En el Stade de France

La peregrinación de los cafés y terrazas

El ex presidente Francois Hollande entre autoridades y familiares. Foto: EFE

Le Carillon, uno de los bares atacados. Foto: EFE

La tercera ceremonia fue frente a los cafés de La Bonne Bière y La Cosa Nostra. Foto: EFE

El Bataclan renacido

El Bataclan ha renacido, aun con sus heridas abiertas. Foto: Reuters

La gran ceremonia de la noche

CONCORD, N.H. — Amid heated calls by some House Democrats and others in the party to remove Sen. Chuck Schumer from his longtime role as Senate Democratic leader, a top Democrat in the chamber is calling for «more effective leadership.»

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut told Fox News Digital that Schumer needs to lead a conversation to «stop having a group of members cross over and support Donald Trump’s agenda.»

Murphy was interviewed on Wednesday, two days after seven Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the party, bucked Senate Democratic leaders and voted with the majority Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history.

Plenty of progressives and center-left Democrats have pilloried the deal to end the shutdown, which didn’t include the Democrats’ top priority, an agreement to extend expiring subsidies that make health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, known as the ACA or Obamacare, more affordable to millions of Americans.

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And even though he opposed the agreement, Schumer, the top Democrat in the chamber, has faced calls from some House Democrats and others in the party to step down due to his inability to keep Senate Democrats unified.

But to date, no Senate Democrat has joined those calls for Schumer to step down.

Asked if Schumer was still up to the task of steering Senate Democrats, Murphy said, «I think his job is really, really hard. He obviously did not want this outcome. He wanted the caucus to stay together. He was not successful in that endeavor.»

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«We’ve got to have a hard conversation as a caucus about what we all need to do, what kind of leadership we need in order to make sure that we don’t continue to break apart,» added Murphy, who as Deputy Democratic Conference Secretary is a member of the party’s leadership in the chamber.

And he noted that «this is the fourth major moment this year where a handful of Democrats have crossed over and voted with Donald Trump.»

«That means we need more effective leadership. That also means that the caucus has to decide for itself that we’re not going to continue to break apart like this,» he emphasized.

Sen. Chris Murphy sits for a Fox News Digital interview on Nov. 12, 2025, in Concord, New Hampshire. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Murphy said Senate Democrats «have to make a decision as a caucus to stop breaking apart like this.» And pointing to Schumer, he added, «That’s a conversation that, yes, the leader of the caucus has to head up, but it’s a conversation all of us have to have. We all have to hold each other accountable.»

Murphy was interviewed after headlining an event in New Hampshire’s capital city with the Merrimack County Democrats. New Hampshire’s two senators — Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan — were among the Democrats who supported the deal with Republicans.

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Shaheen, who previously supported a bill to extend the ACA subsidies, on Monday defended breaking with her party to support the deal.

«We’re making sure that the people of America can get the food benefits that they need, that air traffic controllers can get paid, that federal workers are able to come back, the ones who were let go, that they get paid, that contractors get paid, that aviation moves forward,» Shaheen said in a «Fox and Friends» interview.

Asked about Shaheen’s comments, Murphy said Senate Democrats «had a big disagreement.»

«I understand why my colleagues wanted to end the shutdown. I wanted to end this shutdown. The fact is that shutdowns hurt and Trump was making the shutdown even worse than it had to be by, for instance, illegally denying people food stamp benefits, nutrition benefits,» Murphy argued.

But he added, «I still think we could have won. I think as these premium increases were just becoming real for people, as folks are digesting an election that clearly was a referendum on the way that Donald Trump was plunging the country to shut down, we could have actually gotten a resolution that would have stopped at least some of the pain that’s coming to families as these healthcare premiums go into effect.»

The deal to end the shutdown does not include such a provision, but only a promise by the majority Republicans to hold an upcoming vote on extending the subsidies.

And Murphy lamented that the deal will only embolden the president.

«I definitely worry that when Trump gets the opposition party to yield to him, as he did last week, that it just emboldens him, that he ends up acting even more lawlessly and recklessly and illegally,» he said. «I understand why my colleagues wanted to end this shutdown. I am just of the belief that Trump is going to constantly try to weaponize our compassion against us.»

Sen. Chris Murphy speaks to a gathering of Merrimack County Democrats on Nov. 12, 2025, in Concord, New Hampshire. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Murphy, who during former President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House spent much of his time trying to reach across the aisle to find common ground with Republicans on such issues as gun control, immigration and Ukraine, is now helping fund organizations that are pushing back against Trump and his agenda.

«I’ve been making grants to protest organizations and grassroots organizations all around the country,» he said.

And the senator, who won re-election last year in blue-leaning Connecticut by nearly 20 points, highlighted that «I’ve been all over the country this year. I’ve been holding town halls, often with other colleagues, targeting mostly states that are represented by Republicans, so that they’re hearing the other side.»

And looking ahead to next year’s midterm elections, he said, «I’ll likely be traveling throughout New England, but also throughout the rest of the country, to try to help stand up a national mobilization against Trump’s corruption.»

Murphy is seen by political pundits as a possible contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, which is expected to be a crowded and competitive race.

After his interview with Fox News Digital, Murphy headlined the latest «Stand Up New Hampshire Town Hall.» The speaking series, organized by top New Hampshire Democratic elected officials and party leaders, is seen as an early cattle call for potential White House contenders.

The New Hampshire Republican Party welcomed Murphy to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state with an email released titled «NHGOP Welcomes Future Failed Presidential Candidate Chris Murphy to New Hampshire.»

Asked about a possible presidential run in 2028, Murphy said, «I think it’d be so foolish for any of us to be thinking about running in an election in 2028 that may not happen. I mean, I think this moment is really serious. I think Donald Trump is trying to rig the rules of American democracy so that either he can run again or that the opposition party has no chance to win.»

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Pointing to his current mission «to help save our democracy,» Murphy insisted «that’s all I’m focused on right now. And I think that is what I would recommend to all of my colleagues, whether they’re thinking about running for national office in 2028 or whether they have no plans to do so.»

«We have one mission right now, which is to make sure there actually is an election in 2028 where a Democrat has a reasonable chance of winning,» he added.

Daniel Noboa reconoció públicamente que la llamada “Cárcel del Encuentro”, el nuevo penal de máxima seguridad al que fue trasladado el ex vicepresidente Jorge Glas y varios cabecillas del crimen organizado, aún no está terminada. En una entrevista radial, el presidente detalló que el complejo carcelario está “entre el 35% y el 40%” de avance, pero defendió la decisión de adelantar el traslado de los reclusos más peligrosos por razones de seguridad y prometió que la obra se completará en las próximas semanas.

En diálogo con Radio Sucre, Noboa respondió a las críticas sobre el envío de presos a una cárcel cuya construcción sigue en marcha. “La cárcel no está al 100%, no está al 100%, pero ya está al 35–40%. En dos semanas estará al 80% y se finalizará el último pabellón y las últimas cosas en un mes”, aseguró. Con esa descripción, el mandatario trazó por primera vez un cronograma público de la obra, que el Gobierno ha presentado como emblema de su ofensiva contra el narcotráfico y las bandas criminales.

El anuncio llega después del traslado de Jorge Glas y de otros presos de alto perfil al nuevo penal, lo que encendió el debate sobre las condiciones de la infraestructura y la legalidad de las decisiones penitenciarias. Mientras organizaciones y voces críticas cuestionan que se use un centro “en obra gris” para alojar a personas privadas de libertad, el Gobierno sostiene que la prioridad es neutralizar la capacidad de mando de los líderes criminales desde las cárceles tradicionales. Noboa reiteró que los primeros en ser trasladados fueron “los más malos, los que ya desde la cárcel se pasaban organizando asesinatos y secuestros”.

El presidente vinculó directamente la premura por habilitar la Cárcel del Encuentro con el clima político previo al referéndum y consulta popular del 16 de noviembre. Según su versión, grupos delictivos estarían buscando desestabilizar al país ante la posibilidad de una victoria del “sí” en las preguntas impulsadas por el Ejecutivo. “Era urgente viendo lo alterados que están, porque está ganando el sí y quieren hacer relajo y quieren matar la mayor cantidad de gente para decir que este gobierno fracasa”, afirmó. No presentó pruebas concretas durante la entrevista, pero insistió en que la lectura de inteligencia del Gobierno justificaba adelantar el uso parcial del complejo penitenciario.

Más allá de esa coyuntura, Noboa enmarcó la Cárcel del Encuentro en un rediseño más amplio del sistema penitenciario. El mandatario sostuvo que no se trata de una obra aislada, sino del primer paso de un plan que incluye la construcción de otro gran centro carcelario de mediana seguridad, también en la Costa, con capacidad para unas 15.000 personas privadas de libertad. “Se va a construir otra cerca, grande, no de máxima seguridad, sino de mediana seguridad, para aproximadamente 15.000 personas”, adelantó. Según su diagnóstico, en el sistema actual hay entre 6.000 y 7.000 presos en hacinamiento y varias cárceles que “nunca se arreglaron” y hoy son inseguras tanto para los funcionarios como para los internos.

Noboa describió problemas estructurales en las prisiones tradicionales: puertas e infraestructura que no funcionan, flujos internos que no permiten reaccionar ante emergencias y pabellones donde el Estado ha perdido el control frente a las bandas. Argumentó que el nuevo complejo y la futura cárcel de mediana seguridad buscan justamente revertir ese escenario, concentrando a los internos de mayor peligrosidad en espacios controlados y tecnológicamente monitoreados, y reordenando el resto de la población penitenciaria.

La Cárcel del Encuentro se ha convertido en un símbolo del enfoque de Noboa en seguridad: una mezcla de infraestructura penitenciaria de alta seguridad, discurso de mano dura y comunicación directa en redes sociales. Días antes, el presidente difundió en X (antes Twitter) una imagen en la que aparecían Glas y otros procesados y condenados por delitos graves, acompañada de un mensaje en el que advertía que “pronto llegarán otros criminales” al nuevo penal. El gesto fue leído por sus críticos como una utilización política de los expedientes judiciales, al calor de la campaña por el referéndum.

En la entrevista radial, el mandatario buscó presentar la cárcel no solo como un símbolo, sino como una respuesta funcional a la violencia que ha sacudido al país en los últimos años. Su narrativa conecta la construcción acelerada del penal con otros elementos de política pública, como los decretos de estado de excepción, las operaciones contra la minería ilegal y la cooperación internacional en seguridad. A la vez, insiste en que la actual Constitución —que él pretende reformar a través de una Asamblea Constituyente si triunfa el “sí”— “beneficia a los criminales” y limita la acción de las fuerzas del orden.