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Los cardenales rezaron ante la tumba de Francisco y se preparan para votar un nuevo Papa en un Cónclave plagado de intrigas
Un alto número de cardenales que había participado de la misa de luto en la plaza de San Pedro, acudió por la tarde a la basílica de Santa María la Mayor para rendir homenaje al difunto Papa Francisco y rezar ante su tumba, en la que fue sepultado ayer.
El Vaticano informó que treinta mil personas habían ingresado en la basílica para rendir homenaje al argentino Jorge Bergoglio rezando frente a su sepultura. La basílica seguirá abierta a los fieles hasta las 22 hora local.
El interés general se va concentrando en las deliberaciones previas de los cardenales al comienzo del Cónclave, que fijarían entre el 5 y 6 de mayo. Ahora, en primer lugar, los purpurados quieren conocerse mejor, porque los 133 convocados a votar provienen de todo el mundo. Pero será también muy importante lo que explicarán los que se consideran candidatos a la sucesión, porque cuando se inicien formalmente las deliberaciones, en la Capilla Sixtina no se podrá hablar y las oportunidades para los encuentros no serán amplias como en los próximos días.
Los cardenales lo saben perfectamente porque hay una anécdota que se ha hecho historia. El 9 de marzo de 2013, tres días antes de que comenzaran las deliberaciones, uno de los purpurados se puso de pie y habló durante unos minutos..
Lo que habló impactó como ningún otro de los que hablaron sobre lo que era la Iglesia, lo que debía cambiar y lo que había que proteger. Después se sentó y la platea quedó muda. Lo que dijo Jorge Bergoglio, arzobispo de Buenos Aires, “fue sensacional”, comentó más tarde el cardenal Jaime Ortega, el cardenal líder de la Iglesia de Cuba.
Con sencillez y autoridad había presentado un programa de acción que conquistó a la mayoría, tanto que lo eligieron Papa. El cardenal Ortega, emocionado, pidió a su amigo los apuntes que había tomado y consultado mientras leía.
Bergoglio había llamado a la Iglesia a salir de sí misma e ir hacia las periferias, no solo las geográficas sino también las existenciales. Fue una improvisación programática explicada con claridad.
Mañana lunes habrá una nueva congregación de los purpurados, que deberán afrontar ante todo el problema de si debe continuar participando el cardenal Angelo Becchiu, castigado por el Papa por el escándalo de la venta con estafa a la Iglesia por la venta de un edificio en Londres, con pérdidas de 200 millones de dólares. Un escándalo mayúsculo y un proceso judicial interno.
El tema es difícil. Becchiu afirma que tiene derecho a entrar en el Cónclave y las congregaciones porque el Papa no lo expulsó del Colegio de Cardenales. El secretario de Estado Pietro Parolín, entregó hace unos días dos documentos en los que el Papa dice que no puede participar. Tal vez los cardenales tendrán que votar si lo echan o lo mantienen.
El de Becchiu es el primer dolor de cabeza para los cardenales. De los 133 cardenales votantes, 108 fueron elegidos por Francisco. Los cardenales provienen de 71 países y reconocen que han tenido poco tiempo para conocerse.
La primera aproximación a las fuerzas que se contenderán el nombramiento del futuro Papa oscilan entre conservadores y progresistas.
Los progresistas parecen contar con la mayoría de los dos tercios de los 133 votantes. Esa mayoría calificada gira en torno 90 votos y allí los conservadores y grupos menores pueden bloquear el resultado.
De acuerdo a las normas del Cónclave, si no hay un resultado positivo hay que insistir por un total de 33 votaciones. Si se llegara a esa situación, la imagen de la Iglesia caería en una profunda crisis.
Por ahora los cardenales considerados progresistas tienen tres nombres guías: el candidato favorito de Francisco es Matteo Zuppi, romano de 70 años, cardenal arzobispo de Bolonia y presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana. El segundo es el filipino Luis Antonio Tagle, de 67 años, llamado “El Francisco asiático». A Zuppi se lo llama en cambio Francisco II.
Entre los dos hay un tercero con muchas posibilidades. Es el secretario de Estado Pietro Parolin, de 70 años, número dos de la Curia Romana debajo del Papa, que podría entrar en juego como una variante aceptable por grupos más conservadores que lo consideran moderado.
Hay mucho para analizar pero todavía no comenzó el juego. Entre los conservadores no hay nombres fuertes. De quien más se habla es del húngaro Peter Herdo, de 72 años, de alto nivel intelectual.
Los cardenales veteranos creen en su mayoría que la elección llegará en pocos días.
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Massive European power outage blamed on solar plant breakdowns

The massive power outage that wreaked havoc in Europe is being blamed on a pair of likely solar plant breakdowns in southwest Spain, a report said.
By 7 a.m. local time Tuesday, more than 99% of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the country’s electricity operator Red Eléctrica announced. Portuguese grid operator REN said on Tuesday morning that all the 89 power substations had been back online since late last night and power had been restored to all 6.4 million customers.
Red Eléctrica said it identified two power generation loss incidents in southwest Spain – likely involving solar plants – that caused instability in the Spanish power grid and contributed to a breakdown of its interconnection to France, according to Reuters.
The economic cost of Monday’s blackout across the Iberian Peninsula could range between $2.5 billion to more than $5 billion, it cited investment bank RBC as saying.
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A car drives down an unlit street in Lisbon, Portugal, during a nationwide power outage on Monday, April 28. (AP/Armando Franca)
«We have never had a complete collapse of the system,» Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a televised address Monday night.
Emergency workers in Spain said they had rescued some 35,000 passengers on Monday who were stranded along railways and in underground tunnels.
Video that aired on Spanish television showed people evacuating metro stations in Madrid, and empty stations with trains stopped in Barcelona. Spain’s parliament was also left in the dark, public broadcaster RTVE reported.
The ATP Tour said play at the Madrid Open tennis tournament was suspended for the day due to the power outage.
In Portugal, several Lisbon subway cars were evacuated, courts stopped working and ATMs and electronic payment systems were affected. Traffic lights in Lisbon also stopped working during the outage.
REN, Portugal’s grid operator, described the incident Monday as a «rare atmospheric phenomenon.»
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People wait on a platform as metro operations resume partially in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, April 29, following the nationwide power outage. (Reuters/Violeta Santos Moura)
«Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high-voltage lines, a phenomenon known as induced atmospheric vibration,» it was quoted as saying. «These oscillations caused synchronization failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.»
However, on Tuesday, Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET said that it had not detected any «unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena» Monday and no sudden temperature fluctuations were recorded at their weather stations.
Eduardo Prieto, Red Eléctrica’s chief of operations, said the instability in the power grid caused the Spanish and French electricity interconnection through the Pyrenees mountains to split, leading to a failure on the Spanish side, according to Reuters. The news agency reported that some parts of France suffered brief power outages on Monday as well.

People sleep in a sports facility designated for people who were stuck at a train station in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, April 29. (Reuters/Bruna Casas)
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Authorities were still investigating what happened on Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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As judge is charged with obstructing justice in migrant case, spinners cast it as an anti-Trump story

Here’s what actually happened to that Wisconsin judge.
Setting aside the spin – and there’s plenty of it from some Democrats and pundits – these are the facts.
Based on the criminal complaint, county judge Hannah Dugan had a hearing scheduled for illegal Mexican immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz – who is already facing charges of domestic abuse.
Not only that, Flores-Ruiz got into a fight with two roommates who complained that he was playing his music too loud.
Flores-Ruiz punched one roommate in the face 30 times, then hit a woman who tried to end the fight, the complaint says. Let that sink in for a minute.
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Now let’s get to what Hannah Dugan did. (National Review’s Jim Geraghty has a highly detailed account with extensive quotes from the documents.)
First she blew off the hearing. ICE agents have the absolute power to arrest the immigrant at the county courthouse, and were closing in, but hoped to do it in a low-key manner.
Then she arranged for Flores-Ruiz to slip out a private exit, for the sole purpose of helping him avoid the federal agents. And it worked. But the agents tracked him down after a chase.
Many in the press have used the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan as a political weapon against the Trump administration. (Mike De Sisti / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
This sounds very much like alleged obstruction of justice.
Now Dugan is entitled to the presumption of innocence, along with a healthy skepticism. We’ve only heard the government’s side of the story.
Does that sound like obstruction of justice? That’s what the judge has been charged with, along with concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.
The Washington Post yesterday made explicit what it implied a day earlier: «While many Republican supporters of the president cheered the aggressive actions, critics of the administration said the spectacle sent a chilling message.
«‘The obvious purpose of the arrest of Judge Dugan on criminal charges is to intimidate and threaten all judges, state and local, across the country,’ said J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former U.S. appeals court judge.»
Many others are treating Dugan’s arrest, unusual though it is, as an outrage.

Hannah Dugan is accused of helping conceal illegal Mexican immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz as ICE agents closed in on her court. (DHS/Milwaukee Independent via AP)
Before the arrest of Flores-Diaz, the Milwaukee county executive said: «An attack on this safe, community-serving space undermines public trust, breeds fear among citizens and staff and disrupts the due process essential to our courts,» An attack, says David Crowley.
Some other quotes helpfully rounded up by Geraghty:
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Tina Smith posted: «If Kash Patel,» the FBI director, «and Donald Trump don’t like a judge, they think they can arrest them.» So this was not about alleged obstruction of justice but some kind of personal animus toward Dugan? And I doubt Trump knew anything about this.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks said on PBS: «It strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic.» It MAY be illegal, but on what planet would the judge’s actions be deemed heroic??
And here’s one I found from Guardian columnist Moira Donegan, saying: «The Trump administration is making an example of the Milwaukee judge to intimidate critics and opponents.»
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So now the tale has morphed into an anti-Trump hit job. The president does plenty of things to intimidate critics and openly talks about it. This isn’t one of them.
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As for the politics, aren’t most voters going to be more concerned with keeping violent illegal migrants off our streets?
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