Por Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español

Quizás sorprenda, pero los artistas que amenizan el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Bowl, como es el caso de Bad Bunny este domingo, no reciben pago de la NFL por su show.

El criterio es que amenizar el Halftime Show, un espectáculo que suele contar con una audiencia televisiva de 100 millones de espectadores, es de por sí uno de los escenarios más prestigiosos y cotizados en el mundo. Es un evento al que solo pocos artistas invitan.

Por supuesto, producir un espectáculo de medio tiempo en el Super Bowl es costoso. Los artistas seleccionados pagan estos costes de su bolsillo. Por ejemplo, según la revista W, el cantante The Weeknd gastó US$ 7 millones para crear su ambicioso espectáculo del Super Bowl de 2021, para el que se creó un laberinto de espejos y participó casi un centenar de bailarines vestidos igual que el cantante.

La NFL solo paga a los músicos y bailarines los salarios mínimos establecidos por los sindicatos del sector del entretenimiento, que suele rondar los US$ 1.000 diarios.

Hay corporaciones que patrocinan el espectáculo de medio tiempo y asumen buena parte de los costos del espectáculo. En el caso del Super Bowl LX, el Halftime Show es patrocinado por Apple Music.

Otra razón por la que los artistas no reciben pago por su participación en el espectáculo de medio tiempo es que la exposición en este evento global suele disparar las ventas de la música del cantante o grupo. Según la revista Billboard, tras aparecer en el Super Bowl de 2019, las ventas de la música de la banda Maroon 5 se incrementó en 434 %; lo mismo pasó con los álbumes de Justin Timberlake, cuya venta aumentó un 534 % luego de cantar en el Super Bowl de 2018, también según Billboard.

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By Kyle Feldscher, Alli Rosenbloom, Maureen Chowdhury, CNN

Santa Clara, California (CNN) — The 1994 version of Billie Joe Armstrong would never.

On Sunday, Green Day opened up Super Bowl LX at Levi Stadium with a performance of several songs — but missing were the most political lyrics from some of the tracks.

The band started off with a nod toward nostalgic earworm “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” before launching into “Holiday,” one of the most political songs in the band’s repertoire. The first two verses of the song were sung with the usual lyrics, but when the band approached the controversial bridge of the song — which begins with the line “Sieg Heil to the President Gasman,” a dig at former President George W. Bush, who was president when the song was released in 2004 — the band just skipped it and wrapped up the song.

They later launched into “American Idiot,” the title track of the same album on which “Holiday” featured. In recent years during live performances, Armstrong has changed part of the opening lyrics to the second verse to “I’m not part of a MAGA agenda.”

But this time, the band went into an instrumental portion and guitar solo after finishing the first chorus and omitted that verse of the song completely. Former Super Bowl MVPs joined the band on stage and stood as Armstrong and his band finished up their set. They also sang “Boulevard of Broken Dreams from the “American Idiot” album.

It’s a long way from their performance on Friday at a Spotify and Fanduel event in San Francisco, when Armstong encouraged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “quit their sh***y jobs” and belted out all those political lyrics that were missing during Sunday’s performance.

Other than the fact that these songs, with the exception of “Good Riddance,” are from their most politically-charged album, 2004’s “American Idiot,” the performance made much less of a statement than many had anticipated.

The release of “American Idiot” was a roar of anger at Bush’s America and, at the time, cemented the band as one of the leading political voices in popular music at the time.

As time has gone by and politics in America have evolved, Armstrong, drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt haven’t mellowed. The band have regularly criticized the Trump administration while on their recent Saviors Tour before their Super Bowl performance.

The legendary punk rock band formed in California’s East Bay and was a seminal part of the early 1990s Bay Area music scene before going on to massive mainstream success. They have released 14 studio albums since the early ’90s, with their most recent offering, “Saviors,” released in 2024.

“Saviors” was a return to Green Day’s politically-leaning ethos, something Armstrong said they intentionally waited to do.

He told 102.1 the Edge that with “political songs, it takes a lot of heart to do that, and I think if you keep doing it for the sake of doing it just because you’re angry, then you take the heart out of it. Then it just becomes part of what everyone is complaining about.”

This time, he continued, with “Saviors,” “we brought it out, and we felt like it was the perfect time for it.”

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By Gonzalo Zegarra, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN

(CNN) — Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa was among several high-profile political prisoners freed on Sunday, marking the latest effort from the government to satisfy US demands for the release of all those held for arbitrary or political reasons.

Guanipa, a key ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado, was freed after more than eight months in prison, his son Ramón Guanipa announced on X.

Shortly after walking out of a detention center in Caracas, Guanipa uploaded a video on social media, declaring, “Today we are being released. Much to discuss about the present and future of Venezuela, always with the truth at the forefront.”

Guanipa was arrested in May 2025, following claims by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, made without evidence, that he was involved in an alleged “terror” plot against regional and legislative elections. Guanipa has repeatedly denied the accusation.

Machado celebrated the news of the latest releases. “My dear Juan Pablo, counting down the minutes until I can hug you! You are a hero and history will always recognize it,” she wrote on social media.

Another of Machado’s allies, lawyer Perkins Rocha, was also released on Sunday, but under strict restrictions, according to his wife María Constanza.

She shared a photo of the two embracing, with a caption that read: “The embrace in our home finally happened!!!! We have already spoken with our children. Perkins Rocha has been released under very strict precautionary measures. Now we continue to advocate for full freedom.”

Human rights group Foro Penal said it had confirmed that at least 30 political prisoners were released by Venezuela on Sunday, according to the group’s director, Alfredo Romero.

Others who were freed include Luis Somaza, a member of the Popular Will party, and Jesús Armas, an activist and former opposition councilman.

Venezuela’s opposition and human rights groups have long accused the country’s authoritarian regime of using arbitrary arrests as a tool of political persecution and to suppress dissent. Foro Penal estimates that hundreds of additional political prisoners still remain behind bars.

The Chavista government has denied that it holds people for political reasons, arguing that those in prison have committed crimes.

Sunday’s releases come days after Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez promised relatives of political prisoners that “all detainees” would be freed. Rodríguez, the brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez, said the process would be completed “no later than” Friday, February 13.

His announcement comes as the acting socialist government moves forward with an amnesty bill that could lead to the mass release of prisoners – some of whom have been held since 1999, when strongman leader Hugo Chávez came to power – as a first step toward what officials describe as national reconciliation.

Although the number of people being held has decreased in recent weeks after the government announced the release of “a significant number of people” days after the US captured President Nicolás Maduro, rights groups and family members believe that the pace of releases has been slow.

So far, more than 380 people have been freed from prison, according to Foro Penal, while the government claims to have released more than 800.

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Por Tim Lister y Kosta Gak, CNN

Cientos de miles de personas en Ucrania tendrán que enfrentarse a varios días de frío extremo con muy poco calor y luz, después de los sostenidos ataques con aviones no tripulados y misiles rusos que afectaron la infraestructura energética del país.

En la capital, Kyiv, se esperan temperaturas por debajo de cero y vientos gélidos al menos durante los próximos cuatro días.

“Tenemos que superar los próximos días, que serán muy difíciles para Kyiv”, dijo este domingo el alcalde de la ciudad, Vitaliy Klitschko. “Se pronostican nuevamente heladas severas en la capital, especialmente por la noche”, dijo en Telegram.

Klitschko afirmó que la infraestructura energética de Ucrania se encontraba en una situación muy difícil y que había dado instrucciones para que los puntos de calefacción comunales, alimentados por generadores, funcionaran a pleno rendimiento. Algunos de estos refugios permiten a la gente pasar la noche.

Según el Ministerio de Energía, los habitantes de la capital solo reciben electricidad durante una hora y media o dos horas al día.

Durante una huelga rusa a principios de enero, un residente de Kyiv que vivía en un apartamento en la azotea de un edificio de 16 pisos en ese momento dijo que él y su esposa se habían quedado sin calefacción, electricidad y agua.

El siguiente ataque ruso alcanzó la central eléctrica que proporcionaba calefacción al bloque de apartamentos, así como a otros 1.100 edificios de la capital, y dijo que aproximadamente la mitad de los residentes se habían mudado del edificio, incluida su familia.

La temperatura media en el apartamento había caído a solo 3 º C (37,4 grados Fahrenheit), añadió.

A los residentes se les dijo que las reparaciones podrían demorar dos meses, que coinciden con la época más fría del año.

Los negocios también sufren. La red de salones de belleza Backstage afirma haber invertido US$ 400.000 dólares en sistemas de emergencia, incluyendo generadores, combustible y baterías. Sin embargo, un dron impactó uno de sus salones, destrozando una tubería de calefacción e inundando las instalaciones.

“A pesar de todo este gasto, las condiciones climáticas y los ataques rusos prevalecen sobre el sistema”, publicó la compañía en Instagram el sábado.

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dijo el domingo en Telegram: “Casi a diario, los rusos atacan instalaciones energéticas, infraestructura logística y edificios residenciales […] Solo esta semana, Rusia lanzó más de 2.000 drones de ataque, 1.200 bombas aéreas guiadas y 116 misiles de diversos tipos contra nuestras ciudades y pueblos”.

Ukrenergo, la empresa nacional de la red eléctrica, dijo este domingo que seguía lidiando con las consecuencias de dos ataques masivos con misiles y drones a la red eléctrica esta semana.

“El nivel de cortes de energía y los daños a las redes de transmisión y distribución de electricidad actualmente impiden el levantamiento de los apagones de emergencia en la mayoría de las regiones”, pero los trabajos de reparación han hecho que los cortes de energía sean menos severos en algunas regiones, afirmó.

“Continúan los trabajos de restauración tanto en las centrales eléctricas como en las subestaciones de alto voltaje que suministran energía a las centrales nucleares”.

Otro operador eléctrico ucraniano, DTEK, dijo el sábado que los daños a las subestaciones de alto voltaje habían causado una reducción en la producción en las plantas de energía nuclear, lo que llevó a una pérdida significativa de electricidad disponible.

Los recientes ataques rusos ocurrieron luego de una moratoria de corta duración sobre los ataques de cada lado a la infraestructura energética del otro, acordada