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Mamdani blasts ICE agents, Elon Musk and ‘supremacy’ in America 250 speech ahead of July 4 weekend
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took aim at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Elon Musk and what he described as the «arena of supremacy» in the United States during an immigration-themed America 250 speech on Friday ahead of Fourth of July weekend.
Flanked by eight recently naturalized U.S. citizens, Mamdani invoked the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and America’s history of immigration before turning his rhetoric on elements of today’s U.S. Mamdani also blasted the «world’s first trillionaire» — a milestone Musk achieved with the long-awaited Initial Public Offering (IPO) of SpaceX last month.
«We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more,» Mamdani said, without naming Musk. «We see monopolies that dominate every industry, and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans.»
«We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few,» he added.
Mamdani, who was sitting at George Washington’s desk during the remarks, also praised the legacy of immigrants, claiming that they have overcome riots «aimed at their very existence,» to create lives in New York.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at City Hall on July 3, 2026. (Anna Connors/Pool via REUTERS)
«Over the years that followed, despite laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry, despite sweatshop fires that killed hundreds of women, despite riots aimed at their very existence, immigrants made homes here in New York City, and they helped to make New York City,» the mayor said.
«That legacy of every generation of Americans insisting that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness extends to them, too, is no relic of the past. It carried millions of Black Americans north during the Great Migration. It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City after the Second World War. It invited countless others from the West Indies and South Asia and West Africa and across the world. And it is what brought my family to this city when I was seven years old,» he continued.
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Mamdani did not mention his own family’s wealth in the speech. His father was an elite Harvard academic, and his mother and acclaimed film director.
«My family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of Liberty from the window of the plane. Even from the air, we could make out the promise of America, the promise of the beautiful patriotic work of rendering America, year after year, a little more faithful to its founding ideals,» he said.
The Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as Lower Manhattan is viewed at dusk, Sept. 8, 2016, in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
In his speech, Mamdani blasted those with «power and influence,» who he lamented have written American history.
«There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it. American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free. It is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West. Is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet, the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth, that they were anything but exceptional,» Mamdani said. «For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best.»
«It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shuttles, who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had,» he continued. «We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place.»
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at City Hall on July 3, 2026. (Anna Connors/Pool via REUTERS)
Mamdani referenced how he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2018. Mamdani was born in Uganda in 1991 and moved to New York when he was 7. The mayor is a dual U.S.-Ugandan citizen.
«Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each hold a special power. The power to determine what America means,» the mayor said, speaking to the recently naturalized citizens by his side.
«The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom,» Mamdani said. «Where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another.»
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at City Hall in New York on July 3, 2026. (Anna Connors/Pool via REUTERS)
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Mamdani also claimed ICE were invading New York neighborhoods.
«We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have as ICE invades our neighborhoods,» he added. «We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans.»
«There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain. ‘Love it or leave it,’ they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent,» Mamdani said. «It is every March led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it.»
Mamdani ended his speech with a rousing call to America’s greatness.
«What power each of us holds to bring America ever closer to the greatness so many have seen when they looked upon these shores. The greatness that for 250 years has been America. Thank you. God bless America. God bless New York City. And happy Fourth of July,» he concluded.
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La otra realidad de Cabo Verde: así el rival de Argentina en el Mundial busca una revolución tecnológica silenciosa
La Selección Argentina se enfrenta este viernes a un rival inesperado en el Mundial 2026: Cabo Verde, una nación insular de poco más de 550.000 habitantes que, fuera del radar futbolístico, avanza con un ambicioso plan para convertirse en el principal polo tecnológico del Atlántico.
Más allá de la sorpresa que generó el seleccionado de los “Tiburones azules” al igualar con potencias como España y Uruguay, el país africano despliega una estrategia de innovación que apunta a conectar continentes y atraer inversiones millonarias.
La transformación de Cabo Verde como centro de startups tecnológicas no pasó desapercibida entre los analistas internacionales. Según Forbes África, el gobierno impulsa desde 2023 un ecosistema digital que combina infraestructura de punta, incentivos fiscales y financiamiento internacional para posicionarse como un nodo entre Europa, África y América Latina. Esta apuesta, que involucra cables submarinos y parques tecnológicos, coloca al país en el foco de la economía del conocimiento.
Durante décadas, la economía del país giró principalmente alrededor del turismo, gracias a sus playas y su ubicación estratégica a unos 600 kilómetros de la costa africana. La independencia, alcanzada en 1975, dejó como legado el portugués como idioma oficial en un archipiélago de diez islas volcánicas. Hoy, el país apuesta por un nuevo modelo de desarrollo: convertirse en un hub digital entre continentes.
El salto de calidad llegó en 2021, cuando Cabo Verde se conectó al cable submarino EllaLink, que enlaza Europa con América Latina. Según el informe Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026 elaborado por Startup Blink, ese avance multiplicó la capacidad de ancho de banda y transformó la isla en un puente digital.
“Creemos que podemos ser un hub en el Atlántico, y creemos que ser pequeños no significa no ser relevantes, porque ser pequeño en el mundo de la tecnología también significa ser rápido en las decisiones”, afirmó Pedro Lopes, secretario de Estado de la Economía Digital, en declaraciones a Forbes África.
Desde entonces, el país diseñó una infraestructura pensada para atraer empresas tecnológicas. El proyecto más visible es el TechPark CV, inaugurado en Praia en 2023 y expandido a Mindelo un año después. Fue financiado con unos USD 56,5 millones, principalmente aportados por el Banco Africano de Desarrollo. El primer ministro Ulisses Correia e Silva lo definió como “un espacio que conecta a Cabo Verde con el mundo”, de acuerdo con el artículo.
La revolución digital caboverdiana incluye una serie de ventajas fiscales inéditas en la región. En 2022, el gobierno estableció la Zona Económica Especial para Tecnologías (ZEET), que ofrece a las empresas tecnológicas una tasa de impuesto corporativo del 2,5%, además de exenciones de IVA e impuestos a la importación. Las compañías que reinvierten sus utilidades pueden quedar exentas del impuesto a las ganancias si destinan al menos el 7,5% de su facturación a investigación y desarrollo o si son startups jóvenes incubadas en centros certificados.
El régimen fiscal, vigente hasta 2038, permite deducir hasta el 40% de los gastos elegibles en I+D, con una tasa incremental del 50% sobre los montos que superen el promedio de los dos años anteriores. Según el informe Cabo Verde Corporate – Tax Credits and Incentives de la firma PwC, estos beneficios buscan atraer a emprendedores internacionales y favorecer el crecimiento de nuevas empresas tecnológicas en el país.
El parque tecnológico ya muestra resultados: alberga a más de 400 personas, organizó más de 50 eventos desde 2024 y cuenta con 23 empresas residentes de siete países, incluidas firmas de Angola, Portugal, Alemania, Bélgica, Italia, España y el propio Cabo Verde. El plan oficial prevé que para 2030 operen 30 compañías dentro del parque, generando 1.000 empleos directos y 2.000 indirectos.
La financiación también forma parte del paquete. En octubre de 2025, el gobierno lanzó el Fondo Morabeza, dotado con USD 27 millones, para estimular la creación de startups y acelerar la transición digital. La agencia Cabo Verde Digital impulsa programas de preincubación y capacitación, mientras que la aceleradora privada Djassi Africa apoya proyectos en etapas tempranas y startups de la diáspora africana de habla portuguesa.
De acuerdo con el Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026, el país revelación de la Copa del Mundo 2026 ocupa el puesto 74 a nivel mundial, su mejor posición histórica, con un crecimiento anual del 31,3%, muy por encima de la media global. A nivel africano, el país es el segundo ecosistema más fuerte de África Occidental y el quinto en el continente. Además, el índice destaca que en “Actividad de la Comunidad de Startups” —que mide eventos y participación— se ubica en el puesto 13 del mundo, una cifra destacable para un país de su tamaño.
En las ciudades, Praia ingresó en el top 500 global, mientras que Mindelo figura en el puesto 1.549. El sector con mayor proyección es el de software y datos, donde el país se posiciona en el lugar 70 a nivel global y quinto en África.
Este año, Cabo Verde fue elegido como sede del Web Summit Spotlight, el primer evento del Web Summit que se celebrará en África. Según Forbes Africa, esto representa un hito simbólico y práctico en la estrategia de internacionalización del país.
La clave de este ecosistema es su perspectiva global desde el inicio. “Cuando desarrollás infraestructura de calidad, como estamos haciendo, vas a empezar a atraer a la diáspora. Les estamos enviando un mensaje a los caboverdianos que viven en el exterior: mentes brillantes, es hora de volver”, afirmó Pedro Lopes a Forbes Africa.
Mientras la atención mundial se concentra este viernes en el desafío deportivo que representa Cabo Verde para la Selección Argentina, en los círculos de inversión y tecnología el interés por el archipiélago se dispara por motivos muy distintos: su salto al mapa global de la innovación digital.
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Interpol issues red notice for Ukrainian woman wanted to Monaco apartment bombing targeting oligarch
Ukraine, Russia peace efforts stall as strikes intensify
Ukraine has intensified its aerial offensive, launching drone strikes deep inside Russia, hitting a refinery in Russian-held Crimea and a Moscow oil tank. Senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot reports that these actions aim to send a message to Moscow as peace negotiations between the two nations remain stalled.
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The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) issued a red notice Friday for Anastasiia Berezovska, a 39-year-old Ukrainian national suspected of bombing a Monaco apartment building that reportedly targeted a Russian-linked Ukrainian oligarch.
The June 30 apartment building explosion, according to numerous media reports, injured Vadym Yermolaiev, a Ukrainian-born construction magnate.
While declining to identify any of the victims by name, Monaco public prosecutor Stéphane Thibault also revealed the explosion injured a woman and a 13-year-old child in the apartment who media reports widely claim to be members of Yermolaiev’s family.
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Berezovska, per Interpol, is now wanted on charges of attempted murder, depositing an explosive device on a public highway with criminal intent and criminal association.
Interpol identified he Ukrainian national as a dark-haired German-speaking woman who possibly has a tattoo of a snake on her arm.
Surveillance photo of Anastasiia Berezovska. (INTERPOL)
The 39-year-old suspect was initially believed to be a heavy-set man. Monaco’s Deputy Prosecutor Morgan Raymond even initially referred to the suspect in masculine terms.
«He stood up a few meters ahead of the victims, placed an explosive device taken from his shopping bag on the entrance steps of the building, then turned to confirm the presence of the three victims before triggering the explosion using a remote control,» Raymond said in an initial press conference following the incident.
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Prosecutors reviewed footage of the days leading up to the explosion, finding that a man wearing a fishing hat repeatedly cased the apartment building and surrounding area. However, on June 28, the man was absent from security footage. Instead, a woman – who prosecutors now believe to be Berezovska – followed the same patterns as the man.
Surveillance photo of Anastasiaa Berezovska. (INTERPOL)
«The repeated reconnaissance operations and the pauses made in front of the building clearly demonstrate the intention to specifically target the three victims,» Raymond said.
Investigators tracked her escape across the Monaco-France border, through Italy and into Germany where authorities are now actively looking for her. They raided her Frankfurt apartment on Thursday.
Raymond noted that the sophistication of her explosive device gives prosecutors reason to believe she did not act alone.
«The relative sophistication of the explosive device and the modus operandi appear to indicate that the person who placed the device was not acting alone,» Morgan said.
The damaged entrance of a residential building following an explosion on Monday, in Monaco, June 30, 2026. (REUTERS/Alexandre Dimou)
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Though authorities have provided no motive, Yermolaiev’s status as a sanctioned former Ukrainian is notable.
The 58-year-old construction tycoon renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2017, Ukrainian media reported, and has been a citizen of Cyprus since 2019. In 2023, the Ukrainian government sanctioned him for allegedly continuing to engage with Russia, paying taxes to Moscow and facilitating business transactions through his liquor business in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.
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