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El presidente Donald Trump impuso desde el primer día de su segundo mandato una renovada atención de EE.UU. en América Latina como no se veía en décadas, en un giro estratégico que opta por la coerción, con una clara preferencia por el garrote antes que la zanahoria, frente a una región que mantiene dificultades para presentar una respuesta sintonizada. El cambio, caracterizado por las deportaciones masivas, una confrontación con líderes no alineados y los ataques en el Caribe, quedó marcado a fuego por la operación militar en Venezuela en la que fuerzas estadounidenses capturaron al presidente Nicolás Maduro. Luego de décadas en las que la atención de Washington estuvo puesta en Europa, Medio Oriente y Asia, la Casa Blanca revitalizó la Doctrina Monroe, que demarca su zona de influencia y de la que Trump señala que busca construir su propio corolario, cuando China ya se convirtió en el principal socio comercial de Sudamérica. Desde la elección como secretario de Estado de Marco Rubio, considerado un halcón en su visión sobre los gobiernos de izquierda de América Latina, al rápido desmantelamiento de USAID, una agencia clave para la asistencia exterior, la Casa Blanca dejó claro la forma en la que se aproximaría a la región en los meses siguientes. Hasta ahora, solo recibió a un líder latinoamericano en el Despacho Oval, el presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, mientras que otros solo consiguieron breves reuniones. La segunda presidencia de Trump representa un “asertivo pero desordenado” regreso a la Doctrina Monroe, “dentro de la cual el control hemisférico es visualizado como un imperativo de seguridad nacional”, dijo a CNN el exdiplomático venezolano Alfredo Toro Hardy, miembro del Comité de Expertos del Centro Bellagio de la Fundación Rockefeller. El investigador explicó que el objetivo es “recuperar a la región como esfera de influencia natural de los Estados Unidos es lo fundamental”. El desorden que menciona Toro Hardy fue expresado en algunas contradicciones de las decisiones de Trump. Eduardo Gamarra, docente de ciencias políticas en la Universidad de la Florida (FIU), comentó: “Es difícil descifrar si hay una estrategia norteamericana para la región. Está buscando un cambio de régimen en Venezuela, aunque dice que combate al narcotráfico, pero indulta a Juan Orlando Hernández (expresidente de Honduras condenado por narcotráfico). Se pelea con México y al final cambia de opinión, lo mismo con Canadá”, repasó. “Dentro del Departamento de Estado (de EE.UU.) hay mucho interés en la región. ¿Eso es bueno o malo? Lo vamos a determinar a futuro”, dijo el analista. En sus primeras semanas, Trump designó como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras a una serie de grupos criminales latinoamericanos, entre ellos varios cárteles mexicanos, una declaración que podría preceder al uso de la fuerza militar estadounidense en suelo mexicano. Por esta escalada de tensiones, junto a las amenazas de aranceles, la relación entre EE.UU. y México estaba en uno de sus peores momentos en varias décadas. “En marzo estaba muy latente la posibilidad de la intervención militar. Eso no ha desaparecido, está presente”, subrayó Abelardo Rodríguez, profesor investigador de la Universidad Iberoamericana, quien destacó las medidas de la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum para afinar la cooperación. “Hizo una serie de ajustes que le dieron resultados, como la entrega de personas vinculadas al crimen organizado, la mejora de la coordinación y un cambio de estrategia de inteligencia táctica. Logró contener este punto de inflexión que veíamos en marzo”, agregó, y resaltó que la mandataria “se desmarcó de una confrontación directa” e intentó dar resultados puntuales en materia de narcotráfico e inmigración. México entregó a EE.UU. a varios capos de alto perfil, como Rafael Caro Quintero, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias “El Viceroy”, y los hermanos Miguel y Omar Treviño Morales. La extradición como herramienta de EE.UU. para reforzar su narrativa de seguridad…

BEIJING (AP) — From ancient times until today, an enormous population has been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. “China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact,” Mao Zedong said in 1957, shortly before setting off a calamitous famine. China’s masses, though, are getting to be less massive. And that’s a problem. Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao’s Communists established the People’s Republic in 1949, are the latest development in a millennia-long struggle in China, where producing children and refreshing the population of the young have been central to the national conversation since the country’s earliest days. China’s population stands at 1.404 billion today, down 3 million from the previous year. And the central government’s challenge remains much as it has always been: to manage a citizenry that both enhances the country’s strength and claims enormous resources. But various factors — policy, generational change and general evolution of the way people live — have officials concerned that there won’t be enough young Chinese people to build the tomorrow they want. This week’s numbers illustrate how complicated the problem remains. The ripples of the one-child policy It’s likely that urban Chinese of the 1980s could barely imagine the situation today — a society where the government is pushing families to have more — up to three — children. The one-child policy, officially instituted in 1980 four years after Mao’s death, was designed to curb a growing population. It restricted Chinese couples to a single offspring and eventually, in many cases, punished them if they didn’t comply. The rationale: At that time, under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of “reform and opening-up,” the country’s capital and resources couldn’t keep up with the population’s demands. Beijing’s answer was to slow the population’s growth. Over time, that created a disproportionate amount of elderly people. “China’s demographic transition, characterized by people getting old before becoming rich, creates challenges and opportunities,” the state-controlled newspaper China Daily said in 2024. In the years after implementation, the one-child policy produced unintended consequences: —A desire for sons gave rise to the hiding, mistreatment and sometimes outright killing of baby girls, especially in rural areas. —Among better-off families in cities — where the policy was primarily aimed — it also gave rise to millions of households in which an only child became the focus of attention, creating a generation of what some call “little emperors.” —Coupled with recent loosening of the “hukou,” or household registration, system that limits where Chinese people can live within their country, many only children wound up living far from their parents, promoting social ills like loneliness and alienation. —Population growth slowed to a crawl, leading in recent years to numbers like Monday’s. “China’s one-child policy will be remembered as one of the costliest lessons of misguided public policymaking,” the Brookings Institution said in a 2016 report shortly after the policy was abolished. It also blamed “a social discourse that has erroneously blamed population growth for virtually all the country’s social and economic problems.” Trying to turn the tide One of China’s most ancient precepts is that there are three ways to disrespect your parents and ancestors — and not having offspring is one of them. In that respect, limiting population growth ran counter to long-established cultural norms and traditions. As the one-child policy ebbed, Chinese President Xi Jinping rejuvenated that age-old notion. He started to publicly liken the population to Chinese power once again — or, as he put it, a “great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.” It doesn’t help that India surpassed China in population in 2023. The on-again, off-again rival…

Netflix is revising its $72 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to make it an all-cash transaction. Netflix initially put forth a cash and stock deal valued at $27.75 per Warner Bros. share, giving it a total enterprise value of $82.7 billion, including debt. Netflix and Warner Bros. said Tuesday that the revised deal simplifies the transaction structure, provides more certainty of value for Warner Bros. stockholders and speeds up the path to a Warner Bros. shareholder vote. The companies said that the all-cash transaction is still valued at $27.75 per Warner Bros. share. Warner Bros. stockholders will also receive the additional value of shares of Discovery Global following its separation from Warner Bros. Both companies’ boards approved the amended all-cash deal. Netflix has been in a tussle with Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros., with Paramount taking another step in its hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. last week, saying that it would name its own slate of directors before the next shareholder meeting of the Hollywood studio. Netflix’s stock rose 1.3% before the market open, while shares of Warner Bros. Discovery fell slightly. Source

SAN FRANCISCO– It will be a long night for everyone involved with the Golden State Warriors as the team awaits a concrete injury update on Jimmy Butler. Golden State Warriors star forward left midway through the third quarter of their matchup with the Miami Heat with a right knee injury after landing awkwardly on that leg. Butler went up to catch a pass, and when he came down, his knee tweaked inward, to which he immediately reacted to in pain and fell to the hardwood. A quiet, crestfallen Chase Center crowd watched the Warriors players huddle over Butler as he writhed in agony on the ground. Butler was helped into the locker room by Buddy Hield, Gary Payton II, and Jonathan Kuminga, with the 36-year-old unable to put any weight on his right leg before play resumed. After the game, Steve Kerr said Butler is undergoing an MRI, with the team waiting with bated breath for the results. “We’re all really concerned, but we’ll know more after the MRI,” Kerr said. “Everybody is subdued because of the injury– waiting to hear the news.” Butler has had a history of injuries on that same knee– a torn meniscus back in 2018, which cost him 17 games that season, and an MCL sprain in 2024 right before the playoffs, ending his season after the Celtics beat the Heat in five. “You never like to see a situation like that, especially somebody as tough as he is,” Stephen Curry said post-game. “Praying for the best, obviously, with scans and all that, and we’ll figure it out. But hopefully he’s alright.” According to ClutchPoints’ NBA insider Brett Siegel, sources inside the organization declined to comment on Butler’s injury. The players’ perspective of Butler’s injury from on the court Despite the scariness of the injury, Butler seemed to be in good spirits immediately after going down. “It’s kind of funny, he was still cracking jokes over there while he was on the ground,” Curry explained. “The ground in true Jimmy fashion. Always knows how to have a good time no matter what the situation is. I do love that perspective and that part of his personality, even the worst moment, he was still having a good time. He was trying to get to the free-throw line. He said it was two shots.” Hield, who helped Butler into the tunnel, where he was then wheeled off in a wheelchair, said “Jimmy was being Jimmy,” maintaining high spirits during his long walk into the locker room. Hield expressed positive vibes and hope for Butler in his post-game presser. “I think he’s gonna be fine,” Hield said. “We can’t be talking like that right now; we gotta keep his spirits up, you know? We don’t think negative around here. And whatever is to come, he’s gonna attack it.” After Butler went down, the Warriors responded with a 12-0 run to take a sizeable lead on the Heat. And thanks to Brandin Podziemski’s hot shooting, collecting a team-high 24 points, the Warriors walked out of the game with their 12th win in 16 games. Buddy Hield on Jimmy Butler and team’s spirits in the wake of his knee injury as he undergoes an MRI: “I know he was in great spirits on the court when he was walking off. Our hope is it’s on the low end of things, nothing too serious.” Hield helped him walk into the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/bdGysiEMMD — Kenzo Fukuda (@kenzofuku) January 20, 2026 What Butler’s injury means for the Warriors now and in the long term Butler’s injury obviously casts a gigantic shadow over the Warriors’ season at large. In 38 games this season, Butler has averaged 20.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 4.9 assists on 51.9% shooting and a team high +185 cumulative. plus/minus. Next to Curry, he has been the engine that drives the bus in Golden State– especially whenever Curry rests or isn’t playing. “He’s an alpha, you know?” Kerr said. “He’s one of those guys in the league who everybody else in the gym knows that’s the guy. And he has that presence, but he also has that game where we can play through him, possession after possession. And so yeah, assuming we’ll be without him for a little…