asamblea Legislativa para abordar de manera definitiva la problemática en Crucitas, una región que actualmente exige un gasto de USD 1 millón al mes solo en operaciones de seguridad.
La mandataria advirtió que la situación en Crucitas representa un riesgo que trasciende lo ambiental, pues bandas de crimen organizado ya se han asentado en la zona, profundizando un ciclo de delitos y pérdida de recursos nacionales.
Según Fernández, la continuidad de este modelo implica que el país sacrifica fondos esenciales que podrían emplearse en otras áreas de la seguridad pública.
La presidenta subrayó: “Nos consume un millón de dólares al mes la atención de seguridad que estamos dando en Crucitas, eso es mucha plata que debería de estarse distribuyendo en otras de las tantas necesidades de la seguridad nacional”.
Con esto, insistió en la urgencia de que los diputados den trámite a la propuesta de legalizar la minería de oro en la región, una iniciativa que permanece en la Asamblea Legislativa desde hace aproximadamente dos años y medio.
Fernández extendió una invitación directa a los legisladores para visitar Crucitas el próximo 19 de junio, enfatizando que el recorrido será a pie y no en helicóptero.
La intención es que los diputados experimenten de primera mano las condiciones que soportan los cuerpos policiales y comprendan la gravedad de posponer una solución efectiva.
“Qué fácil es desde la comodidad del aire acondicionado y desde la comodidad de una oficina burocrática… decir, ay, me opongo a esa solución, mientras nuestros policías pasan en un ambiente inhóspito, solo ahí, casi que con la ayuda de Dios”, reclamó la presidenta.
Actualmente, la controversia gira en torno a la legalización de la minería de oro como estrategia para frenar el deterioro ambiental, el robo de recursos y el fortalecimiento de la criminalidad en Crucitas.
Fernández argumenta que la falta de acción perpetúa un “combo de todo lo malo” para el país: daños ecológicos, saqueo de bienes nacionales y el avance del crimen organizado.
La propuesta del Ejecutivo busca que la legalización permita un control estatal sobre la explotación minera, con la promesa de reducir los riesgos sociales y ambientales, así como el elevado gasto en seguridad.
El llamado de Laura Fernández es claro: sin una intervención legislativa, la crisis en Crucitas seguirá agravándose, drenando recursos y comprometiendo la estabilidad y bienestar nacional.
La minería ilegal en Crucitas volvió a exponer en 2026 una crisis que mezcla daño ambiental, redes criminales y tensión entre Costa Rica y Nicaragua, después de que la Fuerza Pública costarricense detuviera a 19 nicaragüenses en la zona, según Infobae, en un conflicto agravado desde que se anuló la concesión legal para explotar oro y el territorio quedó abierto a la extracción clandestina.
Esa actividad ilegal provoca pérdidas anuales de unos USD 252 millones para Costa Rica, según Divergentes. El medio señaló que el oro extraído en la frontera alimenta un circuito de tráfico hacia Nicaragua, con participación de estructuras organizadas que facilitan su traslado y procesamiento.
La dimensión transfronteriza también llevó al gobierno costarricense a presentar reclamos diplomáticos a Nicaragua para pedir mayor vigilancia en la frontera y en el río San Juan, según Bloomberg Línea. La respuesta nicaragüense, de acuerdo con ese medio, ha sido limitada y la extracción clandestina continúa.
El origen del conflicto actual se remonta a 1999, cuando la empresa canadiense Industrias Infinito S.A. solicitó una concesión para explotar oro a cielo abierto en Las Crucitas, en el cantón de San Carlos, según el Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina.
En 2008, el gobierno de Costa Rica declaró el proyecto de interés público y habilitó su avance, pese a la oposición de grupos ambientalistas y comunidades locales, de acuerdo con ese registro.
La concesión fue anulada en 2010 por la Sala I de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, que citó irregularidades en el proceso y posibles daños ambientales al ecosistema del río San Juan, según el Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina.
Esa decisión frenó la explotación legal, pero dejó la zona vulnerable a nuevas incursiones irregulares.
Lo que ocurre hoy en Crucitas es una extracción clandestina de oro realizada por grupos de mineros artesanales conocidos como coligalleros en Costa Rica y güiriseros en Nicaragua, según La Prensa Nicaragua.
El medio informó que esos grupos emplean métodos que incluyen sustancias tóxicas como cianuro y mercurio.
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