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La promesa de asequibilidad de Trump ataca directamente al corazón del motor de ganancias de Wall Street

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Por Juan Towfighi, CNN

La propuesta del presidente Donald Trump de imponer un límite del 10 % a las tasas de interés de las tarjetas de crédito durante un año ha tocado una fibra sensible en los debates sobre asequibilidad y ha preparado un posible enfrentamiento con Wall Street.

Un tope a las tasas podría ofrecer un alivio a corto plazo, aunque no está claro si abordaría de manera significativa la causa fundamental de las preocupaciones sobre asequibilidad.

Pero también podría llevar a los emisores de tarjetas a restringir la disponibilidad de crédito y las recompensas, lo que podría perjudicar el gasto del consumidor y el crecimiento económico.

“Un límite a las tasas de interés restringiría el acceso al crédito a quienes más lo necesitan y, francamente, tendría un impacto perjudicial en la economía”, señaló Mark Mason, director financiero de Citigroup, en una llamada con periodistas el miércoles.

Pero los defensores de la reforma dicen que un límite podría ahorrarles a los estadounidenses decenas de miles de millones al año.

“Los bancos están luchando porque esta es su gallina de los huevos de oro y de repente la gente está prestando atención al hecho de que están cobrando demasiado por las tarjetas de crédito”, manifestó Brian Shearer, director de competencia y política regulatoria en Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.

La iniciativa de un límite del 10 % en la tasa impositiva es el último intento del presidente por abordar las preocupaciones de los estadounidenses sobre la asequibilidad, ante las próximas elecciones intermedias de este año.

Trump ya había promocionado la propuesta durante la campaña electoral de 2024.

Según Bankrate, la tasa promedio actual de las tarjetas de crédito es del 19,64 %.

Los legisladores ya han debatido este límite. Congresistas populistas como el senador independiente Bernie Sanders, el senador republicano Josh Hawley y la representante demócrata Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez han promovido, en diferentes momentos, proyectos de ley que limitan las tasas en diferentes porcentajes.

No está claro cómo Trump podría lograr ese límite, que según dijo quiere que entre en vigor el 20 de enero. La legislación requeriría que el Congreso actuara. La participación voluntaria necesitaría la aceptación de los emisores de tarjetas.

La Casa Blanca no respondió a las solicitudes de comentarios.

“Esta es una idea vieja y muy mala”, declaró a CNN el exsenador republicano Pat Toomey.

“Parece una forma de decir: ‘Miren lo que estoy haciendo con la asequibilidad. Estoy haciendo que sus tarjetas de crédito sean más asequibles’. Pero no va a funcionar”, apuntó Toomey. “Lo que va a resultar es que la gente tendrá menos acceso al crédito, punto”.

La fijación de las tasas de interés de las tarjetas es parte del modelo básico de los principales bancos y compañías de tarjetas de crédito.

“Si se reducen los límites, se restringirá el crédito, lo que significa que menos personas obtendrán tarjetas de crédito y el saldo disponible para ellas en esas tarjetas también se restringirá”, opinó Brian Moynihan, director ejecutivo de Bank of America, en la conferencia telefónica sobre ganancias de su compañía el miércoles.

“Hay que sopesar eso con lo que se intenta lograr en materia de asequibilidad. Todos estamos comprometidos con la asequibilidad”, indicó Moynihan. “Ese límite tendrá consecuencias imprevistas”.

Los ejecutivos de Citi y JPMorgan Chase fueron sinceros sobre su oposición a un tope en las tasas.

“No podemos apoyar un límite de tasas”, declaró Jane Fraser, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Citigroup, durante la conferencia telefónica sobre resultados de la compañía el miércoles. “Y creo que, por lo que pudim

Judge restricts federal response to Minnesota protests amid ongoing outcry over ICE shootings

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By Hanna Park, Taylor Romine, CNN

(CNN) — A federal judge ruled Friday that agents carrying out the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration operation in Minnesota can’t arrest or deploy certain crowd-control measures against anyone “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The order comes as outcry continues to build over two shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis over the course of a week.

The new restrictions on federal agents also come amid word that the Department of Justice is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The probe raises the possibility of criminal consequences for the two Democratic leaders, who have openly rebuked the surge of federal activity that began last month.

Groups of protesters continued to decry the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis during the day and into the night Friday, despite frigid temperatures. Demonstrations intensified last week after 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by an ICE agent, and again a week later when another agent shot and injured a Venezuelan man accused of “violently” resisting arrest, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Ruling protects peaceful protests

Federal agents working in the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota are not allowed to arrest or retaliate against peaceful protesters or use “pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools” against them, US District Judge Katherine Menendez ruled in a preliminary injunction issued Friday.

Menendez also said the agents can no longer stop and detain drivers when there is “no reasonable articulable suspicion” they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with federal operations. “The act of safely following” the officers, “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the judge added.

The order only applies in Minnesota and only to agents involved in the current operation, and does not apply to other federal officers handling routine duties elsewhere, the order specified.

In a response to the ruling, the Department of Homeland Security said it is “taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.”

Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that despite these threats, agents follow training and use “the minimum amount of force necessary to protect themselves, the public, and federal property.”

The preliminary injunction was requested by activists who filed a lawsuit last month alleging the federal government was violating their constitutional rights. The case is separate from a different lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the Twin Cities on Monday seeking a court-ordered end to what it calls a “federal invasion” during Operation Metro Surge.

With protests expected to continue, here’s what else to know:

  • Walz and Frey respond: Neither the Minnesota governor nor the Minneapolis mayor confirmed the reported DOJ investigation for possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, but both accused the Trump administration of Read more

From Castro’s prisons to the College Football Playoff title game: Mario Cristobal’s only-in-Miami road to football success

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By Dana O’Neil, CNN

Miami Gardens, Florida (CNN) — Mario Campos grew up deep in the hills of Cuba, a guajiro as the poor farmers there were called.

Despite his rural roots, Campos wound his way to a job with the national police. He kept his position for 26 years, until Fidel Castro came to power and those who worked under the Batista regime were tossed into prison.

Campos was one of the lucky ones. His association with the overthrown Batista government was through the police and not political, a distinction that may have spared him his life and certainly aided his relatively early release from prison. In 1961, as soon as he was freed, Campos fled Cuba for Florida.

He could not speak, write or read English, and the country he now called home did not necessarily want him. In the early 1960s businesses readily hung “Cubans Don’t Apply” signs on their windows. Undeterred, Campos taught himself the language, found work as a dishwasher, and saved up his money so he could buy a produce truck.

Idling along the road one day for a lunch break, Campos spied someone building houses. He struck up a conversation with the man about his job, diving some basic information about construction and determined – with absolutely no background or experience whatsoever – that he, too, could become a general contractor.

In 1970, Campos Construction Company Inc., filed for incorporation. Mario Campos would build and work on houses well into his 70s, including a string along SW 25th Street in Miami that belonged to his extended family.

On Monday night, Mario Cristobal – a second-generation Cuban American, the son and grandson of Cuban exiles, and one-time resident of 6713 SW 25th Street – will lead the University of Miami onto the Hard Rock Stadium field for the College Football Playoff national championship, a personal ascension nearly as improbable as the team revolution at Indiana.

“Our grandfather, he had this philosophy,’’ Cristobal’s big brother Lou told CNN Sports. “If anybody can do it, I can do it, too. That’s kind of what we all believed.’’

An only-in-South-Florida tale

In every family there is the rule follower … and the other one. Typically, the oldest colors between the lines.

“I was the maniac,’’ Lou laughs.

Not like a law breaker; more like a gremlin. Mario was the kid who set his shoes out just right every night before he went to bed. Lou came in and tossed them around before morning. Mario played video games until he mastered them. Lou hit reset when the game didn’t go his way.

Truth be told, neither of them wanted to do anything to disappoint their parents. Luis Cristobal Sr., and Clara were of their generation – faithful to their church, their family and their work. Like his father-in-law, Luis emigrated to Florida in the early 1960s. He did not fare as well in the Cuban prisons. One of the youngest government workers in the Batista regime, he spent two years in captivity, was tortured regularly and twice stared down the barrels of a firing squad.

He came to the US with no money and no family – his parents and sister opted to settle in Puerto Rico. Luis opened a car battery business and Clara went to work with Kendall Toyota processing titles. He worked until he died, often attending to cars in his driveway for friends and family who needed help. Clara retired at 79. They socked away everything they had for their boys.

But the family’s culture was not predicated on just giving. The boys were expected to earn their way with good grades and respect. There is a famed story about Campos, eyeing the bo

Transcripciones del 911, informes y videos muestran cómo agente de ICE disparó a una madre de 3 hijos a “quemarropa”

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Por Zoe Sottile, Alisha Ebrahimji y Karina Tsui, CNN

Los registros de llamadas de emergencia y los informes que detallan el tiroteo fatal de Renee Good la semana pasada por parte de un agente federal de inmigración revelan una mayor sensación de caos organizacional y gran conmoción en torno a sus momentos finales.

Agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) “acaban de dispararle a una señora”. “A quemarropa en su auto”, declaró una persona que llamó al 911 poco después de que el agente disparara a Good en su vehículo el 7 de enero, según las transcripciones de la llamada de emergencia que CNN obtuvo de funcionarios de Minneapolis.

Con la ayuda de testigos presenciales, algunos de los cuales registraron tanto el tiroteo como las protestas que siguieron, junto con los informes recientemente publicados por los funcionarios, aquí hay una cronología de cómo se desarrolló el tiroteo:

Los momentos previos al tiroteo fueron captados por transeúntes y por Jonathan Ross, el veterano de 10 años de ICE que disparó y mató a Good, una madre de tres hijos, de 37 años.

Un alto funcionario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional declaró a CNN que Ross comenzó a filmar el encuentro —que ocurrió en medio de la ofensiva inmigratoria del Gobierno de Trump en las Ciudades Gemelas— porque Good y su esposa estaban acosando a los agentes.

El video grabado por Ross comienza con el agente de ICE frente a la camioneta color borgoña de Good, que estuvo detenida unos minutos en perpendicular a una calle residencial nevada de Minneapolis, obstruyendo el flujo vehicular. Ross no dijo nada mientras caminaba por la parte delantera del vehículo hacia el lado del conductor.

Entonces Good se dirigió a Ross, según muestra el vídeo.

“Está bien, amigo. No estoy enojada contigo”, manifiesta. Ross no respondió. La esposa de la víctima, Becca Good, le dijo “da la cara” a Ross, cuyo reflejo enmascarado aparece en el video.

Becca Good levantó su celular, aparentemente grabando a Ross, y le preguntó: “¿Quieres venir a por nosotros? ¿Quieres venir a por nosotros? Te digo que vayas a buscarte algo de comer, grandullón”.

Luego intentó volver a entrar al coche, pero la puerta estaba cerrada.

Inmediatamente, otro funcionario le indicó a Good, la conductora, que “saliera del maldito auto”.

Se vio entonces a Renee Good dar marcha atrás y mirar hacia adelante mientras giraba el volante a la derecha. El coche avanzó, Ross gritó “¡guau!” y se oyeron tres disparos. Good recibió una herida de bala poco después de las 9:30 a.m., hora local, según un comunicado de prensa del ayuntamiento.

El video filmado por Ross capturó el audio de los disparos, pero no muestra el momento exacto del tiroteo.

Sin embargo, otros videos de transeúntes muestran que Ross se encontraba fuera del alcance del vehículo cuando abrió fuego. Disparó primero contra el parabrisas y luego a quemarropa por la ventanilla abierta del conductor, según muestran los videos.

Al final de la grabación d

Wind Advisory issued January 17 at 2:47AM PST until January 17 at 3:00PM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA

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* WHAT…Northeast winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts 45 to 50 mph.

* WHERE…Santa Susana Mountains, Western San Gabriel Mountains and
Highway 14 Corridor, and Western Santa Monica Mountains
Recreational Area.

* WHEN…Until 3 PM PST this afternoon.

* IMPACTS…Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

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