By Mauricio Torres, CNN

(CNN) — Thousands of Cuban migrants deported from the United States have faced violations of their rights and are currently in “a legal limbo” in Mexico, where they have difficulties regularizing their situation and even obtaining medical care, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

The HRW report, published Wednesday, is based on a review of deportation figures from January 2025 to March of this year, as well as interviews with authorities and deported migrants.

According to the report, since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the US government has sought to increase its deportations and, to do so, has resorted to sending migrants to places other than their countries of origin.

Among those destination countries, Mexico has received the most migrants of various nationalities, with 12,977, followed by Honduras, with 1,352, and Canada, with 1,066, the report says, based on statistics obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Of the total number of migrants deported to Mexico, the largest group consists of people from Cuba, with 4,353.

HRW says it interviewed 41 of those Cuban migrants, and that many of them said they had lived in the US for decades and were detained while attending their supervision appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at their homes, on their way to work or after finishing prison sentences.

According to HRW, 35 of those interviewed said they lost their green cards because of a conviction, mostly for offenses such as driving under the influence of alcohol, falsifying documents, or minor drug-related charges. Others were convicted of more serious offenses, such as assault or weapons-related charges.

“The absence of deportation agreements with Cuba meant that these people could not be deported to their country of origin. Instead, they were allowed to continue their lives in the United States, and many came to believe they would never be deported,” the report says, adding many had work permits and lived with their families.

The report notes the situation changed from the start of Trump’s second term, with the tightening of immigration policy. Many Cubans began to be detained, mainly in Florida, where, according to HRW, they were taken to centers where they were held in “inhumane conditions” and were prevented from exercising their right to challenge the order to be deported to a third country.

“The people interviewed for this report described inhumane conditions of detention in immigration detention centers in the United States that are part of a broader pattern that Human Rights Watch has documented since 2025,” the non-profit organization said.

CNN contacted both ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment on the allegations in the report.

HRW cites as an example the case of Fermín, a 52-year-old Cuban who was in the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in Florida, where he said there was contaminated water, raw food, and many sick people. Previously, other human rights organizations have collected similar testimonies.

The report says that 15 interviewees said they experienced “episodes of verbal and physical violence, including beatings and prolonged periods of isolation, in different detention centers.”

One example of this, it adds, was the case of Alejo, a 50-year-old Cuban who said he was held in isolation for two weeks in a detention center in El Paso, Texas. “I spent 15 days detained in the hole, a punishment cell, (where) you don’t see the sunlight,” he recounted in the report.

The Trump administration has repeatedly defended the operation of federal migrant detention centers, arguing they provide adequate conditions and respect human righ

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El Reino Unido y sus aliados corren el riesgo de perder un conflicto en el ciberespacio contra adversarios como Rusia a menos que los ciudadanos, las empresas y los Gobiernos traten la ciberseguridad con mucha mayor urgencia, advierte una jefa de los servicios de inteligencia británicos.

Anne Keast-Butler, directora de la agencia de inteligencia de comunicaciones GCHQ, advertirá este miércoles que Moscú está atacando sin tregua la infraestructura crítica, los procesos democráticos, las cadenas de suministro y la confianza pública en el Reino Unido y Europa.

En un discurso pronunciado en un centro de descifrado de códigos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial cerca de Londres, acusará a Rusia de robar tecnología y de planear sabotajes e intentos de asesinato.

Keast-Butler tiene previsto afirmar que los rápidos avances en inteligencia artificial significan que “el terreno bajo nuestros pies está cambiando” y que existe una “ventana cada vez más estrecha para que el Reino Unido y sus aliados se mantengan por delante” de países como China, una “superpotencia” científica y tecnológica.

Según extractos publicados con antelación por GCHQ, siglas de Government Communications Headquarters, su intención es argumentar que debe haber un esfuerzo “desde las salas de juntas hasta los hogares” para que la ciberseguridad sea “diez veces más urgente”.

Se trata de la última de una serie de advertencias de espías y expertos en inteligencia occidentales que señalan que Rusia está intensificando su actividad hostil en una “zona gris” que se sitúa justo por debajo del umbral de la guerra.

En los últimos meses, las autoridades de países como Suecia, Polonia, Dinamarca y Noruega han denunciado que piratas informáticos vinculados a Rusia atacaron su infraestructura crítica, incluidas centrales eléctricas y represas.

El director del Centro Nacional de Ciberseguridad del Reino Unido, Richard Horne, advirtió el mes pasado que estados hostiles como Rusia, China e Irán están detrás de los ciberataques más graves que enfrenta el país.

Añadió que estos ataques podrían aumentar drásticamente si el Reino Unido se ve involucrada en un conflicto internacional.

Keast-Butler planea destacar la importancia de las alianzas internacionales, ya que la política exterior de “Estados Unidos primero” del presidente Donald Trump y su desprecio por los aliados de larga data tensan la relación entre Londres y Washington.

Significativamente, el discurso anual de la directora del GCHQ en Bletchley Park tiene lugar en una mansión situada a 72 kilómetros al noroeste de Londres, donde cientos de matemáticos, criptógrafos, aficionados a los crucigramas, maestros de ajedrez y otros expertos trabajaron para descifrar los códigos secretos supuestamente indescifrables de la Alemania nazi.

Su trabajo contribuyó a acortar la guerra y a acelerar el nacimiento de la informática moderna.

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El presidente Donald Trump concluyó este martes por la noche su gira de venganza de un mes de duración en Texas.

Los índices de aprobación nacional del presidente podrían estar cerca de su nivel más bajo. Sin embargo, una serie de primarias celebradas en estados tradicionalmente republicanos en mayo han demostrado que los votantes conservadores siguen apoyando fervientemente a Trump y están dispuestos a volverse contra aquellos a quienes él considera desleales.

Tras derrotar a los titulares en Indiana, Kentucky y Louisiana, Trump consiguió lo que quería en Texas cuando Ken Paxton, el controvertido fiscal general del estado, venció al senador John Cornyn, que llevaba cuatro mandatos en el cargo.

Ahora, los republicanos se enfrentan a la perspectiva de tener que desembolsar una gran cantidad de dinero para defender un escaño en un estado tradicionalmente republicano en una contienda contra el representante estatal demócrata James Talarico, que podría convertirse en la elección más cara de la historia.

Los senadores republicanos y sus principales estrategas creían que Cornyn tenía la reelección asegurada si lograba superar las primarias, y que Paxton era un candidato más débil para las elecciones generales.

Sin embargo, Trump decidió ignorar meses de presión por parte de la dirección del Senado para que el presidente apoyara a Cornyn o se mantuviera al margen de la segunda vuelta, y emitió un respaldo tardío a Paxton.

La decisión de Trump selló, en la práctica, el destino político de Cornyn.

En su discurso de victoria, Paxton calificó el respaldo de Trump como “la fuerza más poderosa en la política”.

Estas son las conclusiones de la segunda vuelta de las primarias de Texas:

Trump ha destituido a los senadores republicanos titulares del estado de Indiana que se negaron a apoyar su iniciativa de redistribución de distritos, ha derrotado a un crítico frecuente como el representante de Kentucky, Thomas Massie, y ha desbancado al senador de Louisiana, Bill Cassidy , quien votó a favor de condenar a Trump tras su segundo juicio político después del ataque al Capitolio de Estados Unidos el 6 de enero de 2021.

Cornyn votó a favor de absolver a Trump en aquel entonces, pero tardó en respaldarlo en su tercer intento por llegar a la Casa Blanca. En 2023, afirmó que Trump tenía “una capacidad única para movilizar a sus seguidores, pero no para expandir su base, lo cual es un problema”.

Sin embargo, si bien el respaldo de Trump es poderoso en las primarias republicanas, también tiene un largo historial de apoyar a candidatos que alienaron al electorado en general y perdieron elecciones generales que podrían haber ganado.

Los republicanos intentarán impedir que Paxton se sume a la lista de candidatos respaldados por Trump que están condenados al fracaso, entre los que se incluyen Herschel Walker en Georgia, Kari Lake y Blake Masters en Arizona, y Mehmet Oz en Pensilvania.

Mientras tanto, Trump también se enfrentará a siete meses más de mayorías republicanas en el Capitolio, donde legisladores como Massie, Cassi

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By Emma Tucker, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN

(CNN) — At least one person has died, nine people were injured and nine employees remain unaccounted for after a large tank of chemical treatment product, including hazardous materials, ruptured at a paper and packaging facility in Washington state, fire officials said.

The incident took place around 7:30 a.m. local time at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. facility in Longview, Washington. The ruptured tank contained white liquor, a chemical mixture used in the paper making process, the Longview Fire Department said. Officials previously said the tank imploded.

There is no threat to the surrounding community, the department said, while advising people to avoid the area. The scene remains active but recovery and stabilization efforts remain “extremely complex” due to ongoing safety hazards, said Scott Goldstein, fire chief of Cowlitz 2 Fire Rescue at a news conference Tuesday night.

The injured include eight employees and one firefighter, who has since been treated and released, fire officials said. At a news conference earlier in the day, they said “there were fatalities” related to the implosion.

CNN has reached out to the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. facility for comment on the incident.

While officials originally said the tank had capacity to hold 80,000 gallons and was roughly 60% full, they later said the tank held over 10 times that amount of white liquor – approximately 900,000 gallons. Roughly 90,000 gallons of material may remain inside the damaged tank, they said.

The accident is the latest in a spate of incidents at industrial facilities, mills and plants in recent months, some of which have also been deadly.

Just this past week, officials raced to prevent an overheating chemical tank in California from exploding, prompting tens of thousands of residents to evacuate until pressure in the tank was reduced, eliminating the risk of a catastrophic blast. In April, a chemical leak involving nitric acid and another substance at a West Virginia plant killed two people and injured over a dozen others, The Associated Press reported.

In October of last year, more than 24,000 pounds of explosives detonated at a Tennessee explosives plant, killing 16 employees and making a blast so intense it registered as a 1.6 magnitude earthquake. And two months earlier, an explosion at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania killed two workers and injured more than 10 others, one of whom was trapped in rubble, the AP reported.

A spokesperson for PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center told CNN the hospital initially received nine patients, including one person who died in Longview incident. Two people were transferred to other facilities and six others were in “fair condition,” according to Jim Murez, the hospital’s commun

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By Kocha Olarn, Chris Lau, Charlotte Reck, CNN

(CNN) — A dangerous operation to rescue seven villagers trapped in a flooded cave for a week continues to unfold in a mountainous region of Laos, where experts are trying to beat bad weather and deteriorating conditions that are putting multiple lives at risk.

Specialist cave divers, who’ve been squeezing through narrow, muddy tunnels at the site in the central Laotian province of Xaisomboun, say they’re getting closer to the villagers, who are believed to be inside an underground cavern.

Rescuers told CNN that more than 100 people had joined the risky operation – including 15 experienced divers and experts who helped in the dramatic 2018 cave rescue of a young soccer team in Thailand.

Here’s what to know:

What happened?

The villagers went into the cave last Wednesday in search of gold, but heavy rain triggered flash flooding which blocked the exit, the Associated Press reported, citing Laos and Thai rescue teams.

The villagers are believed to be trapped on “an elevated ledge inside the cave that benefits from continuous airflow,” state-run Lao News Agency reported Tuesday.

Thai diver Kengkad Bongkawong told CNN that rescuers are working with a map that they believe is highly accurate, and that the villagers are in the “safest spot” inside the cave.

“That’s why I believe, given the geography and the living conditions of the victims, if they are in that specific area, their chances of survival are very high – very high,” said Bongkawong, who also took part in the operation to rescue the Thai soccer team in 2018.

What are the risks?

Finnish diver Mikko Paasi is among the team of divers navigating the Laos tunnel and posted video to social media of himself squeezing between jagged rocks.

“We are still in high spirits that we will find the miners alive as they entered the mine with resources to stay sub-terrain for several days,” he wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

But he also spoke of the treacherous conditions he had encountered so far, starting with a four kilometer jungle hike to even get to the site.

“Inside the mine, you have to navigate hundreds of meters of constant restrictions, flood waters, collapse hazards and high risk of contaminated air quality,” said Paasi, who was also involved in the rescue of the Thai boys in 2018.

Arnold Dix, a geologist and disaster rescuer who led the operation to save 41 Indian miners from a collapsed tunnel in 2023, warned that rescues of this kind are inherently risky.

He said after seven days inside the cave, the risk of illness among those trapped is rising. Conditions are also very difficult for rescuers, who would be wary of becoming caught out by a rush of water inside the tunnels, he said.

“For the rescuers there at the moment, there in Laos, my heart goes out to them. I hope they succeed, but I also hope they don’t get killed in the process,” Dix told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Wednesday.