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La historia de Marcelo Bielsa en el Mundial: un fracaso estrepitoso, una ilusión renovada y una gran incógnita

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Por Darío Klein, CNN en Español

Marcelo Bielsa prepara junto a la selección uruguaya su tercera Copa Mundial de la FIFA, a la que llega tras una eliminatoria con altibajos, en la que comenzó a todo trapo, derrotando, entre otros, a Argentina —de visitante— y a Brasil —de local—, con un fútbol práctico, contundente y vistoso, pero que terminó de manera desdibujada, en medio de fuertes cuestionamientos de la prensa deportiva y aficionados locales.

El de ahora es un panorama muy distinto al que disfrutaba cuando llegó en 2002 al Mundial de Corea y Japón al frente de la selección argentina, con la cual arrasó en la eliminatoria con 43 puntos (13 victorias, cuatro empates y solo una derrota). Aquella selección, en la que se destacaban, entre otros, los goleadores Gabriel Batistuta y Hernán Crespo, Juan Sebastián Verón, Diego Simeone y Pablo Aimar, llegó al torneo rodeada de un aura creíble de exitismo.

Sin embargo, después de ganarle 1-0 a Nigeria vino una derrota por el mismo marcador ante Inglaterra, lo que la obligó a vencer en el último partido a Suecia. Jugando contra el reloj, los nervios y una buena defensa rival, Argentina atacó y atacó, controló el partido, generó innumerables situaciones de gol, pero no pudo romper el empate 1-1. Y entonces la albiceleste se fue en primera fase, algo que no le sucedía desde el Mundial de Chile 1962.

Pese al evidente fracaso, era tanta la satisfacción por lo bien que había jugado esa selección y lo injusto del resultado, que la AFA mantuvo a Bielsa, aunque este terminó renunciando luego de conseguir en 2004 la medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas.

La revancha tardó en llegar, pero llegó. En 2007 tomó las riendas de una selección chilena que no se clasificaba a un Mundial desde 1998, con aquel recordado equipo liderado por la recordada dupla Za-Sa, de Iván Zamorano y Marcelo Salas. Precisamente, Salas, ya con 34 años, estuvo al mando de Bielsa y fue referente de los jóvenes Arturo Vidal, Alexis Sánchez, Gary Medel y Claudio Bravo, entre otros. Ese equipo llevó a Chile a soñar nuevamente con clasificar a un Mundial luego de los fracasos de 2002 y 2006.

Bajo la batuta del entrenador argentino, la Roja recuperó la confianza en sí misma y terminó segunda en la tabla general, consiguiendo 33 puntos, solo uno menos que Brasil.

Cuando llegó el Mundial, los chilenos creían que era posible. Y lo fue. En Sudáfrica, Chile les ganó a Honduras y Suiza por 1-0, pero cayó con la selección que luego ganaría el título: España. El destino, algún error defensivo y la diferencia de goles con los ibéricos quisieron que la Roja quede segunda en el grupo, debiendo enfrentar a la Canarinha brasileña en octavos de final. Los de Dunga fueron demasiado, y una goleada por 3 a 0 sepultó la ilusión.

En 2011 —y debido a diferencias con la nueva dirigencia de la ANFP— Marcelo Bielsa renunció, pero nadie en Chile lo olvidó. Lo despidieron como a un héroe. Y es que muchos consideran que fue “el Loco” el que sentó las bases de lo que los chilenos llaman “la generación dorada” que obtuvo las Copas Américas de 2015 y 2016.

“Cambió la mentalidad del fútbol chileno. Fue el creador de esta generación dorada. Era un equipo joven, con muy poca experiencia, y toda su metodología era nueva para nosotros. Su exigencia e intensidad… no estábamos acostumbrados a eso. Eso llevó a cambiar el chip al jugador chileno en general, no solo a la selección.
Nuestro problema era mental y físico”, dijo Mark González, exjugador del combinado nacional.

“Yo creo que fue el gran revolucionario del fútbol chileno. Es el que convence al jugador de que puede competir de igual a igual con cualquiera”, agregó uno de los sucesores de Bielsa al frente de la Roja, Juan Antonio Pizzi.

Al director técnico argentino le llega ahora su tercera oportunidad.

Antes del partido de preparación contra la selección de Inglaterra en el Estad

‘We were lucky’: Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ bids farewell in final broadcast on CBS

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — The series finale of “The Late Show” aired on CBS Thursday night, with Stephen Colbert giving thanks to his staff, studio audience and viewers.

Colbert walked out to deafening cheers from the studio audience inside the Ed Sullivan Theater.

“If you’re just tuning into ‘The Late Show,’ you missed a lot,” he quipped, alluding to CBS parent company Paramount’s controversial and politically charged decision to cancel the show.

When the host noted that Thursday night was the final broadcast and his fans booed, he put up his finger and said, “No, no, we were lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years. You can’t take this for granted.”

The monologue was interrupted by celebrity friends like Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Tim Meadows, who all vied to be Colbert’s last guest. Ultimately it was Paul McCartney who sat down with Colbert for an in-depth interview.

Colbert made a few jokes about the circumstances; “A lot of people have been asking me what I plan to do after tonight, and the answer is drugs,” he joked.

But Colbert, true to self, also had some sincere things to say about his relationship with the late-night audience.

Colbert harkened back to the way he introduced himself as a blowhard character on Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” in 2005: “Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news ‘at’ you.”

Once he moved from Comedy Central to the much bigger CBS stage in 2015, “I realized pretty soon … that our job over here was different,” he said. “We were here to feel the news with you. And I don’t know about you, but I sure have felt it.”

After Colbert and his producers taped the final episode on Thursday evening, they headed to a star-studded wrap party nearby.

Colbert has said in interviews that he hasn’t had much time to think ahead to what he might want to do next.

“I don’t have much better of an answer than most college seniors do, which is I’ve got to finish this first, because it takes almost the entirety of my brain to do this show,” he told People magazine. “So we’ll land this plane and we’ll check out the view from there.”

Starting Friday, the 11:35 p.m. window belonging to “The Late Show” will be controlled by Byron Allen, whose media company leased the time slot from CBS for his show “Comics Unleashed.”

Allen’s talk show features a rotating roundtable of comics who tell stories and riff on each other’s jokes, and it’s purposefully evergreen in nature so that the episodes can be repeated later, which means it noticeably lacks any political humor.

CBS said Colbert’s set will be donated to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

As for the famed Ed Sullivan Theater stage where the show was produced for decades, there are no firm plans for what will become of the 100-year-old performance space.

“The fact that nothing’s gonna come in here breaks my heart,” Colbert told Architectural Digest in a video tour of the theater. “But someone will figure it out, and I wish them all the luck in the world — because they’re gonna love it.”

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El segundo mandato de Trump se centra cada vez más en una sola cosa: Trump

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Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN

Donald Trump está dando un significado demasiado literal a las palabras de su sello presidencial: e pluribus unum, que significa: “de muchos, uno”.

En una semana vertiginosa, el presidente centró aún más su mandato en beneficiar a uno solo —a sí mismo— mientras se mostraba aún más ajeno a la mayoría, los millones de estadounidenses atrapados en una crisis de asequibilidad.

Ni siquiera los senadores republicanos, normalmente dóciles, lo van a tolerar.

Todos los presidentes hacen alarde de su poder para perseguir objetivos políticos y de política pública, algunos derivados de sus propias obsesiones. Pero Trump va más allá que cualquiera de sus predecesores recientes al utilizar su cargo como vehículo de poder personal.

En la medida más extraordinaria de la semana, Trump utilizó su poder ejecutivo para obtener una ventaja personal extraordinaria, al prohibir “para siempre” su Departamento de Justicia las auditorías del IRS sobre los asuntos fiscales pasados ​​del presidente y su familia.

Esta declaración figuraba entre los términos de un controvertido acuerdo derivado de la demanda de US$ 10.000 millones que Trump interpuso contra su propio Gobierno por la filtración de sus declaraciones de impuestos.

Resulta preocupante porque parece implicar que un presidente utilice su autoridad excepcional para otorgarse un derecho del que carecen los demás ciudadanos.

Otra parte del acuerdo contempla la creación de un fondo de US$ 1.776 millones para compensar a los ciudadanos que afirman haber sido víctimas de un sistema judicial arbitrario durante la administración Biden.

Este podría ser el ejemplo más tangible del lema de campaña de Trump en 2024, cuando pronunció en multitudinarios mítines: “Yo soy su venganza”.

El temor a que el plan pudiera enriquecer a cientos de personas condenadas por los disturbios en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos en 2021, cuando algunos partidarios de Trump agredieron a la policía, inquietó incluso a la mayoría republicana del Senado, que suele ser una mera formalidad.

El secretario de Justicia interino Todd Blanche pospuso un viaje a Minnesota para denunciar la supuesta corrupción demócrata, con el fin de montar una operación de control de daños.

Pero la senadora de Maine, Susan Collins, una de las principales responsables de la asignación de fondos, que espera que la reacción negativa contra Trump no la saque del Senado en las elecciones de mitad de mandato de noviembre, declaró: “No creo que las personas que fueron condenadas por violencia contra agentes de policía el 6 de enero deban tener derecho al reembolso de sus honorarios legales”.

El senador republicano de Carolina del Norte, Thom Tillis, quien puede permitirse el lujo de ser directo porque está a punto de jubilarse, manifestó sobre el plan: “Esto es una estupidez mayúscula”.

Y el senador de Louisiana, John Kennedy, añadió: “Simplemente no sé cómo va a funcionar este proyecto. No estoy seguro de dónde va a salir el dinero. No estoy seguro de quién va a tomar las decisiones”.

El exlíder republicano del Senado, Mitch McConnell, fue aún más mordaz. “¿Así que el máximo responsable de la aplicación de la ley en el país está pidiendo un fondo secreto para pagar a quienes agreden a policías? Una estupidez absoluta, una injusticia moral… Elija usted”, declaró el senador de Kentucky.

La revuelta no se habría producido si Trump no se hubiera propuesto una prioridad personal sorprende

‘We were lucky’: Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ bids farewell in final broadcast on CBS

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — The series finale of “The Late Show” aired on CBS Thursday night, with Stephen Colbert giving thanks to his staff, studio audience and viewers.

Colbert walked out to deafening cheers from the studio audience inside the Ed Sullivan Theater.

“If you’re just tuning into ‘The Late Show,’ you missed a lot,” he quipped, alluding to CBS parent company Paramount’s controversial and politically charged decision to cancel the show.

When the host noted that Thursday night was the final broadcast and his fans booed, he put up his finger and said, “No, no, we were lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years. You can’t take this for granted.”

The monologue was interrupted by celebrity friends like Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Tim Meadows, who all vied to be Colbert’s last guest. Ultimately it was Paul McCartney who sat down with Colbert for an in-depth interview.

Colbert made a few jokes about the circumstances; “A lot of people have been asking me what I plan to do after tonight, and the answer is drugs,” he joked.

But Colbert, true to self, also had some sincere things to say about his relationship with the late-night audience.

Colbert harkened back to the way he introduced himself as a blowhard character on Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” in 2005: “Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news ‘at’ you.”

Once he moved from Comedy Central to the much bigger CBS stage in 2015, “I realized pretty soon … that our job over here was different,” he said. “We were here to feel the news with you. And I don’t know about you, but I sure have felt it.”

After Colbert and his producers taped the final episode on Thursday evening, they headed to a star-studded wrap party nearby.

Colbert has said in interviews that he hasn’t had much time to think ahead to what he might want to do next.

“I don’t have much better of an answer than most college seniors do, which is I’ve got to finish this first, because it takes almost the entirety of my brain to do this show,” he told People magazine. “So we’ll land this plane and we’ll check out the view from there.”

Starting Friday, the 11:35 p.m. window belonging to “The Late Show” will be controlled by Byron Allen, whose media company leased the time slot from CBS for his show “Comics Unleashed.”

Allen’s talk show features a rotating roundtable of comics who tell stories and riff on each other’s jokes, and it’s purposefully evergreen in nature so that the episodes can be repeated later, which means it noticeably lacks any political humor.

CBS said Colbert’s set will be donated to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.

As for the famed Ed Sullivan Theater stage where the show was produced for decades, there are no firm plans for what will become of the 100-year-old performance space.

“The fact that nothing’s gonna come in here breaks my heart,” Colbert told Architectural Digest in a video tour of the theater. “But someone will figure it out, and I wish them all the luck in the world — because they’re gonna love it.”

This story has been updated with additional information.

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US funding cuts have hampered response to the deadly Ebola crisis, aid workers say

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By Lauren Kent, Jennifer Hansler, CNN

(CNN) — As a deadly Ebola outbreak tears through northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, many first responders are turning a critical eye on events that preceded the crisis: layoffs of health workers funded by the United States, shortages of critical medical supplies and a steep reduction in American support for global aid programs.

The World Health Organization says more than a hundred deaths are thought to be linked to this outbreak, with nearly 600 suspected cases so far and it’s warning that “we know the scale of the epidemic in DRC is much larger.” It also said this strain of the virus – for which there is no specific vaccine or treatment – could have been circulating for months before it was detected.

There are several reasons for this delay, WHO says: the unusual strain of the virus, weak health infrastructure in the rural area where it originated and ethnic conflict in the region that hampered testing. But the tardy response has also shed an uncomfortable light on the real-world costs of the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid and its withdrawal from WHO, the global health body tasked with managing outbreaks of this kind.

While the Trump administration is keen to point blame elsewhere, aid workers and experts said US funding cutbacks and layoffs in multiple areas have hampered the world’s ability to respond to Ebola.

The Trump administration’s cuts are four-pronged: It withdrew funding from WHO, dissolved the US Agency for International Development (USAID), made cutbacks at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is in the process of reducing the total health aid it gives to DRC and Uganda, the countries at the center of the epidemic. All of those moves have weakened global health systems that are vital for effective responses to outbreaks like this one, experts told CNN.

“When you add up all of those elements, it’s hard to see how there could not have been an effect on the surveillance and response capacities in these countries,” said Josh Michaud, associate director for global and public health policy at KFF, a nonprofit health policy research and polling organization.

In one specific example, the International Rescue Committee, which has humanitarian responders on the ground in the DRC, said US funding cuts contributed to delayed detection of the virus.

“Weakened disease surveillance systems following severe health funding cuts in eastern DRC are contributing to the rapid escalation of the latest Ebola outbreak,” the IRC said in a statement. Heather Reoch Kerr, the group’s country director for DRC, added: “Years of underinvestment and recent funding cuts have left many health facilities without adequate protective equipment, surveillance capacity, or frontline support needed to respond quickly and safely.”

A senior State Department official claimed on Tuesday that none of the changes under the Trump administration hampered its efforts to respond to the outbreak. This official said that it had responded swiftly once the outbreak was identified by the WHO and that “the Ebola management programs carried over” and funding awards carried over after the dismantling of USAID.

“There was no specific person or program associated with USAID in this region that would have detected this or contributed to a detection framework here,” the official told reporters. They claimed that “numerous staff who have worked

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