Donald Trump's second presidency has transformed the US border and cities into a vast private security laboratory. Under the umbrella of the rhetoric of "national security" And regarding border control, the White House and the US Treasury have deployed a machine of persecution and detention that operates not only through executive orders, but also with a constant flow of billions of dollars from public coffers into the hands of the private sector.

Bruce Springsteen has composed a song in response to police killings in the United States that is reminiscent of the protest songs of the bloody final years of the Franco dictatorship.Streets of Minneapolisdialogues in time with What do those people want?, Death bells, Let's say no either In MargalidaTo name a few, because, unfortunately, more had to be written than we would have liked.

On April 19, 1943, a group of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the powerful German army that held them captive. Ill-equipped, but willing to lose their lives (which they would lose anyway), they held them off for weeks, employing surprise tactics and urban guerrilla warfare. To prevent the fire from damaging their factories within the ghetto and spreading to the "Aryan corner," the Germans recruited firefighters. One of these firefighters, while saving factories from the flames and letting civilian houses burn, took photographs. When his son found them, these photos and the story went around the world. Now a documentary has been made. 33 photos of the ghetto, which we saw yesterday.

On Tuesday the Evening news It included an analysis of the anti-immigration raids by ICE agents in Minneapolis following the murder of Alex Pretti. Journalist Nicolás Valle developed the essential elements of this situation to understand the how and the why. His account had an interpretive component, because he focused on details that went beyond what was seen in the images. But that was precisely what made the piece so interesting, especially given the absence of any other program on the network that could delve deeper into these aspects. Valle showed the various guises in which ICE agents patrolled the city: the types of tactical uniforms, the ways to identify them, the weapons of war, and the armored vehicles. The journalist emphasized the symbolic value of this attire: "The police cease to be a service and become an instrument of internal domination." The camouflage clothing, he explained, transforms the agents into combatants. Valle connected this fact to the willingness of the citizenry to submit through the construction of a sense of emergency.

It's not uncommon these days to see dystopian films and series depicting the United States in the throes of civil war or where chaos reigns and the law of the strongest prevails. Unfortunately, the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol (CBP) to indiscriminately capture immigrants are bringing these apocalyptic scenarios, where police violence is the norm, ever closer. The cold-blooded murder of Alex Pretti, a nurse protesting the raids in Minneapolis, has sparked a wave of outrage across the country. This incident follows the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good while she was arguing with an officer without leaving her vehicle. It also comes on the heels of the scandal surrounding the arrest of five-year-old Liam Ramos, who was taken home from school and used as bait to lure his father home.

New videos posted on social media, and verified by several US media outlets such as New York Times They contradict the official version of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding The shooting death of a 37-year-old white man this Saturday in Minneapolis by Border Patrol agents empowered by Donald Trump. An incident that has once again shocked this northern US city. Just over two weeks ago A woman was also killed. in that same town by immigration agents.

The images of an immigration agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis are devastating: both for the gratuitous violence and the impunity surrounding the act. A witness recorded the scene on her cell phone from very close up. Shocked by what she had just witnessed, she can be heard screaming and rebuking the agents for their brutal conduct, which only intensifies the drama of the moment. There are other videos that captured different moments and that news outlets used to show the car's trajectory before and after the shooting, and to demonstrate how a doctor who was at the scene was prevented from attending to the victim. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the woman intended to run over the agents and has charged her with "domestic terrorism," adding a clearly sexist adjective to the crime to justify the murder of a 37-year-old mother of three, whose car was full of stuffed animals and children's toys.

The cold isn't meteorological. That it's cold in January is good news, especially for those of us who are constantly anxious about climate change and are lucky enough to have a warm roof over our heads. The cold isn't low temperatures or collapse: it's the snow falling on an old Europe. The cold and the collapse are those democratic dictators who parade their evil openly and with complete impunity because they're armed to the teeth. But, in reality, this cold doesn't freeze, because it's neither new nor do they mount secret operations trying to disguise invasions, depose presidents, and install puppets. Now it's done openly. A bit like the Louvre robbery. As if the whole world has given up on protecting itself. The world no longer hides behind a few... curtains And it shouldn't surprise us. It should only overwhelm us.