Rafael Tirado Rivera 🇵🇷

1/3 Hungría vota el domingo, 12 de abril. Es la elección más importante de la UE en años — y una prueba de si una democracia puede recuperarse después de ser destruida desde adentro. Un hilo sobre el caso contra Viktor Orbán. 🧵

Bloomberg ya tiene su candidato.

Taiwan's opposition leader Cheng Li-wun: The Taiwan Strait is the most dangerous powder keg in the world. I have high expectations for cross-strait reconciliation. My goal is to begin creating peace. My strategy is to embrace Beijing to avoid all-out war. Source: NBC News

In my new piece in The New York Times today, I argue the Iran war has reached a point Washington still refuses to say out loud: either the U.S. escalates to a ground war—or Iran emerges as a new center of global power. Think about—what stops this future? nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opi…

🔊 #HoyEnELPAÍS | Bukele: del terror de las pandillas al terror del Estado. El 36% de los capturados durante el estado de excepción no figuraban como pandilleros, según datos oficiales social.elpais.com/jw7u2k

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free, trusted source many people used to check basic facts about countries. cbsn.ws/4bSHAMT

1/3 Hungría vota el domingo, 12 de abril. Es la elección más importante de la UE en años — y una prueba de si una democracia puede recuperarse después de ser destruida desde adentro. Un hilo sobre el caso contra Viktor Orbán. 🧵

Larry Summers’ new chart sounds the inflation alarm semafor.com/article/04/06/…

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Spaniards view Trump as more dangerous than Putin. Donald Trump is seen as the biggest threat → 63% say “very high threat.” Vladimir Putin is slightly lower → 52% “very high threat.” Netanyahu → 46% very high threat. Source: EL PAÍS

BREAKING: US pilot rescue may have been cover to 'steal enriched uranium', Iran foreign ministry says 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/ukui10?update=…

In this war, there are allied pilots shooting down three F-15s in a row, all kinds of mechanical failures, and even two C-130s having mechanical breakdowns at the same time and in the exact same place. Then people ask me why I always challenge the official narratives. It must be because they are ridiculously stupid. In everywhere and from any govt. Analysts, journalists, and OSINT accounts that don’t seriously question the official version of the war don’t even deserve to be read or followed. As for those C-130s, with that many holes from air defense shrapnel, it’s no wonder they had multiple mechanical failures at the same time.

Can you guess my name ? #TheCockroaches

استقبلتُ في دمشق الرئيس الأوكراني فولوديمير زيلينسكي @ZelenskyyUa ، حيث جرى بحث سبل تعزيز التعاون الاقتصادي وتبادل الخبرات. وتؤكد الزيارة توجه سوريا نحو توسيع شراكاتها الدولية بما يدعم التنمية ويعزّز الاستقرار.

#SNL: Jack Black revives Five-Timers Club with help from Jack White rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. wired.com/story/iran-thr…

15 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz within 24 hours after obtaining permission from Iran. Source: Fars

Ukrainian drones have hit a massive oil depot in the port of Novorossiysk Russia.

The possible nuclear dimension of the war cannot be overlooked And if Iran had not yet produced a weapon by February, after that it would have every reason to do so, and with the technology it possesses and North Korean assistance, it would be a relatively quick. I recently wrote about the possibility of Iran already possessing a nuclear weapon and the risks that this could lead to various outcomes. One of them: ‘That would completely upend the Middle East board, starting with Saudi launching its own program, as it has repeatedly said it would do if Iran ever developed a nuclear weapon.’ But if Iran already has a nuclear weapon, why hasn’t it revealed it? The answer might lie in the fact that they are uncertain about the reactions from Israel and the U.S., who could claim the necessity of a preemptive nuclear strike. Based on various lines of evidence, I have a strong intuition that Iran already possesses this weapon. Furthermore, the intensity of U.S. and Israeli operations, marked by nearly 900 strikes on the Natanz and Fordow complexes, suggests a deliberate attempt to trigger a nuclear disaster. This is further evidenced by four hits on the Bushehr nuclear power plant, as well as attacks on a heavy water reactor associated with plutonium production and a uranium facility in Yazd. Iran knows it occupies a privileged strategic position, and bombs will not reverse this situation. The U.S. and Israel have few options left on this board, while political and economic pressure increases daily. This lack of alternatives may be creating a scenario where it is becoming increasingly likely that a nuclear disaster will occur. IF that happens, Iran will likely respond by attacking the Dimona reactor in Israel, which will trigger a nuclear war, with Israel fulfilling its ‘dream’ of nuking Iran. The outcome is that this could trigger the same response from Iran, and I will explain how this would occur. Iran’s nuclear program began in the 1950s but took on a military dimension in the 1980s-2000s through the AMAD project. U.S. intelligence assessed a formal suspension in 2003, yet in the two decades since, Iran has had more than enough time to make steady investments, longer than it took Pakistan (10-15 years). After the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018, Iran sharply accelerated its efforts, and by 2025 it had the capability to produce a weapon in days or weeks. Read the full article: open.substack.com/pub/global21/p…

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. He has gone insane.

I agree with what Pope Leo XIV stated today in his first Easter speech: