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Miles de fieles despidieron al papa Francisco en un funeral histórico y el Vaticano se prepara para elegir a su sucesor
Bajo un cielo sereno y ante la mirada emocionada de cientos de miles de personas, este sábado el papa Francisco se dejó despedir con ternura en un funeral que grabó su huella en la historia y en la fe colectiva.
La misa exequial, celebrada en la plaza San Pedro del Vaticano, reunió a más de 400.000 fieles, 50 jefes de Estado, 10 monarcas y más de 170 delegaciones de todo el mundo, en un tributo sin precedentes a la figura de Jorge Bergoglio, el primer papa latinoamericano.
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El féretro de Francisco, cargado de simbolismos, inició su recorrido en un papamóvil abierto que lo llevó por seis kilómetros a través de Roma hasta la basílica de Santa María la Mayor, donde finalmente fue inhumado en una ceremonia íntima, presidida por el cardenal camarlengo Kevin Farrell y en presencia de familiares del jesuita argentino.
Fue el primer entierro de un pontífice fuera del Vaticano desde León XIII en 1903. En la explanada de la basílica, un grupo de migrantes, transexuales, pobres y presos —invitados especiales de Cáritas del Vaticano y de la Comunidad de Sant’Egidio— esperó el paso del féretro, cada uno con una rosa en la mano.
Portadores del féretro llevan el ataúd del Papa Francisco, durante su misa funeral, en la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, el 26 de abril de 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Fue un gesto final que encapsuló el corazón del pontificado de Francisco: su mirada inquebrantable hacia los marginados, hacia los que no encuentran lugar en la fila de la historia.
Así, para que todo el que quiera despedirse de Francisco pueda hacerlo, desde este domingo, las puertas de Santa María la Mayor —una de las cuatro basílicas mayores de Roma— se abrirán al público.
Fieles de todo el mundo podrán visitar la tumba del jesuita entre las 7 y las 19 horas (hora local), en un acceso gratuito que promete largas filas y fuertes medidas de seguridad para ordenar la marea de devotos que ya comenzó a congregarse.
A las 16 de este domingo, los cardenales que deberán participar del próximo cónclave realizarán también su propio homenaje, en un gesto de cierre espiritual antes de enfrentar la decisión que marcará el futuro inmediato de la Iglesia.
La gente asiste a la misa funeral del Papa Francisco, en la Plaza de San Pedro, en el Vaticano, el 26 de abril de 2025. (Foto: REUTERS/Remo Casilli)
La despedida de líderes y fieles
El funeral fue también escenario de gestos políticos cargados de simbolismo. El presidente argentino, Javier Milei, y la primera ministra italiana, Giorgia Meloni, protagonizaron un emotivo abrazo en plena plaza San Pedro. Luego, compartieron un almuerzo informal en Roma, reflejo del vínculo que tejieron en los últimos meses.
Durante la misa, las delegaciones internacionales se ubicaron siguiendo un riguroso protocolo, ordenadas alfabéticamente en francés. Argentina, país natal de Francisco, ocupó el primer lugar, con Milei acompañado por su hermana Karina.
El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, camina antes de la misa funeral del papa Francisco en el Vaticano. (Foto: REUTERS/Yara Nardi)
Mientras tanto, en Buenos Aires y otras ciudades del mundo, se multiplicaron los homenajes. En el estadio Nuevo Gasómetro, el club San Lorenzo —del cual Francisco era hincha fanático— preparó un sentido tributo durante su partido ante Rosario Central, vistiendo camisetas especiales en su honor.
El futuro: duelo, cónclave y expectativa
Al término del funeral, el Vaticano entró en un período de duelo de nueve días —el llamado novendiale—, durante el cual se celebrarán misas en honor a Francisco y se rezará por la guía divina antes de iniciar el cónclave.
Aunque aún no se anunció una fecha oficial, las reuniones informales entre los cardenales ya comenzaron.
Según fuentes de la Curia Romana, el próximo cónclave deberá enfrentar una elección crucial: continuar el legado reformista de Francisco o dar un giro hacia posiciones más conservadoras.
El cónclave es la ceremonia en la que se elige al papa de la Iglesia católica. (Foto: AP – Gregorio Borgia)
De los 252 miembros del Colegio Cardenalicio, solo 132 tienen derecho a voto, por ser menores de 80 años. Las negociaciones, en gran parte secretas y protegidas por avanzados sistemas antiespionaje, definirán al sucesor del papa en un contexto global complejo, donde la Iglesia Católica enfrenta desafíos inéditos.
Por ahora, el mundo católico guarda silencio, reza y espera. Mientras, en Roma, el eco de la última despedida de Francisco aún resuena en las calles, en las iglesias y en el corazón de las multitudes.
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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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