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Elon Musk submits to a poll in X the readmission of a “racist” employee of his department

The tycoon Elon Musk, appointed by Donald Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency, showed this Friday his way of proceeding to elect the senior officials who will work with him in an organization on which the continuity of thousands of public jobs depends in part.

Specifically, Musk submitted to the followers of his account on the network X (owned by him), which exceed 216 million worldwide, a poll with the following question: “Do we bring back the DOGE employee who made inappropriate statements through a pseudonym now deleted?”, and the voting possibilities are simply YES or NO.

After remaining open for several hours, more than 385,000 users voted, and 78% voted in the yes.

The aforementioned, according to the CNBC portal, is the 25-year-old Mark Elez, who resigned this Thursday after The Wall Street Journal revealed his posts with racist content, among other things, in an account where he was hiding under a pseudonym and that now no longer exists.

For example, he wrote last summer: “For the record, I was already racist before that was ‘cool’” (cool).

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In another post, he proposed that Gaza be “erased from the face of the earth”, and in a third he was in favor of normalizing “anti-Indian hatred”, while proclaiming that there would be no money to convince him to “marry (someone) outside my race”.

Elez is one of the young people brought by Musk to direct the DOGE at his command, a department that is already having access to personal information, including financial or social security data, of millions of people, and that they are supposedly going to use within their plans to reduce administration and thus cut public spending.

After exposing the poll, Elon Musk wrote the umpteenth proof of admiration for President Trump: “I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”

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White House says Cuba policy unchanged despite sanctioned fuel shipment

The White House said Monday that it has not changed its policy toward Cuba, despite allowing a sanctioned Russian oil tanker to deliver fuel to the island on humanitarian grounds.

U.S. officials emphasized that the decision was made as an exception and does not signal a broader shift in policy.

The administration added that similar decisions would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, depending on humanitarian considerations.

The clarification comes amid ongoing restrictions related to U.S. sanctions policy, which continue to limit trade and financial flows involving Cuba.

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Spain to grant citizenship to Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López

The Spanish government is expected to grant citizenship this Tuesday to Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lópezthrough an extraordinary procedure known as “carta de naturaleza.”

The decision will be approved by royal decree, an exceptional legal mechanism used in special cases that require expedited resolution due to specific circumstances.

López has been living in Madrid since 2020, after leaving Venezuela following a prolonged political and legal conflict with the government of Nicolás Maduro.

According to government sources, López currently does not have a valid Venezuelan passport and faces difficulties in having his nationality fully recognized in his home country.

As a result, he applied for Spanish citizenship via a fast-track process at the end of 2025, after previously attempting to obtain it through regular procedures.

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The Spanish government justified the move based on López’s international relevance and foreign policy considerations.

López is the leader of the Voluntad Popular party and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress, an initiative launched in 2022 alongside figures such as Garry Kasparov and Masih Alinejad.

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ICE to remain at airports amid DHS shutdown, Homan says

The U.S. “border czar,” Tom Homan, said Sunday that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will remain deployed at airports until operations return to “100% normal,” as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues.

“We will maintain ICE presence until airports feel they are fully back to normal operations,” Homan said during an interview on Face the Nation on CBS.

Homan justified the deployment on security grounds, noting that the measure was ordered by President Donald Trumpamid widespread absenteeism among agents of the Transportation Security Administration, who have gone without pay for over six weeks due to the DHS shutdown.

According to acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill, at least 460 TSA agents have resigned during the shutdown, while daily absenteeism has averaged 11%, exceeding 50% at some airports.

Homan warned that if TSA staffing levels do not recover after the shutdown, ICE agents will continue filling the gap. “ICE is there to support our TSA brothers and sisters. We will remain as long as needed to ensure airport security,” he said.

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The DHS shutdown reached 44 days on Sunday, making it the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The impasse stems from disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over ICE funding.

A recent bipartisan Senate proposal to fund DHS without including ICE failed after being blocked by House Republicans, who insist on full funding for the agency.

Amid the deadlock, Trump signed an executive order directing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to immediately pay TSA agents to address what he called an “emergency situation” and restore order at airports, with payments expected to begin Monday.

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