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From Austin to New York, pro-China network fuels week of anti-US protests as Xi meets Trump
As President Donald Trump readies for high-stakes negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a network of pro-China organizations funded by pro-communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham is taking to the streets from New York City to Austin, creating the image of rolling street unrest that lawmakers warn China can exploit to project a perception of chaos in the United States.
Yesterday, Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, wore a trademark fuchsia straw hat and protested across the street from the United Nations on E. 47th Street, between First and Second Avenue, under an arch at Katharine Hepburn Garden, smiling widely next to agitators from the far-left CodePink nonprofit she co-founded and her American-born husband helped fund from his base in Shanghai. As part of their elaborate weeklong calendar, the activists railed against the U.S. military and its «all-out climate and environmental devastation.» and then they marched to the offices of Open AI to demonstrate against data centers they allege «drive war» and «economic degradation.»
The week’s protests reflect a pattern of rapid mobilization around breaking news and political flashpoints. The sequencing of events — combined with messaging sharply critical of the United States and silent about China’s human-rights, environmental and civil-liberties record — raises questions lawmakers debated last week about whether some activists function as «Trojan horses» for foreign adversaries such as China. Recently, Evans posted a video lauding China for building an economy that helps citizens «grow and thrive.» Last year, Singham delivered a speech in China supporting the Chinese Communist Party and Xi’s «new world order.»
SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST GROUPS COORDINATE, PROMOTE ‘SPONTANEOUS’ ANTI-ICE PROTESTS IN AUSTIN
Lawmakers have warned that the cumulative visibility of such actions shape public perceptions, project an image of instability and give foreign adversaries a potential messaging – and negotiating – advantage as Trump prepares for high-stakes talks with Xi this week.
«The American people need to know that this is not just an organic movement,» Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Digital. «There has to be more transparency across all areas with these kinds of activities.»
Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., chairman of the House Select Committee on China, told Digital the network’s grassroots image belies the serious funding infrastructure behind these groups. «In these situations where you have groups that portray themselves as grassroots, it’s really more Astroturf, very fake,» he said.
He said the protests «raises serious concerns» about malign foreign influence in the U.S., especially «when you see them actively speaking out against American interests.»
The protests are publicly framed as separate events involving immigration, climate change, artificial intelligence, militarism and Israel. But their shared sponsorships show how organizations within the broader Singham network move quickly from one issue to another, using national organizations, local chapters, social-media promotion and shared venues to create a cumulative impression of coordinated street activism.
Moolenaar called for «clarification and transparency» regarding the organizations’ finances and questioned whether they should continue receiving tax-exempt status, adding that their political involvement may violate «campaign rules and political rules here in the United States.»
LAWMAKERS RAISE ALARM OVER NEVILLE ROY SINGHAM’S $278M NETWORK SPREADING CCP PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S.
HASAN PIKER DEFENDS PRO-COMMUNIST, ANTI-ICE SINGHAM NETWORK ACTIVISTS AS ‘WONDERFUL PEOPLE’
The significance of the week’s activity is heightened by the scale of Singham’s financial support for the network. A Digital investigation has documented how Singham has pumped $285 million through a donor-advised fund and shell companies into a broader network of six major nonprofits, media outlets and activist organizations that have promoted anti-American and pro-China messaging.
In that network, Singham has given CodePink $1.33 million, while doling out $22.44 million to the People’s Forum, a hub for the protest activity this week, and $1.098 million to BreakThrough BT Media, a media arm of the network that is flooding social media with images and videos from the coordinated protests this week.
As Digital reported exclusively, the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York has convened a federal grand jury investigation into Singham’s financial network, sources say. Prosecutors are examining whether Singham, the organizations he funded or their leaders engaged in alleged wire fraud, bank fraud or money laundering, according to sources. Singham hasn’t been charged with a crime, and the investigation doesn’t establish that he personally directed each protest. Singham, the People’s Forum, CodePink and BreakThrough News haven’t responded to repeated requests for comment.
The sequence began Sunday night in Austin, where socialist and communist organizations rapidly promoted an anti-ICE protest after the shooting of Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez. The Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Party for Socialism and Liberation amplified calls for demonstrators to gather at 8121 Research Blvd. in Austin.
Although media accounts described the protest as organic, the mobilization moved through an existing national activist infrastructure. The Singham network’s Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization circulated video and protest messaging, while Democratic Socialists of America promoted the gathering as «spontaneous» and called supporters to the streets. The protest later spread beyond Austin, with activists in Pearsall, Tex., pledging to put «boots on the ground.»
In response to reporting on the protests, the Party for Socialism and Liberation published a video with an activist «rejecting» criticism of its Austin protests as a «nefarious» coordinated event and called the protests the result of «righteous anger.»
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America and Freedom Road Socialist Organization didn’t respond to requests for comment.
CHINESE PROPAGANDA, SINGHAM NETWORK, FOREIGN DARK MONEY LINKED TO CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DATA CENTERS
On Monday, the network’s actions moved to New York City, where Singham’s wife, Evans, and her cadre of CodePink activists began a week of demonstrations tied to Climate Week and the United Nations. CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin has led previous protests, including demonstrations supporting China.
After the environmental activism led by Evans outside the UN, CodePink agitators joined an «Unplug OpenAI» protest outside OpenAI’s offices on Lafayette Street, linking artificial-intelligence data centers to the «military-industrial complex.» The group’s weeklong schedule promised «disruptions» and «bird-dogging,» a tactic in which seemingly regular people plant themselves in restaurants, conferences and other events to heckle and harass public officials and even ordinary citizens, peppering them with questions and shaming rhetoric without any real interest in a dialogue.
Early Tuesday, CodePink celebrated its «fearless cofounder» Evan’s birthday with an Instagram collage of photos from her decades of activism, including the image of a smiling Evans in her pink straw hat, standing beside fuchsia balloons from a campaign called «China Is Not Our Enemy» that the group launched after receiving the donations from Singham. Another photo included her beaming smile next to controversial Marxist influencer Hasan Piker, as the two joined a caravan to support the Communist Party of Cuba.
Later in the day, CodePink activists moved their campaign inside the People’s Forum, a Manhattan hub for communist organizing for a screening of a film, «Earth’s Greatest Enemy,» by a fiercely anti-U.S. film company, Watermelon Pictures, chronicling the U.S. military as «one of the most significant drivers of environmental destruction,» the «world’s largest institutional polluter.»
Back in Austin, a short while later at about 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, the Singham network’s BreakThrough News propaganda network posted edited video clips from the Austin protests, headlined: «SECOND DAY OF PROTESTS IN AUSTIN AFTER ICE SHOOTS VENEZUELAN DELIVERY DRIVER.»
For Wednesday, Evans and CodePink promise more protests against the U.S. military’s «role in climate issues.»
On Thursday, as Xi meets with Trump in the White House, the People’s Forum, CodePink, the Palestinian Youth Movement and other groups in the Singham network are hitting the streets to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In social media posts, the groups are advertising a Thursday march from Bryant Park to the United Nations, calling on New Yorkers to «reject war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and the genocidal Zionist project.»
That day, Evans and CodePink also plans to participate in a teach-in on «War & Climate: What U.S. Imperialism Demands of Our Climate Justice Movements» before joining the anti-Israel agitation. Organizers are lashing out against the «genocide» in Gaza and blasting «ecocide.»
By Friday, as Xi readies to leave town, the protests will go full circle back to Austin, with the Singham network’s Party for Socialism and Liberation planning a protest at 6 p.m. at City Hall with the simple message: «Now is the time for us all to be brave, to follow the example of Minneapolis earlier this year, and TAKE TO THE STREETS!»
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“Asumir sola un embarazo” en su mayoría producto de la violencia sexual es el mayor secreto a voces que enfrentan cientos de adolescentes nicaragüenses en medio de una sociedad que ha normalizado el problema, sobre todo en las zonas rurales del país.
Nicaragua registra la tasa más alta de embarazos entre adolescentes de Centroamérica: 93 por cada 1,000 jóvenes de 15 a 19 años. Costa Rica, en cambio, tiene cerca de 25. La diferencia entre ambos países es de casi 70 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes, según datos del Banco Mundial.
El registro ubica a Nicaragua como el país con el indicador más alto de fecundidad adolescente en Centroamérica. La cifra supera a la de Honduras, Guatemala, Panamá, El Salvador y Costa Rica, de acuerdo con las estimaciones más recientes disponibles para 2024.
La comparación regional coincide con las alertas de organismos internacionales. El Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA) y otras agencias de Naciones Unidas calcularon que América Latina y el Caribe registró 50 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes de 15 a 19 años en 2024, por encima del promedio mundial de 39.
La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) advierte que las adolescentes indígenas, afrodescendientes, rurales, con menor nivel educativo o de los hogares con menos ingresos pueden tener hasta cuatro veces más probabilidades de iniciar una maternidad temprana que sus pares urbanas, con mayor escolaridad y recursos.
En el caso de las niñas menores de 15 años, los organismos internacionales vinculan los embarazos con la violencia sexual, las uniones tempranas y las barreras para acceder a servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva.
El régimen de nicaragua desarticuló durante los últimos años organizaciones feministas, comunitarias y de niñez que ofrecían educación sexual, prevención de la violencia y acompañamiento a adolescentes.
Human Rights Watch señala que las autoridades cancelaron la personería jurídica de más de 5,500 organizaciones desde 2018, mientras defensoras consultadas por el medio nicaragüense Divergentes advierten que esos cierres eliminaron espacios de orientación y protección en zonas rurales.
En paralelo, medios oficialistas promueven el concurso “La Madre Panza”, que entrega premios a mujeres embarazadas sin establecer límites de edad. Las imágenes de sus ediciones muestran la participación de adolescentes.
Nicaragua y Honduras, los extremos de la crisis regional
Después de Nicaragua aparece Honduras, con una tasa de 81 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes de 15 a 19 años. La diferencia entre ambos países es de 12 puntos.
Ambos son los únicos países centroamericanos que superan el umbral de 80. La distancia con Costa Rica muestra que el descenso regional no ha tenido el mismo ritmo en todos los territorios.
En Honduras, la OPS incluyó la reducción de la fecundidad adolescente entre las prioridades de un proyecto regional que se desarrolla entre 2025 y 2030. El organismo plantea ampliar el acceso a anticonceptivos modernos y fortalecer la atención para adolescentes, con énfasis en poblaciones rurales, indígenas y de menores ingresos.
Guatemala suma más de 56 embarazos adolescentes al año
Guatemala ocupa el tercer lugar, con una tasa de 68 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes. Son 25 puntos menos que Nicaragua, pero el volumen de casos revela otra dimensión del problema: el UNFPA informó en octubre de 2025 que el país registra más de 56 mil nacimientos anuales en niñas y adolescentes menores de 19 años.
La agencia señaló que las comunidades rurales e indígenas enfrentan mayores barreras para acceder a servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva, información y métodos anticonceptivos. En Izabal, por ejemplo, instituciones locales organizaron actividades de prevención en diferentes municipios donde se busca involucrar a familias y escuelas.
Panamá y El Salvador, una franja intermedia con focos de alerta
Panamá y El Salvador rondan los 50 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes de 15 a 19 años. En Panamá, el UNFPA concentra parte de su trabajo en comunidades de la costa caribeña, donde impulsa espacios de salud adaptados a adolescentes y campañas para romper el silencio familiar alrededor de la educación sexual.
El organismo calcula que los costos evitables del embarazo adolescente superan los $1,500 millones anuales en ese país. El Salvador desarrolla la iniciativa “Llegar a Cero” en departamentos como Usulután, San Miguel, La Unión, Sonsonate y Ahuachapán, donde las autoridades y organismos de cooperación han identificado el problema y buscan reducir los embarazos en niñas y adolescentes mediante intervenciones territoriales.
Costa Rica cierra la lista, pero el fenómeno persiste
Costa Rica registra cerca de 25 nacimientos por cada 1,000 adolescentes de 15 a 19 años, la tasa más baja de Centroamérica. Aun así, el UNFPA estimó que casi 5,000 niñas y adolescentes se convirtieron en madres en 2022.
El mapa regional queda encabezado por Nicaragua, seguida por Honduras y Guatemala. Panamá y El Salvador se ubican en un nivel intermedio, mientras Costa Rica presenta el menor indicador.
Detrás de esa diferencia estadística aparecen desigualdades territoriales, violencia contra niñas y adolescentes y servicios de salud que todavía no llegan con la misma fuerza a todas las comunidades.
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The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as U.S. ambassador to Greece amid mounting allegations involving her financial dealings, treatment of embassy staff and relationships with foreign business interests.
«We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well,» White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced Tuesday during her first-ever briefing to the press.
It is not clear whether Guilfoyle lodged her official resignation, and when asked for clarity, the White House referred Digital to the remarks from the briefing.
The update from Zacharia came just one day after President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he was considering firing Guilfoyle, who was previously engaged to his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Trump further distanced himself from the ambassador when asked about the reports and her status with the first family.
«Kimberly Guilfoyle — she was almost a member of your family. How surprised were you to learn about these allegations? What did you think?,» a reporter asked Tuesday before he left for Alaska.
«She wasn’t a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago,» Trump said. «She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading.»
TRUMP ‘LOOKING AT’ FIRING AMBASSADOR TO GREECE: ‘WE’RE NOT HAPPY’
Guilfoyle was with Donald Trump Jr. for six years, four of which they were engaged. They publicly split in December 2024, the same month Trump nominated her to serve as ambassador to Greece.
The ambassador came under scrutiny last week after The Wall Street Journal reported that she asked Trump donor Eric Deters to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing in July 2025.
According to messages reviewed by the Journal, Guilfoyle urged Deters to wire the money directly to American Express, saying the transaction would not leave a paper trail, while offering to help him gain access to senior Trump administration officials. Deters said he never made the payment.
Guilfoyle’s attorney, Jesse Binnall, disputed the authenticity of the messages, saying Guilfoyle had been paid to speak at events before her nomination and «was owed a balance for traveling to and supporting these patriotic events.»
The allegations followed an earlier Journal investigation into Guilfoyle’s conduct in Greece, including claims that she promoted the interests of Greek construction and energy company Aktor Group and allowed its registered lobbyist, Christos Marafatsos, to accompany her to private diplomatic meetings with senior officials.
The Journal also reported that Guilfoyle suggested at a dinner with Greek officials that the U.S. would undermine their government, citing political developments in Romania. Greece’s foreign minister subsequently said there was no need to summon Guilfoyle for an explanation because the country’s energy minister denied that any threat had been made.
Separately, the State Department’s Office of Inspector General reportedly opened an investigation into allegations involving Guilfoyle’s treatment of embassy employees, private travel, acceptance of gifts and relationships with business interests, according to the Daily Mail.
HOUSE DEMOCRAT INVESTIGATED OVER ALLEGED ‘INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL CONTACT’ WITH STAFFER
Sources described a hostile workplace in which Guilfoyle allegedly threatened to fire employees. They also claimed that she demoted members of her security detail over minor incidents, including an officer who reportedly failed to answer a 4 a.m. request for ice while she was vacationing in Mykonos.
The inspector general’s office declined to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation. Binnall told the Daily Mail that «any implication of wrongdoing by the Ambassador is unsupported.»
The allegations drew scrutiny from congressional Democrats, including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., who called for a review of Guilfoyle’s conduct. Meeks urged her removal if the allegations were substantiated.
Vice President JD Vance addressed the controversy Friday, cautioning against rushing to judgment while acknowledging that misconduct should carry consequences.
«Let’s actually see what the facts are. Let’s see what the truth is,» Vance told reporters in Ohio. «And obviously, if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it.»
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who visited Greece last week and delivered remarks against the backdrop of the Acropolis, initially defended Guilfoyle’s performance.
«Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador here,» Rubio told reporters Wednesday.
A day later, Rubio declined to address the allegations directly, challenging reporters over their reliance on unnamed sources. «You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something, and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel,» Rubio said last Thursday. Just days later, the White House announced their request for her resignation.
Trump nominated Guilfoyle to the diplomatic post in December 2024. A former California prosecutor and longtime Trump ally, she previously served as a prominent surrogate and fundraiser for the president.
Before her engagement to Don Jr., Guilfoyle was previously married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, from 2001 to 2006, when he served as mayor of San Francisco.
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India encontró una respuesta concreta a uno de sus problemas sanitarios más persistentes: llevar atención médica a comunidades que viven en islas fluviales remotas, rodeadas de agua y alejadas de cualquier centro de salud fijo. Clínicas instaladas en embarcaciones móviles recorren los ríos del país para acercar médicos, medicamentos y servicios básicos de laboratorio a poblaciones que, de otro modo, quedarían sin asistencia.
El programa opera en el estado de Assam, en el noreste del país, donde el río Brahmaputra forma más de 2.000 islas temporales y bancos de arena —conocidos localmente como chars— a lo largo de su curso, según informó la agencia AFP. Gran parte de esas formaciones carece de infraestructura sanitaria o cuenta apenas con servicios mínimos. La geografía cambiante del río, cuyas crecidas estacionales reconfiguran el territorio, hace inviable la construcción de centros médicos permanentes en esos territorios.
La red Akha lleva médicos y vacunas a 13 distritos de Assam desde 2005
La red de clínicas flotantes lleva el nombre de Akha, que en lengua asamesa significa “esperanza”. Fue creada en 2005 por el Centro para Estudios y Políticas del Noreste (C-NES), una organización sin fines de lucro con base en Guwahati. Desde su lanzamiento, el proyecto fue ampliando su flota y su cobertura territorial hasta consolidarse como el principal mecanismo de atención sanitaria para las comunidades ribereñas de la región.
Hoy, la red cuenta con 15 embarcaciones activas distribuidas en 13 distritos del estado: Dhubri, Barpeta, Nalbari, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Jorhat, Goalpara, Bongaigaon y Kamrup, con unidades adicionales en Dhubri y Barpeta. Cada barco funciona como un consultorio itinerante que se desplaza entre distintos chars siguiendo un calendario regular, con campamentos de entre cuatro y seis días en cada recorrido.
El programa recibió el respaldo de las autoridades locales y de Unicef, cuya incorporación le dio visibilidad internacional y recursos para sostener la operación. Con ese apoyo, la iniciativa pasó de ser un proyecto local a convertirse en una red que asiste a unas 20.000 personas por mes, según cifras de la agencia de Naciones Unidas.
Las mujeres y los recién nacidos son los principales destinatarios del servicio
La salud materna e infantil ocupa el centro de la agenda sanitaria de las embarcaciones. El objetivo declarado del programa es reducir las tasas de mortalidad materna y neonatal en Assam. Habibul Hoque, médico de una de las clínicas que opera en el distrito de Nalbari, explicó que “principalmente apuntamos a las mujeres embarazadas que necesitan controles prenatales y a los recién nacidos que deben recibir la vacunación de rutina”, según recogió AFP.
El impacto del servicio es tangible para quienes viven en esos territorios. Rekibul Amin, habitante de la isla Barballa, subrayó que su comunidad depende por completo de las embarcaciones. “Cualquier medicamento que la gente recibe aquí, lo obtiene a través de la clínica flotante”, afirmó, y destacó que las mujeres resultaron especialmente beneficiadas.
Cada embarcación cuenta con un equipo que incluye médicos, enfermeros, parteras, farmacéuticos, técnicos de laboratorio y trabajadores comunitarios. Antes de partir hacia otro punto del río, el personal informa a los residentes sobre la próxima visita programada. En situaciones de urgencia, el C-NES ofrece traslado al hospital de distrito más cercano.
A lo largo de sus dos décadas de funcionamiento, el programa trató a más de 1,7 millones de pacientes en controles generales de salud, según datos oficiales del gobierno de Assam. La cifra refleja tanto la escala del déficit sanitario en la región como la capacidad que fue adquiriendo este modelo de atención itinerante para dar respuesta a una demanda que los sistemas convencionales no lograban cubrir. Solo en el rubro de planificación familiar, el programa registró más de 548.000 prestaciones acumuladas desde su inicio, según el mismo registro oficial.
Las embarcaciones ofrecen atención general
Los barcos-clínica brindan un conjunto definido de prestaciones sanitarias. En el área curativa, se realizan consultas de medicina general para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades comunes. En materia de salud reproductiva y materna, se efectúan controles prenatales y posnatales, con seguimiento de embarazos de riesgo.
El componente de inmunización incluye la vacunación de rutina para niños y embarazadas, así como campañas de vacunación especial y administración de vitamina A. Las embarcaciones también ofrecen servicios de planificación familiar y cuentan con un laboratorio básico a bordo para análisis de diagnóstico. Desde 2016, algunas unidades incorporaron además atención odontológica, como extracción de piezas dañadas y educación en salud bucal, en una extensión piloto del programa original.
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