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Global famine fears rise as Hormuz crisis threatens ‘eight-year,’ Suez-scale disruption
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Analysts warn global famine fears are rising as food prices climb and fragile supply chains are strained during the Strait of Hormuz crisis, raising the risk of a prolonged, Suez-scale, eight-year disruption.
As the conflict entered Day 62, the U.S. maintained its naval blockade of traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports, while Iran continued to effectively close the Strait.
«Best case, there is an agreement between the U.S. and Iran within the next few weeks, and the Strait reopens,» Lars Jensen, CEO and partner at Vespucci Maritime, told Fox News Digital.
«And it has to be a deal where there is trust that Iran is sufficiently satisfied with the deal such that they do not suddenly close the strait again.
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A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)
«Even in that case, it will still take months for the supply chains to revert back to normality.»
President Donald Trump announced April 21 he would delay renewed strikes on Iran until it presents a proposal for long-term peace, effectively extending a 14-day ceasefire indefinitely.
Trump said Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been effective, urging Tehran to «just give up» as tensions escalate over the waterway.
«Worst case, we can look at the eight-year closure of the Suez Canal from 1967 to 1975,» Jensen said.
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The SKS Doyles crude oil tanker moves along the Suez Canal towards Ismailia in Suez, Egypt, on Dec. 21, 2023, amid a sharp decline in tanker traffic through the Red Sea due to attacks disrupting global trade routes. (Stringer/Bloomberg)
«Despite its importance to the global economy, it proved impossible to reopen the canal for those eight years,» he said.
The Suez Canal, shut from 1967 to 1975 after the Arab-Israeli conflict, has faced recurring disruption, including Red Sea attacks since 2023, driving up insurance costs, creating a «shadow blockade» and curbing traffic.
For Hormuz, Jensen says fertilizer, which is central to agricultural production, is the most critical factor, and any sustained disruption could quickly ripple through global food systems.
«Fertilizer is the most important element. Thirty percent of the world’s seaborne fertilizer comes from the Persian Gulf,» Jensen said. «Fertilizer prices are already rising fast,» he warned.
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A ship is seen passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran on April 8, 2026. (Shady Alassar/Anadolu/Getty Images)
«In wealthy countries, it means more expensive food come harvest season, and, in poor countries, it means that farmers right now cannot afford fertilizer,» Jensen added.
«This will lead to the harvest being lower later in the season, leading to rapid increases in food prices in very poor countries. And such a situation increases the risk of famine and conflict.»
Diplomatic efforts remained fragile between the U.S. and Iran as of Thursday, with limited signs of progress.
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According to reports, a giant banner hangs on a building in Tehran’s central Enqelab Square declaring, «The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed; the entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground.»
«Cargo vessels are not going through for the simple reason that commercial companies do not want to see their seafarers potentially killed,» Jensen added.
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Furia en Venezuela con las fuerzas de seguridad: robos, borrachos y poca colaboración con las víctimas de los terremotos
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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has a plan to snuff out a multibillion-dollar global industry.
Scott is one of several Republicans racing to ram birthright citizenship tweaks through Congress after the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling blocking the Trump administration’s effort to limit the right and President Donald Trump’s call for lawmakers to quickly respond.
Despite an increasingly crowded field of legislation, Scott argued in an interview with Fox News Digital that his approach to halt birth tourism could work, even with Democrats.
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
«The whole concept of the 14th Amendment, that ‘under the jurisdiction thereof,’ if you are on vacation in America, you certainly should not have a child while you’re here and think in any way, shape or form that kid is going to somehow, some way be an American citizen,» Scott said.
«That’s just illogical. I would just say look at it from the mirror perspective,» he continued. «If you did that in any other country, would that child in that country become a citizen of that country? The answer is no.»
Scott’s legislation, which is still being drafted, would target tourism visas and any child born in the U.S. to a woman with said visa from becoming an American citizen.
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His legislation is «designed specifically to get to the president’s desk to sign into law,» a tacit acknowledgment that in the Senate, he will need Democratic support to put a dent into the issue.
«That means that Democrats cannot have any opposition to this notion that thousands of companies having hundreds of thousands of women come to this country to have a baby so that they leave with an American citizen,» Scott said.
«We should break that whole cycle, destroy it in its infancy by not allowing it to exist at all,» he continued. «And that to me is the best approach.»
Scott is one of several Republicans racing to ram birthright citizenship tweaks through Congress. (iStock)
Trump said he would prefer legislation over a «long and unwieldy» constitutional amendment, which has been floated by a handful of Senate Republicans, including Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Tackling the 14th Amendment completely is something Scott said he’d do, but he acknowledged that it’s not «possible in the current political environment.»
«What is possible is for us to recognize that if you’re here temporarily, and you know you’re here temporarily, you should not leave with an American citizen as your child just because you gave birth on our soil,» Scott said.
Meanwhile, in the House, there’s another approach led by Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.
Ogles, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would allow the government to bar pregnant foreigners from entering the United States.
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The Tennessee Republican says the measure, dubbed the Anchors Away Act, is necessary to crack down on the birth tourism industry, in which foreigners give birth on U.S. soil so that their children obtain U.S. citizenship.
However, the legislation faces steep obstacles to clearing Congress, and it is unclear whether the bill would get a floor vote in the House amid Republicans’ razor-thin majority.
«This is a conversation that I’m starting that I’m a champion of,» Ogles told Fox News Digital in an interview. «I’m working with the White House. And as long as it takes to get it done, I’ll be here to fight for it.»
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Ogles has also authored the Assimilation Act, legislation that would impose vast changes to the legal immigration system by ending birthright citizenship, requiring employers to implement E-Verify and scrapping the green-card lottery, among other provisions. The Tennessee lawmaker’s recently introduced Remigration Act would allow the government to denaturalize individuals convicted of certain crimes, including defrauding the government.
«What we’ve seen over the last several decades is that Congress, quite frankly, has delegated its right to legislate to the Supreme Court,» Ogles said. «So this actually creates the opportunity for Congress to do its job. To define what it is to be a naturalized citizen, to define who can and cannot come into this country, because as the legislative body, we are the ones that are supposed to make those decisions.»
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Desafío al Vaticano: los “lefebvrianos” ordenaron cuatro nuevos obispos y tensaron la relación con el papa León XIV
La Fraternidad San Pío X consagró este miércoles por su cuenta a cuatro nuevos obispos en una ceremonia en Suiza. Se trata de un acto “cismático”, según el papa León XIV, que pidió a esta comunidad tradicionalista que renunciara a su proyecto.
En una ceremonia en la pradera suiza de Écône, adonde asistieron miles de fieles de todo el mundo, la comunidad consagró a cuatro obispos: dos franceses, un estadounidense y un suizo.
El superior general de la comunidad, el sacerdote Davide Pagliarani, dijo en su homilía que se trataba de un día “histórico”.
“Dios me trajo acá”
Luz Dussan, una fiel colombiana de 57 años, viajó desde Estados Unidos para la ceremonia.
“Pensé que nunca en la vida viviría esto, pero mira, Dios me trajo acá”, declaró.
El padre Pascal Schreiber, la la izquierda, y el padre Michael Goldade llegan a su consagración como obispos en una carpa ante el seminario de la Fraternidad Sacerdotal San Pío X, en Écône, Suiza, el miércoles 1 de julio de 2026. (AP Foto/Baz Ratner)
“No importa lo que digan los demás del mundo. Estoy feliz de lo que ha hecho la fraternidad, de verdad que se merecen los cuatro obispos, porque realmente estamos creciendo. La comunidad latina sobre todo está creciendo en la fraternidad”, agregó.
Al seguir adelante sin la aprobación del pontífice, los dos obispos con que contaba la comunidad y los cuatro obispos consagrados en la jornada quedan de hecho excomulgados de la Iglesia católica romana.
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Sin embargo, al inicio de la ceremonia, el secretario general de la sociedad, Foucault Leroux, dijo que ellos consideraban “que todas las penas y censuras (…) son nulas y sin efecto”.
Quiénes son los “lefebvrianos”
La comunidad, fundada en 1970 por el obispo francés Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), agrupa a unos 600.000 fieles, según estimaciones, que se rigen por una interpretación estricta de la tradición doctrinal y litúrgica.
Rechaza en su conjunto los avances de la Iglesia desde el Concilio Vaticano II (en la década de 1960), defiende un modelo de sociedad patriarcal y un ideal de Estado teocrático.
“Para mantener la fe, ¿acaso estamos rompiendo con la Iglesia? Este dilema es falso. Pertenecemos a la Iglesia, en primer lugar por la fe, por la profesión integral de la fe de la Iglesia”, afirmó Pagliarani.
La misa de consagración, de cuatro horas y enteramente en latín, se organizó al aire libre en la pradera de Écône, en el mismo lugar donde Lefebvre consagró a los primeros cuatro obispos de su comunidad, en 1988.
En la ceremonia, los cuatro sacerdotes yacían boca abajo en el suelo mientras se cantaba la Letanía de los Santos, antes de recibir la imposición de manos del obispo, el momento clave, seguido de la unción.
“Nada cismático”
Para el Vaticano, consagrar a un obispo sin el acuerdo del papa es un acto de insubordinación directa que conlleva la excomunión automática de los obispos y constituye un “acto cismático”.
“Les suplico desde el fondo de mi corazón: ¡reconsideren su decisión!”, escribió recientemente León XIV en una carta dirigida a Pagliarani, superior general de la Fraternidad.
En su misiva, el papa advirtió que, en caso de cisma, los sacramentos, como el matrimonio o la confesión, administrados por los obispos dejarían de ser reconocidos por la Iglesia católica.
“No es un acto de rebelión: es un acto que nace del amor por la Iglesia”, dijo el sacerdote Michel Rion, profesor de Teología en el seminario de Écône.
“No hay absolutamente nada cismático o contrario a la Iglesia en nuestras acciones. Esperamos que llegue el día en el que el papa vea esto. Para nosotros, ser cismáticos es lo peor que podría ocurrir, preferiríamos morir a ser cismáticos”, insistió.
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En 1988 el papa Juan Pablo II hizo un llamado similar a la Fraternidad para disuadirla de ordenar nuevos obispos. Fue en vano. La ordenación provocó una excomunión inmediata, que fue levantada en 2009 por Benedicto XVI.
La comunidad afirma estar presente en más de 75 países de seis continentes, con más de 750 sacerdotes.
La Fraternidad San Pío X es influyente en ciertos círculos conservadores, y cuenta hoy día con 751 sacerdotes, 264 seminaristas y cerca de 800 lugares de culto repartidos por 77 países.
No obstante, es muy minoritaria dentro del catolicismo, que cuenta con más de 1.300 millones de fieles en todo el mundo.
(Con información de AFP)
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