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Iran ‘miscalculating’ by betting on midterms after 3-hour talks, Trump officials warn
NEW YORK — Trump officials say Iran is miscalculating if it believes rising prices and the midterm elections will weaken President Donald Trump’s hand in negotiations to end the nearly seven-month conflict.
The administration is projecting confidence that mounting economic pressure will push Tehran toward a deal, even after three hours of talks this week ended without an announced breakthrough.
«The president holds all of the cards here,» State Department principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott told Digital in an on-camera interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
Americans, meanwhile, are facing a mounting cost at home. The national average for regular gasoline reached $4.49 per gallon Friday, according to AAA, up from $3.16 a year ago. AAA said volatility in the Strait of Hormuz and high crude oil prices have driven the national average to its highest level ever recorded for this time of year.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged those costs Wednesday while arguing that allowing Iran to eventually obtain a nuclear weapon would carry a far greater price.
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«It comes at a price and at a cost, there’s no doubt about it,» Rubio told reporters. «But the cost of not doing something about it is substantially higher, especially for future generations.»
Trump himself laid out the stakes in stark terms during his address to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, presenting Tehran with a choice between reaching a deal that would allow Iran to rebuild or facing potentially devastating further U.S. action.
«Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?» Trump said. «Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?»
But Trump predicted Tehran would ultimately choose a deal, arguing that Iranian leaders are waiting to see whether the November midterm elections weaken his position.
«They’re waiting to see how I do in the midterm election,» Trump said. «What they don’t realize is that I’m not running.»
«I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran,» Trump added. «It doesn’t even enter my mind.»
A U.S. official told Digital Friday that discussions through mediators remained «positive and constructive,» but said the administration was in no hurry to reach an agreement.
«The United States is in a very strong position with control of the Strait of Hormuz, so we are not in a rush,» the official said, adding that nearly 40 million barrels of oil had transited the strait over the previous 48 hours. The official predicted oil and gas prices would fall back to pre-conflict levels as the U.S. continues to maintain control of the strait.
Trump said U.S. officials held a «very good» three-hour meeting with Iranian officials Tuesday as part of a renewed diplomatic push to end the conflict. But Rubio cautioned Wednesday against characterizing the talks as a «major breakthrough,» saying they were largely a continuation of previous conversations.
«I think it was significant that at least there was a conversation,» Rubio said.
Rubio also said the administration would make public any «good outcomes or things to announce jointly» stemming from its diplomatic engagements. No such announcement immediately followed the Iran meeting.
Iran has since put forward a proposal of its own. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran presented U.S. mediators with a seven-day plan this week that would restore passage through the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the seven days if certain conditions are met, followed by renewed negotiations toward a broader agreement.
The proposal draws from the memorandum of understanding Trump and Iran reached in June. A mediator told CBS News the latest discussions were positive but remained in their early stages.
The stakes in Hormuz remain high. Commercial traffic through the critical oil chokepoint has been sharply disrupted during the conflict, although U.S. officials say the amount of oil moving through the strait is increasing.
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«The diplomatic door is always open. The president is a deal maker,» Pigott said. «But he’s going to see the fundamental principle that they cannot have a nuclear weapon accomplished one way or another.»
Pigott pointed to growing oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and the economic pressure Washington has imposed on Tehran as evidence that the balance remains in Trump’s favor.
«We are seeing oil move [through] the Strait of Hormuz, increasing every single day,» Pigott said. «We’re seeing the devastating effects on the Iranian regime from economic [actions]. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being denied to the regime through this blockade that we’re seeing.»
Rubio offered a similar assessment Wednesday when asked about Trump’s assertion that Iran may be waiting for the outcome of the midterm elections before making a deal.
«I think the Iranians misread our system,» Rubio said. «I think the Iranians are under this illusion that Democrats are going to win in November, and the president will no longer be able to do things against them.»
Rubio said Congress remains an important branch of government but argued Tehran misunderstands the limits of congressional power over sanctions and military action.
«The president has extraordinary powers. Every president does,» Rubio said. «He’s the commander in chief, both constitutional and otherwise, to be able to carry out those functions.»
«So I think that the Iranians are fundamentally misreading our political system,» Rubio continued.
The administration is also confronting threats to energy infrastructure elsewhere in the region. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have targeted Saudi Arabia as the conflict has expanded, adding another source of uncertainty for global energy markets.
Rubio said Wednesday that the restart of a Saudi pipeline following attacks was «critical for their economy» and «critical for the global economy.» He said energy infrastructure had been targeted by the Houthis as well as Shiite militias in Iraq that the U.S. says are backed by Iran.
«Every time you guys ask me a question about the Middle East, it goes back to someone who’s supported by Iran,» Rubio said.
Rubio said the U.S. would continue honoring its defense commitments to Saudi Arabia while declining to discuss what additional military options Trump could consider.
«They are a strategic defense partner,» Rubio said. «The U.S. made commitments to them. We will live up to those commitments. We are living up to those commitments now.»
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Quién es Leonardo Bertulazzi, el integrante de las Brigadas Rojas italianas que se fugó en San Telmo
Leonardo Bertulazzi tiene 74 años, es italiano y formó parte de las Brigadas Rojas, una organización armada de extrema izquierda que protagonizó una serie de secuestros, atentados y asesinatos durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980. Este martes, su nombre volvió a quedar en el centro de la escena después de que escapara del arresto domiciliario que cumplía en un departamento del barrio porteño de San Telmo, mientras esperaba ser extraditado a su país.
El exintegrante de la organización tenía una condena de 27 años de prisión dictada por la Justicia italiana. Uno de los principales hechos por los que fue sentenciado fue el secuestro del ingeniero naval Pietro Costa, ocurrido en enero de 1977.
Además, las investigaciones lo vincularon con tareas logísticas relacionadas con el secuestro del ex primer ministro italiano Aldo Moro, uno de los episodios más resonantes de la historia política de Italia.
Su participación en las Brigadas Rojas
Bertulazzi integró la columna de Génova de las Brigadas Rojas, una de las estructuras territoriales de la organización. El grupo armado desarrolló buena parte de su actividad durante los llamados años de plomo, un período marcado por la violencia política, los atentados y los enfrentamientos entre organizaciones extremistas en Italia.
El 12 de enero de 1977, el ingeniero naval Pietro Costa fue secuestrado por integrantes de la organización. Costa pertenecía a una familia vinculada con la industria de los astilleros y permaneció cautivo hasta fines de marzo de ese año, cuando fue liberado después del pago de un rescate.
Por ese episodio y su pertenencia a la organización armada, Bertulazzi recibió una condena de 27 años de prisión. La sentencia quedó firme en Italia. Su nombre también apareció relacionado con el secuestro de Aldo Moro, quien había sido primer ministro italiano y era una de las figuras más importantes de la Democracia Cristiana.
El secuestro y asesinato de Aldo Moro
El 16 de marzo de 1978, un comando de las Brigadas Rojas interceptó el vehículo en el que viajaba Moro, asesinó a sus cinco custodios y secuestró al dirigente político en Roma.
El ex primer ministro permaneció cautivo durante 55 días. Finalmente, el 9 de mayo de ese año, su cuerpo fue encontrado dentro de un automóvil abandonado en el centro de la capital italiana.
Bertulazzi fue señalado por su participación en tareas logísticas de la organización durante ese período. Si bien su condena de 27 años estuvo vinculada principalmente con el secuestro de Pietro Costa, su trayectoria dentro de las Brigadas Rojas también quedó asociada a uno de los crímenes más impactantes de la historia contemporánea italiana.
Sus primeros años prófugo y su llegada a la Argentina
Bertulazzi permaneció prófugo durante décadas. Llegó a la Argentina en 2002 y ese mismo año fue detenido por primera vez, aunque recuperó la libertad meses después.
En 2004 obtuvo el reconocimiento como refugiado político, una condición que impidió que avanzara su extradición a Italia. De esa manera, pudo permanecer en el país durante años pese a los requerimientos de la Justicia italiana.
La situación cambió en agosto de 2024, cuando el Gobierno argentino le retiró esa condición y volvió a detenerlo en Buenos Aires, después de un operativo de inteligencia en el que participaron distintas áreas del Estado.
Desde entonces, permanecía bajo arresto domiciliario mientras se resolvía el proceso de extradición. La Corte Suprema de Justicia había declarado procedente el pedido de Italia, aunque todavía quedaban cuestiones judiciales pendientes vinculadas con su anterior condición de refugiado.
Tras la fuga, el Gobierno nacional oficializó una recompensa de $20 millones para quienes aporten información que permita localizar y detener a Bertulazzi.
La medida quedó establecida mediante la Resolución 1168/2026, publicada en el Boletín Oficial, en el marco del Programa Nacional de Recompensas. Quienes tengan información sobre su paradero pueden comunicarse de manera gratuita con la línea 134.
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Dakota Meyer survived a battle he thought would kill him. 15 years after leaving the Marines, he went back
Fifteen years after Dakota Meyer left the Marine Corps, the Medal of Honor recipient decided to put the uniform back on — becoming the first with the award to ever reenlist.
Meyer was 36. He had fought in Afghanistan, struggled with the transition home from war and spent years building a life outside the military. But he said the desire to serve never went away.
«Every day after I took that uniform off, that desire to serve didn’t just end because my commitment to the country did,» Meyer told Digital in an interview ahead of Veterans Day.
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Meyer rejects the idea that receiving the Medal of Honor meant he had already done enough.
«I think sometimes it’s looked at as you’ve done your part, and I am wholeheartedly against that,» he said. «I believe that the only time you’ve done your part is when you’ve done all that you can.»
For Meyer, Veterans Day is a reminder that service does not necessarily end when someone leaves the military.
«Sometimes we look at the veteran title as it is something that represents something we’ve done,» Meyer said. «And it’s not. It’s something that we are doing, and it is something that we can continue to do.»
Meyer re-enlisted in 2025 and later entered the training pipeline to become a reconnaissance Marine, completing the grueling course in his late 30s.
«To be able to do that at 38, it was definitely one of the — hands down — probably the hardest thing that I’ve ever had to do,» Meyer said.
His first stint in the Marines had taken him to Afghanistan, where at 21 he fought in the 2009 Battle of Ganjgal in Kunar Province.
Meyer had been assigned to remain with the vehicles at a rally point while other members of his team accompanied Afghan troops toward the village roughly a mile away. The patrol was ambushed by more than 50 insurgents firing from fortified positions on the surrounding slopes.
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Meyer and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez could hear the battle unfolding over the radio. Four members of Meyer’s team were trapped inside the ambush.
After repeatedly asking for permission to go in, Meyer and Rodriguez-Chavez drove toward the fighting, with Meyer manning the gun turret.
«I think often we try to make these decisions as if it’s some heroic decision, and it’s really not,» Meyer said. «It’s just about following through on what my promise that I had made to them.»
The pair made repeated trips into the ambush, helping evacuate wounded troops as Meyer continued searching for his teammates.
«I think it was at that point that I did realize that I just accepted that I was going to die,» Meyer recalled. «But I was gonna make sure that I would do everything I could up until that last breath.»
His four teammates were ultimately found dead. Meyer would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions that day.
Leaving the Marines the following year brought a different battle.
«I struggled. I mean, I struggled,» Meyer said. «The horrors of war definitely haunted me when I got out.»
Meyer said one of the hardest parts of returning to civilian life was figuring out what could replace the sense of purpose he had found in the military.
«The hardest part was finding purpose,» he said. «It wasn’t about being successful in anything.»
Eventually, he said, he realized that neither money nor professional success was what he was looking for. He wanted to feel that his work had an impact.
Years later, while speaking to a group of Marines at Camp Pendleton, that question of purpose came back to him in a different way.
A Marine attending a leadership course told Meyer he was deciding whether to reenlist. He had a family and could make more money outside the military, but he loved serving.
«Do you think it’s still worth serving?» he asked.
Meyer said yes, but the answer bothered him.
«I felt it was one of the most unbecoming things that I had ever said back to that crowd,» Meyer said, explaining that he was telling someone else to accept the sacrifices of continued service while he was free to return to civilian life.
«I told them that I would walk out of there and I would go about reenlisting or I would never say that to anybody again.»
It ultimately took Meyer about two years to return to the Marines.
Once back, he pursued a goal he had held since first seeing a Recon Marine poster in a recruiting office as a young man.
«They were the people that we were all trying to be inside of the Marine Corps,» Meyer said.
At 37 and 38, keeping up physically wasn’t necessarily the problem, but recovering felt different.
«What got me was the cumulative fatigue at my age,» Meyer said. «These kids can recover like nothing else.»
The experience also gave Meyer a close look at a generation of Marines nearly two decades younger than the one he had served alongside in Afghanistan.
He came away impressed.
«When we talk about service members or this next generation being weaker, it’s absolutely not the case,» Meyer said. «These kids are hands down, they will rise to the level of expectation that is set for them.»
Meyer said the Marine Corps itself has changed since he left in 2010, but he viewed much of that change as necessary. He recalled younger Marines giving him an hour-long lesson on their «new language» during a break in training and said he often found himself learning from them.
«They do things a lot smarter,» Meyer said. «I found myself learning a lot more from them than I did them probably learning from me.»
He said today’s young service members don’t have a «generational problem,» and said they still want the challenge, purpose and sense of belonging that drew those to serve before them.
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Una nueva caravana integrada por aproximadamente 2,000 migrantes de Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala y Nicaraguasalió este martes de Tapachula, en el estado mexicano de Chiapas, con la intención de avanzar hacia la frontera de Estados Unidos, en medio de las expectativas de un posible cambio en las políticas migratorias de Washington.
La movilización, que comenzó el pasado sábado desde San Pedro Sula, Honduras, continuó su recorrido desde el sur de México, donde los participantes esperan avanzar de manera pacífica y conseguir mejores oportunidades para sus familias.
El desplazamiento ocurre una semana después de las elecciones de medio mandato en Estados Unidos, cuyos resultados modificaron el escenario político para el presidente Donald Trump, luego de que los demócratas recuperaran el control legislativo, un resultado que despertó expectativas entre los migrantes sobre un posible freno a las políticas migratorias restrictivas.
Sin embargo, aunque los integrantes de la caravana mantienen la esperanza de encontrar oportunidades en territorio estadounidense, organizaciones que acompañan a la población migrante consideran que los resultados electorales no necesariamente provocarán cambios inmediatos en las medidas migratorias.
De acuerdo con información proporcionada a la agencia EFE, uno de los participantes es Álvaro José Vanegas Estrada, migrante de Nicaragua, quien emprendió el recorrido con apenas 20 dólares, dejando atrás sus actividades agrícolas, a su esposa y a sus dos hijos.
El hombre explicó que decidió salir de su país con la expectativa de encontrar una oportunidad laboral que le permita mejorar las condiciones económicas de su familia.
Vanegas considera que la participación de la comunidad latina en diferentes sectores productivos de Estados Unidos podría representar una oportunidad para quienes buscan ingresar al mercado laboral.
«El gobierno estadounidense sabe que el 19 % de la comunidad latina es la que hace el trabajo pesado, lo que es la construcción y la hotelería. Entonces en este momento ha visto que ha bajado ese punto de trabajo y creo que tal vez, nos dé la oportunidad de entrar», expresó a EFE.
No obstante, el migrante explicó que su intención inicial no necesariamente es cruzar de inmediato hacia Estados Unidos, sino llegar al norte de México, permanecer allí durante un tiempo y conseguir trabajo para enviar dinero a su familia mientras espera posibles cambios en las decisiones migratorias estadounidenses.
Entre los participantes de la caravana también se encuentra el hondureño Bili Noe Martínez Colindres, quien hizo un llamado al Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) de México para que permita el desplazamiento de los migrantes sin obstáculos y de manera pacífica.
El compatriota manifestó que las personas que integran la movilización buscan oportunidades para mejorar la vida de sus familiares y pidió respeto durante el recorrido por territorio mexicano.
«Nosotros solo queremos un sueño para nuestras familias, respeto a nosotros, respetamos a México y Guatemala. Es el llamado que le hacemos como hondureños a usted señora presidenta (Claudia Sheinbaum), que nos apoye con ese permiso», manifestó.
La petición está dirigida a las autoridades mexicanas, particularmente a la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum, para que los integrantes de la caravana puedan continuar su desplazamiento sin enfrentar dificultades relacionadas con su condición migratoria.
El recorrido hasta la frontera mexicana con Estados Unidos representa un trayecto de aproximadamente 3,000 kilómetros, una distancia que los migrantes deberán cubrir en diferentes etapas y bajo condiciones que pueden complicar su avance.
Entre los migrantes existe la percepción de que el cambio en la composición del Congreso estadounidense podría abrir espacios para revisar algunas de las medidas migratorias impulsadas por el mandatario republicano.
Sin embargo, Luis García Villagrán, representante del Centro de Dignificación Humana A.C., organización que trabaja en la frontera sur de México, consideró que no se esperan modificaciones importantes en la política migratoria estadounidense como consecuencia inmediata de los resultados electorales.
«No creo que vaya a cambiar mucho, pero en ánimo de la gente sí ayudó mucho, para que la gente se anime a salir caminando y tratar de llegar lo más cerca de la frontera norte», señaló el activista.
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