Por Samantha Waldenberg, CNN

El presidente Donald Trump elogió este viernes la operación estadounidense en Venezuela durante un discurso en Fort Bragg, Carolina del Norte, diciendo que los miembros del servicio involucrados están entre los más grandes de Estados Unidos.

“Algunos de nuestros mejores soldados, aquí mismo, de los mejores que han existido, francamente, capturaron con éxito al dictador fuera de la ley de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y lo trajeron de regreso para enfrentar la justicia estadounidense”, dijo el presidente durante sus declaraciones.

También describió la operación como “rápida y precisa”, ejecutada en minutos, destacó que no hubo resistencia y que la acción expuso las capacidades militares de Estados Unidos.

Trump está en Fort Bragg para honrar a los miembros de las fuerzas armadas que participaron en la operación que llevó a la captura de Maduro el 3 de enero.

La operación, como informó CNN, implicó algunos riesgos extraordinarios para capturar a Maduro y a su esposa.

La compleja operación involucró personal y equipo estadounidense por aire, tierra y mar, incluyendo operadores de la Fuerza Delta y una unidad del FBI que ingresaron desde múltiples zonas de aterrizaje, según informaron fuentes a CNN. Sin embargo, el momento clave para rescatar a Maduro de Caracas ocurrió en un plazo muy breve.

Las autoridades venezolanas declararon posteriormente que la operación se cobró 100 vidas; por su parte, las autoridades cubanas informaron de la muerte de 32 cubanos del equipo de seguridad presidencial. El Gobierno de Trump afirmó que no se perdieron vidas estadounidenses.

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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN

(CNN) — American designers have a very special someone on their moodboards this season: themselves.

Marc Jacobs namechecked his own collections from 1993, 1995, 1998, 2003 and 2013 as influences in his show notes (alongside ’90s Prada and the cult Lower East Side vintage store Ellen). Michael Kors, celebrating his brand’s 45th year, drew inspiration from his Fall 1998 show. “After this many years in the business, I’m on my third generation of customers,” he said. “I hear all the time about girls stealing their grandmother’s pieces.”

Some of these navel-gazing odes are unsurprising. Ralph Lauren, the tartaned don of American fashion, is always going to look at Ralph Lauren (his favorite designer, and who can blame him?). The art of taking what’s vaguely out of style and mixing it with feverish individuality is the Ralph philosophy – and just one reason why his business is booming.

The question is whether these nostalgia-fests will buoy an American industry sagging under the pressure of tariffs and the collapse of department stores, plus a homogenized retail and media landscape that has led to a diminished sense of how to put yourself together each morning with a sense of originality. Is this remix-of-an-old classic routine giving customers who now look for vintage and secondhand pieces, rather than new clothes, what they really want? Or are designers indulging or cheating consumers who find the once straightforward hunt for stylish clothes an impossible pursuit? For many, the marketing noise of Instagram fashion and celebrity style have eclipsed the accessibility of simply great clothes.

It’s a relatable conundrum for the champagne bubble of fashion: is the present so overwhelming that seizing on the past is a noble escape? Or is it a creative leader’s responsibility to offer something that armors us distinctly for today?

Jacobs’s paean to Jacobs did tell us something about the way things are going now. His streamlined ’90s shapes and subdued but glamorous details (very early-2000s Jacobs) were like a strict teacher’s ruler clapping on the desks of influencers and celebrity stylists: the era of clickbait clothing, of pieces designed for social media meme-making, is officially over. But it is not enough for designers to serve up conservative clothes that “solve problems” (like yet another cashmere sweater under $100!, or wide-legged bore marketed as “The Perfect Trouser”). What’s wearable must also be a bit freaky, like Jacobs’s shrunken ladylike tweed suits, or pencil skirts with wackadoo oversized waistlines you can stuff your hands into, like some naïve alien’s idea of “pockets.” If the “wearable” isn’t also a little unusual, what’s the point of fashion at all? We might as well stay at home wearing sacks while we slurp our engineered meat and doomscroll. No: in today’s world, special design is proof of life.

And more than any designer alive, Lauren knows his clients look not just for the leaf-print Victoriana jacket with a leg-o-mutton sleeve – but the idea to wear it with double pleat pants, a coin belt and a little leopard fur scarf. After his January return to the men’s runways in Milan, menswear geeks spent days poring over the images for styling ideas. It helps that Lauren makes the belt or the slightly ridiculous pleated pant, which are perfect

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