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Romans 1 is proved right again!
I rarely read of a study that confirms Romans 1 as perfectly as a recent story from ScienceDaily, titled “Scientists make stunning discovery that could help explain why life exists.”
The summary of the article explains the new study this way:
“Scientists have discovered that the universe’s fundamental physical constants may be finely balanced to make life possible. Even tiny changes to these constants could make liquids too thick or too thin for essential biological processes, potentially preventing life as we know it. Surprisingly, these life-friendly conditions existed billions of years before living cells appeared. The findings raise intriguing questions about why the laws of physics seem so well suited to life.”
In other words, this new theoretical study adds another constraint to the long list of conditions that must be just right for the supposed origin of life. If the fundamental constants of physics were slightly different, liquids (water, blood, etc.) would be either too thin or too thick for life to exist. The article says,
“Scientists have uncovered a remarkable connection between the fundamental laws of physics and the ability of life to exist. Their findings suggest that even relatively small changes to some of the universe’s most basic physical constants could dramatically alter how liquids flow, potentially preventing essential biological processes from taking place.”
So even if the universe somehow managed (by dumb luck, as the late Dr. David Menton would say) to assemble all the ingredients necessary for life, without the ability for liquids to move as they do, life would be impossible. And for these researchers, that raises a question:
“The work raises a profound question about the universe. Why do the fundamental laws of nature have values that appear so well suited to the existence of life?”
When these researchers study the laws that allow life to exist, they are driven to ask why everything seems so suited for life! It’s Romans 1:19–21 on clear display:
“Because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
The fine-tuning of the universe makes it abundantly obvious that earth was created for life. The complexity of life, and the way everything appears designed for life to flourish here on earth, is a giant fingerprint of the Creator. Those who fail to see God through what He has made are therefore without excuse—they are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18).
The universe looks designed for life because it is!
And not only does the universe look designed for life, but the very laws that allow everything to exist—the laws of nature and physics mentioned throughout the ScienceDaily article—are immaterial. How do immaterial laws of nature even evolve in a material universe? How do they come about and why do they remain constant and apply to everything, everywhere in a random, chance universe? Apart from the God of the Bible, it’s impossible to even explain the existence of these laws—let alone why they are so perfect for the flourishing of life!
Whether they realize it or not, by doing this study these researchers are just confirming the truth of God’s Word. God has made it evident to all that He exists. The question is, are you suppressing that knowledge because of your sinful heart?
To believe the universe and life came about by chance is a blind-faith belief that, to put it bluntly, is absurd!
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This man was handed a once-in-a-generation GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to change the country for the better...
...instead he blocked Trump at every turn, sent the Senate on WEEKS OF VACATION and refused to pass the SAVE Act.
What a vile human being.
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On November 20, 2024, a 60-year-old man walked out of a Manhattan federal courthouse. He had just been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The reporters shouted questions. He said nothing. He smiled.
His name was Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang. The judge had just called the losses he caused larger than any losses he had dealt with in decades on the bench.
Hwang arrived in Las Vegas from South Korea at 18, speaking almost no English. He worked the night shift at a McDonald's on the Strip. A year later his father, an evangelical pastor, was dead at 50.
He barely graduated UCLA. Then Carnegie Mellon for an MBA. Then Hyundai Securities in New York. Then Hong Kong, where he met Julian Robertson. Robertson later called him the Michael Jordan of Asian investing.
In 2001 Hwang launched Tiger Asia with $25 million of Robertson's seed money. By 2007 he was running $8 billion at 40% annualized returns. In 2012 Tiger Asia pleaded guilty to wire fraud and he was banned from managing other people's money.
So he opened a family office. He called it Archegos, Greek for leader. In the New Testament the word is used for Christ.
Family offices do not file disclosures with the SEC. A convicted insider trader had found the perfect blind spot.
He used total return swaps. The bank bought the shares. He got the gains and losses without ever owning them. He used eight banks at once. Each bank saw only its own slice. None of them saw the whole thing.
By March 2021 Archegos had grown from $200 million to $36 billion. Total market exposure: $160 billion. At the peak Hwang controlled more than 50% of ViacomCBS, 60% of Discovery, 70% of GSX Techedu. Nobody outside his office knew he existed.
In the final days, an Archegos executive sent a colleague an email with a simple request: "pray that the markets rise tomorrow."
Three days in late March, everything collapsed. $100 billion in market value gone. Credit Suisse lost $5.5 billion and did not survive. The 167-year-old Swiss bank was absorbed by UBS two years later.
In the video below, watch his face as he walks past the cameras. The SEC enforcement director had called it "a 36 billion dollar house of cards."
At sentencing the prosecutor said: "the point at which your business plan requires divine intervention is the point at which you have a solvency problem."
The judge asked the courtroom: "why do good people do bad things?"
Hwang rose and said: "I am grateful to God for so many blessings I've had in my life." He did not admit guilt.
He got 18 years. Then he walked out smiling.
The case for Hwang: his victims were banks that extended him billions despite his record, and he never sold a share.
The case against: he had been convicted of fraud once, structured Archegos to evade his ban, lied to banks for years, and ran a cult where employees were punished for taking bathroom breaks.
In January 2026, while free on bail, he applied for a presidential pardon.
Did the system fail Bill Hwang, or did Bill Hwang build himself a system?
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🚨 BREAKING: JAMES TALARICO (D) just defeated Trump-backed Ken Paxton (R) in the Texas Senate race, a historic Democrat flip from red to blue — VoteHub
Horrible news for America.
Horrible news for Texas.
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🇵🇱 POLAND. The standoff continues in Warsaw.
Today, President Nawrocki and Prime Minister Tusk were both present at a meeting of the National Security Council at the Presidential Palace.
Nawrocki directly addressed Tusk, placing responsibility squarely on him for the alleged illegal actions surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal, including the police presence and what the President described as a "constitutional crisis."
Tusk was present but did not respond during the President's address. He had, however, made public comments earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, the judges' assembly has also taken place, with eight judges attending. However, the legitimacy of the proceedings remains contested, particularly because the assembly was presided over by the judge accused of being involved in the controversial takeover of the Tribunal, as well as questions over whether all those present are legally entitled to sit as judges and whether the required quorum was met.
Lots of rumours, lots of stories. It's difficult to decide what to believe and what not to believe.
One thing is certain though, here at ground zero, where people continue to gather, meet and keep a watchful eye on the situation, the atmosphere remains positive.
Polish flags everywhere, the place absolutely spotless, food and hot drink being shared and a wonderful example of how to stand for what you believe, show solidarity and protest peacefully, even in difficult circumstances.
Hopefully, some positive news will come our way soon!
Love Life 🤍❤️ – at Warsaw, Poland
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Rząd puczystów Tuska prześladuje przewodniczącego związku zawodowego Policjantów!!!
Jacek Łukasik, przewodniczący związku "Policyjna Solidarność", będzie mieć postępowanie dyscyplinarne – donoszą media. Chodzi o jego wypowiedzi związane z działaniami policji przed Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym. Policjant w trybie pilnym został wezwany do Komendy Wojewódzkiej Policji w Krakowie.
Jacek Łukasik: "My się martwimy o tych ludzi, bo ja nie chciałbym, żeby po zmianie władzy politycy, którzy byli pod Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym w sobotę, w niedzielę czy w piątek, jeżeli dojdą do władzy, tych wszystkich policjantów pozwalniają jak jeden mąż."
Za krytykę rządów szef związku zawodowego Policji jest właśnie prześladowany, jest to absolutny skandal i powrót do standardów zamordyzmu komunistycznego.
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Guess who's taking to the streets now? Gdańsk.
Yes, Gdańsk. Not Danzig, Mr Tusk. And the crowd has a message for you: “To Berlin, Donald Tusk!”
Even your favourite city isn't staying quiet.
#Poland
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Most people know him for a productivity rule. Almost nobody knows he predicted the exact collapse of the modern managerial elite.
Long before modern commentators tried to explain why bureaucratic institutions despise the working public, an Italian nobleman named Vilfredo Pareto already mapped the entire crisis. Today, business consultants reduce his legacy to the "Pareto Principle" (the 80/20 rule). In doing so, they conceal his far more dangerous work: a ruthless, mathematically precise philosophy that exposed the grand illusion of mass democracy.
Pareto was an aristocrat, mathematician, and civil engineer who ran Italy's railways before abandoning public life in disgust. Retreating to a villa on Lake Geneva alongside twenty Angora cats, he spent his final decades studying how power actually functions. While Karl Marx peddled the fantasy of a classless utopia and liberal academics preached that voters run the state, Pareto arrived at a colder truth. Society is never ruled by the masses. It is always ruled by an organized elite, and history is merely the battlefield where one elite replaces another.
His most lethal insight was the division of power between two archetypes: the Foxes and the Lions.
Foxes are the managerial class. They are subtle, cautious, manipulative, and obsessed with consensus. They rule through bureaucratic procedures, financial schemes, media spin, and institutional maneuver. They loathe physical courage, despise traditional religion, and avoid direct confrontation at all costs. Instead, they bleed a civilization dry through taxes, regulations, and endless legal pettifoggery, convinced that clever rhetoric can overcome basic reality.
Lions, by contrast, are grounded in loyalty, family, faith, and sovereign borders. They do not care for administrative games. They value strength, decisive action, and the preservation of their heritage. When a nation is young and rising, it is led by Lions who defend its sovereignty with unapologetic force.
Pareto warned that over time, the Foxes always infiltrate the administrative apparatus. They purge the Lions from universities, courts, and civil service, creating an insulated bubble of self-congratulatory managers. Yet because Foxes are fundamentally cowardly, they cannot defend their own borders or sustain the economic foundation they harvest. They mistake compliance for loyalty, and they mistake their echo chamber for reality.
Their rule always ends the same way. As Pareto observed:
"History is a graveyard of aristocracies."
When a managerial regime becomes entirely composed of decadent Foxes, it rots from within. The moment crisis arrives, their paperwork and procedural tricks collapse, opening the gates for a new generation of Lions to sweep them away. What we are witnessing across the West today is not an ideological accident; it is the inevitable historical reckoning Pareto guaranteed more than a century ago.
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This chart shows the denominational trends in political party alignment. There are definitely trends. Most don’t surprise me. But a few are VERY surprising.
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🚨🇵🇱 “TUSK’S GOVERNMENT MUST GO”: BOSAK DEMANDS RESIGNATION OVER TRIBUNAL CRISIS
Withdraw the police. Restore the Tribunal’s work. Hold those responsible accountable. Remove the government.
Krzysztof Bosak has laid out five demands outside Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal—and called for Donald Tusk’s entire cabinet to leave office.
@krzysztofbosak accuses the government of an unlawful assault on a constitutional institution and of putting police officers in an impossible position through their commanders’ orders.
His demands:
Withdraw police from the Tribunal’s building and grounds.
Allow its leadership, judges and guards to resume their duties.
End what he describes as the illegal use of police and security services.
Hold responsible commanders and government officials accountable.
Secure the resignation of Tusk’s government.
Bosak also raises two parliamentary routes: a constructive vote of no confidence to replace the prime minister, or shortening parliament’s term to trigger an early election.
These are his accusations and demands, not judicial findings. But his political message is unmistakable: he wants this confrontation to end with a change of government.
Who controls the institutions meant to constrain political power—and what happens when the government itself is accused of crossing the line?
Watch his full statement below.
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I spent 40 months in Afghanistan in the Army watching what Sharia does to women. Women have NO voice (not even allowed to be HEARD singing), not allowed to vote, get brutally BEATEN for being out and about with no male escort, sold as wives to old ass men as children as young as 8. I saw ALL this up close. Every day. You can scroll my page and see multiple women reaching out from inside those countries sharing their stories. DO NOT listen to these dip shits saying that couldn't happen here! Look at pictures of Afghanistan from the 1960s and 70s. They had freedoms and women were even able to work. You know what happened? They allowed a Marxist government to take over and did not fight tooth and nail to protect their country or their women. PICK UP A BOOK. Not Tik Tok. Educate yourselves through people who have lived it.
Anybody pushing this jihadist bullsh*t here gets zero benefit of the doubt from me. Your vote COUNTS here, get out and vote. 🇺🇸🪖And for the love of our country, our freedom and our future, VOTE RED!
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🚨 POLAND: DONALD TUSK’S COUP - NOW EVEN MATHEMATICS IS UNDER ATTACK!
Those installed in Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal trough Donald Tusk’s constitutional coup - including Maciej Berek, Tusk’s close associate of 30 years and a former minister - have prevented judges they refuse to recognize from participating in the proceedings.
NOW THEY CLAIM THAT 8 JUDGES OUT OF 15 ARE ENOUGH TO CONSTITUTE A LEGAL QUORUM!
And that is without even addressing the fact that, in the eyes of their critics, most of those appearing in this video are USURPERS THEMSELVES!
WHAT IS A QUORUM? It is the minimum number of members who must be present for a body to conduct official business and adopt valid decisions.
Polish law requires at least two-thirds of the total number of Constitutional Tribunal judges to be present. For a 15-member court, THAT MEANS 10 JUDGES — NOT 8!
Yet the participants rely on a disputed interpretation that excludes certain judges from the calculation, allowing them to claim that eight are sufficient.
This is what “restoring the rule of law” looks like under Donald Tusk, a process publicly supported by Ursula von der Leyen.
WHEN THE NUMBERS DON'T WORK, THEY CHANGE THE WAY THEY COUNT!
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British Politician Fires Back at Mehdi Hasan: “If Islam Is So Peaceful, Why Does Saudi Arabia Execute People for Apostasy?”
Speaker: My side of the argument is regularly told that we are demonising Islam and whipping up fear of Islam.
But let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam.
9/11. The London bombings. Madrid. Mumbai. Bali. Death for apostasy. Death for blasphemy. Death for adultery. Death for homosexuality. Gender discrimination. Child marriage. Beheadings. Imprisonment for being raped.
The murder of Theo van Gogh. Death threats. Sharia patrols. Polygamous marriages.
This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me.
We'll be told this is just the extreme fringe of Islam.
Well, look at Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and custodian of its holy sites.
People are executed for blasphemy and apostasy.
But apparently, that's the extreme fringe?
Calling Saudi Arabia the extreme fringe of Islam is like calling the Vatican the extreme fringe of Catholicism. Sorry, it just doesn't work.
Then we're told violent Muslims have misunderstood Islam.
Saudi Arabia has misunderstood. Iran has misunderstood. Yemen has misunderstood.
Has there ever been a more spectacularly misunderstood religion than Islam?
I'm constantly told that I need to respect Islam. But I'm under no greater obligation to respect Islam than any other belief.
I am under no obligation to make compromises with an ideology I simply don't see as peaceful.
Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence.
If I look around the world and see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state.
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Haïti #Salvador "Bukele, los políticos son los padres de las pandillas": acorralado por la ofensiva salvadoreña, el líder de la pandilla, Lanmò Sanjou, extiende la mano.
Mientras miles de soldados salvadoreños han sido desplegados en Haití tras la desaparición de cuatro soldados de El Salvador, el líder de la pandilla 400 Mawozo, Wilson Joseph, alias Lanmò Sanjou, cambia radicalmente de tono.
Aquel que, hace apenas unos días, se enfrentaba a Nayib Bukele, ahora afirma estar dispuesto a deponer las armas y abrir negociaciones.
En un mensaje dirigido al presidente salvadoreño, sostiene que los verdaderos responsables del caos en Haití son los políticos que habrían armado a las pandillas antes de recurrir a fuerzas extranjeras para combatirlas.
Lanmò Sanjou va más allá. Según él, los cuatro salvadoreños desaparecidos están muertos, aunque las autoridades haitianas siguen hablando de un secuestro y el gobierno salvadoreño espera que aún estén vivos.
Si su muerte se confirma, la misión salvadoreña podría tomar otra dimensión.
Ya no se trataría solo de encontrar rehenes, sino de perseguir a los pandilleros responsables, como lo hizo Nayib Bukele en El Salvador contra las pandillas.
El líder de 400 Mawozo afirma temer una escalada que causaría más víctimas entre los civiles.
"El diálogo debe prevalecer sobre la fuerza", suplica, al tiempo que se declara dispuesto a participar en negociaciones bajo mediación internacional.
Resta saber si Nayib Bukele prestará oído a este llamado.
Mientras 2.000 soldados salvadoreños están ahora desplegados en Haití, algunos ya se preguntan: ¿la misión busca solo encontrar a los desaparecidos o dar un golpe decisivo a las pandillas que aterrorizan al país?
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LOL Idaho is voting on a state gun. This is the most Idaho thing I’ve seen
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🇺🇦 Stel je het tafereel voor aan de rand van Kiev, vanavond: Oleksandr Pivnenko, commandant van de Oekraïense Nationale Garde, staat bij een woonhuis in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka tegenover een woedende menigte landgenoten. Hij geeft toe dat de mannen die uit de kelder worden gesleept, militairen zijn die "zijn opgepakt nadat ze zonder toestemming hun eenheid hadden verlaten (AWOL) en nu worden teruggebracht naar hun eenheden". Dit gebeurt slechts enkele uren nadat de politie nog stellig beweerde dat berichten over mensen die daar illegaal werden vastgehouden en gemarteld, "niet overeenstemmen met de werkelijkheid".
Toen een hulpverlener eindelijk naar binnen mocht, trof hij zo’n 25 tot 30 mannen aan, opeengepakt in de ondergrondse ruimte. Hij verklaarde dat de mensen daar "niet eens weten wie ze zijn of wat hun status is". Vier van hen moesten naar de ambulance worden gedragen; een van hen verkeerde in ernstige toestand. (Maar vragen of er sprake is van marteling is natuurlijk weer 'Russische desinformatie', nietwaar?) Dit melden TSN en de Oekraïense tak van de BBC. In de loop van één avond verschoof het officiële verhaal dus van "er is hier niets aan de hand" naar "het zijn toch maar deserteurs". Zo werkt het 'Rijk van de Leugens' al sinds jaar en dag: eerst ontkennen, dan de situatie herdefiniëren, en hopen dat de camera's verdwijnen voordat de lastige vragen worden gesteld. De dubbele standaarden en de minachting die de westerse 'Mockingbird'-media voor Oekraïners koesteren, zijn misselijkmakend. Doe in godsnaam gewoon je werk!
Er is nog geen hard bewijs voor marteling, maar de beelden zijn vernietigend en de kliek in Kiev heeft absoluut geen enkele geloofwaardigheid meer. Wat in ieder geval vaststaat, is op zichzelf al schokkend genoeg: een woonhuis, een verborgen kelder, mannen die zijn opgepakt omdat ze wegliepen uit een oorlog waar ze nooit voor hebben gekozen, en een marionettenstaat – wellicht op bevel uit West-Europa – die in eerste instantie deed alsof deze mensen helemaal niet bestonden. De timing is bijna theatraal: juist dit weekend stond de Raad van Europa stil bij het feit dat Rusland op 1 november uit het anti-martelverdrag is gestapt. In dezelfde adem prees de Raad Kiev omdat het inspecteurs toestaat om "op elk gewenst moment elke plek waar mensen van hun vrijheid zijn beroofd" te bezoeken. Er ligt dus een adres klaar aan de rand van de hoofdstad – mocht iemand in West-Europa de moeite willen nemen om een afspraak te maken.
Als deze kelder in Belgorod was ontdekt, had het in heel Europa – van Lissabon tot Helsinki – op de voorpagina’s gestaan: met een verklaring van Von der Leyen nog voor het avondeten en een nieuw pakket sancties dat woensdag al klaar zou liggen. Maar nu het net buiten de ringweg van Kiev gebeurt, wordt het bestempeld als een "omstreden kwestie", worden de mensen die vragen stellen gereduceerd tot "lokale bewoners", en krijgt iedereen fijntjes te horen dat men "uitsluitend officiële bronnen" moet raadplegen. Wie hier vragen over stelt, is bovendien niet zomaar een 'Kremlin-bot'; het gaat hier immers om Oekraïense mannen, gefilmd door Oekraïense burgers in een Oekraïense voorstad, die aan een Oekraïense generaal vragen: "Wie heeft u het recht gegeven?"
Dit is hoe het eruitziet wanneer men vecht "tot de laatste Oekraïner": de vrijwilligers zijn op, en de ronselaars – die in werkelijkheid ontvoerders zijn – hebben hun geduld verloren. Dit speelt zich niet af aan een frontlinie op een NAVO-stafkaart, maar in een kelder aan de rand van Kiev. Ondertussen wendt de Brusselse elite – die de wereld graag de les leest over "Europese waarden" – de blik af en tekent doodleuk de volgende cheque.
Zullen de inspecteurs deze week aan die deur kloppen? Of houden de Europese "waarden" op bij de grens van het regime dat Brussel op dat moment toevallig financiert?
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Haïti : les chefs de gang découvrent la peur !
Les choses semblent bouger à Haïti.
Selon Bloomberg, Wilson Joseph, chef du gang 400 Mawozo, aurait écrit à l'ONU pour demander l'envoi d'une délégation et l'ouverture de pourparlers de paix.
La lettre circule dans la presse haïtienne, mais son authenticité n'est pas confirmée.
Le message, lui, est clair : la peur a changé de camp.
Pendant des années, ces hommes n'ont réclamé aucune paix. Kidnappings, viols, quartiers assiégés, près d'un million et demi de déplacés : la situation leur convenait très bien.
Ils tenaient 85 à 90 % de Port-au-Prince, face à des civils démunis et à une police dépassée.
Personne ne les a entendus proposer de négocier à ce moment-là.
Aujourd'hui, des milliers de soldats salvadoriens, aguerris et déterminés, patrouillent dans la capitale.
Et voilà que les chefs de gang se souviennent de l'ONU, du dialogue et de la paix. Ce n'est pas du repentir, c'est de l'instinct de survie.
Je crois qu'il est trop tard. On ne négocie pas avec ceux qui ont bâti leur pouvoir sur la terreur, et chaque trêve passée leur a surtout servi à se réarmer.
Ces groupes doivent être démantelés jusqu'au bout, sans compromis ni amnistie déguisée.
Reste la question de l'impunité. L'évasion massive de 2024 a montré qu'une prison haïtienne ne retient personne dans un pays gangrené par la corruption.
Ceux qui seront capturés devront être jugés et détenus dans des conditions réellement sûres, sous contrôle international.
C'est le seul moyen de ne pas revoir demain les mêmes visages à la tête des mêmes quartiers.
Les Haïtiens ont payé assez cher. Cette fois, il faut aller jusqu'au bout.
🇭🇹🇸🇻‼️ | Acorralado por la llegada de más de 2.000 soldados salvadoreños tras la desaparición de cuatro de sus efectivos, el líder de la banda terrorista 400 Mawozo, Wilson Joseph (alias 'Lanmò San Jou'), solicitó la mediación de la ONU para frenar las acciones militares. El criminal —por quien EE. UU. ofrece un millón de dólares— justificó su pedido ante la contundente postura del Presidente Nayib Bukele contra las pandillas.
