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Portland mayor condemns federal intervention, claims videos of anti-ICE riots were from years ago

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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan to send federal troops to Oregon’s largest city, claiming there is no lawlessness or violence there.
Trump announced Saturday morning he plans to send troops to Portland at the request of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The president said he directed War Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide «all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,» adding he was authorizing full force, if necessary.
Hours later, Wilson said during a news conference the number of necessary troops is «zero» in Portland, «and any other American city.»
Police are seen dispersing the crowd outside the Portland ICE facility Sept. 1 in Oregon. (X/@KatieDaviscourt)
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«This is an American city,» Wilson said. «We do not need any intervention. This is not a military target.»
The mayor alleged the president would «not find» lawlessness or violence in the city, claiming video footage showing violence in the city was from five years ago was «recycled and then recycled again.»
«If President Trump came to Portland today, what he would find is people riding their bikes, playing sports, enjoying the sunshine, buying groceries or produce from a farmers’ market,» Wilson said. «We’ve had hard conversations, and we’ve done important work in the years since that footage was taken, we reformed our public safety system. We’ve refocused our community and on our economy, and we’ve redoubled our efforts to help our most vulnerable.»
Since June, protests have erupted near an ICE facility in Portland, where city officials cited land use violations, including improper detainee holding times and boarded-up windows.
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The building has been vandalized with anti-ICE graffiti and clashes between protesters and federal agents have occasionally turned violent, leading to the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and flash bangs.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital confirmed another violent protest in August, with footage showing protesters rolling out a guillotine, lighting fires and fighting with authorities — forcing law enforcement to disperse the crowd with munitions.
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Instead of sending troops to protect the federal facility, Wilson suggested the president send «hundreds of engineers, or teachers, or outreach workers» to Portland instead of a «short, expensive and fruitless show of force.»
«I am so deeply disappointed with the federal government’s irresponsibility,» he said. «At the end of the day, this may be a show of force, but that’s all it is. It’s a big show, and after the big show, everyone goes home. That’s what I want to happen here today in Portland. We have a long and proud tradition of peaceful protest. We have a long and proud track record of being at the forefront of positive social change.»

The action comes after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
«There are new risks today, risks that we do not yet fully understand,» he continued. «The administration has refused to elaborate on what they mean when they say they will deploy full force against our city and citizens.»
In his announcement on Saturday, Trump did not say he would deploy full force against the city of Portland and its citizens, as Wilson claimed.
The president said he would send «all necessary troops» to protect the city and its ICE facilities, authorizing full force against domestic terrorism «if necessary.»
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Portland, a sanctuary city since 2017, has resisted federal immigration enforcement, making it a focal point during the administration’s immigration enforcement initiative.
In August, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Wilson, warning the city’s sanctuary policies undermine U.S. interests. She demanded Portland affirm compliance with federal law and end practices that obstruct immigration enforcement.
The City of Portland did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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El piloto desaparecido en Irán reaviva el fantasma de la crisis de los rehenes de 1979 y deja a Estados Unidos en alerta máxima

El derribo de un avión de combate estadounidense sobre territorio iraní y la intensa búsqueda de uno de sus tripulantes han generado preocupación de que pueda ser capturado y proporcionar a Irán un valioso recurso que podría utilizar para presionar a Estados Unidos.
La operación de rescate se encontraba en su segundo día este sábado, con tropas estadounidenses realizando una búsqueda exhaustiva y el ejército iraní también intentando encontrar al tripulante.
Como muestra del afán del régimen por atrapar al aviador, un presentador de una filial local de la cadena estatal iraní leyó el viernes en televisión un comunicado en el que instaba a los residentes a capturar al «piloto o pilotos enemigos» y entregarlos vivos a las fuerzas de seguridad a cambio de una recompensa.
La posibilidad de que Irán capture al aviador evoca el temor a una repetición de la crisis de rehenes de Irán de 1979, un suceso traumático en la historia estadounidense que sentó las bases de casi cinco décadas de relaciones hostiles entre Estados Unidos e Irán.
La crisis, en la que estudiantes militantes tomaron la embajada estadounidense en Teherán y mantuvieron cautivos a 52 estadounidenses durante 444 días, sentó un precedente para Irán que perfeccionaría en las décadas siguientes como forma de acaparar titulares internacionales, infligir daño a sus adversarios y obtener concesiones.
Desde 1979, el gobierno iraní ha utilizado repetidamente la toma de rehenes como táctica contra sus adversarios. Ha detenido a estadounidenses, europeos y otros ciudadanos extranjeros, a veces manteniéndolos encarcelados durante años antes de liberarlos, a menudo a cambio de dinero o la liberación de sus propios ciudadanos encarcelados en el extranjero. Ha utilizado a los rehenes como herramientas de propaganda y para obtener influencia.
La crisis de 1979 marcó el último año de la presidencia de Jimmy Carter y, para muchos, se convirtió en un símbolo de sus fracasos.
Donald Trump ha criticado repetidamente la gestión de la crisis de rehenes por parte del Carter, calificándola de «patética». En 1980, declaró a un periodista: «Que este país se quede de brazos cruzados y permita que un país como Irán retenga a nuestros rehenes, a mi parecer, es un horror, y no creo que lo harían con otros países».
Hamidreza Azizi, experto en seguridad iraní del Instituto Alemán de Asuntos Internacionales y de Seguridad, una organización de investigación, afirmó que Irán podría adoptar dos estrategias si logra capturar al aviador.
Si la captura se mantiene en secreto, los iraníes podrían contactar a Estados Unidos en privado y llegar a un acuerdo secreto, exigiendo concesiones a cambio de la liberación del tripulante. O bien, Irán podría exhibir al aviador ante las cámaras como propaganda.
Según él, esa era la estrategia más probable. «Realmente quieren proyectar esta imagen de victoria y, además, humillar a Trump», afirmó Azizi.
Ali Alfoneh, investigador principal del Instituto de los Estados Árabes del Golfo, con sede en Washington, mencionó un incidente de 2007 en el que Irán capturó a marineros británicos, alegando que sus embarcaciones habían entrado ilegalmente en aguas iraníes. Los marineros fueron vendados, amenazados y sometidos a presión psicológica antes de prestar declaración en vídeo, en la que parecían disculparse. Sin embargo, no se reportó que sufrieran daños físicos, señaló Alfoneh.
“El entonces presidente Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aprovechó al máximo la cobertura mediática internacional al anunciar su liberación y les estrechó la mano personalmente”, declaró el Alfoneh en un correo electrónico. Añadió que el trato al aviador estadounidense probablemente sería diferente, dado que Estados Unidos e Irán están en guerra.
Incluso si el tripulante desaparecido es rescatado, el incidente subraya los riesgos de realizar misiones sobre territorio hostil contra un adversario con capacidad de represalia. Las operaciones de rescate son intrínsecamente peligrosas porque ponen en riesgo a otros miembros del servicio estadounidense.
Fuente: The New York Times
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TEVI TROY: Trump faces the burdens of a wartime presidency

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America’s war with the mullahs of Tehran is into its second month and it has already changed Donald Trump’s presidency in important ways. As the president considers how to navigate these new dynamics, it’s worth considering the experience of some previous presidents who entered office not expecting to be wartime presidents.
Woodrow Wilson ended a four-cycle Republican winning streak by winning the three-way election of 1912. He did so because his two opponents, former president Teddy Roosevelt and incumbent president William Howard Taft, split the Republican vote. As president, Wilson embarked on an aggressive progressive domestic policy agenda. Things changed when World War One broke out in Europe midway through Wilson’s first term. Wilson then ran for reelection in 1916 promising to keep America out of the conflict, even using the slogan «He kept us out of war.» He did not keep that promise, though, as America entered the war in 1917, during the first year of his second term.
Woodrow Wilson’s portrait during his campaign for New Jersey Governor in 1910. (Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932 to rescue the economy from the Great Depression. In his third term, he gained a new mission: fighting the Axis Powers and presiding over the largest military mobilization in American history. Roosevelt addressed this shift at a 1943 press conference where he explained the transition from «Dr. New Deal» to «Dr. Win-the-War.» FDR’s quip highlighted the way his administration had to reorder itself to face the new challenge.
Lyndon Johnson came to office unexpectedly after the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy. He took over in peacetime and began pursuing his dream of a Great Society — a sweeping domestic agenda to rival Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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As he managed to pass his ambitious — and costly — domestic agenda, he soon found himself and his administration consumed by the conflict in Vietnam. The experience was so draining that by 1968, Johnson, who had spent his whole life pursuing the presidency, shocked the world by refusing to seek re-election.
In 2000, George W. Bush explicitly campaigned on pursuing a humble foreign policy, rejecting the nation-building missions of the Bill Clinton era. His ambition was to be the «Education President.» Then, 19 militant jihadis from Al Qaeda struck America on September 11. In response, Bush ordered the invasions of terror-supporting countries Afghanistan and then Iraq. As someone who served in that administration, the shift I saw was palpable. Bush had entered office with one kind of vision for his presidency, but history had a different idea entirely.

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) speaks about the recent flooding in the mid-west that has displaced thousands, during a briefing about the floods as Vice President Dick Cheney (L) listens June 17, 2008 in Washington DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images))
War reshapes more than just the man sitting behind the Resolute Desk. It changes the teams around the president. We saw this with the resignation of Trump’s counterterrorism director, Joe Kent. As the Kent episode showed, advisors who were in alignment before the shooting starts are not necessarily in alignment once fighting begins.
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This sort of thing has also happened in previous presidencies. In the early years of Wilson’s administration, Wilson was reliant on the advice of Texan political operative Colonel Edward House, who was so close to the president that he even lived in the White House. Things changed during the war, however, as internal critics in the State Department and the White House pushed back against House’s broad mandate managing the war. Wilson and House also clashed over the Versailles Treaty, which led to a permanent end to their once close relationship.
As for Johnson, he was famously intolerant of internal dissent, and he drove away or silenced advisors who questioned his Vietnam strategy. Johnson pushed aside his defense secretary Robert McNamara — initially the face of the Vietnam War—after Johnson noticed and didn’t appreciate McNamara’s increasing skepticism of Johnson’s Vietnam policy. Johnson wanted — and got — an echo chamber, to his administration and to our nation’s detriment.

Daylight Saving Time first went into effect under the Johnson administration, following the passage of the Uniform Time Act of 1966. (Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images)
In the Bush administration, the Iraq war set off a bureaucratic civil war inside Bush’s national security team. This internal struggle led to the Valerie Plame affair, which brought about the indictment of Vice President Cheney’s top aide Scooter Libby after the exposure of the name of a covert CIA operative. Libby, however, had not leaked her name; his bureaucratic nemesis Dick Armitage was the leaker, and Armitage shamefully stayed silent about his role during the investigation. The episode showed the degree to which the higher stakes brought about by war can roil an administration, not to mention innocent lives.
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War also takes a personal toll on presidents. Sometimes it leads to behavioral changes. In 2003, Bush gave up playing golf, one of his few outlets for escaping the pressures of the presidency. He said years later that he was unwilling to be seen on the links while American soldiers were dying in Iraq. As he explained in 2008, «I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf.» It was a quietly devastating admission about the weight a wartime president carries every day.
In other cases, the toll of being president in wartime has been even heavier. Wilson suffered a stroke while in Europe and was incapacitated for much of the rest of the administration; his team kept the American people in the dark as his wife Edith secretly managed things in the White House. Roosevelt died during his fourth term at 63. Those who saw him in his final days found him to be pale and depleted beyond his years. A visibly thinned Johnson, who left office at 60, died less than four years after exiting the White House.
While these examples may seem harrowing, there is one also instructive counterexample.
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George H.W. Bush entered the Gulf War with a limited objective, built a broad international coalition for expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, achieved that objective, and got out. Bush’s national security team was extraordinarily disciplined and cohesive. The war did not appear to fundamentally damage Bush’s presidency or his person. Yet even Bush could not escape the political gravity of wartime leadership — he was perceived as so focused on foreign affairs that he lost touch with a domestic economy in recession, leading to what many believed was highly improbable when Bush had a 91% approval rating on the way: His defeat at the hands of Bill Clinton in 1992.
The lesson here is not that presidents should shrink from the use of force. President Trump has shown courage in taking on one of the most murderous and predatory regimes in the past half century. The decision to go to war is the most difficult decision a president must make. It costs lives and changes the world in unpredictable ways. And even before the end is reached, it changes the president, his staff, and his agenda, testing his character and taxing his body and soul in ways that cannot be fully anticipated.
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Ataque armado en Guatemala deja cuatro personas fallecidas en Sábado de Gloria

Un ataque armado registrado la mañana del sábado 4 de abril en la colonia Nuevo Texcuaco, sector conocido como “Las Tareas”, en jurisdicción de La Gomera, Escuintla, dejó un saldo de cuatro personas fallecidas. De acuerdo con información preliminar, las víctimas —dos mujeres y dos hombres— murieron a causa de múltiples heridas de bala en distintas partes del cuerpo. El hecho ocurrió durante la celebración del Sábado de Gloria, una de las fechas más concurridas de la Semana Santa en Guatemala, lo que ha generado consternación y temor entre los habitantes del área.
Versiones iniciales recabadas por medios locales como Emisoras Unidas y La Hora.gt señalan que las víctimas intentaron huir del lugar al percatarse del ataque, pero fueron perseguidas por los agresores, quienes finalmente les dieron alcance y abrieron fuego.
Bomberos Voluntarios que atendieron la emergencia informaron que, al momento de su evaluación, las personas ya no contaban con signos vitales. Imágenes divulgadas por páginas de noticias locales muestran que los cuerpos quedaron tendidos en diferentes puntos del terreno, lo que sugiere que las víctimas intentaron escapar por varias direcciones.
Tras el ataque, agentes de la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) acordonaron la escena y mantienen un fuerte resguardo policial en el área. Asimismo, se espera la llegada de fiscales y peritos del Ministerio Público (MP), quienes estarán a cargo del levantamiento de los cuerpos, su identificación oficial y la recolección de evidencias. Hasta el momento, las autoridades no han determinado el móvil del crimen ni se reportan capturas vinculadas al hecho. Voceros de la PNC indicaron que se han iniciado las investigaciones correspondientes para dar con los responsables y esclarecer las circunstancias del ataque.
El hecho ha generado alarma en la comunidad, donde vecinos y familiares de las víctimas se congregaron en las cercanías del sitio, visiblemente afectados por la violencia registrada en pleno feriado. Según testigos, la tranquilidad habitual del sector se vio interrumpida por la llegada de patrullas y ambulancias, mientras los cuerpos de socorro atendían el llamado de emergencia.

Mientras continúan las diligencias en la colonia Nuevo Texcuaco, las autoridades llaman a la población a colaborar con información que permita identificar a los responsables del ataque. El Ministerio Público solicitó a cualquier testigo o persona que haya presenciado movimientos sospechosos en la zona que se acerque a declarar de forma confidencial. Se prevé que en las próximas horas se brinden más detalles oficiales sobre este nuevo hecho de violencia que enluta a la comunidad de La Gomera y visibiliza la compleja situación de seguridad en Guatemala durante la Semana Santa de 2026.
Semana Santa marcada por la violencia
Este ataque se suma a otros hechos violentos registrados en Guatemala durante la Semana Santa de 2026, un periodo que tradicionalmente atrae a miles de personas a actividades religiosas y recreativas, pero que también evidencia los desafíos persistentes en materia de seguridad ciudadana. De acuerdo con reportes del Sistema Nacional de Prevención en Semana Santa (Sinaprese), hasta el 4 de abril se contabilizaban 190 personas fallecidas por diversas causas y más de 3,000 heridas durante el asueto, cifra que incluye víctimas de accidentes, ahogamientos y hechos criminales.
La violencia armada en el país se ha mantenido como una de las principales preocupaciones de la población y de las autoridades. Durante los últimos días, diversos departamentos han reportado incidentes similares, con ataques perpetrados en áreas urbanas y rurales. En la ciudad de Guatemala, la noche del Viernes Santo se registró un ataque armado en la zona 18, que dejó dos personas heridas, mientras que en Chiquimula, un altercado en la vía pública terminó con una persona fallecida y otras dos lesionadas.
Organizaciones sociales y observadores de derechos humanos han reiterado la urgencia de fortalecer las estrategias de prevención y respuesta ante la escalada de hechos violentos, especialmente en fechas de alta movilidad como Semana Santa. En respuesta, la PNC y el Ministerio Público han desplegado operativos especiales y reforzado los patrullajes en puntos considerados de alto riesgo, aunque los resultados siguen siendo limitados frente a la magnitud del problema.
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