International
Government paves the way for ‘Gordo Dan’, from the “armed arm of Milei”, to be a candidate
The head of staff of the Argentine government, Guillermo Francos, said this Friday that the far-right influencer Daniel Parisini, known as ‘Gordo Dan’ on social networks and visible face of the so-called ‘armed arm of Milei’, would be a “good candidate” for the 2025 legislative elections.
Francos’ statements to the Urbana Play radio station come in the midst of controversy over the presentation, last weekend, of the group ‘Fuerzas del Cielo’ by followers of the Argentine president, including Parasini, who described the movement as “the armed arm of Milei.”
“He’s a good candidate. He is a professional, a doctor, he has clarity, positioning him in more extreme positions makes no sense. She is a normal, balanced person, questioning the status quo, who wants Argentina to change, like many people,” Francos said.
‘Forces of Heaven’
Regarding the presentation of the ‘Forces of Heaven’, he indicated that “the impact on that act of a group of militants who decided to work together has been exaggerated” and added: “Who talked about weapons? He referred to the weapons of democracy, the use of the word through the cell phone and Twitter.”
“Today much more sophisticated mechanisms are used, networks are important for the dissemination of political ideas, but from there to interpret that this is a crisis armed with firearms,” he added.
The words of Javier Milei’s chief of staff, more than reassuring, have been interpreted as a way to pave the way for ‘Gordo Dan’ to be a candidate in 2025, according to the country’s media.
Gordo Dan repeats Javier Milei’s slogans
At the presentation of ‘Fuerzas del Cielo’, in the town of Buenos Aires de San Miguel, the speakers presented a fascist scenography, with banners with the legend “Argentina will be the lighthouse that illuminates the world” and allusions to the homeland, private property, freedom and family.
The main speaker was ‘Gordo Dan’, who attacked progressivism and repeated Milei’s slogans.
The newspaper Perfil publishes that Santiago Caputo, Milei’s advisor and strategist of the campaign that led him to victory a year ago, is the “shadowy leader” and Parasini, the visible face and “maximum reference” of the movement.
A group that, apparently, has the approval of Karina, the president’s sister and general secretary of the Presidency.
Neither Caputo nor Karina were at last Saturday’s event, but the far-right ideologue Agustín Laje, a personal friend of the president, was.
Who is Gordo Dan?
Daniel Parisini is a 32-year-old doctor who does not practice, originally from the province of Santiago del Estero (northern Argentina) and a militant since its beginnings of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), the far-right party created by Javier and Karina Milei.
Since Milei is president, the content creator walks around the Casa Rosada, attends official events and even advances dismissals of officials, despite not having a position in the Government.
He is the unofficial spokesperson to move the networks, a ‘troll’ that points to opponents. In his streaming program ‘La Misa’ he makes propaganda to the ‘libertarian’ universe, as he himself describes it, with all kinds of attacks on kirchenism, those who question the ideas of the LLA and feminism.
According to Perfil, Parasini is a partner of Carajo S.A., the company that has created the Carajo channel, from where La Misa is transmitted.
According to the company Rating Streaming, ‘Gordo Dan’ is the most influential in X and makes a big difference to the next most powerful of the networks in Argentina. It has 269,000 followers.
Last August, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists (APTRA) presented him with the Martín Fierro Digital 2024 award, in the category “the most influential in X”, and in his speech he thanked Alberto Fernández for “destroying Kirchnerism.”
International
Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
International
Seven inmates dead, 11 injured after violent riot in Veracruz prison
Seven inmates were killed and eleven others injured in a violent riot and clash inside a penitentiary in the Mexican state of Veracruz, local authorities reported on Sunday.
The disturbance began on Saturday afternoon at the Social Reintegration Center in the port city of Tuxpan, in northern Veracruz, when inmates staged a protest over extortion and assaults allegedly carried out by members of the criminal group known as Grupo Sombra.
The protesting prisoners clashed with another group of inmates and set fires inside and outside the facility, seizing control of the prison for more than 12 hours.
During the takeover, the rioters released several videos, including one showing four prisoners —believed to be members of Grupo Sombra— accusing them of being behind the violence and extortion inside the prison.
It wasn’t until Sunday morning that elements of the Mexican Army, the National Guard, and local police forces managed to enter the prison and regain control. The state’s Public Security Secretariat confirmed that around 9:00 a.m. local time a coordinated operation restored full order and reestablished control of the facility.
Authorities also reported that the fires set by inmates were fully extinguished.
Official figures confirmed the “tragic” deaths of seven inmates and injuries to eleven people, who are now receiving medical treatment in various regional hospitals.
This is the second deadliest riot in Veracruz in the past eight years. In 2018, a violent uprising at the La Toma medium-security prison left seven people dead (six police officers and one unidentified man) and at least 22 injured (15 officers and seven inmates).
The riot follows the kidnapping and killing of retired teacher and taxi driver Irma Hernández, a case that shocked the entire country and was attributed to Grupo Sombra. Images of Hernández kneeling, surrounded by armed men in the municipality of Álamo, sparked nationwide outrage. She was murdered after refusing to pay extortion demands from the criminal organization.
Despite these incidents, Veracruz has not seen a spike in the daily homicide average. In fact, there has been a 1.6% decrease in homicides in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
In 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported 3,094 incidents in Mexican prisons —an 18.5% increase from the previous year— resulting in 100 deaths and 892 injuries.
International
Study finds COVID-19 vaccines prevented 2.5 million deaths worldwide
COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 2,533,000 deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2024, according to an international study led by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Italy and Stanford University in the United States, published in the journal JAMA Health Forum. Researchers calculated that one death was prevented for every 5,400 doses administered.
The analysis also found that the vaccines saved 14.8 million years of life, equivalent to one year of life gained for every 900 doses given.
The study, coordinated by Professor Stefania Boccia, revealed that 82% of the lives saved were people vaccinated before becoming infected with the virus, and 57% of deaths avoided occurred during the Omicron wave. In addition, 90% of the beneficiaries were adults over 60 years old.
“This is the most comprehensive analysis to date, based on global data and fewer assumptions about the evolution of the pandemic,” explained Boccia and researcher Angelo Maria Pezzullo.
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