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La Justicia francesa define este martes si Marine Le Pen podrá presentarse a las elecciones presidenciales de 2027

La líder de la derecha francesa, Marine Le Pen, conocerá este martes el fallo de la Corte de Apelaciones que definirá si podrá presentarse como candidata en las elecciones presidenciales de 2027, después de la condena que recibió en primera instancia por un caso de empleos ficticios en el Parlamento Europeo.
La decisión, prevista para las 13:30 hora local (11:30 GMT), determinará si el tribunal confirma la inhabilitación para ejercer cargos públicos durante cinco años que un tribunal inferior impuso a Le Pen, de 57 años, junto con una pena de prisión. Si el fallo queda firme en esos términos, la dirigente perderá la posibilidad de competir por la presidencia en unos comicios que aparecen como la mayor oportunidad de su partido para alcanzar el poder.
La sentencia también podría modificar la condena original. Entre las alternativas figura una inhabilitación de menor duración o una pena de arresto domiciliario. En ese escenario, la resolución también podría afectar la capacidad de la dirigente para desarrollar una campaña electoral.
Ante esa posibilidad, Le Pen anticipó que, si no puede competir, cederá el liderazgo de la campaña presidencial a Jordan Bardella, de 30 años, presidente de la Agrupación Nacional (RN) y principal figura emergente del partido.
Durante un acto partidario el fin de semana, la dirigente expresó su determinación de continuar con la actividad política. «Nunca nos desanimaremos, siempre lucharemos“, afirmó.
La dirigente también descartó que el proceso judicial modificara su postura frente a la contienda electoral. «No tengo miedo“, sostuvo la semana pasada. Además, agregó: ”Si puedo presentarme, lo haré, siempre que pueda hacer campaña“.
Le Pen ya compitió en tres elecciones presidenciales. Terminó tercera en los comicios de 2012 y luego accedió al balotaje frente al actual presidente Emmanuel Macron tanto en 2017 como en 2022. Como Macron no podrá buscar un nuevo mandato por el límite constitucional de dos períodos consecutivos, la elección de 2027 aparece como una oportunidad clave para la extrema derecha francesa.
El caso judicial se originó por un sistema que, según la Justicia, funcionó entre 2004 y 2016 para financiar con recursos del Parlamento Europeo a empleados del partido que desarrollaban tareas en Francia.
El tribunal de primera instancia declaró culpables a Le Pen, a otros 24 exdiputados europeos, asistentes y contadores, además de la propia Agrupación Nacional, por utilizar fondos europeos para contratar personal partidario fuera de las funciones previstas por el Parlamento Europeo.
La sentencia original también estableció una pena de cuatro años de prisión, de los cuales dos quedaron en suspenso. Tras el fallo, Le Pen calificó el proceso como una «caza de brujas» contra su partido. Posteriormente, algunos simpatizantes enviaron amenazas de muerte contra los jueces que participaron en la causa.
La dirigente, la formación política y otros diez condenados presentaron una apelación para revisar la sentencia.
Durante el juicio de apelación, Le Pen rechazó las acusaciones y negó la existencia de un mecanismo organizado para desviar recursos del Parlamento Europeo. También sostuvo que la Agrupación Nacional actuó con «completa buena fe“.
Sin embargo, la fiscalía sostuvo que la dirigente «profesionalizó» un mecanismo destinado a desviar fondos europeos que, según la acusación, comenzó de forma desordenada bajo el liderazgo de su padre, Jean-Marie Le Pen, cofundador del partido, antes de que ella asumiera la conducción de la fuerza en 2011.
Los fiscales solicitaron que la Corte mantenga la inhabilitación por cinco años y reclamaron además una condena de cuatro años de prisión, con tres años en suspenso. Si el tribunal confirma una prohibición para ejercer cargos públicos durante varios años, Le Pen no podrá competir en la primera vuelta presidencial prevista para el 18 de abril de 2027.
De igual forma, una eventual condena a un año de arresto domiciliario con tobillera electrónica también podría impedir una campaña activa y favorecer el traspaso de la candidatura a Bardella.
Las encuestas difundidas durante los últimos meses ubicaron a la extrema derecha como favorita para liderar la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales, aunque mostraron resultados divididos para una eventual segunda vuelta.
Algunos sondeos otorgaron un desempeño ligeramente superior a Bardella, mientras que otros dirigentes políticos consideraron que Le Pen representa una rival de mayor experiencia.
El dirigente de izquierda Jean-Luc Mélenchon expresó esa evaluación al afirmar: «Esta mujer es muy inteligente, no está aquí por casualidad. Y si también se presenta por cuarta vez, no será una oponente a la que podamos menospreciar“.
(Con información de AFP)
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Burma approves death penalty for scammers months after FBI’s $8 billion crypto crackdown

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Burma’s government approved the death penalty as punishment for internet scammers just months after the FBI announced a sweeping $8 billion crackdown on scam networks coming from the country, according to the country’s state-backed media.
The Anti-Online Scam Law passed the country’s parliament on Tuesday, green lighting the death penalty for anyone who participates in a scam that in which they «commit violence, torture, unlawfully arrest or detain, or treat any person in a cruel manner,» according to The Global New Light of Myanmar, a media outlet jointly operated by a private company and the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
Burma, also known as Myanmar, has become ground zero for digital scams, with criminals often recruiting migrants from other Asian countries with promises of legitimate work only to imprison them and force them to conduct the scams.
In May the FBI announced a massive crackdown on a criminal network in Burma known as the «Democratic Karen Benevolent Army.» The operation resulted in the seizure of 127,000 Bitcoin, worth over $8 billion as of July.
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Multinational victims of scam centers, who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stand on a vessel floating towards the Thai side of border via Moei River in Phop Phra District, Tak province, Thailand, on Feb. 12, 2025. (REUTERS/Krit Phromsakla Na Sakolnakorn)
The scammers, who allegedly have ties to Chinese organized crime, had been specifically targeting Americans in their operations, extracting over $3 million from one elderly American, the FBI previously told Fox News Digital.
In 2025, Chinese, Thai and Burmese authorities liberated more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in Burma.
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Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stuck in limbo at a compound inside the KK Park, a fraud factory, and a human trafficking hub on the border with Thailand-Myanmar after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, operated by the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) in Myawaddy, Myanmar, Feb. 26, 2025. (REUTERS/Stringer)
While the new Anti-Online Scam Law only mandates the death penalty for offenses that lead to another person’s death, the law mandates 10-years in prison for any instance of forced labor in relation to cybercrime
The law’s approval also comes two days before the United Nations International Organization for Migration’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This year the international body will commemorate the day on July 30 under the theme «Trapped Behind the Scam.»

People from various countries, who were working in the KK Park compound in Myanmar, travel in a boat across the Moei river to cross over from Myanmar to Thailand, as seen from Mae Sot District, Tak Province area on October 24, 2025. (SAROT MEKSOPHAWANNAKUL/THAI NEWS PIX/AFP via Getty Images)
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«People trapped in scam compounds are victims of trafficking, forced to commit crimes through violence, threats and coercion. They deserve protection, not punishment,» IOM Director General Amy Pope said in a statement. «We must work together to support survivors, stop traffickers and close the gaps these criminal networks exploit. No country can tackle this alone.»
The United Nations estimate that South Pacific scams resulted in the loss of over $114 billion in 2025.
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden pardon won’t shield Fauci if he lies to Congress, Comer says

Sen. Ron Johnson blasts Fauci as ‘grossly dishonest’ over COVID pandemic
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., condemns Dr. Anthony Fauci as a ‘megalomaniac’ and ‘infamous villain’ following the release of his private diary entries. Johnson alleges Fauci knowingly funded gain-of-function research, contradicted himself on COVID-19’s origin, pushed experimental vaccines over early treatments, and oversaw devastating lockdown policies.
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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is warning Dr. Anthony Fauci that his presidential pardon has limits ahead of the former public health official’s high-profile day on Capitol Hill.
Fauci is set to testify before a GOP-led Senate panel on Wednesday, days after hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were made public.
«We now know why President Biden gave a blanket pardon to Dr. Fauci. While obsessing about his own fame, Dr. Fauci wasn’t truthful with the American people about the origins of COVID and advised schools to be closed,» Comer told Fox News Digital.
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«Americans are still reaping the consequences of Dr. Fauci’s actions. Biden’s pardon doesn’t cover Dr. Fauci’s testimony this week and if he continues to lie, he must be held accountable.»
Dr. Anthony Fauci was accused of constant flip-flopping in a lengthy Twitter thread. (J. Scott Applewhite, Pool/AP Photo)
Fauci was among several recipients of controversial «preemptive pardons» by former President Joe Biden made during the final hours of the Democratic administration.
The pardon covers any offenses from January 1, 2014, through its issue date, or anything related «to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.»
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Because the pardon covers conduct during his government service, there will likely be some debate over whether it would protect him from liability stemming from his testimony.
But other House Republicans are also accusing Fauci of behaving in a way that hurts public trust in U.S. health, including the co-chairs of the House GOP Doctors’ Caucus — both of whom are physicians themselves.

Rep. James Comer arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
«Dr. Fauci, enamored with his own fame and vanity, put politics above science during the pandemic. He is primarily responsible for the resulting multi-generational erosion of trust in American medicine,» Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital. «A perfect example of ego destroying whatever achievements he had prior to the pandemic.»
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Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital that Fauci «must be held accountable» by the House as well as the Senate.
«The release of Dr. Fauci’s diary entries validates what many Americans suspected all along: he was not honest about the origins of COVID-19,» Joyce said. «His fixation on preserving his own image and maintaining a position of power eroded public trust, undermined the integrity of our public health institutions, and failed the American people.»

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., grilled fellow Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., at the start of his nomination hearing. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Diary entries made public by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a longtime Fauci critic and chair of the committee before which Fauci is appearing on Wednesday, show the high-profile doctor reflecting on his pandemic-era fame and raising questions about the disease’s origins.
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Some entries appear to show Fauci taking credit for influencing policies that closed schools during the pandemic, something that has become one of the most hotly debated aspects of how the government handled COVID.
He told the House Oversight Committee in January 2024, however, «I did not close the schools.»
Fauci has long denied any wrongdoing and instead has argued that he’s been made a political target by people on the right who are critical of how governments handled COVID-19.
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