Vatican City, April 26 (Prensa Latina) Pope Leo XIV warned today about the danger posed to humanity and the world by those who, like thieves, plunder the earth’s resources and wage bloody wars.

During the Regina Caeli prayer, delivered at noon this Sunday from the window of his study in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, before thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff referred to those thieves who “can take many forms” and “stifle our freedom or do not respect our dignity.”

The Bishop of Rome asserted that “there are many thieves, sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, who enter the fold of the human heart to steal, kill and destroy” and “they deceive us by robbing us of joy and freedom,” with “superficial or consumerist lifestyles, which empty us inwardly.”

The leader of the Catholic Church reiterated the ideas he expressed on April 16 at the Peace Meeting held in Bamenda, Cameroon, when he said that “those who plunder the earth’s resources often invest a large part of the profits in weapons, in a spiral of destabilization and endless death.”

During that event, one of the most important included in the agenda of the 11-day apostolic journey that from the 13th to the 23rd of this month also took him to Algeria, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, Leo XIV condemned those who “subjugate religions and the very name of God to their own military, economic and political interests.”

“The warlords pretend not to know that it only takes an instant to destroy. They feign ignorance of the fact that billions of dollars are needed to kill and devastate, and that the necessary resources to heal, educate, and rebuild are not available,” he asserted, and urged “responses that arise from a culture of peace, not from hatred and division.”

Last Thursday, speaking to reporters on the plane that took him back to Rome after his visit to those African nations, the Pope referred to the war against Iran, launched on February 28 by the United States and Israel, which “has created this chaotic, critical situation” in the world.

In this regard, he stated that “I would like to encourage the continuation of the dialogue for peace, that the parties make every effort to promote peace, eliminate the threat of war, and respect international law,” because “it is essential to protect the innocent.”

This Sunday, Pope Leo XIV referred again to these concepts, stating that we cannot forget “those thieves who, by plundering the resources of the earth, waging bloody wars, or feeding evil in any of its forms, do nothing but rob us of the possibility of a future of peace and serenity.”

Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile,removed, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who aren’t

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile,removed, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the personremovedd in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someoneremovedd or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.

Bogotá, April 26 (Prensa Latina) The presidential candidate for the progressive movement Historical Pact, Iván Cepeda, remains in the lead in voting intentions in Colombia with 44.3 percent in the first round, according to a poll released today.

According to the Invamer poll, which measured support for the 13 candidates, the far-right Abelardo De la Espriella would obtain 21.5 percent and the Democratic Center party’s candidate, Paloma Valencia, would get 19.8 percent.

The remaining candidates would each obtain less than five percent of the total, and blank votes would account for 4.5 percent.

In a possible second round, which would take place on June 21, Cepeda would lead De la Espriella with 54.6 percent to 42.6 percent and would also beat Valencia with 51.2 percent to 46.6 percent.

According to the survey, 56.5 percent of those surveyed said they would definitely go to the polls on May 31.

The poll also revealed that 47.3 percent of those interviewed approve of the current president, Gustavo Petro’s, administration.

The sample data reveals that 3,800 surveys were applied in 149 municipalities (24 capitals and 125 non-capitals) between April 15 and 24, 2026.

Lima, April 26 (Prensa Latina) A preliminary poll on preferences for the second round of the Peruvian elections indicates that the winner of the first round, Keiko Fujimori, lacks majority support, 45 days before the runoff election on June 5.

Fujimori reached first place in the elections of April 12, with a precarious majority, 17 percent - due to the large number of candidates (36) and the consequent fragmentation of the electorate - and now awaits the slow and tense vote count between the candidates Roberto Sánchez and Rafael López Aliaga.

The Ipsos-Peru poll showed that, if the runoff election were held immediately, the neoliberal Fujimori, of the Fuerza Popular (FP) party, would tie with 38 percent of the votes with the leftist Roberto Sánchez, of Juntos por el Perú (JP).

According to the polling firm, 17 percent responded that, faced with the dilemma, they would vote blank or spoil their ballot, and seven percent abstained from answering.

If the final were contested between Fujimori and the far-right López Aliaga, the latter would win with just 34 percent and Fujimori would only achieve 31 percent and suffer her fourth failure in the endeavor to govern Peru for five years, which her father did, with an iron fist that she now evokes, for ten years.

Meanwhile, López Aliaga, after the National Elections Board (JNE) rejected his demand for supplementary elections so that those who could not vote on April 12 could vote due to irregularities in the supply of electoral material in 13 polling centers in Lima, which he attributes to an alleged fraud against him, without evidence.

The efforts of the extreme right-winger are not shared by Fujimori, who prefers to remain on the sidelines so as not to affect his campaign, who did close ranks with him to prevent, also with a campaign that invoked a never proven fraud against the rural teacher Pedro Castillo.

Meanwhile, press reports indicate that the president of the JNE, Roberto Burneo, may insist to the other members of the electoral court, who rejected his proposal to heed López Aliaga’s request to call for targeted supplementary elections.

The rejection was based on the lack of time to complete the vote count for the first round and prepare for the runoff election on June 7, among other problems.

López Aliaga has strong media support, but experts and electoral analysts, as well as most parties, criticize the cited errors - for which the head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONP), Piero Corvetto, resigned - but rule out fraud.

The media outlets that support him, on the other hand, are developing a McCarthyist campaign like the one in 2021, which could not prevent Castillo’s victory with the support of the left, who was later imprisoned and dismissed for trying to dissolve the parliament that had in turn tried to oust him.

On the other hand, candidate Sánchez declared that he feels confident, like almost all the analysts of the figures, that his access to the runoff is certain and, in addition to traveling to various regions, he has representatives who are in dialogue with social and political organizations for the purpose of reaching an agreement with a view to the second round.

The possibility of the leftist candidate was taken so seriously that when it began to look like he could reach the runoff, the promoters of the recent purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States rushed the operation in case Sánchez was elected president and vetoed the acquisition.

This was reported by a high-ranking Air Force officer who was not identified by the newspaper La República.

The White House is considering punishing European countries that have failed to assist Donald Trump wage his war in Iran, according to an official within the Pentagon. Keir Starmer, once described as “very nice”, is now routinely said by the US president to be a “coward” and “no Churchill”. It is claimed that Trump could go further and withdraw American support for Britain’s sovereignty of the Falkland Islands over which the UK and Argentina went to war in 1982. The proposal is said to be contained in an internal Pentagon email.

The memo’s contents have only been briefed out but it is claimed the White House is looking at how to puncture the Europeans’ “sense of entitlement”. Trump has expressed his frustration at the reluctance or refusal of some Nato allies to grant the US access to bases and overflight rights. One punitive measure being considered is the suspension of Spain from Nato, although it is unclear how this would be achieved. The memo is also reported to include an option to consider reassessing US diplomatic support for longstanding European “imperial possessions”, such as the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic.

The UK’s claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as Islas Malvinas, is based on the argument that with the “exception of two months of illegal occupation in 1982”, Britain has “continuously, peacefully and effectively inhabited and administered” them since 1833. The British government further claims that it is up to the people of the Falklands to choose their own future and status. The US does not currently take a position on the sovereignty of the islands. According to the US state department, the matter is a bilateral issue between the UK and Argentina. It says: “We encourage both parties to resolve their differences through dialogue in normal diplomatic channels. We recognise de facto United Kingdom administration of the islands but take no position regarding sovereignty.”

Argentina claims that it inherited the Falklands from Spain when it gained independence and that the principle of self-determination is not applicable to the inhabitants of the islands. There are regular attempts by Argentina to gain support for resolutions at the UN which supports its claim. While the US does not take a formal position on the sovereignty, and did seek to find a diplomatic solution at the start of the 1982 conflict, the White House ultimately came to the UK’s aid militarily through the provision of intelligence and advanced missiles when those efforts to find a settlement failed. Since then, the US has helped water down or block resolutions in favour of Argentina’s claim. The Falkland Islands are considered by the UN to be a “non-self-governing territory” and are subject to continuing discussion by the “Special Committee on Decolonization”. The UK has been encouraged to open up negotiations with Argentina, but this has been resisted by the British government on the grounds that the Falklanders have the right to self-determination. Should the US shift to support Argentina, or be vocal about the need for the UK to open talks, the British government would be left isolated.

What is likely to happen?

Nothing. King Charles is on a state visit to the US next week. Trump has appeared utterly enamoured of the British royal family and has said the king’s visit might well “fix” relations after a rocky period. Trump has developed a rapport with Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, who recently reasserted his country’s claim to the islands, but it seems highly unlikely Trump would want to dedicate any time at all – or that of his officials in the UN – on the issue. There are deep security ties between the UK and the US, and such a pivot would be heavily resisted within the system.