Por Susana Erazo, CNN en Español

Oswadeliz Núñez, una madre venezolana, recuerda haber discutido con su hijo Daniel cuando, a los 24 años, decidió hacerse un tatuaje. Hoy cuenta que aquel primer enojo terminó convirtiéndose en la señal que necesitaba cuando, días después de los terremotos en Venezuela, ese tatuaje le permitió confirmar que el cadáver hallado bajo los escombros de un hotel en La Guaira era el de Daniel.

Núñez, una profesional graduada como abogada e ingeniera, cuenta en entrevista con CNN el duro proceso de duelo que enfrenta desde que su hijo Daniel, quien fue deportado desde Estados Unidos y repatriado a Venezuela el 24 de junio, se convirtió en una víctima más de la tragedia en el país, cuando dos fuertes terremotos sacudieron el centro-norte y provocaron el colapso del edificio donde se encontraba retenido.

Daniel llegó a Estados Unidos en 2022 tras cruzar la frontera con México y comenzó su solicitud de asilo. Pero la situación se complicó cuando fue detenido por agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) el 10 de mayo, cuando iba camino a su trabajo en la construcción.

Oswadeliz dice que su hijo ya había decidido regresar a Venezuela antes de que fuera deportado. “Daniel ya había decidido regresar para finales de este año, porque él decía que la persecución a los migrantes era muy fuerte”, cuenta Núñez.

La pesadilla de Oswadeliz comenzó el miércoles 24 de junio, cuando su hijo la llamó desde el celular de un funcionario del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN). “Me dice: “No, mami, estamos con los funcionarios del SEBIN”, y es a las 17:25 p.m. (unos 40 minutos aproximadamente antes del primer terremoto) que yo me entero de que ya estaba en Venezuela, que habían comido, le habían hecho unos exámenes y que pasarían la noche allí”, dice ella.

Núñez vive en El Tigre, una ciudad ubicada a casi siete horas de La Guaira. Cuenta que su hijo le mencionó que el 25 de junio funcionarios del Gobierno lo llevarían desde el hotel El Santuario, en Macuto, estado de La Guaira —donde permanecerían temporalmente mientras se completaban los trámites administrativos de repatriación— a casa con su madre. Ese reencuentro, sin embargo, nunca llegó a darse.

El avión de deportación en el que se encontraba Daniel había salido desde de Miami y llegado el miércoles a las 10:22 de la mañana, hora local, al Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar, en Venezuela. En el vuelo viajaban 146 personas: 120 hombres, 19 mujeres y 7 menores, de acuerdo con datos difundidos por las autoridades venezolanas y por ICE Flight Monitor, un proyecto de Human Rights First que rastrea este tipo de operaciones.

Ese mismo miércoles, la misión Vuelta a la Patria reportó la llegada del vuelo 164 e indicó que los pasajeros fueron recibidos en el Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar “con dignidad” y bajo “todos los protocolos necesarios” para garantizar “un feliz reencuentro en nuestra nación”.

Oswadeliz cuenta que, tras enterarse de los terremotos, intentó comunicarse con las autoridades, pero no tuvo éxito. Luego viajó a La Guaira, donde junto con amigos y familiares recorrieron varias clínicas y morgues buscando a Daniel. “Dormíamos dos, tres horas y seguíamos, íbamos a esos hospitales que tienen 8, 9, 10 pisos, nosotros subíamos todos esos pisos y revisábamos habitación por habitación”.

Por Cristopher Ulloa, CNN en Español

Acampan afuera de sus residencias privadas, graban y generan contenido, envían regalos inapropiados, compran pasajes en los mismos vuelos de avión e incluso reservan habitaciones en los mismos hoteles. ¿El objetivo? Estar más cerca de sus ídolos, aunque eso implique traspasar todo límite social y legal.

Estamos hablando de los “sasaeng” (사생), un término surcoreano que se utiliza para llamar a los “fans obsesivos” de las estrellas de la industria del entretenimiento y que se ha masificado de la mano del auge del k-pop en el mundo.

Los casos son varios. Por ejemplo, a fines de junio una mujer brasileña fue condenada a un año de prisión suspendida en la ciudad de Seúl luego de intentar ingresar en reiteradas ocasiones a la casa de Jung Kook, uno de los integrantes del afamado grupo BTS. Según informó el diario local The Korea Times, la “fan” tocó el timbre de la propiedad 133 veces.

“Son personas que se obsesionan con el artista al grado de invadir su vida privada, desde números de teléfono hasta tener acceso a sus casas”, cuenta Melissa Salinas, administradora del club de fans de BTS Army en México. Según explica a CNN en Español, este tipo de comportamientos surgieron a fines de los años 90, en un mundo en el que el uso de celulares inteligentes y cámaras digitales no se habían masificado del todo. “La única manera de poder tener un contacto cercano con el artista era invadiendo su espacio privado, desde enviar cartas con sangre hasta acampar en el exterior de la casa de sus familias”, agrega.

Para Janice Tapia Silva, investigadora del Centro de Estudios Comparados de Corea de la Universidad Central de Chile, las “sasaeng” no debieran ser consideradas “fans”, sino calificadas directamente como personas acosadoras. “El término alude a esta idea de violación de la vida privada. En ese sentido, las sasaeng no son consideradas por las fans coreanas como parte del fandom. A veces, los materiales que obtienen –videos, fotos, autógrafos– puede que los pongan a la venta para ganar dinero, algo parecido a lo que ocurre con los paparazzi en Occidente, que tienen un móvil monetario mucho más marcado”, explica la académica.

El dinero, sin embargo, no es siempre el leitmotiv de las “sasaeng”.

En 2024, una mujer japonesa de 50 años besó sin su consentimiento a Jin, otro miembro de BTS, en un evento de fans. El hecho causó indignación y provocó la molestia de la banda y una investigación por parte de la Policía de Seúl.

Por otro lado, Lisa de Blackpink también reveló haber sido víctima de estos acosadores en 2025, cuando llegó a su casa y vio que había un sasaeng esperándola. “Nunca había compartido esto antes. El año pasado fue la primera vez que yo misma lo experimenté. He oído hablar mucho de ello a otros amigos idols, sobre todo de idols masculinos. Pero me acaba de pasar a mí. Le dije a esa persona: ‘No me siento cómoda con esto. Si quieres verme, quedemos en algún sitio público. Apareciendo así en mi casa, me siento incómoda’”, aseguró en el podcast tailandés Woody FM.

Para los fans, este tipo de conductas son simplemente inaceptables. “Lo importante es que nosotros como fans estemos atentas de ese tipo de actitudes y denunciar, a los videos filtrados de los chicos en espacios personales, las ubicaciones de sus hoteles, los nombres de su staff o simplemente los horarios de sus vuelos. Es preocupante p

By Lianne Kolirin, Alli Rosenbloom, CNN

(CNN) — Two more of Brad Pitt’s children have applied to legally drop his surname.

The star’s daughter Zahara, 21, and son Maddox, 24, are both seeking to remove Pitt from their legal names, according to court documents filed in California. They cited personal reasons for requesting the change.

This is the latest development in the high-profile breakdown of Pitt’s marriage to fellow A-lister Angelina Jolie. The former Hollywood power couple have been locked in disputes since they split a decade ago. They finally settled their divorce at the end of 2024 but continue to be embroiled in a legal battle over Château Miraval, the French winery they formerly owned together.

In paperwork submitted electronically to the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles last month, the actors’ daughter applied to change her name from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie. Her brother Maddox also asked the court for permission to remove Pitt from his double-barreled family name at the end of May.

As required by law, the siblings subsequently both placed ads in the Los Angeles Daily Journal once a week for four consecutive weeks in June and July, giving anyone who objects to the possible change a chance to register their objection. If nobody does, a judge is likely to rule on the change to Maddox’s name in mid-September, while his sister’s case will be decided at the end of the month.

CNN has reached out to representatives for Pitt. Representatives could not be located for Zahara or Maddox.

Jolie and Pitt married in 2014 and filed for divorce in 2016. They share six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.

In September 2016, the family flew to the United States from France on a private jet. In August 2022, details surrounding the circumstances of an incident during the flight emerged, when a heavily redacted FBI report, provided to CNN by a source at the time, revealed Jolie had accused Pitt of physically assaulting her and verbally abusing their children while they were onboard.

Pitt became the center of a probe related to the incident but was never arrested or charged, according to an FBI statement at the time.

Jolie filed for divorce shortly after the 2016 incident.

In an October 2022 countersuit to a legal case involving their winery, Jolie alleged that Pitt “choked one of the children and struck another in the face” during the incident. In response, a representative for Pitt told CNN in a statement at the time that, “Brad has accepted responsibility for what he did but will not for things he didn’t do.”

Jolie, who had previously used the double-barreled surname, dropped Pitt from her name in 2019 after a court formally dissolved the marriage. Their daughter Vivienne Read more

By Jack Guy, CNN

(CNN) — A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Colobus congoensis, known to local people as Likweli, is just the fifth new monkey species scientists have identified in Africa in the last 75 years, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE Wednesday.

The monkey has a glossy black coat, long fur, a sweeping tail and striking orange-cream facial markings, said researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the City University of New York Graduate Center in statements on Wednesday.

They added that the species has “distinctive cranial, dental, and skeletal characteristics that separate it from every other known African colobus monkey.”

It is also smaller than related Colobus monkeys, weighing around 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms).

“It is distinguished by sleek, light-reflecting fur and dramatic facial features created by long black facial hairs and large folded ears,” said FAU.

“The discovery of Colobus congoensis is reshaping our understanding of African monkey evolution,” said study senior author Kate Detwiler, an associate professor of biological sciences in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

“Its closest known relative is Colobus satanas, found more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) away in west-central Africa,” she said. “Yet our genetic evidence shows the two species diverged roughly 4 to 5 million years ago, marking one of the oldest known evolutionary splits within the Colobus lineage.”

The process of describing the new species began in 2008, when an unusual monkey was photographed by researchers working in east-central DRC. Ten years later, they made a clearer observation, and went on to make 114 sightings from 2018-2022.

In addition to its anatomy and field observations, researchers also had to study the monkey’s genetics and use local ecological knowledge to prove that this was a species that had never been described before.

“When a potential new species is discovered, the evidence has to be overwhelming,” said coauthor Christopher Gilbert, professor of anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, in the CUNY statement.

“We analyzed museum collections and comparative datasets, examining skulls, pelts, and skeletal anatomy alongside specimens from known African colobus monkeys,” he said. “Those comparisons allowed us to demonstrate conclusively that Colobus congoensis represents a distinct species.”

However, there are some conservation concerns for Likweli, given the fact that the sightings were made across a range of around 1,700 square kilometers (656 square miles).

“The researchers propose that Colobus congoensis be classified as Endangered because of its restricted range, habitat loss, and hunting pressure,” reads the CUNY statement. “Most of its known habitat lies within Lomami National Park, making protection of the region critical for the species’ survival.”

‘Rare and exciting’

Alexander Georgiev, a senior lecturer in primatology at Bangor University, Wales, who was not involved in the study, called the analysis “very thorough and convincing.”

“Finding a new monkey species that is not only unknown to science but is also little known to the people that live where it occurs is very rare and exciting indeed,” he told CNN on Thursday.

“The authors of the study report that residents in only eight of a total of 52 villages that border the range of this new species they visited were able to provide information about this primate and describe it,” said Georgiev.

“This explains why it has taken this long for the species to be documented for sci

By Jack Guy, CNN

(CNN) — A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Colobus congoensis, known to local people as Likweli, is just the fifth new monkey species scientists have identified in Africa in the last 75 years, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE Wednesday.

The monkey has a glossy black coat, long fur, a sweeping tail and striking orange-cream facial markings, said researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the City University of New York Graduate Center in statements on Wednesday.

They added that the species has “distinctive cranial, dental, and skeletal characteristics that separate it from every other known African colobus monkey.”

It is also smaller than related Colobus monkeys, weighing around 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms).

“It is distinguished by sleek, light-reflecting fur and dramatic facial features created by long black facial hairs and large folded ears,” said FAU.

“The discovery of Colobus congoensis is reshaping our understanding of African monkey evolution,” said study senior author Kate Detwiler, an associate professor of biological sciences in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

“Its closest known relative is Colobus satanas, found more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) away in west-central Africa,” she said. “Yet our genetic evidence shows the two species diverged roughly 4 to 5 million years ago, marking one of the oldest known evolutionary splits within the Colobus lineage.”

The process of describing the new species began in 2008, when an unusual monkey was photographed by researchers working in east-central DRC. Ten years later, they made a clearer observation, and went on to make 114 sightings from 2018-2022.

In addition to its anatomy and field observations, researchers also had to study the monkey’s genetics and use local ecological knowledge to prove that this was a species that had never been described before.

“When a potential new species is discovered, the evidence has to be overwhelming,” said coauthor Christopher Gilbert, professor of anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, in the CUNY statement.

“We analyzed museum collections and comparative datasets, examining skulls, pelts, and skeletal anatomy alongside specimens from known African colobus monkeys,” he said. “Those comparisons allowed us to demonstrate conclusively that Colobus congoensis represents a distinct species.”

However, there are some conservation concerns for Likweli, given the fact that the sightings were made across a range of around 1,700 square kilometers (656 square miles).

“The researchers propose that Colobus congoensis be classified as Endangered because of its restricted range, habitat loss, and hunting pressure,” reads the CUNY statement. “Most of its known habitat lies within Lomami National Park, making protection of the region critical for the species’ survival.”

‘Rare and exciting’

Alexander Georgiev, a senior lecturer in primatology at Bangor University, Wales, who was not involved in the study, called the analysis “very thorough and convincing.”

“Finding a new monkey species that is not only unknown to science but is also little known to the people that live where it occurs is very rare and exciting indeed,” he told CNN on Thursday.

“The authors of the study report that residents in only eight of a total of 52 villages that border the range of this new species they visited were able to provide information about this primate and describe it,” said Georgiev.

“This explains why it has taken this long for the species to be documented for sci