Un accidente aéreo ocurrido este sábado en la finca Sevilla, ubicada en la aldea Obero, jurisdicción de Masagua, Escuintla, Guatemala, dejó como saldo el fallecimiento del piloto de una aeronave utilizada para labores de fumigación agrícola.

De acuerdo con el reporte de los Bomberos Voluntarios de la 9na compañía, la emergencia fue reportada aproximadamente a las 9:00 a.m. (hora local), lo que generó una movilización inmediata hacia el kilómetro 94, en el interior de la finca Sevilla. Al llegar al lugar, los socorristas procedieron a la evaluación del piloto de la aeronave, quien lamentablemente ya no presentaba signos vitales.

La aeronave siniestrada, una Thursh con matrícula TG-BUA, se encontraba realizando labores de fumigación en la fase de aspersión cuando se produjo el desplome. El impacto fue de tal magnitud que no permitió maniobras de rescate, confirmando el fallecimiento del único tripulante.

Horas más tarde, en un comunicado de prensa, la Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC) informó que, tras ser alertados del accidente, se comisionó de inmediato a un equipo de investigadores para proceder con el análisis de la escena y la recopilación de indicios que permitan determinar las causas del siniestro.

La DGAC detalló que el piloto fallecido fue identificado como Luis Guillermo Jurado Muñoz, quien se encontraba cumpliendo su labor profesional al momento del accidente.

En su nota, la DGAC expresó sus condolencias a los familiares, amigos y personas allegadas al piloto aviador. El texto, emitido desde la entidad, destaca la dedicación y el compromiso de Muñoz, señalando que se une al duelo y al dolor de quienes lo conocieron.

“La DGAC expresa sus más sinceras condolencias a la familia, amigos y seres queridos del Piloto Aviador Luis Guillermo Jurado Muñoz, y se une al dolor de todos quienes lo conocieron. En este momento de profunda tristeza, manifestamos nuestra solidaridad con ellos ante esta irreparable pérdida”, señala el comunicado oficial.

La investigación sobre las causas del desplome está a cargo del equipo especializado de la DGAC, que ha iniciado el proceso de recopilación de datos técnicos y testimonios en el sitio del accidente.

Según la información preliminar, la aeronave cumplía una ruta de aspersión agrícola cuando se precipitó a tierra, sin que hasta el momento se hayan determinado las circunstancias exactas que originaron el incidente.

El accidente ha puesto en alerta a las autoridades de aviación civil, que reiteraron su compromiso con la seguridad operacional y la revisión de los procedimientos para prevenir incidentes similares en el futuro.

Este accidente representa una pérdida irreparable para la aviación y deja en evidencia los riesgos a los que se enfrentan los pilotos en el ejercicio de sus funciones diarias.

A los pronunciamientos oficiales se sumó un mensaje publicado por la Aviación Agrícola Guatemalteca, acompañado de un video en homenaje.

“Un piloto no muere, solo emprende su último vuelo. Gracias por tanto, por tu entrega al campo y por tu pasión en el aire. Descansa en paz Wichin”, señala la publicación, reflejando el reconocimiento y la tristeza de quienes compartieron con él su vocación y trabajo.

A day after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced she had directed her office to close its investigation into the Federal Reserve over a building project, President Donald Trump said he wants to know what happened.

«Well, I want to find out,» the president told reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Saturday, after a journalist asked if he agreed with Pirro’s decision.

«You know, it’s not dropped,» he continued. «They’re looking into the whole thing about the crisis. What I want, with the IG, what I want to look at is how can a building that I could have done for $25 million cost $4 billion? That’s a big thing.»

Trump also mentioned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying, «he was in charge.»

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«So we’ll get to the bottom of it,» he added. «Yeah, I think Jeanine is fantastic. And she worked with other people on that. I tell you, I want to find out, I have an obligation to find that — this was done during Biden, but I have an obligation to find out how does it — I would have done that building for $25 million and had money left over. And it would have been open a long time ago.»

The Fed had an approved budget of $2.46 billion for the renovations, but went over budget because of things like more asbestos than expected and costs going up during the course of the renovation, the Fed says on its website.

Pirro said Friday the Fed’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, would take over the investigation, moving it from the hands of federal prosecutors into those of a longtime government watchdog.

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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced her office was closing the investigation into the Federal Reserve on Friday. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)

Powell was under investigation over statements he made to Congress related to the management of the renovation costs.

Powell revealed in a video announcement in January that the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into the Fed, calling it an unprecedented attempt to use «intimidation» to force him to lower interest rates.

In the lead-up to the investigation, Trump and Powell’s relationship had grown increasingly rocky, as Trump became frustrated over interest rates and began targeting Powell, whom he nominated in 2017. Trump called Powell a «fool» and demanded in March that he drop rates «immediately.»

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who has a background in finance and sits on the Senate Banking Committee, had vowed to block Kevin Warsh’s confirmation because of the DOJ’s investigation, after Trump nominated Warsh to replace Powell, whose term was set to expire on May 15.

Tillis had claimed the DOJ’s investigation was political and would improperly interfere with markets, and he accused Pirro of seeking «brownie points» with Trump by opening it. «It’s not cute,» Tillis said during a television interview in February.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in January claimed the investigation was political. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

During his confirmation hearing this week, Tillis told Warsh, who previously served on the Fed’s Board of Governors, that he had «extraordinary credentials» but that he could not vote to advance his nomination in the Senate until the DOJ ended its investigation.

Horowitz, who will now investigate the Fed building renovation costs, has drawn a mix of praise and criticism from Republicans while serving as DOJ inspector general for more than a decade. He was one of the few high-profile inspectors general spared during Trump’s historic cull of government watchdogs last year and has found allyship in key figures like House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Pirro closing the investigation could pave the way for Warsh’s nomination.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., says he couldn’t vote to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination to head the Federal Reserve in the Senate until the DOJ ended its investigation. (Al Drago/Bloomberg)

Trump said he wanted to see the investigation through «for the country.»

«It’s much tougher, much more expensive to build a hotel than an office,» the president said, mentioning his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., that he sold in 2022 and was renamed the Waldorf Astoria.

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He continued, «I want to find out how can a building of that size cost for whatever it’s going to be. Nobody knows, by the way, what it’s going to be. Kevin is going to be fantastic. Kevin Warsh, he may never get to be in that building.»

Trump told reporters that his nomination should now going smoothly, «but whether it is or not, somebody has to find out why that building that should have cost $25 million is costing billions of dollars. And you know why they have to find it out? For other buildings, because that’s not the only one. I think that’s the most egregious example.»

Fox News’ Ashley Oliver and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.

Days after Iran’s leadership projected a unified front, undermining the long-cited moderate-vs.-hardliner divide, President Donald Trump canceled planned talks with Tehran in Islamabad, Pakistan, citing «infighting and confusion» inside the regime.

Iranian-American experts argue that social media posts from Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian and other key officials reveal that the «good cop, bad cop» tactic that the regime exploited to deceive adversaries and secure generous concessions in nuclear negotiations has collapsed.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump announced he canceled the trip, citing «too much time wasted on traveling» and «too much work!»

«Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership,’» the president added, noting «nobody knows who is in charge, including them.»

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«Also, we have all the cards, they have none!» Trump wrote. «If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!»

The implosion of the hardline-moderate dichotomy within the regime could have profound consequences for Trump’s approach to the atomic talks in Islamabad, experts said. Trump appeared to allude to a blurry divide between factions within Iran last week.

«Iran is having a very hard time figuring out who their leader is! They just don’t know! The infighting is between the ‘Hardliners,’ who have been losing BADLY on the battlefield, and the ‘Moderates,’ who are not very moderate at all (but gaining respect!), and it is CRAZY!» Trump wrote in an X post Thursday.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of Iran and second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA/Reuters)

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei quickly fired back, claiming «due to the strange unity created among compatriots, a fracture has occurred in the enemy.»

«With practical gratitude for this blessing, cohesion has become even greater and more steel-like, and the enemies will become more wretched and diminished,» Khamenei wrote in a reply. «The enemy’s media operations, by targeting the minds and psyches of the people, intend to undermine national unity and security; may our negligence not allow this sinister intent to come to fruition.»

Mariam Memarsadeghi, a senior fellow at The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and founder and director of the Cyrus Forum for Iran’s Future, told Fox News Digital the Islamic Republic has, for decades, fooled Western policymakers by sending moderates to negotiations as a «window dressing for its terror and subjugation.»

A poster of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is pasted on a motorcycle windshield as government supporters gather in Tehran on April 9, 2026, marking the 40th day since the killing of his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

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The officials would then tell their counterparts that they are under pressure from hardliners, implying that the West must make concessions to strengthen them internally.

«Because of the war, the Trump administration is in a remarkably advantageous situation vis-à-vis the imperial terror state, one never before attempted, much less achieved,» Memarsadeghi said. «But every time Trump says regime change has already happened, he denies America the opportunity to finally, truly be rid of the world’s top sponsor of terror and the existential threat it poses not just to the people of Iran but to all the world.»

Navid Mohebbi, who worked as a Persian media analyst for the State Department’s Public Affairs Bureau, cautioned that while rivalries and factions do exist within the Islamic Republic, they are united on the regime’s core principles.

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«Their disagreements are primarily over tactics, not fundamental direction,» Mohebbi told Fox News Digital, stressing that real decision-making power in Iran has always rested with the supreme leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

«So-called moderates have never had the final say on key strategic issues and are often used to soften the regime’s image abroad,» he said. «From the perspective of the Iranian people, there has been little difference. Across administrations labeled ‘moderate’ or ‘hardline,’ the system has consistently relied on repression.»

Mohebbi cited the example of Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani, who presented himself as a moderate, but whose security forces violently killed 1,500 protesters during the November 2019 uprising.

Members of security forces watch over the crowd during a funeral procession for IRGC Navy Chief Alireza Tangsiri and other senior naval commanders killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes in late March in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2026. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

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«The same pattern has continued under Masoud Pezeshkian in the January 2026 protest massacre, reinforcing the reality that these labels have not translated into meaningful change on the ground,» he said.

A regional official, however, insisted there are clashes between moderates and hardliners in Iran. The official told Fox News Digital that Pezeshkian is a moderate, but he «could not even make good on his campaign promise regarding internet freedom. To be honest, he’s not even been able to do s—.»

«The joint reaction by the heads of the three branches of power was in response to Trump’s reference to the issue of rift, and also to the fact that there are indeed hardliners and moderates,» the official added. «Look, whenever Iran wants to make concessions, they throw moderates under the bus so that the moderates make a deal, and then, the hardliners blame them for the same concessions all of them had agreed to make.»

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Lawdan Bazargan, who was imprisoned by the Islamic Republic in the 1980s for her political dissident activities, told Fox News Digital that what officials are seeing now is not the disappearance of the divide, but the exposure of what that divide actually was.

«In reality, all of these figures — Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf [speaker of Iran’s parliament], Saeed Jalili [member of the Expediency Discernment Council], Pezeshkian, Ahmad Vahidi [head of the IRGC], Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei [head of Iran’s judiciary] — operate within the same ideological framework,» Bazargan said. «They are all committed to the preservation of the system, the projection of power in the region, and confrontation with what they define as ‘the forces of evil,’ namely the United States and Israel.»