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WATCH: Ex-NATO chief draws red line as Trump fumes alliance abandoned US during Iran war
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Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg signaled clear limits on the alliance’s role in the Iran conflict, saying it should not be pulled into supporting U.S. military operations even as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on European allies — exposing a growing divide over what NATO is meant to do.
«NATO is a defensive alliance,» Stoltenberg, now Norway’s finance minister, told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday. «The strikes or the war against Iran were never an attempt to make that into a NATO operation.»
Stoltenberg framed the disagreement not over whether Iran poses a threat, but over how to confront it, with European governments favoring sanctions and diplomatic pressure over direct military involvement.
«We all agree the Iranian nuclear program is dangerous,» he said. «The question is how we achieve that goal.»
Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg signaled clear limits on the alliance’s role in the Iran conflict, even as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on European allies. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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The divide reflects a deeper mismatch between Washington and its allies: Trump has treated the conflict as a test of NATO support — urging countries that benefit from the Strait of Hormuz to help secure it militarily — while European governments have largely rejected that approach, arguing the war falls outside the alliance’s mandate.
Trump has sharply criticized NATO allies for refusing to back U.S. operations tied to the conflict, at times questioning the alliance’s value and warning it had failed a key test as tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz.
«NATO wasn’t there for us, and they won’t be there for us in the future,» Trump said Wednesday on Truth Social.
The president has alternated between pressuring allies to step up and downplaying their importance, at one point calling NATO’s response a «very foolish mistake» while also insisting the United States «doesn’t need any help.»
Major European powers have resisted Trump’s push to provide military support.
«The feeling is, this is not Europe’s war,» European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Reuters in an interview published March 17.
Former NATO Secretary-General and current Norwegian finance minister Jens Stoltenberg said the Iran war was not a matter for NATO to provide support. (Fox News Digital)
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Spain blocked U.S. aircraft involved in the Iran conflict from using its airspace and denied access to key bases at Rota and Morón, forcing American forces to reroute missions. France has provided limited logistical support but restricted certain overflight requests tied to military operations, reviewing them on a case-by-case basis.
Stoltenberg pushed back on the idea that Europe has broadly abandoned the United States, arguing most allies have still provided logistical support behind the scenes.
«The majority of European allies have made sure that their bases and infrastructure were available for the United States,» he said. «There are some exceptions, but most have contributed.»
Countries like the United Kingdom and Romania have allowed U.S. forces to use bases for refueling, surveillance and defensive operations even as they declined direct combat roles.
The tension underscores a broader split inside the alliance: Trump has framed the Iran conflict as a test of NATO support, while NATO leadership has drawn a clear distinction between formal obligations and political expectations, maintaining the war falls outside the alliance’s core mission.
«President Trump has made his disappointment with the United Kingdom and other NATO allies clear, and as the President emphasized, ‘the United States will remember,» White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital.
Asked whether he would pull the U.S. out of NATO, Trump said the move was «beyond reconsideration» in an interview with The Telegraph on April 1.
The Iran conflict began in late February after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets triggered retaliation from Tehran, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global shipping lane that carries roughly a fifth of the world’s energy supply. The U.S. has since launched airstrikes and imposed a naval blockade aimed at increasing pressure to reopen the strait.
The Iran conflict began in late February after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets triggered retaliation from Tehran, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters/Stringer)
The economic fallout from the conflict is also shaping how European countries view the war and their role in it.
European natural gas prices surged — jumping around 50% early in the conflict and, at times, nearly doubling as LNG supply disruptions intensified.
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For Norway, however, the impact is more mixed. As one of Europe’s largest oil and gas exporters, the country stands to benefit from higher prices even as broader economic instability creates risks at home.
«There are two effects,» Stoltenberg said. «When prices are going up, our oil and gas revenues will increase. But at the same time … when inflation increases and economic growth slows, it will affect our economy.»
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Delaney Hall protests intensify as far-left activists, ICE supporters converge in New Jersey
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NEWARK, N.J. — The continued unrest outside Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, took on a distinctly ideological tone during ICE demonstrations Saturday, as far-left communist-socialist activists and a far-right group clashed, transforming a protest over the center’s conditions into a broader political spectacle.
The standoff began more than a week ago, when illegal immigrant detainees penned an open letter alleging physical and psychological torture, claiming they were being denied medical care and adequate food.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quickly denied the allegations, releasing facility menus to prove detainees are provided three daily meals with options like chicken fajitas and Salisbury steak.
Communist groups gather outside Delany Hall in Newark, N.J., Saturday, to protest ICE. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
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After violent skirmishes earlier in the week, where federal agents were assaulted by agitators, Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill ordered the New Jersey State Police to take over security, claiming the move was necessary to protect the demonstrators from an «ICE surge.»
By Saturday morning, the immigrant detention center had been transformed into a fortified zone surrounded by large orange plastic barricades and metal fencing.
State officials admitted the chaos is being driven by outside instigators rather than local residents, with state Attorney General Jennifer Davenport confirming five of the six people arrested by state police this week were not from New Jersey.
Far-right activists were seen facing off Saturday with far-left communists and socialists at the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in Newark, N.J. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
A crowd of roughly 200 anti-ICE demonstrators, heavily intertwined with far-left and socialist organizations, dominated the scene Saturday, chanting, «Stop ICE Gestapo! Communist revolution!» while distributing radical literature reading «LONG LIVE COMMUNISM!» and «NO PAPERS, NO BORDERS, NO BOSSES.»
ICE supporters, including members of the far-right Proud Boys, also made an appearance at the protest Saturday carrying pro-ICE flags, food and cases of water for law enforcement.
Their arrival sent a shockwave through the heavily outnumbering anti-ICE crowd, with far-left agitators immediately rushing toward the barriers, screaming profanities and shifting their chants to «Proud Boys go home.»
Pro-ICE supporters clash with anti-ICE agitators during demonstrations outside the Delaney Hall detention center, Saturday, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
During a news conference Saturday afternoon, Sherrill claimed ICE engagement «creates an incredibly dangerous situation» adding she refuses to «back down in fighting the Trump administration and the threats they’ve made.»
Sherrill acknowledged that «national extremist groups» have infiltrated the protests to create chaos, warning out-of-state actors that they are endangering the public and not helping the detainees.
Demonstrators for and against the Delaney Hall detention center yell at each other outside the facility Saturday, in Newark, N.J. (Angelina Katsanis/AP)
«You’re not helping detainee families, and you’re certainly not keeping new Jersey safe today,» the governor said. «Going forward, I urge those protesting outside of Delaney Hall to bring the temperature down so we can focus on the detainees and their families. Comply with the lawful orders from local and state law enforcement and let advocates, faith leaders and members of this community continue their work here in America.»
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She added state health inspectors were recently blocked from viewing anything other than the facility’s kitchen, and called on the Department of Homeland Security to stop pressuring detainees into signing deportation documents.
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Padres ejecutados, hijos raptados: la desaparición forzada de más de 50 niños salvadoreños en la “Guinda de Mayo”
El estruendo de las hélices rasgaba el cielo plomizo de Chalatenango entre el 27 de mayo y el 9 de junio de 1982. No eran misiones de rescate; eran los helicópteros del ejército salvadoreño que descendían en las inmediaciones de los ríos Sumpul y Gualsinga para ejecutar el operativo militar “Limpieza”, conocido entre las familias sobrevivientes como la “Guinda de Mayo”.
Mientras las comunidades campesinas huían despavoridas entre la maleza para salvaguardar la vida, un engranaje estatal y militar se activaba con un propósito tan silencioso como estremecedor: separar a los hijos de sus padres mediante el terror, la muerte y el desarraigo.
En total, 55 niños y niñas se desvanecieron en el torbellino de aquella ofensiva bélica. 44 años después, Margarita Zamora, especialista en investigación de la Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, revela en entrevista exclusiva con Infobae los detalles de una de las prácticas más macabras del conflicto armado salvadoreño: un modus operandi sistemático diseñado para el tráfico humano de menores, camuflado bajo el ropaje del auxilio humanitario.
“La práctica del ejército era asesinar a los padres y llevarse a los niños. De esa manera, no había nadie que los reclamara”, explica Zamora con una serenidad dolorosa. El desparpajo de las familias en la huida facilitaba la captura. Madres exhaustas que arrastraban a dos o tres infantes, cargando bebés en brazos mientras esquivaban las ráfagas de fusilería, se ponían en total vulnerabilidad.
Al ejecutar a los progenitores en el terreno, las guarniciones militares transportaban a los sobrevivientes en helicópteros hacia sectores como La Sierpe o Victoria, en Cabañas.
El horror militar daba paso inmediato a la burocracia civil. Los niños eran entregados a la Cruz Roja, a damas voluntarias y a orfanatos locales bajo actas falsas que declaraban un “abandono moral y material total”.
Se borraba su identidad y se catalogaban como huérfanos extraviados. “En ningún momento fueron extraviados”, enfatiza la investigadora. “Ellos no andaban paseando; andaban guindeando, corriendo para salvar sus vidas”.
Detrás del discurso institucional de “salvación” operaba una red clandestina integrada por abogados locales y altos mandos castrenses mencionando reportes históricos de entrevistas a miembros del Estado Mayor de la época que convirtieron el drama en un negocio millonario.
Los trámites de adopción internacional se cotizaban entre los 5,000 y 15,000 dólares por niño. Abogados con rutas comerciales ya establecidas los distribuyeron por el mundo:
- Francia
- Italia
- Estados Unidos
- Suiza
- Holanda
- España
- Inglaterra
- Suecia.
Parejas extranjeras pagaban la cifra creyendo que auxiliaban a huérfanos desamparados, desconociendo que la sangre de los padres biológicos aún manchaba los expedientes de origen.
El desglose de las víctimas de la Guinda de Mayo, sistematizado recientemente por Pro-Búsqueda, reconstruye las identidades rotas del operativo.
La cifra exacta de infantes desaparecidos la componen 27 niños y 27 niñas. El último caso es el más perturbador: un bebé cuyo sexo se desconoce porque el ejército capturó a su madre embarazada en plena fuga, perdiéndose el rastro de ambos hasta el día de hoy.
Las edades de todos ellos oscilaban entre los cero y los diez años, al momento de ser arrebatados. De los 55 casos documentados en este operativo, Pro-Búsqueda ha logrado resolver 31 casos; 17 ya experimentaron el “abrazo postergado” al reencontrarse vivos con sus raíces familiares.
Sin embargo, 13 han sido localizados fallecidos; la investigación confirmó que fueron ejecutados de forma masiva en un solo lugar aniquilado por las tropas, aunque la falta de voluntad judicial solo ha permitido la exhumación de seis de ellos.
El caso número 31 constituye una paradoja del trauma: un joven localizado en Francia, cuya identidad biológica fue confirmada mediante pruebas de ADN, pero de momento ha decido no reencontrarse con su familia biológica.
Rosa Rivera, sobreviviente, relata los desgarradores eventos de la «Guinda de Mayo» de 1982. Un operativo militar en Chalatenango que se convirtió en una masacre, dejando cientos de desaparecidos, incluyendo a muchos niños, cuyas familias aún buscan justicia.
Aún quedan 24 nombres flotando en la incertidumbre absoluta de Chalatenango. Entre ellos se encuentran los expedientes de las hermanas Erlinda y Ernestina Serrano Cruz, un caso paradigmático con sentencia internacional que obliga al Estado salvadoreño a investigar el paradero y castigar a los responsables individuales de la masacre. Sin embargo, la impunidad se mantiene incólume.
“El principal obstáculo sigue siendo la negación del Estado a abrir los archivos militares. Los oficiales que participaron en estas masacres tienen la información; estos hechos no se borran de la memoria. Falta voluntad política para darnos la verdad”, denuncia Zamora.
Los padres de las víctimas envejecen y mueren con las manos vacías. Ante esto, Pro-Búsqueda resguarda un banco de perfiles genéticos diseñado gracias al impulso pionero del padre Jon de Cortina (Q.E.P.D.) y el doctor Cristian Orrego.
Aunque los padres biológicos mueran, sus códigos genéticos permanecen listos para cotejar el ADN de cualquier adulto en el mundo que hoy, superando los 40 años, dude de su procedencia y sospeche haber sido un bebé extraído de la guerra salvadoreña.
La búsqueda no cesa. Es el intento tardío pero firme de escribir las líneas de una página en blanco para decenas de identidades robadas que aún ignoran que, en un rincón de El Salvador, hay una raíz destruida que jamás dejó de esperarlos.
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