Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN

Las leyes férreas del mundo que rigen la presidencia de Donald Trump —fuerza, poder y autoridad— están siendo cada vez más cuestionadas tanto en el país como en el extranjero.

Trump y sus subordinados no han ocultado su creencia en su propio dominio ni su disposición a ejercer un poderío estadounidense sin límites en busca de victorias económicas, geopolíticas y nacionales. Sus políticas son una extensión de una imagen pública basada en la confrontación y la escalada de conflictos.

Sin embargo, una situación internacional cada vez más caótica y una creciente agitación interna sugieren que la metodología de escalada y coerción del presidente tiene límites, y que podría estar llevándolo a situaciones políticas perjudiciales.

La guerra en Irán está demostrando ser la prueba definitiva del enfoque de Trump.

Sus instintos podrían explicar su decisión de lanzar un ataque contra las ambiciones militares, nucleares y regionales de Irán, algo que presidentes anteriores evitaron. Pero la negativa de Teherán a ceder ante las exigencias de Trump está empezando a revelar los límites del poder estadounidense, y también los suyos propios.

Esto ha dejado al presidente ante decisiones difíciles. Podría intensificar el conflicto para intentar obligar a Irán a cumplir con sus exigencias, pero eso podría aumentar las bajas estadounidenses y provocar graves repercusiones económicas.

Podría proclamar la victoria y desentenderse, pero el control iraní del estrecho de Ormuz y la retención de sus reservas de uranio enriquecido desmentirían cualquier afirmación de este tipo.

Para escapar de la trampa, Trump ha optado por una estrategia que combina el poder militar estadounidense con su negativa a ceder terreno ante un enemigo que contraataca.

Su nuevo bloqueo del estrecho es un intento de estrangular la economía iraní, a pesar de las graves repercusiones potenciales en los mercados energéticos mundiales.

La búsqueda de una solución definitiva en Irán es la crisis más importante para el presidente. Pero su errático liderazgo bélico ya se vislumbraba en otras controversias.

No ha logrado obligar a los aliados de la OTAN a unirse a una guerra a la que se oponían y de la que no fueron informados con antelación. Ni siquiera sus amenazas de abandonar la alianza convencieron a las naciones de renunciar a lo que consideran sus propios intereses nacionales. Su falta de apoyo le ha costado a Estados Unidos opciones en las que solía confiar en guerras pasadas.

El enfoque brusco de Trump puede funcionar, como cuando logró algunos acuerdos mediante la guerra arancelaria contra socios comerciales de Estados Unidos.

Pero China, una superpotencia económica, respondió amenazando con cortar las exportaciones de tierras raras, un recurso crucial. Beijing aprovechó el potencial de una guerra comercial para desestabilizar los mercados globales y obligar a Trump a ceder.

Irán parece haber aprendido de ese episodio que Estados Unidos es vulnerable a las perturbaciones de la economía global, y ha hecho todo lo posible por mantenerlo como rehén con su propio cierre del estrecho.

La sensación de que parte del poder de Trump se está desvaneciendo va más allá del conflicto con Irán.

El presidente ha visto los límites de su magnetismo político tras desplegar su movimiento para apoyar al pr

By Lex Harvey, CNN

(CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a stronger hold on power – and bigger mandate to push back against US President Donald Trump – after a series of historic floor crossings and two special election wins supercharged his Liberal Party to a majority government.

Liberals were set to win two additional seats in parliament Monday, CNN-affiliate CBC News projected, bringing the party to 173 seats in the House of Commons – just one above the threshold needed to claim a majority government. A third race, a knife-edge contest in Quebec which the Liberal candidate previously won by just one vote, has yet to be called.

Monday’s victories for the Liberals follow five defections by opposition politicians in the past five months.

Carney’s newfound majority will solidify his grip on power and allow him to push through his agenda, which has largely focused on rebuffing Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats and reducing Canada’s dependency on its southern neighbor.

Since Carney’s rise to power last March following the resignation of increasingly unpopular former leader Justin Trudeau, he has emerged as one of the loudest global voices against Trump’s “America First” nationalism and economic intimidation.

He warned of the end of the international rules-based order and called for middle powers to band together in a World Economic Forum speech that was heard around the world.

Carney’s swift ascent, which represented a remarkable rebound for the then-flailing Liberals, was partly credited to Trump, and the perception by many Canadians that Carney, a former central banker, was the best person to counter him.

Speaking in Sydney, Australia last month, Carney said his strategy on dealing with Trump is “respect but not obsequiousness.”

“He is more interested in your viewpoint on various things in private and that creates an ability to work through things,’ Carney said of the US leader, according to CBC News.

“But it’s not easy, to be clear.”

Trump threats foster Canadian unity

Trump’s hostility toward Canada has sparked a new sense of patriotism among Canadians, many of whom still refuse to travel to the US or buy American-made products as a sign of resistance against what has been widely viewed as a betrayal by their longtime ally and neighbor.

Carney has both benefited from and fostered this newfound sense of unity.

In his remarks at the Liberal Party convention last week, he alluded to Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state.

“United, we will build Canada strong, a Canada for all, a Canada strong that no one can ever take away,” Carney said.

However, Carney’s quest for a majority has prompted backlash among some Liberals who feel his open-arms policy toward defectors risks comprising the party’s values.

Long-time Conservative Member of Parliament Marilyn Gladu, who crossed the aisle to the Liberals earlier this month, has spoken outwardly against abortion – the right to choose in Canada is a core tenet of the Libera

By Clare Sebastian, Katharina Krebs, CNN

(CNN) — “Everything changed this year.”

“All the ‘top’ people in the university are now calling on students to go to war.”

“Throughout the uni, there are posters about the UAV forces literally everywhere.”

“The pressure is colossal.”

These are all quotes from Russian students in direct messages to CNN. We are not naming any of them, or their universities, for fear of reprisals but accounts like these, along with a growing body of open-source evidence, suggest that Russia is quietly escalating a campaign to entice and pressure students into its drone forces.

It’s a move that risks creating tensions in Russia’s education system, and reveals the growing challenges for Moscow in sustaining recruitment for its four-year-long war in Ukraine.

Despite mounting battlefield losses, the Kremlin has managed to avoid a repeat of its disastrous “partial” mobilization in the fall of 2022, during which hundreds of thousands of men fled the country. But, experts say, this student-focused campaign is one of several signs that more aggressive recruitment tactics are on the rise again.

It’s different from previous efforts: students are being promised a one-year, fixed-term contract, the opportunity to serve far from the front line, and the chance to learn high-tech skills.

Yet experts and lawyers tell CNN this is likely a front for a standard, open-ended military contract, and, with many students skeptical of the promised incentives, universities are turning to coercion and threats to convince students to join up, they say.

The pitch to students

By analyzing university websites, social media pages and local media reports, and speaking with several students inside Russia, CNN has found evidence of a widespread and multifaceted recruitment campaign. The effort appears to have started in earnest in January, two months after the Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced the creation of a new military branch, the Unmanned Systems Forces, dedicated to warfare involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.

Universities across Russia began populating their social media accounts with slick recruitment videos, and posters. Some university social media accounts even featured in-person lectures by soldiers and veterans of Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” or SMO.

Groza, an independent, student-focused Russian news outlet, also shared with CNN its database of 246 universities and colleges in Russia and in occupied Ukraine that it says are involved in this recruitment campaign, based on open-source information and students contacting Groza directly.

They include some of Russia’s most prestigious universities. The St. Petersburg State University (Russian President Vladimir Putin’s own alma mater) openly advertises these contracts on its website, alongside long video lectures from university and military personnel detailing the benefits of joining up.

The Higher School of Economics in Moscow, ranked No. 2 on the 2025 Forbes list of top Russian universities, held an “Unmanned Systems Festival” in February, with recruitment posters for the country’s drone forces clearly on display.

The messaging is clearly tailored to young people. “You were told you were wasting time on video games,” booms the voice-over of one video linked to on VK (Russia’s version of Facebook) by the Kazan University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. “But there is a place where your experi

By Stephanie Yang, CNN

(CNN) — The fallout of the US and Israel’s war with Iran is poised to cost the Asia-Pacific economy hundreds of billions of dollars and plunge millions into poverty, a United Nations report said Tuesday.

Military escalation in the Middle East could cause output losses of between $97 billion and $299 billion in the Asia Pacific, due to rising costs for transportation, electricity and food, according to an estimate from the United Nations Development Programme.

That would equal about 0.3% to 0.8% of regional GDP, the report said. The UNDP also predicted that the war puts 32 million people at risk of falling into poverty globally, 8.8 million of them in the Asia-Pacific region.

After peace talks between the US and Iran failed to restart free trade flow in the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said he launched his own blockade on the critical waterway, threatening maritime traffic to and from Iran’s ports.

The worst oil crisis in history has already sent prices for crude and natural gas soaring and weighed on projections for economic growth. Asia is particularly susceptible to the effects of the shortage, as a heavy importer of energy from the Middle East. The prospect of a protracted conflict has pushed countries to try and conserve fuel and electricity while looking for alternative sources of energy, though options are costly and slim.

“What you’re seeing is this kind of instantaneous, massive shock where everything halts and these reserves come into play,” said Kanni Wignaraja, regional director for Asia and the Pacific at the UNDP. “If countries adjust really fast, then you’re seeing the loss to regional GDP at around $97 billion to $100 billion. You’re going to triple that if many of these countries run through these reserves and really have very little to fall back on.”

Asia is the most populous continent and accounts for more than half of the world’s manufacturing which means economic hits to the regioncan have significant global impact.

It also boasts a number of key US allies such as South Korea, Japan and the Philippines, now all scrambling to save their economies as the Middle Eastern energy they rely on has now slowed to a trickle.

‘No neat and clean return’

While governments have responded to the oil shortage with initiatives to secure supply, reduce demand and provide financial assistance to offset higher costs, the UNDP said that the strain of trying to keep price rises limited, protecting households and companies and preserving public spending will only grow.

A separate report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization warned that food shortages could reach catastrophic levels, due to the disruption to supplies of products needed for farming from the Middle East, including oil, natural gas, urea, and fertilizers. If the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed, the FAO said countries may need financial assistance to secure fertilizer for planting seasons and avoid a global food crisis.

“It’s essential for the ceasefire to continue, and that vessels can start to move … to avoid the problem of food inflation,” said Maximo Torero, the FAO’s Chief Economist.”

Many organizations have issued dire warnings over the severe economic impact the oil crisis will have, worsening the longer it goes on. The International Monetary Fund is expected to lower economic growth forecasts in its latest World Economic Outlook to be released

Por Erick E. Beltran, CNN en Español

La cantante Katy Perry y el ex primer ministro canadiense Justin Trudeau asistieron como público al primer fin de semana del Coachella 2026. La pareja se dejó ver entre los asistentes y no perdió oportunidad de demostrar su cariño en varias ocasiones.

Incluso, la propia Perry compartió una publicación en su cuenta de Instagram en la que recapituló su experiencia en el famoso festival musical. El post incluyó imágenes en las que aparece tomada de la mano de Trudeau, bailando con él e incluso un video en el que se abrazan mientras disfrutan de algunos de los actos principales, como la presentación de Justin Bieber.

La relación entre Perry y Trudeau se remonta a mediados de 2025, cuando fueron vistos cenando juntos en Montreal, Canadá, durante una de las paradas de la gira “The Lifetimes Tour” de la cantante. Las imágenes de aquel encuentro desataron rumores de una posible relación. Para octubre de ese mismo año, y tras varias salidas en pareja, la opinión pública comenzó a dar por hecho el vínculo entre el político y la artista.

Finalmente, en diciembre, ambos compartieron imágenes juntos en un carrusel de Instagram, lo que fue interpretado como la confirmación oficial de su relación.

Trudeau anunció su separación de su exesposa, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, con quien tiene tres hijos, en agosto de 2023. Por su parte, Perry confirmó su ruptura con el actor Orlando Bloom, con quien tiene una hija en común, en julio de 2025.

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