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If the Spanish government under Pedro Sánchez has been able to refuse the increase of the military budget to 5% of GDP for fear of disrupting the social fabric, it is because it does not face the same degree of existential threats that Germany and other Eastern European NATO member countries face from a Putin who is at their doorstep and has even just threatened his neighbors with nuclear war. #DeudaNacional #EconomíaGlobal #Hegemonía (translated)

Carlos Carrillo said that he had believed for some time that Olmedo López and Sneyder Pinilla had agreed to only partially testify to obtain benefits by pleading guilty and to protect powerful and dangerous individuals who, according to him, had controlled the UNGRD for years. He argued that those individuals would benefit from the transfer of both to La Picota and from López's fear, whom he described as someone in danger of death. Carrillo stated that the Colombian penal system should prioritize the safety of witnesses and noted that much of the truth was still yet to be known. #Colombia #Justicia #Testigos (translated)

The article explores the hesitance of the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ahead of the elections, highlighting his fear of debates and mail-in voting, in a context where citizen fervor for housing and rights could disrupt electoral forecasts. #Elecciones2026 #DerechosHumanos #ParticipaciónCiudadana (translated)

Yuval Abraham, director of 'NAZA', expresses his fear not so much towards the Government of Israel, but towards the growing hostility of Israeli society against his documentary that highlights the dehumanization in the attacks on Gaza, while he and his co-director, Rachel Szor, remain in exile after receiving threats for their work. #NAZA #CineDocumental #OpiniónPública (translated)

The victim of a rape at Cornell University is terrorized after a swatting incident in which the police, motivated by a false report of a shooting, stormed into her parents' house, creating an atmosphere of fear due to death threats she has received since she filed her complaint. #Cornell #Violación #Seguridad (translated)

ERC begins to look for alternative candidates due to the fear of a possible breakup with Gabriel Rufián, who demands guarantees and strategic control of the party, while the leadership insists they will go alone without negotiations with other forces. #ERC #Rufián #Cataluña (translated)

Flávio Bolsonaro backtracks on his proposal to change the Constitution after receiving criticism and assures that he will only promote reforms through legislative amendments to avoid fears of an authoritarian government two weeks before the second round of elections. #Bolsonaro #EleccionesBrasil #Constitución (translated)

The Cantabria Prosecutor's Office is requesting eight years in prison for a man accused of restraining and handcuffing an Erasmus student in his home in Santander, where he kept her against her will for more than two hours, threatening her and instilling a state of fear for her life. (translated)

The neighborhood of Carabanchel expresses its fear about the possible construction of an auditorium for 7,000 people on the former site of the Puerta Bonita football field, preferring instead a sports complex or a green area, according to the results of a public consultation. #Carabanchel #Auditorio #ConsultaPopular (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that El Espectador had mentioned his complaint about alleged electoral fraud and manipulation of millions of voters —which, according to him, the penal code refers to as "coercion of the voter"— but had not informed about its content. Therefore, he presented his allegations and asked readers to analyze them. Petro asked the registrar, in response to a legal action he had filed, why 97% of the PDF E14 forms published online by the private counting firm Thomas Gregg and Sons did not have a Hash code, despite Petro stating that he had requested it as head of State and that it had also been requested by electoral observers. He claimed that this code prevented the documents from being modified and that it had been used in his presidential election, but had been removed in subsequent elections. He also asked whether the upcoming local elections would take place without that protection. Furthermore, he argued that a forensic statistical analysis of all the polling stations had found mathematical patterns, rather than randomness, in tens of thousands of consecutive tables. He stated that the Testigos Digitales investigation —a group that, according to him, was made up of 75,000 people with knowledge of statistics and programming— had detected patterns in 1,350 voting stations, and that experts had corroborated them. He added that the analysis had utilized the Wald-Wolfowitz model, or runs test. Petro accused the registrar of lying by claiming that the PDF E14 forms had a Hash code. According to Petro, only an alphanumeric code identifying the forms had been added, but it did not prevent them from being modified, which he claimed was against the law. He also asked why the registrar had not responded to the public statement made by Donald Trump, who, according to Petro, had said that candidate Abelardo de la Espriella had won the elections thanks to him. Petro inquired whether that statement from a head of State constituted evidence against the registrar and his management. He requested that the registrar respond publicly or in the legal proceedings. #Colombia #FraudeElectoral #Democracia (translated)

Gustavo Petro defended the pension reform and denied that his government had bought support to approve it. He said that the House of Representatives backed it widely and that the then President of the Senate, Iván Name, delayed the debate for eight months so that it would fail due to lack of time. He also accused Magistrate Ibáñez of keeping it frozen for two years in the Constitutional Court, although he pointed out that the reform had already passed that stage. According to Petro, millions of elderly people, many of them from the right, could receive a pension thanks to the law. Regarding the allegations related to the UNGRD, Petro asked the Pacto Histórico bench to commission a forensic audit of the entire existence of the entity, since 2010, and to publish the names of those whom he claimed had embezzled it. He stated that only one person from the Pacto Histórico appeared on the extensive list, whom he said he had removed from the administration and whom, according to him, the party expelled. He also argued that justice should investigate whether Name had received public money through his romantic or political environment. Petro claimed that, during the first month of his government, resources were recovered that he attributed to Olmedo's group and that then the UNGRD was sidelined in the assistance to people trapped after an earthquake in the west of the country. Citing a journalistic investigation by Nueva Prensa, he stated that a private coordination center had been set up in the house of Gregory Schaller, whom he identified as Abelardo's compadre. He linked Andrés Depew, Negre — whom he described as a partner of Fernando Cerimedo — and people who, according to him, had ties to Donald Trump and businessman Dan Newlin to that place. Petro stated that Newlin had illegally lent his plane and resources during Abelardo's campaign. In the same publication, Petro mentioned businessman Yadid Jalaff, whom he said was accused of stealing Colombian-Venezuelan Monómeros, and Jorge Alberto Campillo Vélez, whom he described as one of Pablo Escobar's first pilots. He also pointed out pilot Luis Almeira Quiroz and linked him to a flight of paramilitaries from Urabá to San José del Guaviare, which, according to Petro, allowed the Mapiripán massacre, in which 50 farmers were murdered. He asked how much money had been raised to address the earthquake and if that explained why, according to him, the full operation of the UNGRD had been prevented and international aid and volunteers had been rejected. https://t.co/eiJJnl3Lxu #ReformaPensional #Justicia #Corrupción (translated)

The PP assumes that the next electoral campaign will be tough and dirty, facing the fear that the left tries to instill about the advance of the right, but they aim to do so with optimism and clear proposals, especially regarding the housing issue. #PP #Elecciones2026 #Vivienda (translated)