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The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard warns: “We will bury Israel in Gaza”

The commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard of Iran, General Hosein Salamí, said on Friday that Israel will be “buried” in Gaza, amid tensions over the death of seven members of that elite military corps last Monday in Damascus.

“The message of the Resistance is that we will bury the Zionist regime (Israel) in Gaza,” the soldier said during a speech on the occasion of the ‘Al Quds Day’ (Jerusalem) in favor of the liberation of Palestine.

The so-called Axis of Resistance is an informal alliance led by Tehran, deeply anti-Israeli and formed by militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels and the Islamist movement Hamas, among other groups.

“We warn that no action by any enemy against the sacred system of the Islamic Republic will go unanswered,” Salamí said, in an apparent reference to the death of the revolutionary guards in the attack on the consulate in Damascus, of which Tehran has accused Tel Aviv.

The military also assured that “no hegemonic power can strike Iran,” in an apparent allusion to the United States.

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Coinciding with the ‘Al Quds Day’ in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched through the streets of the country, a funeral ceremony was held in Tehran for the seven revolutionary guards who died the Syrian capital on Monday.

Among the dead in the attack are the head of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, Brigadier General Mohamed Reza Zahedi, and his second, Brigadier General Mohamed Hadi Haj Rahimi.

In addition, five other elite military corps officers and six Syrian citizens died.

This is the worst blow to the elite military corps after the death of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who headed the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard until he was killed by the United States in 2020 in a bombing in Iraq.

The supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, assured that Israel will pay for the death of the military: “The evil regime will be punished by our brave men. We will make them repent of this crime and other similar ones, with God’s help.”

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Faced with calls for Iranian reprisals, Israel is on “maximum alert” and ready for “a variety of scenarios.”

The leader of the Lebanese Shii group Hizbuláh, Hassan Nasrala, warned this Friday that the attack perpetrated this week by Israel against the Iranian consulate in Damascus has marked a “pinding point” and assured that Tehran will respond to the bombing, which left at least 13 dead.

“This incident is a turning point in relation to the last six months. There is a before and after,” said the Shiite clerg during a televised speech on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, an annual event in support of the Palestinian population.

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Peruvian presidential candidate Napoleón Becerra dies in campaign road accident

Presidential candidate Napoleón Becerra, representing the Partido de los Trabajadores y Emprendedores (PTE) in Peru, died in a traffic accident while traveling to a campaign event, local authorities confirmed Sunday.

Becerra, who also served as president of the centrist political party, ranked among the lowest in opinion polls in a crowded field of more than 30 candidates competing in the presidential election scheduled for April 12.

Recent surveys place Rafael López Aliaga at the top of voter preferences.

The accident occurred near the town of Ayacucho, in southern Peru, when the vehicle carrying the candidate overturned for reasons that remain under investigation.

“The candidate Becerra has died,” Balvin Huamani, mayor of the district of Pilpichaca, told RPP radio.

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According to Huamani, he personally transported the 61-year-old candidate to a local health center, where doctors confirmed his death.

The Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) expressed condolences over Becerra’s passing and wished a speedy recovery to the three people who were traveling with him and were injured in the crash.

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Noboa intensifies anti-cartel crackdown as violence persists in Ecuador

A close ally of Washington, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has pursued a hardline security strategy against cocaine cartels for more than two years, yet homicide, disappearance and extortion rates remain high across the country.

Between Sunday night and the morning of March 31, Ecuador’s armed forces will launch a “very strong offensive” with “advisory support” from the United States, Interior Minister John Reimberg announced Tuesday.

The government has kept details of the operation confidential and has not confirmed whether U.S. troops will be deployed on Ecuadorian soil, as has occurred at times during Noboa’s administration.

As part of the security measures, residents in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Ríos, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, and El Oro will be subject to a nightly curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. local time for the next two weeks.

“We are in a war,” Reimberg said, urging citizens to remain indoors. “Do not take risks. Stay home and allow the security forces and our allies to do the work that must be done.”

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Although Ecuador does not produce cocaine, it has become a major departure point for drugs heading to the United States. Meanwhile, the violence associated with trafficking has increasingly affected the local population.

Bordering the world’s largest cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has gone from being considered a relatively peaceful country to recording one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America—52 killings per 100,000 inhabitants—according to the **Observatory of Organized Crime.

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Peruvian presidential candidate proposes death penalty amid crime surge

Peru is facing an unprecedented surge in crime ahead of its presidential election scheduled for April 12, with violence fueled by extortion networks and a wave of contract killings linked to organized crime.

Police data show that 2,200 homicides tied to organized crime were recorded in 2025, while extortion complaints increased by 19%, underscoring the growing security crisis in the South American nation.

Amid this backdrop, presidential candidate Álvarez has proposed reinstating the death penalty if elected, arguing that extreme measures are needed to curb the violence.

To implement the proposal, Álvarez said Peru would withdraw from the American Convention on Human Rights—also known as the Pact of San José—which the country signed in 1978. The agreement prevents member states that have abolished capital punishment from reinstating it.

Currently, Peruvian law only allows the death penalty in cases of treason during wartime.

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“We have to leave the Pact of San José and apply the death penalty in Peru because those miserable criminals don’t deserve to live,” Álvarez told AFP during a campaign stop at a market in Callao, the port city neighboring Lima.

“An iron fist against those criminals,” he added, proposing to declare hitmen as military targets.

During the campaign event, Álvarez walked through stalls selling vegetables, groceries, and fish, greeting vendors while musicians played cumbia music nearby.

The 62-year-old candidate, who spent more than four decades working in television as a comedian, is a newcomer to politics and is running for president under the País para Todos party.

Polls place him fifth in voter preference with nearly 4% support in a fragmented race featuring 36 candidates.