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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Looking at the third photograph of President Trump dozing off in the middle of an afternoon press conference, surrounded by cabinet members still yapping about the announcement <em>du jour</em>, I found myself thinking of that Cole Porter tune, &#8220;Anything Goes.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Anything Goes,&#8221; now a jazz standard, was the title song of the Broadway musical of the same name, staged in 1934, in the heart of the Depression. In a voice that mixes nostalgia for the old ways with a libertine shrug at the new ones, it takes stock of the changes society has undergone&#8212;and decides, with a wink, not to fight them.</p><p>The tune races forward on a fast, syncopated rhythm, leaning hard into the offbeats. Porter piles rhyme upon rhyme over a buoyant 1930s swing, delivering each line with the punch and precision of conversation set to music.</p><p><em><span>In olden days, a glimpse of stocking </span><br><span>Was looked on as something shocking. </span><br><span>But now, God knows, </span><br><span>Anything goes. </span><br><span>Good authors too who once knew better words </span><br><span>Now only use four-letter words </span><br><span>Writing prose. </span><br><span>Anything goes.</span></em></p><p>The lyrics deplore&#8212;or celebrate, or perhaps merely catalogue; take your pick&#8212;the creep of profanity into polite writing, the changes in fashion and the unsettling sense that the whole world has come loose from its hinges.</p><p><em><span>The world has gone mad today </span><br><span>And good's bad today, </span><br><span>And black's white today, </span><br><span>And day's night today, </span><br><span>And that gent today </span><br><span>You gave a cent today </span><br><span>Once had several chateaux. </span><br><span>When folks who still can ride in jitneys </span><br><span>Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys </span><br><span>Lack baby clo'es, </span><br><span>Anything goes.</span></em></p><p>It makes me wonder what Cole Porter would make of the changes ushered in by this presidency.</p><p>And so, with apologies to Mr. Porter:</p><p><em>In olden days, a plaque bearing your name<br>Across a tower looked a little lame.<br>Modesty, at least in public, used to show.<br>Now the letters blaze in gold, twelve stories high,<br>And boasting of your greatness&#8212;my, oh my&#8212;<br>Isn&#8217;t a faux pas. It&#8217;s the whole damn show.</em></p><p><em>In olden days, contempt for law and polls and press<br>Could end a career in scandal and disgrace.<br>Every little breach acquired a &#8220;-gate.&#8221;<br>Now insulting judges, reporters, allies and vets<br>Is breakfast, brunch and zero regrets.<br>And nothing&#8212;nothing&#8212;follows. Anything goes.</em></p><p><em>Lying about the wars we&#8217;ve supposedly won,<br>The deals we&#8217;ve assuredly done,<br>The calls with kings that never happened&#8212;who knows?<br>Once it could end a presidency, end a term.<br>Now it&#8217;s merely a talking point, delivered firm,<br>Repeated on social media until &#8230; anything goes.</em></p><p><em>Peddling gold sneakers and made-in-China watches<br>From the West Wing,<br>Handing federal contracts to the kids<br>Without so much as blushing,<br>While the ticker climbs and the personal portfolio grows.</em></p><p><em>Twenty-one thousand trades disclosed&#8212;and still they come.<br>Two billion dollars richer before the term&#8217;s first year was done.<br>And who&#8217;s minding the store?</em></p><p><em>The Justice Department looks away.<br>Congress looks away.<br>The Supremes look away.</em></p><p><em>Anything goes.</em></p><p>Anything goes, as Cole Porter sang. Because Congress has shown willingness to tolerate it. Because much of the mainstream media packages it as just another day&#8217;s spectacle. Because his dwindling base finds a way to excuse it too.</p><p>The world has gone mad today. And good&#8217;s bad today.</p><p>I&#8217;ll play the tune once more as I wait for the next photograph: same setting, different cast surrounding the dozing president.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div id="youtube2-tN2KHeEWqZM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;tN2KHeEWqZM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tN2KHeEWqZM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La presidencia del «todo vale»]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reflexiones sobre los tiempos surrealistas que vivimos]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/la-presidencia-del-todo-vale</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/la-presidencia-del-todo-vale</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:47:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vpAl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cf3333f-44cb-471e-a8b6-a1a8e7326b89_1692x929.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vpAl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cf3333f-44cb-471e-a8b6-a1a8e7326b89_1692x929.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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mirar la tercera fotograf&#237;a del presidente Trump dormitando en plena conferencia de prensa , rodeado de miembros de su gabinete que segu&#237;an cacareando el anuncio <em>du jour</em>, me vino a la cabeza aquella canci&#243;n de Cole Porter: &#8220;Anything Goes&#8221;.</p><p>&#8220;Anything Goes&#8221;, convertida hoy en un cl&#225;sico del jazz, fue la canci&#243;n principal del musical de Broadway del mismo nombre, estrenado en 1934, en plena Depresi&#243;n. Con una voz que mezcla la nostalgia por las viejas costumbres con un <em>c&#8217;est la vie</em> libertino ante las nuevas, Porter pasa revista a los cambios sufridos por la sociedad y decide que es mejor aceptarlos.</p><p>La melod&#237;a avanza velozmente sobre un ritmo sincopado que acent&#250;a los contratiempos. Porter apila una rima tras la otra sobre el contagioso <em>swing</em> de los a&#241;os treinta, pronunciando cada verso con la precisi&#243;n y el soltura de una conversaci&#243;n convertida en m&#250;sica.</p><p><em>In olden days, a glimpse of stocking <br>Was looked on as something shocking. <br>But now, God knows, <br>Anything goes. <br>Good authors too who once knew better words <br>Now only use four-letter words <br>Writing prose. <br>Anything goes.</em></p><p>La letra deplora &#8212;o celebra, o quiz&#225; simplemente cataloga&#8212; la invasi&#243;n de la profundidad en la literatura respetable, los cambios en la moda y la inquietante sensaci&#243;n de que el mundo entero se ha descuidado.</p><p><em>The world has gone mad today <br>And good&#8217;s bad today, <br>And black&#8217;s white today, <br>And day&#8217;s night today, <br>And that gent today <br>You gave a cent today <br>Once had several chateaux. <br>When folks who still can ride in jitneys <br>Find out Vanderbilts and Whitneys <br>Lack baby clo&#8217;es, <br>Anything goes.</em></p><p>Y eso me lleva a preguntarme qu&#233; pensar&#237;a Cole Porter de los cambios que  a las malas nos ha impuesto esta presidencia.</p><p>As&#237; que, con mis disculpas al se&#241;or Porter y a todos y todas por este irreverente intento.</p><p><em>En tiempos viejos, una placa con tu nombre<br>Atravesando una torre quedaba algo pobre.<br>La modestia, al menos en p&#250;blico, sol&#237;a imperar.<br>Hoy las letras arden en oro, doce pisos de altura,<br>Y pregonar tu grandeza sin medida ni mesura<br>Ya no es una indiscreci&#243;n: es todo el espect&#225;culo nacional.</em></p><p><em>En tiempos viejos, despreciar la ley, las encuestas y la prensa<br>Pod&#237;a acabar una carrera entre el esc&#225;ndalo y la verg&#252;enza.<br>A cada abuso le brotaba su propio &#8220;-gate&#8221;.<br>Hoy insultar a jueces, periodistas, aliados y veteranos<br>Es desayuno, almuerzo y despu&#233;s a lavarse las manos.<br>Y no pasa nada. Absolutamente nada. Aqu&#237; todo vale.</em></p><p><em>Mentir sobre las guerras que supuestamente hemos ganado,<br>Los acuerdos que sin duda hemos cerrado,<br>Las llamadas con reyes que jam&#225;s ocurrieron&#8230; &#191;qui&#233;n sabe?<br>Antes pod&#237;a hundir una presidencia, terminar un mandato.<br>Hoy no pasa de ser una consigna, repetida con aplomo,<br>Una, otra y otra vez en las redes. Todo vale.</em></p><p><em>Vender chucher&#237;as doradas y relojes hechos en China<br>Desde el Ala Oeste,<br>Repartir contratos federales entre los hijos<br>Sin el menor rubor,<br>Mientras sube la bolsa y engorda la cartera familiar.</em></p><p><em>Veinti&#250;n mil operaciones declaradas&#8230; y siga sumando.<br>Dos mil millones de d&#243;lares m&#225;s ricos antes de terminar el primer a&#241;o.<br>&#191;Y qui&#233;n vigila el negocio?</em></p><p><em>El Departamento de Justicia mira hacia otro lado.<br>El Congreso mira hacia otro lado.<br>Los tribunales miran hacia otro lado.</em></p><p><em>Todo vale.</em></p><p>Todo vale, tal como cantaba Cole Porter. Porque el Congreso ha mostrado estar dispuesto a tolerarlo. Porque buena parte de los medios corporativos lo empaquetan como si fuera normal. Porque su base, cada vez m&#225;s reducida, est&#225; dispuesta a perdon&#225;rselo.</p><p>El mundo se ha vuelto loco. Y hoy lo bueno es malo.</p><p>Escuchar&#233; nuevamente la canci&#243;n mientras espero la pr&#243;xima fotograf&#237;a: el mismo escenario, un reparto diferente rodeando al presidente dormido.</p><p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/tN2KHeEWqZM?si=mh7dVyhDvOlb4xzB">Anything Goes &#8212; Cole Porter</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div id="youtube2-tN2KHeEWqZM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;tN2KHeEWqZM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tN2KHeEWqZM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up Shit Creek Without a Paddle]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pentagon Fractures as the Iran War Enters Month 7]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/up-shit-creek-without-a-paddle</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:16:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UmR_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c2145fe-8190-43d8-a91d-7446fcf3a857_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UmR_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c2145fe-8190-43d8-a91d-7446fcf3a857_1536x1024.png" 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the war against Iran grinds on, Americans woke up to another major headline&#8212;and it isn&#8217;t pretty. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, after months of friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8212;rebranded Secretary of War&#8212;finally had enough and submitted his resignation to the White House on August 31.</p><p>This comes as the war against Iran enters its seventh month. Despite continuous assurances that it is all going according to plan, there is, to use an expression widely associated with Vietnam, no light at the end of the tunnel. Driscoll&#8217;s departure leaves the nation&#8217;s largest military branch entirely without Senate-confirmed civilian leadership during an active conflict&#8212;and it isn&#8217;t the only one. The Navy has been in the same position since April, when Hegseth pushed out Navy Secretary John Phelan.</p><p>Hegseth, confirmed only after Vice President JD Vance broke a 50&#8211;50 tie in the Senate, has made no secret of his mission to reorganize the US armed forces and &#8220;restore the warrior ethos,&#8221; a bizarre formula that seeks to reorient the military strictly toward warfighting, lethality, and meritocracy. That has meant a purge of the military&#8217;s senior ranks&#8212;more than two dozen general and flag officers fired, sidelined, or forced out&#8212;along with stalled promotions.</p><p>The new approach has also bypassed congressional oversight, including the systematic destruction of boats allegedly ferrying narcotics toward the US, a campaign now drawing war-crimes allegations on Capitol Hill.</p><p>Hegseth was reportedly virtually alone among senior officials in supporting Trump&#8217;s decision to attack Iran&#8212;when, as defense secretary, he should have been the one person in the room who knew better. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe opposed the idea.</p><p>According to <em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-war-warnings-9d7f289a">The Wall Street Journal</a></em>, even then&#8211;Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard&#8212;another of Trump&#8217;s unqualified-but-sycophantic appointees&#8212;mustered the courage to warn the president that killing Iran&#8217;s supreme leader and attacking the country would likely produce a more hard-line regime interested in acquiring nuclear weapons, prompt Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz, destabilize global energy markets, and trigger attacks on US forces and allies throughout the Middle East.</p><p>All of it happened almost immediately after Trump gave the order to go to war.</p><p>The president had promised a brief campaign leading to a major victory. It has proven anything but. Major damage to US military assets, the depletion of missile stockpiles, and a stubborn Iran that refuses to cave have been the result instead.</p><p>That the war is far from over became clear on August 30, when the US struck military targets on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, near Iran&#8217;s strategic port of Bandar Abbas. Washington said its forces hit two Iranian rocket launchers that it claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was preparing to use to scatter sea mines into the strait.</p><p>It was a narrow strike by the war&#8217;s standards&#8212;two launchers, not a broad bombing run. Iranian media reported that three people were killed, with several others wounded.</p><p>Iran hit back with medium-range ballistic missiles aimed at two US-linked bases in Jordan, King Hussein and Al Azraq, plus dozens of drones reportedly aimed at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE, which the Emiratis deny was hit.</p><p>Jordan said its air defenses shot down eight incoming missiles at dawn. If Patriot interceptors were used, at roughly $4.9 million apiece, that would amount to north of $39 million expended in one morning against missiles Iran likely built for a fraction of that. Washington disputed Iran&#8217;s damage claims and reported no US casualties. Trump pledged to respond, saying: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to hit them hard.&#8221;</p><p>Driscoll now joins Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, sacked in April, and Gen. Christopher Donahue, forced out of his command this summer, in the unemployment line. More are expected.</p><p>We can expect congressional hearings, with both sides posturing for the cameras, followed by the books and the media tours, as Republicans deflect blame and Democrats pose as holier-than-thou. But one fundamental truth won&#8217;t change: America&#8217;s imperialist designs are running into a changing world and changing military technology that demand retooling. None of that is happening, to Washington&#8217;s own detriment.</p><p>Up the proverbial creek, in other words. And nobody in this administration seems to be reaching for a paddle.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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el clamor de los ca&#241;ones contra Ir&#225;n, Estados Unidos ha despertado con otro gran titular. Y no es nada bonito. El secretario del Ej&#233;rcito, Dan Driscoll, tras meses de fricciones con el secretario de Defensa Pete Hegset (rebautizado como secretario de Guerra) finalmente no pudo m&#225;s y present&#243; su renuncia a la Casa Blanca el 31 de agosto.</p><p>Esto ocurre cuando la guerra contra Ir&#225;n entra en su s&#233;ptimo mes. </p><p>A pesar de las continuas aseveraciones de que todo marcha seg&#250;n lo previsto, para utilizar una expresi&#243;n estrechamente asociada con la guerra contra Vietnam, no se divisa ninguna luz al final del t&#250;nel. La salida de Driscoll deja a la rama m&#225;s grande de las Fuerzas Armadas sin ninguna autoridad civil confirmada por el Senado en medio de un conflicto activo. No es la &#250;nica: La Armada se encuentra en la misma situaci&#243;n desde abril, cuando Hegseth expuls&#243; al secretario de la Marina, John Phelan.</p><p>Hegseth, confirmado por el Senado &#250;nicamente despu&#233;s de que el vicepresidente JD Vance rompiera un empate de 50 a 50, nunca ha ocultado su misi&#243;n de reorganizar las Fuerzas Armadas y &#8220;restaurar el esp&#237;ritu guerrero&#8221;, una f&#243;rmula algo rebuscada que pretende reorientar al aparato militar estrictamente hacia la guerra, la letalidad y la meritocracia. Ello se ha traducido en una purga de los altos mandos&#8212;m&#225;s de dos docenas de generales y almirantes despedidos, marginados u obligados a abandonar sus cargos&#8212;adem&#225;s de numerosos ascensos paralizados.</p><p>El nuevo enfoque tambi&#233;n ha eludido la supervisi&#243;n del Congreso, que no ha logrado que le rindan cuentas sobre la destrucci&#243;n sistem&#225;tica de lanchas supuestamente utilizadas para transportar narc&#243;ticos rumbo a Estados Unidos. Esta campa&#241;a que ya ha provocado acusaciones de cr&#237;menes de guerra en el Capitolio.</p><p>Seg&#250;n diversos informes, Hegseth fue el &#250;nico de los altos funcionarios que apoyaron la decisi&#243;n de Trump de atacar a Ir&#225;n, as&#237; en su cargo de secretario de Defensa, deb&#237;a haber sido la persona en aquella sala que mejor comprendiera las consecuencias. El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio y el director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, se opusieron a la idea.</p><p>Seg&#250;n <em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-war-warnings-9d7f289a">The Wall Street Journal</a></em>, incluso Tulsi Gabbard, entonces directora de Inteligencia Nacional (otra de las designaciones de Trump, tan incompetentes como serviles) reuni&#243; el valor necesario para advertirle al presidente que matar al l&#237;der supremo de Ir&#225;n y atacar al pa&#237;s probablemente producir&#237;a un r&#233;gimen todav&#237;a m&#225;s radical e interesado en adquirir armas nucleares, llevar&#237;a a Teher&#225;n a cerrar el estrecho de Ormuz, desestabilizar&#237;a los mercados energ&#233;ticos mundiales y provocar&#237;a ataques contra las fuerzas y los aliados de Estados Unidos en todo Oriente Medio.</p><p>Todo ocurri&#243; casi inmediatamente despu&#233;s de que Trump diera la orden de ir a la guerra.</p><p>El presidente hab&#237;a prometido una campa&#241;a breve que culminar&#237;a en una gran victoria. Ha resultado ser cualquier cosa menos eso. Graves da&#241;os a los activos militares estadounidenses, el agotamiento de los arsenales de misiles y un Ir&#225;n erguido que se niega a doblegarse han sido, en cambio, los resultados.</p><p>Que la guerra est&#225; lejos de terminar qued&#243; claro el 30 de agosto, cuando Estados Unidos atac&#243; objetivos militares en la isla de Larak, en el estrecho de Ormuz, cerca del estrat&#233;gico puerto iran&#237; de Bandar Abbas. Washington afirm&#243; que sus fuerzas destruyeron dos lanzadores de cohetes que, seg&#250;n sus informes, el Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Isl&#225;mica se preparaba para utilizar con el fin de dispersar minas mar&#237;timas por el estrecho.</p><p>Fue un ataque limitado para los est&#225;ndares de esta guerra: dos lanzadores, no una amplia campa&#241;a de bombardeos. Los medios iran&#237;es informaron que tres personas murieron y varias m&#225;s resultaron heridas.</p><p>Ir&#225;n respondi&#243; con misiles bal&#237;sticos de alcance medio dirigidos contra dos bases vinculadas a las fuerzas estadounidenses en Jordania, King Hussein y Al Azraq, adem&#225;s de decenas de drones presuntamente dirigidos contra la base a&#233;rea de Al Minhad, en los Emiratos &#193;rabes Unidos, aunque los emirat&#237;es niegan que la instalaci&#243;n haya sido alcanzada.</p><p>Jordania asegur&#243; que sus defensas a&#233;reas derribaron ocho de los misiles durante la madrugada. De haberse utilizado interceptores Patriot, a un costo aproximado de 4,9 millones de d&#243;lares cada uno, eso representar&#237;a m&#225;s de 39 millones de d&#243;lares gastados en una sola ma&#241;ana contra misiles que Ir&#225;n probablemente fabric&#243; por una fracci&#243;n de esa cantidad. Washington rechaz&#243; las afirmaciones iran&#237;es sobre los da&#241;os y asegur&#243; que no hubo bajas estadounidenses. Trump prometi&#243; responder: &#8220;Vamos a golpearlos duro&#8221;.</p><p>Driscoll se une en las filas del desempleo al jefe del Estado Mayor del Ej&#233;rcito, el general Randy George, despedido en abril; y al general Christopher Donahue, obligado a abandonar su comando este verano. Se esperan m&#225;s.</p><p>Ahora vendr&#225; lo de siempre: audiencias en el Congreso, con ambos partidos posando ante las c&#225;maras, seguidas por libros y giras medi&#225;ticas. Los republicanos desv&#237;an la culpa y los dem&#243;cratas se presentan como virtuosos e impolutos. </p><p>Pero una verdad fundamental no cambiar&#225;: el imperialismo de Estados Unidos est&#225; chocando contra un mundo distinto y unas tecnolog&#237;as militares en plena transformaci&#243;n que exigen una profunda reconversi&#243;n. </p><p>Nada de eso est&#225; ocurriendo, para perjuicio del propio Washington.</p><p>En otras palabras, cagados y con el agua lejos. Y todo bajo una administraci&#243;n que ha demostrado que ni siquiera sabe c&#243;mo limpiarse el culo.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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it sounds too good to be true, it&#8217;s usually neither true nor as good as advertised.</p><p>Case in point: President Trump&#8217;s announcement that Venezuela has signed away access to its most coveted commodity in what he is billing, naturally, as the greatest deal in the history of deals.</p><p>The pitch: the United States now controls access to fields containing approximately 65 billion barrels of crude &#8212; about 21% of Venezuela&#8217;s 303 billion barrels of proven reserves, the largest on Earth. Negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and struck with Washington&#8217;s preferred partner in Caracas, acting president Delcy Rodr&#237;guez, the arrangement covers 17 oil fields and would give the United States an effective claim on 55% of their output.</p><p>It&#8217;s the Monroe Doctrine&#8217;s greatest-hits reunion tour, minus the subtlety.</p><h2>The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. Please.</h2><p>Washington says the new company will receive rights to the fields for 100 years. Rodr&#237;guez calls it a &#8220;25-year bilateral project.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s a 75-year gap, although the two figures may refer to different layers of an increasingly complicated arrangement. The problem is that Venezuela&#8217;s own 2026 hydrocarbons law limits joint ventures to 25 years, with one possible 15-year extension.</p><p>Perhaps the 100-year claim applies to the new U.S.-based company while the Venezuelan operating agreement lasts only 25 years. Perhaps some still-undisclosed legal mechanism is supposed to reconcile the two. But neither government has released the complete agreements, so the public is being asked to admire the deal without being allowed to read it.</p><p>That does not inspire confidence.</p><p>About Washington&#8217;s preferred partner in Caracas: Rodr&#237;guez isn&#8217;t exactly your standard head of state. She has been running the country since U.S. forces captured Nicol&#225;s Maduro in January and brought him to New York to face federal charges.</p><p>Ricardo Hausmann, a Harvard economist and former Venezuelan planning minister, called the entire arrangement &#8220;shameful,&#8221; pointedly questioning whether an unelected acting president has the constitutional authority to mortgage the nation&#8217;s oil for a century &#8212; or even a quarter of one &#8212; without so much as a vote.</p><p>The money math doesn&#8217;t math.</p><p>Rodr&#237;guez says the project could generate more than $209 billion in tax revenue for Venezuela. The White House, meanwhile, says the Defense Department will acquire a 35% interest in the new company, while the State Department will have the right to purchase another 20% of the fields&#8217; output at production cost.</p><p>Reuters reported on August 31 that Washington had chosen North American Blue Energy Partners, or NABEP, as its private-sector partner. According to two U.S. officials, the company was awarded 14 new oil contracts, bringing its total number of projects in Venezuela to 17. NABEP, formerly owned by U.S. oil executive Harry Sargeant, is now controlled by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt.</p><p>The White House says NABEP has committed to investing $100 billion in Venezuela&#8217;s oil infrastructure. That would be an extraordinary financial commitment, yet the financing details have not been disclosed. How will the company raise the money? How will it earn its return? Who absorbs the inevitable cost overruns? And what happens if a future Venezuelan government declares the entire arrangement illegitimate?</p><p>The final structure of NABEP&#8217;s partnership with PDVSA &#8212; whether a joint venture or a production-sharing arrangement &#8212; also remains unclear. According to the White House, the new company will be governed by U.S. law, use American auditors and legal counsel, and give Washington veto power over appointments to its board.</p><p>The infrastructure is a mess. Decades of neglect, mismanagement, underinvestment, and sanctions have left Venezuela producing roughly 1.2 to 1.25 million barrels a day &#8212; barely more than 1% of global output and far below the approximately 3 million barrels a day it pumped twenty years ago.</p><p>Some existing fields and pipelines could be rehabilitated within a few years, but returning to previous production levels could take well into the next decade and require investments approaching $100 billion. Seventeen new or dormant fields don&#8217;t develop themselves just because a press release says so.</p><p>So no, this will not lower gas prices anytime soon. Not before the midterms and &#8212; if the deal survives its internal contradictions, Venezuelan law, and an eventual change of government in Caracas &#8212; probably not for years after that either.</p><p>What it will reliably do is hand ammunition to everyone already convinced Washington treats Latin America&#8217;s natural resources as its own strategic pantry. The nationalist right won&#8217;t trust it. The left will condemn it. And Venezuelans watching their most valuable asset get carved up by a government Washington chose to work with after a U.S. military operation removed its predecessor will have opinions of their own.</p><p>Best deal of the century?</p><p>More like a barrel of monkeys &#8212; and everyone is still arguing about who actually gets to keep it.</p><p><em>Sources:</em> <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5949407/us-venezuelan-oil-deal">NPR</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-we-know-about-trumps-deal-giving-u-s-access-to-vast-oil-reserves-in-venezuela">PBS NewsHour</a></em>, <em><a href="https://apnews.com/article/7a4fa51f842e17b9b1d092fbeef2646a">Associated Press</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-are-caracas-washington-structuring-massive-oil-output-deal-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; Deal Structure</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/under-us-venezuela-oil-deal-some-chinese-russian-operators-lose-out-officials-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; NABEP</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/experts-lawyers-puzzled-over-us-venezuela-oil-deal-call-contract-transparency-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; Legal Questions</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.latintimes.com/harvard-economist-calls-venezuela-oil-deal-shameful-rodriguez-trump-contradict-each-other-598852">Latin Times</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.cfr.org/articles/increasing-venezuelas-oil-output-will-take-several-years-and-billions-dollars">CFR</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/trump-announces-deal-with-venezuela-to-secure-more-than-65-billion-barrels-of-oil-reserves.html">CNBC</a></em>, <em><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/08/30/venezuela-oil-reserves-trump-us-access-delcy-rodriguez/">Fortune</a></em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Cuando algo parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, por lo general ni es verdad ni es tan bueno como lo pintan.</p><p>El anuncio del presidente Trump de que Venezuela ha entregado el acceso a su mercanc&#237;a m&#225;s codiciada mediante lo que &#233;l presenta, naturalmente, como el negocio m&#225;s grande en la historia de los negocios.</p><p>La oferta: Estados Unidos controla ahora el acceso a campos que contienen aproximadamente 65 mil millones de barriles de crudo &#8212;alrededor del 21% de los 303 mil millones de barriles de reservas probadas de Venezuela, las mayores del planeta&#8212;. Negociado por el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio y el secretario de Defensa Pete Hegseth, y acordado con la socia predilecta de Washington en Caracas, la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodr&#237;guez, el convenio abarca 17 campos petroleros y otorgar&#237;a a Estados Unidos control efectivo sobre el 55% de su producci&#243;n.</p><p>Es la Doctrina Monroe sin sutilezas.</p><h2>La verdad, toda la verdad y nada m&#225;s que la verdad. Por favor.</h2><p>Washington afirma que la nueva compa&#241;&#237;a recibir&#225; derechos sobre los campos durante 100 a&#241;os. Rodr&#237;guez lo llama un &#171;proyecto bilateral de 25 a&#241;os&#187;.</p><p>Son 75 a&#241;os de diferencia, aunque las dos cifras podr&#237;an referirse a distintos niveles de un arreglo cada vez m&#225;s complicado. El problema es que la propia ley venezolana de hidrocarburos de 2026 limita las empresas mixtas a 25 a&#241;os, con una sola pr&#243;rroga posible de 15 a&#241;os.</p><p>Quiz&#225;s el plazo de 100 a&#241;os se aplique a la nueva empresa con sede en Estados Unidos, mientras que el acuerdo operativo venezolano dure solamente 25. Quiz&#225;s alg&#250;n mecanismo jur&#237;dico todav&#237;a no revelado deba conciliar los dos plazos. Pero ninguno de los dos gobiernos ha publicado los acuerdos completos, as&#237; que se le pide al p&#250;blico que admire el negocio sin permitirle leerlo.</p><p>Eso no inspira confianza.</p><p>En cuanto a la socia predilecta de Washington en Caracas, Rodr&#237;guez no es precisamente una jefa de Estado convencional. Gobierna el pa&#237;s desde que fuerzas estadounidenses capturaron a Nicol&#225;s Maduro en enero y lo trasladaron a Nueva York para enfrentar cargos federales.</p><p>Ricardo Hausmann, economista de Harvard y exministro venezolano de Planificaci&#243;n, calific&#243; todo el arreglo de &#171;vergonzoso&#187; y cuestion&#243; abiertamente que una presidenta encargada no elegida tenga la autoridad constitucional para hipotecar el petr&#243;leo de la naci&#243;n durante un siglo &#8212;o siquiera la cuarta parte de uno&#8212; sin someterlo a votaci&#243;n.</p><p>Las cuentas no cuadran.</p><p>Rodr&#237;guez afirma que el proyecto podr&#237;a generar m&#225;s de 209 mil millones de d&#243;lares en ingresos tributarios para Venezuela. La Casa Blanca, mientras tanto, sostiene que el Departamento de Defensa adquirir&#225; una participaci&#243;n del 35% en la nueva compa&#241;&#237;a, mientras que el Departamento de Estado tendr&#225; derecho a comprar a precio de costo otro 20% de la producci&#243;n de los campos.</p><p>Reuters inform&#243; el 31 de agosto que Washington hab&#237;a escogido como socio privado a North American Blue Energy Partners, o NABEP. Seg&#250;n dos funcionarios estadounidenses, la compa&#241;&#237;a recibi&#243; 14 nuevos contratos petroleros, con lo cual elevar&#237;a a 17 el n&#250;mero de sus proyectos en Venezuela. NABEP, anteriormente propiedad del empresario petrolero estadounidense Harry Sargeant, est&#225; ahora controlada por el empresario venezolano Alejandro Betancourt.</p><p>La Casa Blanca afirma que NABEP se ha comprometido a invertir 100 mil millones de d&#243;lares en la infraestructura petrolera venezolana. Ser&#237;a un compromiso financiero extraordinario, pero los detalles de su financiaci&#243;n no han sido revelados. &#191;C&#243;mo conseguir&#225; la compa&#241;&#237;a el dinero? &#191;C&#243;mo obtendr&#225; ganancias? &#191;Qui&#233;n asumir&#225; los inevitables sobrecostos? &#191;Y qu&#233; ocurrir&#225; si un futuro gobierno venezolano declara ileg&#237;timo todo el arreglo?</p><p>La estructura definitiva de la asociaci&#243;n entre NABEP y PDVSA &#8212;ya sea una empresa mixta o un acuerdo de producci&#243;n compartida&#8212; tampoco est&#225; clara. Seg&#250;n la Casa Blanca, la nueva compa&#241;&#237;a se regir&#225; por las leyes estadounidenses, utilizar&#225; auditores y asesores jur&#237;dicos de Estados Unidos y otorgar&#225; a Washington derecho de veto sobre los nombramientos de su junta directiva.</p><p>La infraestructura es un desastre. D&#233;cadas de abandono, mala administraci&#243;n, falta de inversi&#243;n y sanciones han dejado a Venezuela produciendo entre 1,2 y 1,25 millones de barriles diarios: apenas algo m&#225;s del 1% de la producci&#243;n mundial y muy por debajo de los aproximadamente tres millones de barriles diarios que extra&#237;a hace veinte a&#241;os.</p><p>Algunos campos y oleoductos existentes podr&#237;an rehabilitarse en pocos a&#241;os, pero regresar a los niveles anteriores de producci&#243;n podr&#237;a tardar hasta bien entrada la pr&#243;xima d&#233;cada y exigir inversiones cercanas a los 100 mil millones de d&#243;lares. Diecisiete campos nuevos o inactivos no se desarrollan as&#237; no m&#225;s.  </p><p>As&#237; que no: esto no reducir&#225; el precio de la gasolina en un futuro pr&#243;ximo. No antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato y &#8212;si el acuerdo sobrevive a sus contradicciones internas, a la legislaci&#243;n venezolana y a un eventual cambio de gobierno en Caracas&#8212; probablemente tampoco durante varios a&#241;os despu&#233;s.</p><p>Lo que s&#237; har&#225;, con toda seguridad, es proporcionar munici&#243;n a quienes ya est&#225;n convencidos de que Washington trata los recursos naturales de Am&#233;rica Latina como si fueran parte de su propia despensa estrat&#233;gica. La derecha nacionalista no confiar&#225; en el acuerdo. La izquierda lo condenar&#225;. Y los venezolanos que observan c&#243;mo su recurso m&#225;s valioso es repartido por un gobierno con el que Washington decidi&#243; colaborar despu&#233;s de que una operaci&#243;n militar estadounidense apartara del poder a su predecesor seguramente tendr&#225;n sus propias opiniones.</p><p>&#191;El mejor negocio del siglo?</p><p>M&#225;s bien un circo de micos, mientras todos siguen discutiendo qui&#233;n se queda realmente con el petr&#243;leo.</p><p><em>Fuentes:</em> <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5949407/us-venezuelan-oil-deal">NPR</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-we-know-about-trumps-deal-giving-u-s-access-to-vast-oil-reserves-in-venezuela">PBS NewsHour</a></em>, <em><a href="https://apnews.com/article/7a4fa51f842e17b9b1d092fbeef2646a">Associated Press</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-are-caracas-washington-structuring-massive-oil-output-deal-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; Estructura del acuerdo</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/under-us-venezuela-oil-deal-some-chinese-russian-operators-lose-out-officials-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; NABEP</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/experts-lawyers-puzzled-over-us-venezuela-oil-deal-call-contract-transparency-2026-08-31/">Reuters &#8212; Interrogantes jur&#237;dicos</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.latintimes.com/harvard-economist-calls-venezuela-oil-deal-shameful-rodriguez-trump-contradict-each-other-598852">Latin Times</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.cfr.org/articles/increasing-venezuelas-oil-output-will-take-several-years-and-billions-dollars">CFR</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/trump-announces-deal-with-venezuela-to-secure-more-than-65-billion-barrels-of-oil-reserves.html">CNBC</a></em>, <em><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/08/30/venezuela-oil-reserves-trump-us-access-delcy-rodriguez/">Fortune</a></em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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quiet deployment of paid online influencers has become a remarkably efficient &#8212; and remarkably modern &#8212; tool of electoral politics: gaining importance, gaining visibility, and, best of all, remaining almost entirely unregulated. Nobody can put a solid number on their cut of this cycle&#8217;s advertising spending &#8212; a market built on three quiet hops isn&#8217;t in the business of publishing a topline figure. What&#8217;s clear is the direction: a single well-placed post can reach more people than a five-figure television buy, at a fraction of the cost.</p><p>A recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/us/politics/campaigns-paid-influencers.html">New York Times</a> investigation exposed how campaigns are bypassing traditional media and hiring content creators as &#8220;guns for hire&#8221; to sway voters. Federal election law has major gaps when it comes to tracking digital subvendors, so the payments move through a regulatory gray zone: money flows from a campaign to a digital strategy firm, then to a talent agency, and finally to the creator.</p><p>Three hops, with plausible deniability at the end of each one.</p><p><strong>The result? Millions of voters are listening to influencers they trust, unaware that they are consuming campaign propaganda paid for by political operatives.</strong></p><p>This influencer surge is just the tip of the iceberg. Driven by high-stakes congressional battles and a flood of corporate cash, the 2026 midterms are projected by <a href="https://adimpact.com/political-projections-26">AdImpact</a> to generate an unprecedented $11.6 billion in advertising spending &#8212; eclipsing the $8.9 billion spent in 2022 and surpassing even the $11.2 billion spent during the 2024 presidential cycle.</p><p>Consider how many schools or hospitals that could build.</p><p>Crypto companies, online betting platforms, and dark-money groups are helping push the total higher &#8212; even as traditional television continues to devour roughly 70% of the pie.</p><p><strong>The Cost of a Seat in Congress</strong></p><p>The $11.6 billion covers advertising alone. Political committees will spend billions more on staff, field operations, travel, technology, legal compliance, and the rest of the machinery required to win an election.</p><p>Historically, a comprehensive campaign budget breaks down roughly like this:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Media and advertising (60&#8211;65%):</strong> Production and airtime across broadcast television, streaming platforms, digital media, and influencer networks.</p></li><li><p><strong>Field operations and voter outreach (15&#8211;20%):</strong> Local offices, canvassing operations, door-knocking software, text-messaging systems, and printed literature.</p></li><li><p><strong>Staff salaries and consulting (10&#8211;15%):</strong> Campaign managers, press secretaries, digital strategists, pollsters, and the compliance lawyers who keep it all legal.</p></li><li><p><strong>Travel and logistics (about 5%):</strong> Flights, rally venues, hotels, transportation, and security as candidates crisscross contested territory.</p></li></ul><p>The money isn&#8217;t distributed evenly. It is concentrated in the states where control of Congress will actually be decided. Analysts at <a href="https://www.scale-marketing.com/blog/the-state-of-media-in-2026-navigating-a-midterm-election/">Scale Marketing</a> point to a steep geographic divide:</p><ul><li><p><strong>California (about $1.1 billion):</strong> The most expensive state by far, thanks to a crowded field of House races and some of the nation&#8217;s costliest media markets.</p></li><li><p><strong>The $500 Million Club:</strong> Texas, Georgia, Michigan, New York, and North Carolina are each on pace to approach or exceed $500 million.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Late Surgers:</strong> Arizona, Nevada, and New Jersey are seeing sharp late-cycle increases as House races tighten, while Illinois and Ohio could climb further if their contests remain close.</p></li></ul><p>The projected total is $11.6 billion &#8212; give or take a few million.</p><p>It is a billionaires&#8217; ball, indeed. And influencers, however late they arrived at the party, have brought their own two-step: enormous reach paired with virtually no disclosure.</p><p>They may yet dance away with the night.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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influencers pagados se han convertido en una herramienta extraordinariamente eficaz &#8212;y extraordinariamente moderna&#8212; de la pol&#237;tica electoral: gana importancia, gana visibilidad y, lo mejor de todo, permanece casi totalmente al margen de las regulaciones. </p><p>Nadie puede calcular con certeza qu&#233; tajada se est&#225;n llevando del gasto publicitario de este ciclo electoral. Pero no cabe duda que una sola publicaci&#243;n bien colocada puede llegar a m&#225;s personas que una campa&#241;a televisiva de cinco cifras, por una fracci&#243;n del costo.</p><p>Una reciente investigaci&#243;n de <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/us/politics/campaigns-paid-influencers.html">The New York Times</a> revel&#243; c&#243;mo las campa&#241;as est&#225;n esquivando a los medios tradicionales y contratando a creadores de contenido como &#8220;pistoleros a sueldo&#8221; para influir sobre los votantes. La legislaci&#243;n electoral federal presenta enormes vac&#237;os cuando se trata de rastrear a los subcontratistas digitales, de modo que los pagos circulan por una zona gris regulatoria: el dinero pasa de una campa&#241;a a una firma de estrategia digital, luego a una agencia de talentos y, finalmente, al creador.</p><p>Tres saltos, con negaci&#243;n plausible al final de cada uno.</p><p><strong>&#191;El resultado? Millones de votantes escuchan a influencers en quienes conf&#237;an, sin saber que est&#225;n consumiendo propaganda electoral pagada por operadores pol&#237;ticos.</strong></p><p>Este auge de los influencers es apenas la punta del iceberg. Impulsadas por las re&#241;idas contiendas por el control del Congreso y una avalancha de dinero corporativo, las elecciones legislativas de 2026 generar&#225;n, seg&#250;n las proyecciones de <a href="https://adimpact.com/political-projections-26">AdImpact</a>, una cifra sin precedentes: 11.600 millones de d&#243;lares en publicidad. Esto supera los 8.900 millones gastados en 2022 e incluso los 11.200 millones invertidos durante el ciclo presidencial de 2024.</p><p>Pensemos cu&#225;ntas escuelas u hospitales podr&#237;an construirse con ese dinero.</p><p>Las empresas de criptomonedas, las plataformas de apuestas en l&#237;nea y los grupos financiados con dinero oscuro est&#225;n ayudando a elevar la cifra, aunque la televisi&#243;n tradicional contin&#250;a devorando aproximadamente el 70% del pastel.</p><p><strong>El precio de un esca&#241;o en el Congreso</strong></p><p>Los 11.600 millones de d&#243;lares cubren &#250;nicamente la publicidad. Los comit&#233;s pol&#237;ticos gastar&#225;n miles de millones adicionales en personal, operaciones sobre el terreno, viajes, tecnolog&#237;a, cumplimiento legal y toda la maquinaria necesaria para ganar unas elecciones.</p><p>Hist&#243;ricamente, el presupuesto integral de una campa&#241;a se distribuye aproximadamente de la siguiente manera:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Medios y publicidad (60&#8211;65%):</strong> Producci&#243;n y compra de espacios en televisi&#243;n abierta y por cable, plataformas de <em>streaming</em>, medios digitales y redes de influencers.</p></li><li><p><strong>Operaciones sobre el terreno y contacto con los votantes (15&#8211;20%):</strong> Oficinas locales, brigadas de campa&#241;a, programas para organizar visitas puerta a puerta, sistemas de mensajes de texto y material impreso.</p></li><li><p><strong>Salarios y consultor&#237;a (10&#8211;15%):</strong> Directores de campa&#241;a, secretarios de prensa, estrategas digitales, encuestadores y los abogados responsables de mantenerlo todo dentro de la legalidad.</p></li><li><p><strong>Viajes y log&#237;stica (alrededor del 5%):</strong> Vuelos, recintos para m&#237;tines, hoteles, transporte y seguridad mientras los candidatos recorren los territorios en disputa.</p></li></ul><p>El dinero no se distribuye de manera uniforme. Se concentra en los estados donde realmente se decidir&#225; el control del Congreso. Los analistas de <a href="https://www.scale-marketing.com/blog/the-state-of-media-in-2026-navigating-a-midterm-election/">Scale Marketing</a> se&#241;alan una marcada divisi&#243;n geogr&#225;fica:</p><ul><li><p><strong>California (alrededor de 1.100 millones de d&#243;lares):</strong> El estado m&#225;s costoso debido a la gran cantidad de contiendas por la C&#225;mara de Representantes y a algunos de los mercados publicitarios m&#225;s caros del pa&#237;s.</p></li><li><p><strong>El Club de los 500 Millones:</strong> Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Nueva York y Carolina del Norte avanzan hacia cifras cercanas o superiores a los 500 millones de d&#243;lares cada uno.</p></li><li><p><strong>Los que se incorporan tarde:</strong> Arizona, Nevada y Nueva Jersey est&#225;n registrando fuertes aumentos a medida que se estrechan las contiendas por la C&#225;mara, mientras que Illinois y Ohio podr&#237;an subir a&#250;n m&#225;s si sus elecciones contin&#250;an re&#241;idas.</p></li></ul><p>La proyecci&#243;n total es de 11.600 millones de d&#243;lares, mill&#243;n m&#225;s, mill&#243;n menos.</p><p>Es, en efecto, un gran baile de multimillonarios. Y los influencers, por tarde que hayan llegado a la fiesta, han tra&#237;do su reguet&#243;n sin barreras ni regulaciones.</p><p>Puede que terminen adue&#241;&#225;ndose de la noche.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Rename Lake Ontario.</p><p>He landed&#8212;where else?&#8212;on <strong>Lake America</strong>.</p><p>Simple. Very silly.</p><p>It&#8217;s geographically illiterate, given that half the shoreline belongs to a sovereign country that was never consulted. Trump&#8217;s executive order can change the name in the U.S. federal geographic naming system, but it cannot rename Canada&#8217;s half of the lake&#8212;or force Canada, international organizations, mapmakers, or the rest of the world to play along.</p><p>But why let cartography get in the way of a tantrum?</p><p>It&#8217;s not his first imaginary conquest this year. Weeks earlier, the Strait of Hormuz became American territory&#8212;a claim with roughly the same legal standing as a child declaring the neighbor&#8217;s yard &#8220;mine&#8221; because he can see it from his window.</p><p>Before that came Greenland: a country he wanted to buy, annex, or simply will into the Union through repetition.</p><p>And who remembers when Mexico was supposed to pay for the border wall?</p><p>As always, a choir of sycophants clapped.</p><p>Every time.</p><p>That should worry you more than the renaming itself&#8212;not the tantrum, but the galaxy of aides, anchors, and assorted courtiers who have built careers on nodding along, none of whom will ever say:</p><p>&#8220;Sir, that&#8217;s a lake, not a foreign policy.&#8221;</p><p>We&#8217;ve been here before. The same administration renamed the Gulf of Mexico the &#8220;Gulf of America,&#8221; and the base went into full ecstasy&#8212;bumper stickers, chyrons, the whole liturgy.</p><p>Now? Barely a mention.</p><p>It fixed nothing because it was never meant to fix anything. It simply evaporated, as every sugar high eventually does.</p><p>The naked emperor. The echo chamber. The elephant in the room. Pick your metaphor&#8212;the result is the same collective cowardice.</p><p>Everyone sees it.</p><p>Everyone compliments the tailoring.</p><p>But perhaps there is another solution: someone with <em>cojones</em> could look him straight in the eye, take him firmly by the hand, and say:</p><p>&#8220;Enough is enough. Let&#8217;s change your diaper&#8212;it&#8217;s wetter than Lake Ontario.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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alg&#250;n punto entre su tercer Big Mac, su cuarto helado y su quinto agravio del d&#237;a, el culicagado m&#225;s grande y poderoso del mundo volvi&#243; a enfadarse con Canad&#225;.</p><p>Otra vez.</p><p>&#191;La soluci&#243;n? Cambiarle el nombre al lago Ontario.</p><p>Y se decidi&#243; por <strong>lago Am&#233;rica</strong>. &#161;Qu&#233; original!</p><p>Sencill&#243;n y  bobito. </p><p>La ocurrencia revela una ignorancia geogr&#225;fica monumental, dado que la mitad de sus orillas pertenece a un pa&#237;s soberano al que nadie se molest&#243; en consultar. La orden ejecutiva de Trump puede cambiar el nombre dentro del sistema geogr&#225;fico oficial de Estados Unidos, pero no puede rebautizar la mitad canadiense del lago, ni obligar a Canad&#225;, a los organismos internacionales, a los cart&#243;grafos ni  al resto del mundo a seguirle el juego.</p><p>Pero &#191;por qu&#233; permitir que la cartograf&#237;a impida un berrinche?</p><p>No es su primera conquista imaginaria del a&#241;o. Semanas antes, el estrecho de Ormuz se convirti&#243; en territorio estadounidense: una proclamaci&#243;n con aproximadamente la misma validez jur&#237;dica que la de un ni&#241;o que declara que el jard&#237;n del vecino es suyo porque puede verlo desde la ventana.</p><p>Antes de eso vino Groenlandia: un pa&#237;s que quiso comprar, anexionar o sencillamente incorporar a la Uni&#243;n a fuerza de repetirlo.</p><p>&#191;Y qui&#233;n recuerda cuando M&#233;xico iba a pagar por el muro fronterizo?</p><p>Como siempre, un coro de aduladores aplaudi&#243;.</p><p>Cada vez.</p><p>Eso deber&#237;a preocuparnos m&#225;s que el cambio de nombre: no la perreta en s&#237;, sino la constelaci&#243;n de asesores, presentadores y cortesanos de toda &#237;ndole que han hecho carrera asintiendo obedientemente, ninguno de los cuales se atrever&#225; jam&#225;s a decirle:</p><p>&#8220;Se&#241;or, eso es un lago, no una pol&#237;tica exterior&#8221;.</p><p>Ya hemos pasado por esto. La misma administraci&#243;n rebautiz&#243; el golfo de M&#233;xico como &#8220;golfo de Am&#233;rica&#8221;, y la base entr&#243; en pleno &#233;xtasis: calcoman&#237;as los autos, titulares televisivos, todos los fierros.</p><p>&#191;Y ahora? Apenas se menciona.</p><p>No arregl&#243; nada porque nunca estuvo destinado a arreglar nada. Sencillamente se evapor&#243;, como terminan evapor&#225;ndose todos los subidones de az&#250;car.</p><p>El emperador desnudo. La c&#225;mara de resonancia. El elefante en la habitaci&#243;n. Sobran las met&#225;foras, pero el resultado no cambia. Se le conoce como cobard&#237;a colectiva.</p><p>Todos lo ven.</p><p>Todos elogian el traje.</p><p>Pero quiz&#225; exista otra soluci&#243;n: que alguien con cojones lo mire directamente a los ojos, lo tome firmemente de la mano y le diga:</p><p>&#8220;Ya basta. Vamos a cambiarte ese pa&#241;al, que est&#225; m&#225;s mojado que el lago Ontario&#8221;.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pqNi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe56edacd-e531-4e83-a7d5-40b6ca352cc0_1536x1024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pqNi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe56edacd-e531-4e83-a7d5-40b6ca352cc0_1536x1024.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pqNi!, /__u/elmolinoonline.substack.com/w_424, /__u/elmolinoonline.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/elmolinoonline.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/elmolinoonline.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>From the Plesetsk Cosmodrome &#8212; reportedly targeted by Ukrainian drones just days earlier &#8212; Russia test-fired a mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile on August 28. The missile traveled more than 6,700 kilometers before striking designated targets at the Kura test site on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia&#8217;s Far East.</p><p>Although several outlets identified the missile as part of Russia&#8217;s RS-24 Yars system, the Russian Ministry of Defense did not disclose its model. It said the exercise was intended to verify the missile system&#8217;s tactical, technical, and flight characteristics while practicing the deployment of a mobile launcher battery. The training warheads reached their targets, and &#8220;all assigned tasks were completed in full.&#8221; <a href="https://unn.ua/en/news/russia-conducted-a-training-launch-of-an-intercontinental-ballistic-missile">1</a></p><p><strong>Part of a broader pattern</strong></p><p>The August launch appears to have been a standalone ICBM test. But it follows a much larger joint nuclear exercise conducted by Russia and Belarus in May, involving 64,000 troops, more than 200 missile launchers, over 140 aircraft, 73 surface warships, and 13 submarines.</p><p>During that exercise, Russia test-fired Yars and Sineva intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as shorter-range weapons, while Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko monitored the maneuvers remotely. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-nuclear-drill-belarus-ukraine-cce4ba1be04956f7a91222a24c61a819">2</a></p><p>Taken together, the exercises offer a chilling reminder that humanity possesses enough nuclear weapons to wipe itself out &#8212; or, at the very least, severely downgrade life, liberty, and the pursuit of anything beyond survival.</p><p>For perspective, here is the Nuclear Club.</p><p><strong>Number of nations: 9</strong> &#8212; United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel (undeclared but widely acknowledged), and North Korea.</p><p><strong>Estimated military stockpiles</strong> &#8212; Federation of American Scientists, 2026:</p><p>Russia 4,400 &#183; United States 3,700 &#183; China 620 &#183; France 290 &#183; United Kingdom 225 &#183; India 190 &#183; Pakistan 170 &#183; Israel 90 &#183; North Korea 60</p><p>That amounts to approximately <strong>9,745 warheads in military stockpiles</strong>. Add another 2,442 retired but still intact warheads awaiting dismantlement, and the worldwide inventory reaches approximately <strong>12,187</strong>. The United States and Russia alone hold about 86% of that total.</p><p>The explosive power of the weapons deliverable in a first strike exceeds 2,500 megatons &#8212; approximately 2.5 billion tons of TNT, or more than 160,000 Hiroshima bombs. That is still nowhere near the power of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. But unlike an asteroid striking a single location, nuclear weapons would be deliberately scattered across cities and strategic targets worldwide, spreading fire and radiation, collapsing societies, and potentially triggering a nuclear winter.</p><p>Those weapons can be delivered through a combination of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and long-range bombers: the three-pronged structure known as the nuclear triad.</p><p>The United States remains the only nation ever to have used nuclear weapons in war. Twice.</p><p>Hiroshima, August 6, 1945.</p><p>Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.</p><p>The Doomsday Clock, which scientists use to represent humanity&#8217;s proximity to global catastrophe, now stands at 85 seconds to midnight &#8212; the closest it has ever been. It was moved four seconds closer this past January.</p><p>So there you go. As the Grateful Dead sing:</p><p><em>&#8220;The wheel is turning and you can&#8217;t slow down<br>You can&#8217;t let go and you can&#8217;t hold on<br>You can&#8217;t go back and you can&#8217;t stand still<br>If the thunder don&#8217;t get you then the lightning will.&#8221;</em></p><p><strong>Sources:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://unn.ua/en/news/russia-conducted-a-training-launch-of-an-intercontinental-ballistic-missile"><span>UNN: Russia conducted a training launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/russia-flexes-its-nuclear-muscle-from-plesetsk/456833"><span>The Barents Observer: Russia flexes its nuclear muscle from Plesetsk</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/russia-yars-nuclear-missile-launch-plesetsk/"><span>Crypto Briefing: Russia Yars nuclear missile launch Plesetsk</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/anewztv/posts/russias-defence-ministry-released-footage-showing-the-launch-of-a-mobile-solid-f/122197905902397875/"><span>Facebook / A News: Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry footage of the launch</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/28/russian-military-conducts-mobile-icbm-test-a93601"><span>The Moscow Times: Russian military conducts mobile ICBM test</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/"><span>Federation of American Scientists: Status of World Nuclear Forces</span></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2026-statement/"><span>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 2026 Doomsday Clock Statement</span></a></p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Por si el mundo no te parece lo suficientemente aterrador ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rusia anuncia el lanzamiento exitoso de un misil bal&#237;stico intercontinental m&#243;vil de combustible s&#243;lido]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/por-si-el-mundo-no-te-parece-lo-suficientemente</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/por-si-el-mundo-no-te-parece-lo-suficientemente</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:50:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8hRo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6746b6a6-1151-4bf7-8625-0963ff481e41_1536x1024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8hRo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6746b6a6-1151-4bf7-8625-0963ff481e41_1536x1024.heic" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Desde el cosm&#243;dromo de Plesetsk &#8212; presuntamente atacado por drones ucranianos apenas unos d&#237;as antes &#8212; Rusia realiz&#243; el 28 de agosto una prueba con un misil bal&#237;stico intercontinental m&#243;vil de combustible s&#243;lido. El misil recorri&#243; m&#225;s de 6.700 kil&#243;metros antes de alcanzar los blancos designados en el pol&#237;gono de pruebas de Kura, en la pen&#237;nsula de Kamchatka, en el extremo oriental de Rusia.</p><p>Aunque varios medios identificaron el misil como parte del sistema ruso RS-24 Yars, el Ministerio de Defensa ruso no revel&#243; el modelo. Seg&#250;n explic&#243;, el ejercicio ten&#237;a por objeto verificar las caracter&#237;sticas t&#225;cticas, t&#233;cnicas y de vuelo del sistema, as&#237; como practicar el despliegue de una bater&#237;a m&#243;vil de lanzamiento. Las ojivas de entrenamiento alcanzaron sus blancos y &#171;todas las tareas asignadas se cumplieron en su totalidad&#187;. <a href="https://unn.ua/en/news/russia-conducted-a-training-launch-of-an-intercontinental-ballistic-missile">1</a></p><p><strong>Parte de un patr&#243;n m&#225;s amplio</strong></p><p>Todo parece indicar que el lanzamiento de agosto fue una prueba aislada de un misil bal&#237;stico intercontinental. Pero se produce apenas tres meses despu&#233;s de un ejercicio nuclear conjunto mucho mayor realizado por Rusia y Bielorrusia en mayo, en el que participaron 64.000 soldados, m&#225;s de 200 lanzadores de misiles, m&#225;s de 140 aeronaves, 73 buques de superficie y 13 submarinos.</p><p>Durante aquel ejercicio, Rusia lanz&#243; misiles bal&#237;sticos intercontinentales Yars y Sineva, adem&#225;s de armas de menor alcance, mientras Vlad&#237;mir Putin y el presidente bielorruso, Aleksandr Lukashenko, supervisaban las maniobras a distancia. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-nuclear-drill-belarus-ukraine-cce4ba1be04956f7a91222a24c61a819">2</a></p><p>Considerados en conjunto, estos ejercicios son un escalofriante recordatorio de que la humanidad posee suficientes armas nucleares para borrarnos de la faz de la Tierra &#8212; o, cuando menos, para degradar gravemente la vida, la libertad y la b&#250;squeda de cualquier cosa que no sea la m&#237;nima supervivencia.</p><p>Para ponerlo en perspectiva, presentamos al Club Nuclear.</p><p><strong>N&#250;mero de pa&#237;ses: 9</strong> &#8212; Estados Unidos, Rusia, China, Francia, Reino Unido, Pakist&#225;n, India, Israel (no declarado, pero ampliamente reconocido) y Corea del Norte.</p><p><strong>Arsenales militares estimados</strong> &#8212; Datos de la Federaci&#243;n de Cient&#237;ficos Estadounidenses, 2026:</p><p>Rusia 4.400 &#183; Estados Unidos 3.700 &#183; China 620 &#183; Francia 290 &#183; Reino Unido 225 &#183; India 190 &#183; Pakist&#225;n 170 &#183; Israel 90 &#183; Corea del Norte 60</p><p>Eso representa aproximadamente <strong>9.745 ojivas nucleares en arsenales militares</strong>. Si a&#241;adimos otras 2.442 ojivas retiradas pero todav&#237;a intactas y pendientes de ser desmanteladas, el inventario mundial asciende a unas <strong>12.187</strong>. Estados Unidos y Rusia poseen, por s&#237; solos, cerca del 86% de ese total.</p><p>La potencia explosiva de las armas disponibles para un primer ataque supera los 2.500 megatones &#8212; aproximadamente 2.500 millones de toneladas de TNT, o el equivalente a m&#225;s de 160.000 bombas como la de Hiroshima. Es cierto, no se acerca a la potencia del asteroide que acab&#243; con los dinosaurios. Pero, a diferencia de un asteroide que impacta en un solo lugar, las armas nucleares ser&#237;an deliberadamente esparcidas sobre ciudades y objetivos estrat&#233;gicos de todo el planeta, propagando fuego y radiaci&#243;n, provocando el colapso de sociedades enteras y, potencialmente, desencadenando un invierno nuclear.</p><p>Esas armas pueden ser lanzadas mediante una combinaci&#243;n de misiles bal&#237;sticos intercontinentales terrestres, misiles bal&#237;sticos disparados desde submarinos y bombarderos de largo alcance: la estructura de tres componentes conocida como la tr&#237;ada nuclear.</p><p>Estados Unidos contin&#250;a siendo el &#250;nico pa&#237;s que ha empleado armas nucleares en una guerra. Dos veces.</p><p>Hiroshima, 6 de agosto de 1945.</p><p>Nagasaki, 9 de agosto de 1945.</p><p>El Reloj del Juicio Final, utilizado por un grupo de cient&#237;ficos para representar la proximidad de la humanidad a una cat&#225;strofe mundial, marca ahora 85 segundos para la medianoche &#8212; lo m&#225;s cerca que ha estado jam&#225;s. El pasado enero fue adelantado otros cuatro segundos hacia la hora final.</p><p>Y as&#237; est&#225;n las cosas. </p><p>Como cantan los Grateful Dead:</p><p><em>&#8220;The wheel is turning and you can&#8217;t slow down<br>You can&#8217;t let go and you can&#8217;t hold on<br>You can&#8217;t go back and you can&#8217;t stand still<br>If the thunder don&#8217;t get you then the lightning will.&#8221;</em></p><p><strong>Fuentes:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://unn.ua/en/news/russia-conducted-a-training-launch-of-an-intercontinental-ballistic-missile">UNN: Russia conducted a training launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/russia-flexes-its-nuclear-muscle-from-plesetsk/456833">The Barents Observer: Russia flexes its nuclear muscle from Plesetsk</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/russia-yars-nuclear-missile-launch-plesetsk/">Crypto Briefing: Russia Yars nuclear missile launch Plesetsk</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/anewztv/posts/russias-defence-ministry-released-footage-showing-the-launch-of-a-mobile-solid-f/122197905902397875/">Facebook / A News: Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry footage of the launch</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/28/russian-military-conducts-mobile-icbm-test-a93601">The Moscow Times: Russian military conducts mobile ICBM test</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/">Federation of American Scientists: Status of World Nuclear Forces</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2026-statement/">Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 2026 Doomsday Clock Statement</a></p></li></ul>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[El verano de 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cuando la Pachamama nos recuerda que ella manda]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/el-verano-de-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/el-verano-de-2026</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:27:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/5p0qUmXGYzE" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="youtube2-5p0qUmXGYzE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5p0qUmXGYzE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5p0qUmXGYzE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>El terremoto de magnitud 7,4 que sacudi&#243; Colombia en agosto dej&#243; m&#225;s de 300 muertos y destruy&#243; m&#225;s de 12.000 viviendas. En Per&#250;, un sismo cerca de Huancayo se cobr&#243; al menos seis vidas. Y los dos terremotos que azotaron Venezuela cerca de Caracas &#8212;el desastre s&#237;smico m&#225;s mort&#237;fero del a&#241;o&#8212; causaron la muerte de m&#225;s de 6.100 personas.</p><p>Entonces lleg&#243; Rasuwa.</p><p>El 26 de agosto, una enorme masa de hielo y roca se desprendi&#243; de un glaciar cerca de la frontera entre Nepal y el T&#237;bet y se precipit&#243; sobre el r&#237;o Lhende, afluente del Bhote Koshi. El impacto desat&#243; una gigantesca avalancha de agua, hielo, lodo y escombros que arras&#243; todo a su paso r&#237;o abajo, pr&#225;cticamente sin previo aviso.</p><p>&#171;Era una enorme oleada de lodo que ven&#237;a directamente hacia nosotros&#187;, record&#243; Keshav Prasad Baral, de 68 a&#241;os, quien vio c&#243;mo el torrente crec&#237;a por segundos antes de llevarse a su esposa. Contin&#250;a desaparecida.</p><p>Los sism&#243;grafos registraron inicialmente el impacto como un terremoto de magnitud 4,4. Pero el Servicio Geol&#243;gico de Estados Unidos corrigi&#243; posteriormente el registro: ninguna falla tect&#243;nica se hab&#237;a movido. Lo que los instrumentos hab&#237;an detectado era la enorme energ&#237;a liberada por el propio colapso del glaciar, un fen&#243;meno cuya magnitud fue recalculada en 5,2.</p><p>R&#237;o abajo, el Bhote Koshi aument&#243; su caudal hasta alcanzar aproximadamente cinco veces su nivel habitual. En Galchhi, a 100 kil&#243;metros de distancia, el r&#237;o Trishuli subi&#243; nueve metros en apenas 30 minutos. El torrente atraves&#243; Rasuwa y penetr&#243; en el distrito de Nuwakot &#8212;arrasando Trishuli, Devighat y Bidur&#8212; y se llev&#243; consigo puentes, carreteras, viviendas y comunidades enteras.</p><p>Alrededor de 430 megavatios de capacidad generadora &#8212;casi una octava parte del total de Nepal&#8212; quedaron fuera de servicio al resultar da&#241;adas varias centrales hidroel&#233;ctricas a lo largo del r&#237;o.</p><p>Lo que hizo particularmente aterradora esta cat&#225;strofe fue que no hab&#237;a llovido. Hatim Sharif, hidr&#243;logo de la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio, explic&#243; que la ausencia de precipitaciones &#171;anula pr&#225;cticamente todos los sistemas operativos de alerta de inundaciones del mundo&#187;. Para cuando apareci&#243; el torrente, ya era demasiado tarde. El lodo y el agua avanzaban con la fuerza y la densidad del &#171;hormig&#243;n l&#237;quido&#187;.</p><p>El n&#250;mero de v&#237;ctimas contin&#250;a aumentando y las estimaciones cambian a cada hora. Hasta el 27 de agosto, Al Jazeera informaba de m&#225;s de 270 muertos y m&#225;s de 1.500 desaparecidos en Nepal y el T&#237;bet, entre ellos m&#225;s de 800 turistas extranjeros. Es casi seguro que esas cifras seguir&#225;n aumentando.</p><p>Distinto mecanismo, misma escala de destrucci&#243;n. Y, seg&#250;n advierten los investigadores, no se trata de un fen&#243;meno excepcional. La regi&#243;n del Hindu Kush-Himalaya registr&#243; tres desbordamientos repentinos de lagos glaciares tan solo entre mayo y junio de 2025, frente a aproximadamente uno cada cinco o diez a&#241;os durante la d&#233;cada de 2000.</p><p>Es un recordatorio aleccionador de que el calentamiento del planeta est&#225; produciendo cat&#225;strofes que reproducen la huella destructiva de los terremotos, sin que se mueva una sola falla tect&#243;nica.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Just as we are growing accustomed to counting earthquakes above magnitude 7, images have begun arriving of yet another tragedy &#8212; different in cause but identical in form: devastation, human pain, and suffering.</p><p>Colombia&#8217;s magnitude-7.4 earthquake in August killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 12,000 homes. In Peru, an earthquake near Huancayo claimed at least six lives. And Venezuela&#8217;s twin earthquakes near Caracas &#8212; the deadliest seismic disaster of the year &#8212; killed more than 6,100 people.</p><p>Then came Rasuwa.</p><p>On August 26, a mass of ice and rock broke away from a glacier near the Nepal&#8211;Tibet border and crashed into the Lhende River, a tributary of the Bhote Koshi. The impact unleashed a massive surge of water, ice, mud, and debris that tore downstream with almost no warning.</p><p>&#8220;It was a huge gush of mud coming straight towards us,&#8221; recalled Keshav Prasad Baral, 68, who watched the torrent rise higher by the second before it swept away his wife. She remains missing.</p><p>Seismographs initially registered the shock as a magnitude-4.4 earthquake. But the US Geological Survey later corrected the record: no fault line had moved. What the instruments had detected was the tremendous energy released by the collapsing glacier itself &#8212; an event later measured at magnitude 5.2.</p><p>Downstream, the Bhote Koshi swelled to roughly five times its normal size. At Galchhi, 100 kilometers away, the Trishuli River rose nine meters in just 30 minutes. The torrent tore through Rasuwa and into Nuwakot district &#8212; through Trishuli, Devighat, and Bidur &#8212; carrying away bridges, highways, homes, and entire communities.</p><p>Roughly 430 megawatts of generating capacity &#8212; about one-eighth of Nepal&#8217;s total &#8212; went dark as hydropower plants along the river were damaged.</p><p>What made the disaster particularly terrifying was that there had been no rainfall beforehand. Hatim Sharif, a hydrologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said that absence of rain &#8220;defeats essentially every operational flood warning system in the world.&#8221; By the time the torrent appeared, it was already too late. The mud and water moved with the force and density of &#8220;liquid concrete.&#8221;</p><p>The toll continues to climb, and estimates change by the hour. As of August 27, Al Jazeera reported more than 270 people dead and over 1,500 missing across Nepal and Tibet, including more than 800 foreign tourists. Those figures will almost certainly rise.</p><p>Different mechanism, same scale of destruction &#8212; and, researchers warn, no freak occurrence. The Hindu Kush Himalaya region recorded three glacial lake outburst floods in May and June 2025 alone, compared with roughly one every five to ten years during the 2000s.</p><p>It is a humbling reminder that a warming planet is now producing disasters that mimic the destructive signature of earthquakes &#8212; without a fault line ever moving.</p><p>One editorial thought: <strong>&#8220;Then came Rasuwa&#8221;</strong> gives the piece a clean turn from the summer&#8217;s broader seismic devastation to the event you really want to examine. And &#8220;a warming planet&#8221; feels a little larger and more ominous than &#8220;a warming climate&#8221; in that final sentence.</p><p>The rapidly changing Nepal figures are supported by <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/27/nepal-tibet-floods-what-is-a-glacial-collapse-how-common-is-it?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Al Jazeera&#8217;s August 27 report</a>; the Venezuelan toll had reached 6,125 by August 3, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/death-toll-venezuela-june-earthquakes-tops-6000-2026-08-03/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Reuters</a>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Israel?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will the Jewish State Go the Way of the Kingdom of Jerusalem?]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/whither-israel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/whither-israel</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:25:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZQiG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc719c32d-fc2a-4d40-a8c2-d00681cb1c2c_1536x1024.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZQiG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc719c32d-fc2a-4d40-a8c2-d00681cb1c2c_1536x1024.heic" 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1099, European knights fresh from the First Crusade captured Jerusalem and founded a kingdom that, in one form or another, would survive for nearly two hundred years. Ruled by Latin Christians known throughout the region as Franks, the Kingdom of Jerusalem looked unbeatable&#8212;until it wasn&#8217;t.</p><p>In July 1187, Saladin&#8212;a Kurdish general who had accomplished what few thought possible by uniting rival Muslim forces that had spent nearly as much energy fighting one another as fighting the Franks&#8212;destroyed the kingdom&#8217;s field army at the Battle of Hattin.</p><p>Jerusalem fell that October.</p><p>Most inhabitants who could pay a ransom were allowed to leave, which was a pointed contrast to the massacre the Crusaders had carried out when they captured the city in 1099.</p><p>At sunrise at Hattin, the Kingdom of Jerusalem still possessed the army on which its survival depended. By sunset, its military power had been shattered. From that moment on, history knew it was only a matter of time.</p><p>Fast-forward.</p><p>Israel, a state built and defended with extraordinary and sustained backing from a superpower an ocean away, has spent decades expanding its control over land that has been fought over again and again.</p><p>Israel expanded until, for the first time in decades, it encountered an adversary it could neither quickly subdue nor permanently deter: Iran.</p><p>Iran never accepted the legitimacy of the regional order, fought back, and in the wars of 2025 and 2026 handed both Israel and the United States a bill nobody had budgeted for. Munitions that took years to manufacture were burned through in weeks. American radar and air-defense systems were damaged at U.S. bases in the Gulf. And despite all the firepower directed at Iran, its government remains in place, its uranium stockpile has not been eliminated, and much of its missile force remains capable of striking back.</p><p>That is not the quick campaign promised at the beginning of the conflict. It is, however, the kind of outcome that makes generals rewrite doctrine and congressional committees prepare hearings.</p><p>But there is more.</p><p>The conflict has also turned Washington&#8217;s virtually unquestioning support for Israel into a live issue in American politics. Despite attempts to dismiss such criticism as antisemitic, voters are increasingly tired of writing checks for wars that do not end as promised.</p><p>And then there is Gaza, a war waged with American weapons and dollars, documented across every social-media platform, and grave enough that the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israel&#8217;s prime minister and former defense minister over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.</p><p>All of this opens the door for Turkey to assume a more assertive regional role. Some prominent Israeli political figures are already describing Turkey as &#8220;the new Iran.&#8221;Turkey is NATO&#8217;s second-largest army, possesses a rapidly expanding defense industry, and no affection for Israel.</p><p>A thousand years is a long interval, and historical analogies are never carbon copies. Nor are they meant to be.</p><p>The point is narrower: history has shown time and again that nothing that looks eternal actually is. A kingdom, an empire, an alliance, or a regional order can appear unshakeable at sundown and look very different by morning.</p><p>That what the historical record shows.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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1099, caballeros europeos victoriosos en la Primera Cruzada conquistaron Jerusal&#233;n y fundaron un reino que, bajo distintas formas, sobrevivir&#237;a durante casi doscientos a&#241;os. Gobernado por cristianos latinos, conocidos en toda la regi&#243;n como francos, el Reino de Jerusal&#233;n parec&#237;a invencible&#8230; hasta que dej&#243; de serlo.</p><p>En julio de 1187, Saladino destruy&#243; al ej&#233;rcito del reino en la batalla de Hattin. Este general kurdo hab&#237;a logrado unir a fuerzas musulmanas rivales que hab&#237;an quemado su energ&#237;a combatiendo  entre s&#237;. Los moviliz&#243; contra los francos</p><p>Jerusal&#233;n cay&#243; en octubre.</p><p>A la mayor&#237;a de los habitantes que pod&#237;an pagar un rescate se les permiti&#243; abandonar la ciudad, en marcado contraste con la matanza perpetrada por los propios cruzados cuando la conquistaron en 1099.</p><p>Al amanecer en Hattin, el Reino de Jerusal&#233;n todav&#237;a conservaba el ej&#233;rcito del que depend&#237;a su supervivencia. Al caer el sol, su poder militar hab&#237;a quedado destrozado. A partir de ese momento, la historia supo que solo era cuesti&#243;n de tiempo.</p><p>Salto hasta el presente.</p><p>Israel, un Estado construido y defendido con el respaldo extraordinario y constante de una superpotencia situada al otro lado del oc&#233;ano, lleva d&#233;cadas expandiendo su control sobre tierras disputadas una y otra vez.</p><p>Israel ha seguido avanzando hasta que, por primera vez en d&#233;cadas, encontr&#243; un adversario al que no pod&#237;a someter r&#225;pidamente ni disuadir de manera permanente: Ir&#225;n.</p><p>Ir&#225;n jam&#225;s acept&#243; la legitimidad del orden regional, respondi&#243; militarmente y, en las guerras de 2025 y 2026, les pas&#243; tanto a Israel como a Estados Unidos una factura que nadie hab&#237;a presupuestado. Municiones que tardaron a&#241;os en fabricarse se consumieron en cuesti&#243;n de semanas. Radares y sistemas de defensa antia&#233;rea estadounidenses fueron reducidos a chatarra en bases norteamericanas del Golfo. Y, a pesar de que desencadenaran una potencia destructiva total en su contra, el gobierno de Ir&#225;n sigue en pie, sus reservas de uranio no han sido eliminadas y buena parte de su arsenal de misiles conserva la capacidad de contraatacar.</p><p>Esta no fue la campa&#241;a rel&#225;mpago prometida al comienzo del conflicto. Es la clase de resultado que obliga a los generales a reescribir sus doctrinas y a los comit&#233;s del Congreso a preparar audiencias.</p><p>Pero hay m&#225;s.</p><p>El conflicto tambi&#233;n ha convertido el apoyo pr&#225;cticamente incondicional de Washington a Israel en un tema de debate real dentro de la pol&#237;tica estadounidense. A pesar de los intentos de descalificar toda cr&#237;tica tach&#225;ndola de antisemita, los votantes est&#225;n cada vez m&#225;s cansados de firmar cheques para financiar guerras que no terminan como se les prometi&#243;.</p><p>Y luego est&#225; Gaza: una guerra librada con armas y dinero estadounidenses, documentada en todas las plataformas sociales, de tal gravedad que la Corte Penal Internacional ha emitido &#243;rdenes de arresto contra el primer ministro de Israel y su exministro de Defensa por presuntos cr&#237;menes de guerra y de lesa humanidad.</p><p>Todo esto le abre la puerta a Turqu&#237;a para asumir un papel regional mucho m&#225;s firme. Algunas figuras destacadas de la pol&#237;tica israel&#237; ya describen a Turqu&#237;a como &#171;el nuevo Ir&#225;n&#187;. Turqu&#237;a pos&#233;e  el segundo ej&#233;rcito m&#225;s grande de la OTAN, una industria armament&#237;stica en r&#225;pida expansi&#243;n y no esconde su antipat&#237;a por Israel.</p><p>Mil a&#241;os son un intervalo muy largo, y las analog&#237;as hist&#243;ricas nunca son copias calcadas. Tampoco pretenden serlo.</p><p>La idea es mucho m&#225;s concreta: la historia ha demostrado una y otra vez que nada de lo que parece eterno lo es en realidad. Un reino, un imperio, una alianza o un orden regional pueden parecer inquebrantables al caer la tarde y ofrecer un aspecto muy distinto al amanecer.</p><p>Esto es, sencillamente, lo que demuestra el registro de la historia.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Now the Wild Horses.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greed Does Not Respect Life]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/first-the-native-peoples-now-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/first-the-native-peoples-now-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:12:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y22X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feae96e83-beb9-4b2e-b68a-0f56ba222f4b_1774x887.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y22X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feae96e83-beb9-4b2e-b68a-0f56ba222f4b_1774x887.heic" 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are witnessing a government-enabled massacre of wild horses and burros in the American West.</p><p>An estimated 85,000 wild horses and burros still roam across millions of acres of public rangeland in the American West. Many are descended from horses brought to the Americas by Spanish explorers beginning in the 1500s, later joined by animals released or escaped from ranches, Native tribes, and the U.S. cavalry.</p><p>Congress declared them &#8220;living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West&#8221; in the <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/about-the-program?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971</a>. The law placed them under federal protection and prohibited their commercial slaughter.</p><p>But as the system has shown time and again, greed does not respect the letter&#8212;or the spirit&#8212;of the law.</p><p>A <em>New York Times</em> investigation published August 20, 2026, found that those protections are being gutted through a provision known as &#8220;sale authority.&#8221;</p><p>When the Bureau of Land Management removes horses from the range, it can place them for adoption. Under that process, the adopter must care for the animal for at least a year before receiving title, and the BLM retains some oversight during that period.</p><p>Sale authority is different.</p><p>Created by the 2004 Burns Amendment, it allows the BLM to sell certain horses and burros outright, with few meaningful restrictions. Once the sale is completed, the animals immediately lose their status as federally protected wild horses or burros.</p><p>Buyers can then flip them almost immediately.</p><p>Investigators traced hundreds of animals sold this way into the slaughter pipeline, eventually destined for foreign horsemeat markets. The United States no longer operates horse slaughterhouses, but American horses can still be shipped across the border to be killed in Canada or Mexico.</p><p>One Ohio livestock trader alone reportedly acquired roughly 500 mustangs from the BLM. In 2025, the agency sold approximately 3,700 wild horses and burros&#8212;more than double the previous year and a record the agency has not meaningfully explained.</p><p>These are protected animals, sold by the very government charged with protecting them, into a pipeline the original federal law was written to prevent.</p><p>There is already legislation before Congress that could stop it. The bipartisan SAFE Act&#8212;the Save America&#8217;s Forgotten Equines Act&#8212;would permanently ban horse slaughter for human consumption in the United States and prohibit the export of American horses for slaughter abroad.</p><h2>Help the Horses</h2><p><strong><a href="https://returntofreedom.org/">Return to Freedom: American Wild Horse Sanctuary</a></strong><br>Operates a dedicated advocacy arm, Wild Horse Rangers.</p><p>P.O. Box 926<br>Lompoc, CA 93438<br>Phone: (805) 737-9246</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.americanwildhorse.org/get-involved/action-center">American Wild Horse Conservation</a></strong><br>Leading the current campaign to &#8220;Close the Horse Slaughter Pipeline&#8221; and providing action alerts directed at Congress and the White House.</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:contact@americanwildhorse.org">contact@americanwildhorse.org</a></p><p>You can also contact your own U.S. representative and senators directly and ask them to cosponsor and pass the SAFE Act.</p><p>These animals have survived conquest, displacement, war, and the fencing-off of the lands they once roamed freely.</p><p>Whether they survive human greed is now up to us.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Ahora, los potros salvajes.]]></title><description><![CDATA[La codicia no respeta la vida]]></description><link>https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/primero-los-pueblos-originarios-ahora</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/p/primero-los-pueblos-originarios-ahora</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CARLOS TORRES]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:12:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!paBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66d28e12-4827-4986-8ef0-1d8d393e19a3_1774x887.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!paBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66d28e12-4827-4986-8ef0-1d8d393e19a3_1774x887.heic" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Estamos presenciando una matanza de caballos salvajes y burros facilitada por el propio gobierno en el Oeste estadounidense.</p><p>Se calcula que unos 85.000 caballos salvajes y burros viven en total libertad recorriendo millones de acres de tierras p&#250;blicas en el Oeste de Estados Unidos. Muchos descienden de los equinos que trajeron a Am&#233;rica los conquistadores espa&#241;oles a partir del siglo XVI, a los que con el tiempo se sumaron animales escapados o liberados por rancheros, pueblos ind&#237;genas y la misma caballer&#237;a estadounidense.</p><p>El Congreso los declar&#243; &#171;s&#237;mbolos vivientes del esp&#237;ritu hist&#243;rico y pionero del Oeste&#187; en la <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/about-the-program">Ley de Caballos y Burros Salvajes en Libertad de 1971</a>. La ley los coloc&#243; bajo protecci&#243;n federal y prohibi&#243; sacrificarlos y comercializar su carne.</p><p>Pero, como el sistema ha demostrado una y otra vez, la codicia no respeta ni la letra ni el esp&#237;ritu de la ley.</p><p>Una investigaci&#243;n del <em>New York Times</em>, publicada el 20 de agosto de 2026, revel&#243; que esas protecciones est&#225;n siendo desmanteladas mediante una disposici&#243;n conocida como <em>sale authority</em>, o &#171;autoridad de venta&#187;.</p><p>Cuando la Oficina de Administraci&#243;n de Tierras &#8212;el Bureau of Land Management, o BLM&#8212; retira caballos de las praderas, puede entregarlos en adopci&#243;n. Bajo ese sistema, el adoptante debe cuidar al animal durante al menos un a&#241;o antes de recibir el t&#237;tulo de propiedad. Durante ese periodo, el BLM conserva cierto grado de supervisi&#243;n.</p><p>La &#171;autoridad de venta&#187; es otra cosa.</p><p>Creada por la Enmienda Burns de 2004, permite al BLM vender directamente determinados caballos y burros, pr&#225;cticamente sin restricciones. Una vez finalizada la venta, los animales dejan de ser considerados caballos o burros salvajes protegidos por el gobierno federal.</p><p>Los compradores pueden entonces revenderlos casi de inmediato.</p><p>Los investigadores siguieron el rastro de cientos de animales vendidos de esta manera hasta la cadena de mataderos, con destino final en los mercados extranjeros de carne de caballo. Estados Unidos ya no cuenta con mataderos equinos en funcionamiento, pero los caballos estadounidenses todav&#237;a pueden ser enviados a Canad&#225; o M&#233;xico para ser sacrificados.</p><p>Un solo comerciante de ganado de Ohio adquiri&#243; unos 500 mustangs del BLM. En 2025, la agencia vendi&#243; aproximadamente 3.700 caballos salvajes y burros &#8212;m&#225;s del doble que el a&#241;o anterior&#8212;, una cifra r&#233;cord que no ha explicado de manera convincente.</p><p>Son animales protegidos, vendidos por el mismo gobierno encargado de protegerlos e introducidos en una cadena de muerte que la ley federal original hab&#237;a sido redactada precisamente para impedir.</p><p>Ya existe en el Congreso una propuesta que podr&#237;a detenerlo. La bipartidista Ley SAFE &#8212;siglas en ingl&#233;s de Ley para Salvar a los Equinos Olvidados de Estados Unidos&#8212; prohibir&#237;a permanentemente la matanza de caballos para consumo humano dentro del pa&#237;s, as&#237; como la exportaci&#243;n de caballos estadounidenses para ser sacrificados en el extranjero.</p><p>Solo hace falta suficiente presi&#243;n p&#250;blica para que sea aprobada.</p><h2>Proteger a los Potros </h2><p><strong><a href="https://returntofreedom.org/">Return to Freedom: American Wild Horse Sanctuary</a></strong><br>Mantiene una secci&#243;n dedicada a la defensa de estos animales, conocida como Wild Horse Rangers.</p><p>P.O. Box 926<br>Lompoc, CA 93438<br>Tel&#233;fono: (805) 737-9246</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.americanwildhorse.org/get-involved/action-center">American Wild Horse Conservation</a></strong><br>Encabeza la actual campa&#241;a para &#171;cerrar la cadena de mataderos de caballos&#187; y ofrece mecanismos para enviar mensajes directamente al Congreso y a la Casa Blanca.</p><p>Correo electr&#243;nico: <a href="mailto:contact@americanwildhorse.org">contact@americanwildhorse.org</a></p><p>Tambi&#233;n puede comunicarse directamente con sus representantes y senadores en Washington y pedirles que copatrocinen y aprueben la Ley SAFE.</p><p>Estos animales han sobrevivido a la conquista, el despojo, las guerras y el cercado de las tierras que antes recorr&#237;an libremente.</p><p>Que sobrevivan a nuestra codicia depende ahora de nosotros.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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And what &#8220;common ground&#8221; could possibly exist between a man who claims to represent the people and Trump&#8217;s chief beneficiary of nepotism&#8212;a serially unsuccessful fixer?</p><p>For the record, Jeffries insists that no one in Trump&#8217;s orbit who warrants investigation will get a pass. He has even taken to calling the first family&#8217;s business operation the &#8220;Trump Cartel.&#8221; But while he publicly frames the meeting as a discussion of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6048235-jeffries-kushner-meeting-backlash/">domestic affordability</a>, much of the Democratic base is demanding accountability&#8212;not a backroom conversation.</p><p>Did they discuss support for Israel? Israeli officials have openly criticized New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other progressive Democrats, while Jeffries remains a major recipient of AIPAC-aligned money. If that subject came up behind closed doors, this backchannel could sound the death knell for Jeffries&#8217;s ambitions to lead a unified Democratic majority.</p><p>Kushner, operating under the ridiculous title of &#8220;<a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-opens-sweeping-investigation-into-us-special-envoy-for-peace-jared-kushner-s-foreign-entanglements-and-staggering-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=chatgpt.com">U.S. Special Envoy for Peace</a>,&#8221; brings a toxic diplomatic legacy to any table. His Middle East strategy, which betrayed the Palestinian cause in order to broker the so-called Abraham Accords, is widely viewed by the Democratic base as a failed doctrine that helped pave the way for the current <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8eiOgo0fk">disaster in Gaza</a>.</p><p>He also led the <a href="https://www.ms.now/opinion/jared-kushner-trump-iran-war-netanyahu-witkoff">prewar nuclear negotiations with Iran</a>, talks that collapsed and gave way to the shooting war that followed. And his years-old but still damning remark that Gaza&#8217;s &#8220;waterfront property&#8221; could be &#8220;very valuable&#8221; for redevelopment continues to horrify human rights advocates.</p><p>For Jeffries to quietly align himself with Kushner&#8217;s agenda on Israel and Iran would constitute a profound betrayal of the surging anti-war, progressive, and DSA wings of his caucus.</p><p>Beyond diplomacy, the meeting risks compromising the credibility of future House oversight before it even begins. Democratic Representatives <a href="https://www.ms.now/opinion/hakeem-jeffries-jared-kushner-meeting-democrats-plan">Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia</a> have already laid the groundwork for major investigations into Kushner&#8217;s post&#8211;White House dealings&#8212;including the $2 billion investment his firm received from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and a fast-tracked, deeply controversial real estate project in Albania.</p><p>By holding a private meeting with Kushner in Manhattan, Jeffries risks undercutting his own party&#8217;s investigators before they have issued a single subpoena.</p><p>Voters are increasingly rejecting &#8220;Corporate Democrats&#8221; who traffic in smoke and mirrors while the Trump administration escalates its right-wing agenda. With roughly ten weeks until Election Day, if Jeffries expects the grassroots to carry Democrats to a House majority&#8212;and himself to the Speaker&#8217;s chair next year&#8212;he needs to understand that the base wants a fighter, not a dealmaker who launders the reputation of Trump&#8217;s inner circle.</p><p>If Jeffries&#8217;s path to power runs through shielding Jared Kushner from accountability, his leadership is dead on arrival.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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reuni&#243;n secreta entre el l&#237;der de la minor&#237;a dem&#243;crata en la C&#225;mara de Representantes, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/jeffries-kushner-private-meeting.html">Hakeem Jeffries</a>, y Jared Kushner ha desatado un incendio dentro del Partido Dem&#243;crata y ha llevado a muchos a preguntarse: &#191;por qu&#233; reunirse con &#233;l? &#191;Y qu&#233; &#171;puntos en com&#250;n&#187; podr&#237;an existir entre un hombre que afirma representar al pueblo y el principal beneficiario del nepotismo de Trump, un componedor que ha fracasado una y otra vez?</p><p>Para que conste, Jeffries insiste en que nadie del entorno de Trump que deba ser investigado recibir&#225; un trato preferencial. Incluso ha comenzado a referirse a los negocios de la primera familia como el &#171;Cartel Trump&#187;. Pero mientras presenta p&#250;blicamente el encuentro como una conversaci&#243;n sobre el <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6048235-jeffries-kushner-meeting-backlash/">costo de vida</a>, buena parte de las bases dem&#243;cratas exige que se rindan cuentas, no conversaciones tras bambalinas.</p><p>&#191;Hablaron sobre el respaldo a Israel? Funcionarios israel&#237;es han criticado abiertamente al alcalde de Nueva York, Zohran Mamdani, y a otros dem&#243;cratas progresistas, mientras Jeffries contin&#250;a siendo uno de los principales receptores de dinero vinculado a AIPAC. Si ese tema se discuti&#243; en secreto, podr&#237;an comenzar a doblar las campanas por las aspiraciones de Jeffries de encabezar una mayor&#237;a dem&#243;crata unificada.</p><p>Kushner, quien opera bajo el absurdo t&#237;tulo de <a href="https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-opens-sweeping-investigation-into-us-special-envoy-for-peace-jared-kushner-s-foreign-entanglements-and-staggering-conflicts-of-interest">&#171;Enviado Especial de Estados Unidos para la Paz&#187;</a>, lleva consigo un nefasto legado diplom&#225;tico ta cualquier mesa de negociaciones. Su estrategia para Oriente Medio, o la traici&#243;n de la causa palestina con el prop&#243;sito de negociar los Acuerdos de Abraham, es considerada por amplios sectores de las bases dem&#243;cratas una doctrina fracasada que contribuy&#243; a preparar el terreno para el actual <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8eiOgo0fk">desastre en Gaza</a>.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n encabez&#243; las <a href="https://www.ms.now/opinion/jared-kushner-trump-iran-war-netanyahu-witkoff">negociaciones nucleares con Ir&#225;n previas a la guerra</a>, conversaciones que fracasaron y dieron paso al conflicto armado que vino despu&#233;s. Y su comentario de hace ya varios a&#241;os sobre lo &#171;muy valiosos&#187; que podr&#237;an ser los terrenos frente al mar en Gaza para futuros proyectos inmobiliarios contin&#250;a horrorizando a los defensores de los derechos humanos.</p><p>Que Jeffries se alineara discretamente con la agenda de Kushner para Israel e Ir&#225;n constituir&#237;a una profunda y abierta traici&#243;n a los sectores pacifistas, progresistas y vinculados a los Socialistas Democr&#225;ticos de Am&#233;rica que cobran cada vez m&#225;s fuerza dentro de su bancada.</p><p>M&#225;s all&#225; de la diplomacia, la reuni&#243;n amenaza con comprometer la credibilidad de cualquier investigaci&#243;n por la C&#225;mara antes de que siquiera comience. Los representantes dem&#243;cratas <a href="https://www.ms.now/opinion/hakeem-jeffries-jared-kushner-meeting-democrats-plan">Jamie Raskin y Robert Garcia</a> ya han sentado las bases para importantes investigaciones sobre los negocios de Kushner tras su salida de la Casa Blanca, entre ellos la inversi&#243;n de 2.000 millones de d&#243;lares que su firma recibi&#243; del fondo soberano saud&#237; y un proyecto inmobiliario en Albania, aprobado por la v&#237;a r&#225;pida y rodeado de una enorme controversia.</p><p><span>Al celebrar una reuni&#243;n privada con Kushner en Manhattan, Jeffries corre el riesgo de </span><strong>quitarles los colmillos a los investigadores de su propio partido</strong><span> antes de que hayan emitido la primera citaci&#243;n.</span>.</p><p>Los votantes rechazan cada vez m&#225;s a los &#171;dem&#243;cratas corporativos&#187; que se dedican a los juegos de espejos mientras el gobierno de Trump intensifica su agenda fascista. A unas diez semanas de las elecciones, si Jeffries espera que las bases lleven a los dem&#243;cratas a conquistar la mayor&#237;a en la C&#225;mara, con &#233;l a la presidencia del organismo, debe entender que las bases quieren a un luchador, no a un negociador que se dedique a blanquear la reputaci&#243;n del c&#237;rculo &#237;ntimo de Trump.</p><p>Si el camino de Jeffries hacia el poder pasa por proteger a Jared Kushner de cualquier rendici&#243;n de cuentas, su presidencia de la c&#225;mara puede morir  antes de comenzar.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://elmolinoonline.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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