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SCOTUS detention fight could unleash dangerous criminal migrants onto US streets, experts warns
A Supreme Court battle over whether certain noncitizens with criminal records are entitled to bond hearings during lengthy deportation proceedings could become a public safety concern by making it harder for the federal government to keep some detainees behind bars, legal experts warn.
The Trump administration is asking the justices to take up Genalo v. D.C., a case involving a Dominican citizen with four criminal convictions who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while fighting removal.
The dispute centers on a Second Circuit precedent requiring a bond hearing when mandatory immigration detention becomes «unreasonably prolonged.» At that hearing, the government must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the detainee poses a flight risk or danger to the community.
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Chad Mizelle, chair of litigation at the America First Policy Institute and a former acting associate attorney general and Justice Department chief of staff, told Digital the implications extend beyond immigration law.
«We are talking about criminal aliens here,» Mizelle said. «Those are individuals who have been accused of or convicted of an aggravated felony. Accused or convicted of murder. Accused or convicted of child rape. Accused or convicted of grievous harm upon another human being.»
«So these are the worst of the worst individuals,» Mizelle continued. «Do we want those individuals walking the streets, re-committing, harming other individuals?»
Mizelle argued Congress imposed mandatory detention on certain noncitizens with criminal records to keep them detained during removal proceedings, while the Second Circuit’s prolonged-detention rule could incentivize some detainees to drag out their cases long enough to seek bond.
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The man at the center of the administration’s latest petition, identified in court papers as D.C., is a 62-year-old Dominican citizen who illegally entered the United States and has four criminal convictions, according to court records.
In 1997, D.C. was charged with multiple drug offenses, including selling and possessing a controlled substance. He failed to appear for trial, was convicted by a jury and sentenced in absentia to three to nine years in prison, but did not serve that sentence until 2024. In 2007, he was charged with possessing a forged instrument after presenting false identification to police and again failed to appear in court.
In 2016, D.C. faced several charges stemming from a domestic dispute, including second-degree strangulation, third-degree assault and acting in a manner to injure a child under 17. He pleaded guilty to criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation and also resolved his earlier forged-instrument case with a guilty plea. Later that year, he pleaded guilty to criminal contempt.
D.C. was finally arrested on the outstanding warrant from his 1998 drug conviction in April 2024. After completing his state sentence in September 2025, ICE immediately detained him while his removal proceedings continued.
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The district court subsequently ordered that D.C. receive a bond hearing under binding Second Circuit precedent but denied his separate request for immediate release. The government is now asking the Supreme Court to take the case before the Second Circuit itself rules — an unusual procedure known as certiorari before judgment.
The administration turned to D.C.’s case after two other noncitizens at the center of the same legal fight saw their cases become moot.
One, Carol Williams Black, had been detained for roughly seven months. His case became moot after he received a final order of removal and permanently left the United States. Black was convicted of sexually abusing a child in 2000. The Supreme Court therefore granted review in June only as to the second detainee, G.M.
G.M., a lawful permanent resident from the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in May 2015 after being accused of attacking and robbing a man during a 2012 incident in New York City. He was sentenced to two years in prison and was released early on parole in December 2016 after serving 19 months. ICE arrested G.M. at his home on Oct. 5, 2020, and detained him for 21 months without a bond hearing while removal proceedings continued.
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The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear his case Oct. 13. But in late August, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul granted G.M. a full and unconditional pardon for the assault conviction that had formed the basis for his deportation proceedings and mandatory detention. Solicitor General John Sauer agreed the case was moot, and the Supreme Court dismissed it Sept. 11 without ruling on the merits.
The administration then identified D.C. as its replacement vehicle and asked the justices to hear the same constitutional questions this term.
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Carrie Severino, president of Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), said the dispute is likely to affect many similar immigration cases nationwide.
«This is not a question that’s only going to affect D.C., the criminal Dominican national at issue in this case,» Severino told Digital. «This is an issue that’s going to affect criminal aliens across the country.»
A victory by D.C. would impose new hurdles on the government, including additional hearings and use of resources, Severino said.
«As we know, immigration cases, skipping out on showing up for court dates is incredibly common,» she added. «This is not something that I think the court ought to be granting on a regular basis that they’d be letting people out on bond simply on their word that they’re going to be coming back when they know that they are likely to be removed.»
The case also raises questions about who must prove whether continued detention is necessary. The Second Circuit ruled that the government must prove by clear and convincing evidence that a detainee should remain in custody.
«And so, if the Supreme Court winds up affirming what the Second Circuit held, that means it’s going to be harder for the government to be able to detain this particular population of criminal aliens or terrorism-linked aliens,» Florida State University law professor Michael Morley told Digital. «There are going to be situations where the government is not able to show that a particular person is either likely to flee or poses a risk of danger and this dangerousness by a heightened or clear and convincing standard.»
«It means that these criminal aliens who are already subject to removal proceedings are more likely to be released into the community while those underlying removal proceedings continue to make their way slowly through the adjudicative process,» Morley continued.
The Supreme Court has not yet agreed to hear D.C.’s case.
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Lawmakers have escalated their probe of three nonprofits linked to Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham’s funding network, warning that their leaders — and even Singham himself — could be hauled before Congress to answer questions under oath unless they comply with subpoenas by Tuesday.
In new letters announced this week, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee renewed its demands for financial records and other documents as lawmakers investigate whether millions of dollars flowing through Singham’s network of tax-exempt nonprofits are being used to advance Chinese Communist Party interests in the United States.
Singham himself is among 21 individuals identified by the committee for potential questioning under oath, according to Digital sources. The list includes nonprofit executives, activists and journalists associated with the three organizations.
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The letters were sent to The People’s Forum Inc., a New York City-based activist hub; BreakThrough News, a left-wing nonprofit media outlet that shares a Manhattan address with The People’s Forum; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a Massachusetts-based Marxist think tank.
«Shanghai Singham has poured millions of dollars into these groups to take advantage of America’s nonprofit sector and promote Chinese Communist Party propaganda. That much is public. What these groups are fighting to keep hidden is even more concerning,» Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said in a statement.
«Either these organizations turn over the documents, or their leaders will answer the Committee’s questions under oath.»
The threatened depositions mark another escalation in a dispute that began with requests for financial records in 2025 and intensified when the committee subpoenaed the three nonprofits in July.
The organizations have challenged the investigation, arguing lawmakers are targeting their political views and First Amendment-protected activities.
The potential deposition targets include eight individuals at The People’s Forum, seven at BreakThrough News and six at Tricontinental.
Among those named are The People’s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos, education director Layan Fuleihan and organizing director David Chung; BreakThrough News editor-in-chief Ben Becker, news director Zoe Alexandra and chief correspondent Rania Khalek; and Tricontinental executive director Vijay Prashad and Singham, who is listed as chairman of its international advisory board.
The committee has not publicly announced that deposition subpoenas have been issued to any of the individuals.
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The panel alleges that Singham channeled money through shell companies and donor-advised funds before it reached the three tax-exempt groups. Such arrangements, the committee said, can allow foreign-linked funding to pass through intermediaries that «by design, obscure the original source of the contribution.»
Singham is an American-born technology tycoon and longtime Marxist activist who sold his software company, ThoughtWorks, for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai.
Digital previously traced at least $278 million from Singham into six core U.S. nonprofits that served as funding hubs within a broader international network of activist groups, media organizations and think tanks promoting socialist, communist and pro-China causes.
Of that funding, the investigation found $22.44 million flowed to The People’s Forum, $16.76 million to Tricontinental and $1.098 million to BreakThrough BT Media Inc., the parent organization of BreakThrough News. Together, the three received approximately $40.3 million, according to the investigation, which the committee cited in its earlier correspondence.
The committee says it is examining whether existing tax laws adequately protect against foreign influence in the nonprofit sector and whether Congress should strengthen those laws.
Separately, Singham is under federal grand jury investigation in the Southern District of New York over alleged financial crimes involving his nonprofit funding network, as previously reported by Digital. The investigation is examining possible wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and other financial offenses. No criminal charges against Singham have been announced.
BreakThrough News condemned the latest demands in an Oct. 9 statement on its website, accusing the committee of targeting its journalists because of their political views. The outlet said it receives no outside editorial direction and that its major donations come from U.S. organizations.
During an episode of its BT Live program, hosts Alexandra and Khalek, both named among those facing potential depositions, denounced the committee’s demands.
«Unless BT gives up its legal rights, including our First Amendment protections, he’ll subpoena each of us individually and drag us to Washington for depositions,» Alexandra said.
Khalek accused lawmakers of targeting journalists personally after the outlet challenged earlier demands.
«They will come after us individually if we don’t comply with their unconstitutional demands,» she said.
BreakThrough News also urged supporters to sign a petition opposing the investigation and donate to help cover its legal expenses.
Digital contacted all three organizations and their attorneys for comment on the latest demands but had not received a response as of publication.
The investigation has also drawn accusations of McCarthyism from prominent left-wing figures, including Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who called the July subpoenas «the McCarthy trials» and warned, «They will come for you,» and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who described them as a «terrible attack on independent journalism.»
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The committee first sought records from The People’s Forum in September 2025 and expanded its investigation to BreakThrough News and Tricontinental in February 2026. After the organizations challenged the requests, lawmakers narrowed their demands in May before issuing subpoenas in July.
The committee sought records involving foreign-linked funding, financial arrangements, communications with Singham and other foreign interests, and information about donors and overseas grants.
Attorneys for BreakThrough News and The People’s Forum formally objected in August, arguing the subpoenas violated First Amendment protections and demanded information beyond the committee’s legitimate legislative authority.
«A witch-hunt is not a valid legislative purpose,» the attorneys wrote in their Aug. 7 responses, comparing the investigation to the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigations of suspected communist influence during the 1940s and 1950s.
The organizations also accused lawmakers of repeatedly changing the stated purpose of the investigation as they challenged earlier requests. Both left open the possibility of responding if the committee narrowed or revised its demands.
The committee rejected those arguments, maintaining that its investigation concerns the organizations’ finances and structure rather than their political views or journalism.
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European Parliament votes to confront Muslim Brotherhood, ‘Islamist entryism’ in overwhelming vote
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Following the sanctioning of foreign Muslim Brotherhood groups by the Trump administration, the European Parliament recently took its own action against the transnational radical Islamist group.
As Europe begins to respond to the threat of radical Islam across the continent, an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted for a resolution that condemned the Muslim Brotherhood and its actions.
European Parliament member Céline Imart of France, who sponsored the resolution, called the vote «a historic victory because it is a European first. For the first time, Europe has voted on a text that tackles Islamist entryism and the Muslim Brotherhood.»
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MEP Céline Imart at European Parliament session confronting the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist entryism for the first time on Oct. 7 (Jeremy Baumert / European Parliament )
Imart posted on X that she had «broken a taboo that Europe has been dragging around like a chain: this victory signifies a major doctrinal shift in the institutions… We were able to transcend partisan divides on a major issue for our societies and our youth.»
Lorenzo Vidino, director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that, «This is something that the French and the Austrian governments have been pushing for almost a decade,» noting a growing consensus across Europe that wants action.
Protesters attend an anti-Israel demonstration in Leipzig, Germany Jan. 17, 2026. (Christian Mang/Reuters)
The resolution was led by the European People’s Party, or EPP, a center-right coalition that is the largest group in the European Parliament. «The voting does reflect a gap between the right and the left,» said Vidino, «with the right voting almost entirely in favor of the resolution, and a good part of the left, although with some notable exceptions, voting against it.»
As part of her post on X, Imart made it a point to thank «the negotiators from the other groups with whom I had the pleasure of working – excluding the socialists and the far left, who boycotted the text.»
Vidino said, «The Brotherhood remains something that is seen through the political lenses of our own political debates, where it shouldn’t be… because it’s a challenge to our societies.»
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A press release on the resolution issued by the European Parliament’s news website stated that Islamist entryism targets «democratic institutions, the rule of law, equality between women and men and fundamental freedoms.» It stressed that Muslim citizens must be protected from discrimination as «a democratic obligation,» while «warning against treating organized Islamist networks as representative interlocutors.»
The release also stated, «While Europe must remain free, open and faithful to its principles, it can ‘no longer fund, consult or legitimize networks that use its language, procedures and funding to weaken its values from within,’» but «MEPs stress that anti-discrimination policies must not be used to shield Islam from criticism or legitimize organized Islamist networks.»
Flags from the 27 countries of the EU fly in the wind in front of the European Parliament on April 5, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
The resolution was slammed by ENAR, a pan-European anti-racism network, which released a statement following its passage. «ENAR condemns in the strongest possible terms the racist and Islamophobic resolution «on the need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network» proposed by the European People’s Party (EPP) and passed by the European Parliament today, including its targeting of ENAR and its members like FEMYSO through sham allegations and falsehoods seeking to associate our network with the Muslim Brotherhood. ENAR categorically rejects these claims.»
It added in part, «This resolution is a stain on the European Parliament and marks a profoundly shameful day in Europe’s history. A Parliament that should defend democracy, equality and fundamental rights has instead given institutional legitimacy to a racist politics of suspicion that casts Muslim communities, Muslim-led civil society, organizations combating Islamophobia, and those who defend their rights as inherently suspect.»
Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital «This resolution is where the pushback begins against Islamist entryism in Europe. It is admirably clearly worded. The task of converting it into binding legislation begins now and will be difficult.»
The former UK ambassador to Yemen, Fitton-Brown added, «Europe regularly imagines that «legal», «non-violent» Islamism is in conflict with, and a potential antidote to, violent Islamist terrorism. It is not, it is a gateway to it, it creates the climate for it, and the two are pursuing the same goals, only via different tactics.»
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He added, «Europe fails to prioritize subversion as a threat, whereas during the Cold War it understood that threat and took serious measures to counter it. Europe also seeks to appease Islamist entryism by adopting hostile policies towards Israel, and sometimes by passing blasphemy-adjacent and anti-«Islamophobia» laws, thinking they are protecting the Muslim community. In fact, the main victims of these laws are liberal Muslims trying to escape the confines of their community and enjoy Western freedoms.»
Asked about the differences between Europe and the U.S. approach to the Brotherhood, Vidino said the European way is «a bit more nuanced» than that of the U.S., where the Trump administration has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and 4 of its branches as terrorist organizations. He says Europe sees the Muslim Brotherhood «mostly through the lenses of entryism, of subversion, of a group that destroys the fabrics of society… a matter of a threat to democracy, but a lot of the activities of the Brotherhood might be legal if taken individually.»
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European flags fly outside the European Parliament on Feb. 7, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)
While noting that numerous security services across Europe have been warning about the Muslim Brotherhood for some time, Vidino says the resolution «sets the tone. It gives a political push,» suggesting agencies and governments «might feel more legitimized in seeing the Brotherhood in negative ways.»
«I’m a bit skeptical on whether this resolution would have a major tangible impact,» Vidino added. «Islamist groups are very good at camouflaging their activities.» While there is «no organization that calls itself Muslim Brotherhood in Europe,» he said if and when funding is pulled from an Islamist organization by the EU, «They will make a fuss… They fight back. They have an ability to also leverage what could be a crisis, but turn it to their advantage by playing the victim card and the Islamophobia card.»
A man is led by two federal police officers to two waiting emergency vehicles. The Federal Public Prosecutor General had three suspected members of the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas arrested. The men will be brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in Oct, 2 2025. (Philipp von Ditfurth/Picture Alliance via Getty Images.)
As part of the resolution, the European Council was asked to assess whether entities or individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood should be added to the EU list of terrorist organizations. It called for full traceability of EU funding and a European Commission overview of EU funds awarded to people or entities suspected of links to the Muslim Brotherhood or political Islam.
It also welcomed initiatives by member states to draw up national lists of hate preachers and calls for the establishment of such a list at EU level, while also calling for stronger scrutiny of foreign funding and transnational partnerships, particularly involving actors linked to Qatar or Turkey and greater use of Schengen tools and EU databases.
«This vote is a victory, but it is also a starting point,» Imart said. «The Commission and the Council must now take action, and I will make sure they do.»
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Adriana Riva: “No existe la madre pura, casta, buena, perfecta; cada uno hace lo que puede”
Hace dos años, frente al monitor de su computadora, Adriana Riva recibió una consigna. Desde Traslasierra, en un taller literario vía Zoom, Federico Falco le pedía un trabajo en serie. “Ahora no recuerdo específicamente, pero sí que se basaba en un artista visual que le sacaba fotos cada vez que veía en la vía pública algo amarillo”. Cuando terminó la clase, agarró Punto de fuga de David Markson, y encontró ésta frase subrayada: “Joseph Cornell vivió con su madre toda su vida”. Entonces se le ocurrió una idea.
“Tal vez podía usar el mismo dispositivo de Markson, pero a madres que yo ya venía acumulando por lecturas”, dice. A la clase siguiente del taller llevó cuatro carillas escritas. “Vi que generaba mucho entusiasmo”, recuerda. A las pocas horas ya estaba, otra vez, buceando en su biblioteca. “La maternidad es siempre el tema que me está rondando y sobre el que yo escribo”, agrega del otro lado del teléfono, en un día de lloviznas y ansiedad, como los que se apilan en las vísperas del Día de la Madre.
Efectivamente, su literatura está completamente atravesada por la maternidad: aparece en algunos de los relatos de su primer libro, Angst (2017), y es central en su novela La sal: “Es una deconstrucción del rol materno”, asegura. También aparece en Ahora sabemos esto (“es un poemario donde, con mi madre, leemos en pandemia La Odisea, y a partir de las cosas que vamos charlando surgen todos esos versos”), y en Ruth, su libro anterior, la protagonista es una viuda de 82 años con hijos ya adultos.
En Entre otras la narradora recorre la casa de su madre: la cocina, el baño, la mesa de luz. Busca cosas, hace un inventario, y naufraga en sus libretas: páginas de anotaciones diarias e inservibles, tachaduras, mandados, nombres, horarios, lugares. “Su caligrafía es apurada, calca la urgencia de la vida”, escribe. “Estoy escribiendo sobre mi madre y tengo la esperanza de que si junto suficientes notas voy a poder construir una madre”. Y más adelante: “Es más fácil reconocer las pertenencias de una madre que a una madre”.
Ese plano íntimo y enigmático se superpone con el de las citas, que funcionan como microcuentos de celebridades artísticas. Por ejemplo: “Constantino Cavafis vivió con su madre hasta que ella murió. Roland Barthes vivió con su madre hasta que ella murió. Jorge Luis Borges vivió con su madre hasta que ella murió. Nunca hay suficiente madre”. O también: “¡No lo hagas! ¡No puedes! ¡No debes!, le respondió Mary Foley a su hijo Arthur Conan Doyle, cuando le confesó que quería matar a Sherlock Holmes«.
“Cuando su hijo David murió a los 13 años, en un accidente, Margaret Ogilvy se metió en la cama y se abrazó a la ropa de bautismo de David. Su otro hijo, James Matthew Barrie, de 6, entró a la habitación en puntas de pie e intentó hacerla reír. Ese es el primer recuerdo del autor de Peter Pan sobre su madre: una sonrisa robada al llanto”, leemos, pero también: “Una madre es una complejidad de por vida. La ausencia de una madre, también. ¿Qué no voy a recordar de mi madre cuando ya no esté?»
“Mi madre leyó y le encantó. Es el que más le gustó, porque no es tan afín a la literatura. Se demoró mucho porque iba a buscar cada una de las referencias. Eso le encanta”. Adriana Riva es hija pero también madre de tres mujeres. “Me encanta el mundo femenino. Todo ese linaje materno me interesa. Tengo una debilidad por las madres de todo tipo: hay madres muy violentas y dañinas, hay madres muy amorosas, hay madres muy locas, madres depresivas. Hay para todos los gustos”, dice y se ríe.
“Siento que es una figura que le pega más a las mujeres, en el sentido de que eventualmente puede reproducir y, si una después se convierte en madre, puede replicar o no a la madre que tuvo. Cosa que un hombre no, porque no puede concebir, no tiene el órgano reproductivo de la mujer. Ahí hay algo que me interesa. Se ve siempre cuando uno charla con amigas o con hermanas o con primas: el miedo a repetir los errores y hasta dónde uno quiere parecerse a la madre que conoció”, continúa.
La fascinación de una transformación: “Cuando uno pasa de ser hija a ser madre”. Pero además: “Incluso si uno no tiene hijos, también es un vínculo que me parece muy complejo y fundacional. Además, todos tenemos una madre. No hay nadie que no tenga una madre. Aunque esté muerta, aunque no haya estado. Nadie nace de un huevo. Incluso siendo huérfano, uno ha tenido una madre: ha sido gestado nueve meses en un vientre materno. Y sin embargo, es una figura que cae muy rápido en clichés”.
“No son lo mismo los padres de ahora que los padres de mitad del siglo pasado o que los padres de fin del siglo XIX. Uno necesita a veces hablar de estereotipos, de generalizaciones, pero siempre hay que poder ver la particularidad de cada uno de estos casos”, dice y marca, otra vez, la transformación: “Antes había un corte mucho más grande entre niños y adultos. Los niños por un lado, los adultos por otro. Y hoy esa brecha se achicó. Los padres van con los hijos a recitales o comparten la misma ropa”.
“Antes había una cosa más de autoridad, más vertical. Se han modificado muchísimo los vínculos”, dice y menciona el feminismo: “Si uno se pone a leer Un cuarto propio de Virginia Woolf, por supuesto que ha habido muchísimos avances, desde el voto, pero siempre queda mucho más por recorrer, por conquistar. Y siempre atento a que hay muchas cosas que se conquistan y después se vuelven a perder. De todos modos, creo que no hay un verdadero retroceso, que siempre se avanza”.
“Hoy el patriarcado sigue vigente. Basta con ver sueldos, cupos, cargos. Sin embargo, hay un montón de conquistas. Prefiero ser mujer ahora que en 1810 o 1910. Creo que sí se van corriendo y se van conquistando ciertas batallas que se han dado”, comenta y vuelve a subrayar que la riqueza está en “la particularidad de cada caso”: “La madre idealizada me parece un delirio. No existe la madre pura, casta, buena, perfecta. Cada uno hace lo que puede, tanto en la maternidad como en los otros aspectos de la vida”.
En el mar de citas, escenas y micronarraciones que se despliegan en Entre otras, Riva elige, ahora, eventualmente, una, que es del escritor búlgaro Elías Canetti: “No hay otra forma más intensa de poder”. “Me gusta mucho porque señala que siempre hay algo medio asimétrico en esa relación. Hay que ver cómo uno maneja ese poder para que no lastime, o para que no lastime tanto. Es una responsabilidad enorme, porque hay una asimetría al principio. Es un vínculo que se va modificando con el tiempo”.
“Cuando uno habla de madre la imagina con hijos pequeños, con niños que no se pueden valer por sí mismo. A diferencia de los animales, los humanos necesitan durante mucho tiempo de alguien que lo cuide. Un bebé no puede sobrevivir solo. Hay que andarse con cuidado de ese poder que uno tiene para que sea algo amoroso y no abusivo. También me conmueven todos los fracasos, porque es difícil. Los hijos siempre van a venir a reclamar algo”, dice Riva, y concluye: “Uno siempre equivoca: es parte de la vida”.
(Fotos: Alejandra Lopez)
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