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Trump’s presidency faces crucial tests as Supreme Court begins pivotal term
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The Supreme Court will launch its new term Monday with a focus on controversial prior rulings and a review of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive agenda.
After a three-month recess, the nine justices met together for the first time this week to reset their docket, and discuss appeals that have piled up over the summer. The high court will resume oral arguments to confront issues like gender identity, election redistricting, and free speech.
But looming over the federal judiciary is the return of Trump-era legal battles. The administration has been winning most of the emergency appeals at the Supreme Court since January, that dealt only with whether challenged policies could go into effect temporarily, while the issues play out in the lower courts — including immigration, federal spending cuts, workforce reductions and transgender people in the military.
In doing so, the 6-3 conservative majority has reversed about two dozen preliminary nationwide injunctions imposed by lower federal courts, leading to frustration and confusion among many judges.
FEDERAL JUDGES ANONYMOUSLY CRITICIZE SUPREME COURT FOR OVERTURNING DECISIONS WITH EMERGENCY RULINGS
The nine Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait inside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 7, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images )
Now those percolating petitions are starting to reach the Supreme Court for final review — and legal analysts say the bench may be poised to grant broad unilateral powers to the president.
The justices fast-tracked the administration’s appeal over tariffs on dozens of countries that were blocked by lower courts. Oral arguments will be held in November.
In December, the justices will decide whether to overturn a 90-year precedent dealing with the president’s ability to fire members of some federal regulatory agencies like the Federal Trade Commission.
And in January, the power of President Trump to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors will be tested in a major constitutional showdown. For now, the Biden-appointed Cook will remain on the job.
«A big fraction of the Supreme Court’s docket will present the question: ‘can President Trump do?’— then fill in the blank. And that could be imposing tariffs; firing independent board members; removing illegal aliens; sending the military into cities like Los Angeles,» said Thomas Dupree, a prominent appellate attorney and constitutional law expert. «So, much of what the Supreme Court is deciding this term is whether the president has acted within or has exceeded his authority.»
The tariffs dispute will be the court’s first major constitutional test on the merits over how broadly the conservative majority high court views Trump’s muscular view of presidential power, a template for almost certain future appeals of his executive agenda.
Presidential prerogative or power push?
In earlier disputes over temporary enforcement of those policies, the court’s left-leaning justices warned against the judiciary becoming a rubber stamp, ceding its power in favor of this president.
After a late August high court order granting the government the power to temporarily terminate nearly $800 million in already-approved health research grants, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said her conservative colleagues had «ben[t] over backward to accommodate» the Trump administration. «Right when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints, the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and preventing manifestly injurious Government action as difficult as possible. This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.»
But some of Jackson’s colleagues have denied they are paving the way for Trump’s aggressive efforts to redo the federal government.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT WEIGHS TRUMP BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER AS ADMIN OUTLINES ENFORCEMENT DETAILS
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite, File/AP Photo)
«The framers recognized, in a way that I think is brilliant, that preserving liberty requires separating the power,» said Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month at a Texas event. «No one person or group of people should have too much power in our system.»
And Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Fox News’ Bret Baier three weeks ago that she and her colleagues «don’t wear red and blue, we all wear black because judges are nonpartisan … We’re all trying to get it right. We’re not playing for a team.»
Barrett, who is promoting her new book, «Listening to the Law,» said her court takes a long-term view, and is not reflexively on Trump’s side.
«We’re not deciding cases just for today. And we’re not deciding cases based on the president, as in the current occupant of the office,» Barrett told Fox News. «I think the judiciary needs to stay in its lane … we’re taking each case and we’re looking at the question of presidential power as it comes. And the cases that we decide today are going to matter, four presidencies from now, six presidencies from now.»
KAVANAUGH CITES 3 PRESIDENTS IN EXPLAINING SUPREME COURT’S BALLOONING EMERGENCY DOCKET
Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2025. (Getty Images)
These sharp court fractures between competing ideologies will likely escalate, as the justices begin a more robust look at a president’s power, and by dint, their own.
Divisive decisions
«He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,» Trump cryptically posted on social media a month after retaking office.
Federal courts have since been trying to navigate and articulate the limits of the executive branch, while managing their own powers.
Yet several federal judges — appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents — have expressed concern that the Supreme Court has been regularly overturning rulings by lower courts dealing with challenges to Trump administration policies — mostly with little or no explanation in its decisions.
Those judges — who all requested anonymity to speak candidly — tell Fox News those orders blocking enforcement have left the impression they are not doing their jobs or are biased against the President.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TORPEDOES SCOTUS WITH EMERGENCY REQUESTS AND SEES SURPRISING SUCCESS
President Donald Trump speaks during a White House press conference on Supreme Court rulings in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Those frustrations have spilled into open court.
«They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,» said federal appeals Judge James Wynn about the high court, during oral arguments this month over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Social Security data.
«We’re out here flailing,» said Wynn, an Obama bench appointee. «I’m not criticizing the justices. They’re using a vehicle that’s there, but they are telling us nothing. They could easily just give us direction, and we would follow it.»
Courting controversy
The president may be winning short-term victories in a court where he has appointed a third of its members, but that has not stopped him or his associates from criticizing federal judges, even calling for their removal from office when preliminary rulings have gone against the administration.
«This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!» Trump posted on social media, after a March court ruling temporarily halting the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The target of the attack was DC-based Chief Judge James Boasberg, appointed to the bench by President Obama.
Top Trump White House policy advisor Stephen Miller, in interviews, has warned against some unaccountable and «communist crazy judges» «trying to subvert the presidency.»
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
According to an analysis by Stanford University’s Adam Bonica, federal district judges ruled against the administration 94.3% of the time between May and June.
But the Supreme Court has in turn reversed those injunctions more than 90% of the time, giving the president temporary authority to move ahead with his sweeping reform agenda.
As for the rhetoric, the high court has walked a delicate path, reluctant to criticize Trump directly, at least for now.
«The fact that some of our public leaders are lawyers advocating or making statements challenging the rule of law tells me that, fundamentally, our law schools are failing,» said Justice Sonia Sotomayor at a recent Georgetown University Law Center event, without naming Trump by name. «Once we lose our common norms, we’ve lost the rule of law completely.»
Chief Justice John Roberts in March offered a rare public statement criticizing impeachment calls from the right.
But several federal judges who spoke to Fox News also wish Roberts would do more to assert his authority and to temper what one judge called «disturbing» rhetoric.
The U.S. Marshals Service — responsible for court security — reports more than 500 threats against federal judges since last October, more than in previous years. Law enforcement sources say that includes Boasberg, who, along with his family, has received physical threats and intimidating social media posts.
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Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist who led Turning Point USA. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
«I think it is a sign of a culture that has, where political discourse has soured beyond control,» said Justice Barrett in recent days.
«The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,» said Justice Jackson in May. «The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government.»
The administration in recent days asked Congress for $58 million more in security for executive branch officials and judges, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who led Turning Point USA.
Testy term awaits
A Fox News poll from this summer found 47% of voters approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, a 9-point jump since last year when a record low 38% approved.
«Over the past decade, public confidence in our major institutions has declined,» says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who helps conduct the Fox News survey with Democrat Chris Anderson. «The Court’s rebound could reflect its attempts to steer a middle course on politically polarizing questions or indicate an uptick in positive attitudes toward our more venerable institutions.»
Still, by more than 2-to-1, more voters think the court is too conservative (43%) than too liberal in its decisions (18%, a low), while 36% think the court’s rulings are about right. That continues a seven-year trend.
FEDERAL JUDGES ANONYMOUSLY CRITICIZE SUPREME COURT FOR OVERTURNING DECISIONS WITH EMERGENCY RULINGS
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2024. ( Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The public’s views of the court’s ability to steer clear of politics will be tested this term.
Besides the two Trump-related appeals, the justices are already scheduled to decide:
- At least two appeals involving LGBTQ+ rights: which public school sports teams transgender students can join; and state laws banning so-called «conversion therapy» for minors who may have gender identity or sexual orientation issues.
- Two election-related disputes involving partisan gerrymandering and federal campaign spending coordination that each could have major impacts on the 2026 midterms and beyond.
Precedent on a precipice
But court watchers are pointing to several hot-button pending appeals where «stare decisis» or respect for established landmark court rulings will be tested: same-sex marriage and communal school prayer.
The high court is expected to decide in coming weeks whether to put those petitions on its argument calendar, with possible rulings on the merits by June 2026.
But other cases are already awaiting a final ruling: the use of race in redistricting under the Voting Rights Act; and independent government boards.
«I think the likeliest candidates for being revisited are the ones that involve the power of the president to fire the heads of federal agencies,» said attorney Dupree. «This is an old precedent that’s been on the books really back since the New Deal, and it’s come into question in recent years. There’s been a long shadow hanging over these decisions, and I think the Supreme Court is poised to revisit those this term and in all likelihood overrule that.»
The court may have already set the stage, by using the emergency docket in recent weeks to allow Trump to temporarily fire members of several other independent federal agencies without cause. The court’s liberal wing complained that giving the president that power without explanation effectively unravels the 1935 precedent known as «Humphrey’s Executor.»
KAVANAUGH CITES 3 PRESIDENTS IN EXPLAINING SUPREME COURT’S BALLOONING EMERGENCY DOCKET
«Today’s order favors the president over our precedent,» said Justice Elena Kagan in a blistering dissent against Trump’s removal of Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board.
The court’s «impatience to get on with things — to now hand the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever) — must reveal how that eventual decision will go» on the merits, added Kagan.
Sotomayor said recent overturned precedents were «really bad» for certain groups of people.
«And that’s what’s at risk, is in each time we change precedent, we are changing the contours of a right that people thought they had,» she said this month. «Once you take that away, think of how much more is at risk later. Not just in this situation.»
The conservative justices in recent years have not been shy about revisiting cases that had been settled for decades but now have been overturned: the nationwide right to abortion, affirmative action in education and the discretionary power of federal agencies.
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Other pending issues the justices may soon be forced to confront which could upset longstanding precedent include libel lawsuits from public officials, flag burning and Ten Commandments displays in public schools.
One justice who has been more willing than his benchmates to overrule precedents may be its most influential: Justice Clarence Thomas.
«I don’t think that any of these cases that have been decided are the gospel,» Thomas said last week at a Catholic University event. If it is «totally stupid, and that’s what they’ve decided, you don’t go along with it just because it’s decided» already.
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Virginia slammed for ‘truly demonic’ election that excused political violence to spite Trump, critics say
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Many political observers nationwide equated an upset win by Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones and the Democratic ticket as a «demonic» example of the left putting politics ahead of decency.
A majority of Virginia voters ignored scandals that roiled Jones’ campaign, including his envision of murdering a top Republican lawmaker and their children, to put him in office and unseat more than a dozen GOP state delegates.
«They overlooked it because they hate Trump more than they care about what … the Virginia attorney general[-elect] said,» Outkick founder Clay Travis told Fox News on Wednesday.
«Miyares did an incredible job. This is an example of outrage at Trump motivating the turnout,» Travis said on «America’s Newsroom.»
LIBERAL MEDIA DOWNPLAYS SCANDAL OF DEM VIRGINIA AG HOPEFUL JAY JONES’ TEXTS FANTASIZING MURDER OF GOP LAWMAKER
President Trump juxtaposed next to Jay Jones, Democratic nominee for Virginia Attorney General. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, Pool)
Travis said Trump was clearly a driving force and that there were some Spanberger voters who split tickets in favor of outgoing Attorney General Jason Miyares, but that Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ losing margin was too much in an era of rare ticket-splitting.
He said one key observation is that Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger received 600,000 fewer total votes than Trump himself did in the president’s losing battle in Virginia one year prior.
When Trump is off the ballot, Republicans also don’t appear to turn out to vote, he said – as figures from heavily conservative southwestern Virginia bore that out Tuesday night.
JAY JONES INVOKES TRUMP NEARLY 50 TIMES DURING VIRGINIA AG DEBATE, TIES MIYARES TO ‘MAGA’
WTAR radio host Kerry Dougherty, who co-hosts an AM dial show in Hampton, wrote on X that Virginia needs to «buckle up.»
«Democrats last night installed a deranged sociopath in the attorney general’s office. A man who may find his law license suspended over chicanery with community service hours. Yep, they preferred him to a moderate, smart and successful Republican. We’re in deep trouble.»
Elsewhere, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, argued that the political left shows little concern for victims of political violence, calling Jones’ victory the latest proof.
«A deranged lib murders Charlie Kirk, and Democrats respond by electing a sociopath who – in his own words – wants his political opponents and their children dead. Truly demonic,» Gill, wrote on X.
«Truly evil,» added Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS HAVE A VIOLENCE PROBLEM
A text message from Jay Jones to Del. Carrie Coyner. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
Uthmeier tried to help Miyares in the closing days of the race, appearing with him, Earle-Sears and now-outgoing Dels. Geary Higgins, R-Lovettsville, and Ian Lovejoy, R-Warrenton, at a closing-days rally in New Baltimore.
Virginia Republican voters were also vocal the morning after – as one wrote that it’s clear his neighbors would be alright if he was dead.
«At least I now know that all of my neighbors with Jay Jones signs up are okay with political violence,» the voter wrote on X.
SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AFTER DISGRACED DEM NOMINEE LEANS ON TRUMP ATTACKS IN VIRGINIA AG DEBATE
«I can no longer in good conscience be associated with them. They obviously want me dead too.»
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson played out the scenario such Jones voters may have thought through before voting:
«Democrats in Virginia saw these texts from Jay Jones and decided ‘yup, he has my vote’,» Johnson said.
JAY JONES’ ‘TWO BULLETS’ SCANDAL OVER VIOLENT TEXTS EXPECTED TO DOMINATE VIRGINIA AG DEBATE
«Truly evil. You can’t live in a country with people that want you dead.»
Jack Posobiec, a conservative commentator and editor at Human Events, responded to Jones’ post-scandal win with his own recollection of political violence:
«I saw a leftist murder Charlie Kirk and I saw them celebrate it,» Posobiec said.
«While conservatives have spent the last few weeks arguing with each other, Democrats just elected an Attorney General who openly fantasizes about murdering us and watching our children die in our arms,» added commentator Matt Walsh.
«These people are the enemy. What more do you need to see? Seriously. What more do you need to see?»
«Ruthless» podcast producer Leigh Wolf wrote on X that the election results in Virginia are the «first empirical evidence» in the public sphere that proves Democrats writ-large support political violence as a tool to achieve power.
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«They saw with their own eyes this absolute psycho go into graphic detail about the need to murder children as a means of achieving political outcomes, and they voted yes,» Wolf said.
«You can’t hand wave away violence as the actions of a few fringe radicals when you affirmatively vote in favor of those tactics.»
In their responses to Jones’ victory, voices on the left steered clear of the question of condoning violence, including one of the attorney general-elect’s top backers, Senate President L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth.
Lucas posted a clip drawn from Fox News video of Jones greeting voters in Norfolk, which an official at the Republican Attorney General’s Assocation trimmed down to show the Democrat appearing to try to kick a dog in a potentially playful manner.
Lucas re-envisioned that clip as a GIF of Jones making the kicking motion toward the dog – but instead hitting Attorney General Jason Miyares, whose avatar went flying upward toward the sky.
Elsewhere, Democratic state Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton commented that Democrats wins instead showed that her party won because «Republicans cannot govern, do their jobs and would rather shut the government down than feed people or provide them health care.»
«And, Trump, you were on the ballot. Maybe not literally, but your failed policies were,» Locke said. «Voters told you how they felt about those failures. Your efforts to distract, distort, discourage, discredit, and destroy this country has Virginians and citizens all over America fighting back. This is just the beginning.»
Anti-Trump commentator Tim Miller also commented on X about those observers expressing fears as some conservatives have.
After conservative commentator Megyn Kelly said that «God save Republicans and their children in VA,» Miller called it «the first known case of Spanberger Derangement Syndrome.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi for her view on whether Jones’ election and that of Democrats writ large should be connected with a passivity toward political violence.
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Kristi Noem se reunió con el presidente Daniel Noboa para evaluar las capacidades de la antigua base militar de EEUU en Ecuador
La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Kristi Noem, se reunió este miércoles en la ciudad costera de Manta con el presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, para evaluar las capacidades de la antigua base militar local, utilizada por fuerzas estadounidenses entre 1999 y 2009, informó la ministra de Relaciones Exteriores ecuatoriana, Gabriela Sommerfeld.
“Hemos visitado la base de Manta junto al presidente y realizado un recorrido para conocer sus capacidades operativas, las condiciones de sus instalaciones, la ficha técnica de las pistas y el tipo de aeronaves que pueden operar allí”, detalló la funcionaria en un video difundido por la Cancillería.
Por su parte, la portavoz Carolina Jaramillo calificó la visita como parte del proceso de fortalecimiento de la cooperación bilateral en seguridad, migración y desarrollo.
La funcionaria estadounidense Noem llegó este miércoles a la Base Aérea Eloy Alfaro de Manta, ciudad considerada estratégica y que podría albergar “bases potenciales” para operaciones conjuntas con agencias estadounidenses, según detalló Jaramillo, en conferencia de prensa en Quito.
La visita se enmarca en el próximo referéndum nacional, programado para el 16 de noviembre, en el que los ecuatorianos decidirán, entre otras cuestiones, si permiten nuevamente la instalación de bases militares extranjeras en el país. Estados Unidos expresó su interés en este tema.
En la visita también participaron los ministros ecuatorianos del Interior, John Reimberg, y el de Defensa, Gian Carlo Loffredo. Este último destacó que la cooperación giró en torno a recursos y equipos tecnológicos: “Aunque las fuerzas de seguridad ejecutan las operaciones, son los recursos tecnológicos los que permiten identificar amenazas en zonas extensas como el territorio marítimo ecuatoriano”.
Loffredo afirmó además que la lucha contra el narcotráfico trasciende fronteras y requiere estrategias integradas. Reimberg insistió en la prioridad del gobierno de Noboa de combatir el crimen organizado y consideró clave “escoger aliados en esta lucha” con las organizaciones criminales.
El jueves, Noem tiene programada una visita a una base militar en Salinas, en la costa suroeste de Ecuador. Durante una década, Manta funcionó como centro de operaciones de aeronaves estadounidenses para vuelos antidrogas, hasta que la constitución de 2008 prohibió las bases extranjeras en territorio ecuatoriano.
Salinas, por su parte, sirvió como base militar estadounidense durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Actualmente, ambas instalaciones están bajo control de las fuerzas armadas ecuatorianas.
El presidente Daniel Noboa anunció la semana pasada que Ecuador y Estados Unidos descartaron la instalación de una base militar estadounidense en Galápagos en el marco de la estrategia antidrogas de Washington.
Si el referéndum es aprobado por la ciudadanía, las agencias de seguridad y defensa de Estados Unidos podrán operar en conjunto con las fuerzas policiales y militares ecuatorianas en las bases habilitadas para combatir el crimen organizado, confirmó la vocera ecuatoriana Jaramillo.
La ola de violencia en Ecuador, agravada en 2025, se atribuye al avance de bandas criminales vinculadas al narcotráfico, la extorsión y la minería ilegal. El presidente Noboa, quien declaró un “conflicto armado interno” en enero de 2024, calificó a estas estructuras como “terroristas”. Solo en el primer semestre de 2025, el país registró 4.619 homicidios, un 47% más que en igual periodo de 2024.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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El saldo para los montañistas europeos en las altas cumbres de Asia continúa en negativo este año: en las últimas horas, las autoridades de Nepal comunicaron que siete escaladores italianos permanecen desaparecidos desde el lunes, mientras que otros tres resultaron fallecidos el viernes, debido a dos avalanchas en alta montaña, en un pico del Himalaya. Según informaron fuentes de ambas cancillerías (la de Nepal y la de Italia), la búsqueda se reanudará este jueves, en medio de condiciones climáticas adversas.
Todo comenzó el viernes en el pico Panbari Himal, de 6.887 metros de altitud, en el Himalaya nepalí. Una avalancha repentina comprometió gravemente la travesía de dos montañistas italianos, que quedaron sepultados bajo la nieve y este martes fueron decretaros fallecidos. Se trata de Alessandro Caputo, de 28 años, milanés e instructor de ski; y de Stefano Farronato, de 50 años, un horticultor de Bassano del Grappa (un pueblo cercano a Venecia).
El lunes por la mañana, en otro pico del Himalaya, el Yalung Ri (5.630 mts), otra avalancha sepultó el campamento de otro italiano, Paolo Cocco, un fotógrafo oriundo de Fara San Martino (Chieti, centro de Italia). También fue declarado fallecido por las autoridades nepalíes y las italianas, junto con Caputo y Farronato, dado que sus cuerpos fueron recuperados: el de Cocco ya fue trasladado hacia un hospital para extranjeros, mientras que los de los dos primeros fueron recuperados en el pico Manaslu, la octava montaña más alta del mundo, de la que el Panbari Himal es parte, y ya se encuentran en Katmandú, la capital de Nepal, para luego ser repatriados.
Un tercer miembro del equipo de Caputo y Farronaro, Valter Perlino, de 64 años y veterinario de profesión, oriundo de Pinerolo (un suburbio de Turín), sobrevivió a la avalancha del viernes y permaneció en el campamento, debido a que se encontraba lesionado en un pie. Fue él quien pudo dar aviso a los rescatistas. «Aquí, cada metro ganado es fruto de la fuerza, la experiencia y el respeto por la montaña», fue el último mensaje que había podido transmitir el grupo.
Otra fue la suerte de quienes acompañaban a Cocco el lunes, cuando la avalancha en el Yalung Ri los sorprendió. Desde entonces se busca a Marco Di Marcello, biólogo y guía de montaña de 37 años originario de la región de los Abruzos, y a Markus Kirchler, otro italiano del grupo.
Este miércoles, las autoridades deslizaron que ambos tienen pocas posibilidades de sobrevivir, debido a las difíciles condiciones climáticas en la zona de alta montaña donde la avalancha los afectó. La luz de esperanza es que, según trascendió de fuentes oficiales, el GPS de Di Marcello continúa emitiendo señal cada cuatro horas.
A su vez, hay otros cinco italianos a quienes la Farnesina (la casa de Asuntos Exteriores de Italia) no considera desaparecidos pero son intensamente buscados. Se trata de un grupo que perdió el contacto por radio con el operador que les prestaba asistencia, pero este miércoles la Farnesina aseguró, mediante el cónsul italiano en Calcuta (India, pero con competencia en Nepal), Riccardo Dalla Costa, que se retomarán el jueves los esfuerzos por encontrarlos.
Se trata de cinco italianos de la provincia de Como (Lombardía, norte de Italia), que viajaron a Nepal con una agencia con sede en Milán. Entre sus planes declarados se incluía una excursión al Campo Base del Makalu, al oeste del valle del Khumbu, una zona distinta a donde se produjeron los accidentes causados por avalanchas y fuertes nevadas que costaron la vida a sus compatriotas. Se estima que están a 4.800 metros de altitud, aproximadamente.
Mientras tanto, las condiciones climáticas arrecian en el Himalaya nepalí, situación a la que se vinculan las avalanchas. Las labores de rescate se ven extremadamente dificultadas por el mal tiempo, que ha anegado las zonas donde deben realizarse los rescates.
En tanto, el martes por la mañana, cuatro personas heridas —dos alpinistas franceses y dos sherpas nepaleses— fueron evacuadas y trasladadas a Katmandú para recibir tratamiento médico. Entre ellas se encuentran Carole Fuchs, maratonista francesa; Chhulthim Dolma Gurung, actriz y modelo nepalesa; y Raj Gurung, empresario local.
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