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Galán critica parranda en cárcel de Itagüí y continúan bloqueos en Santander

April 10, 2026·19 min·1 clip

NASA's Orion capsule—returning from the far side of the moon tonight—will hit the atmosphere at 40,200 km/h, withstand 2,700°C, and suffer a 6-minute communication blackout before deploying 11 parachutes to splash down off California, with Colombian Liliana Villarreal directing the landing.

1. Mañanas Blue on BLU Radio presents its midday news bulletin for Colombia, directed by Camila Zuluaga and co-anchored by Lobo Dan Wilches. 2. The reporting team includes Kalila Peña (judicial/political), Verónica Rincón (Santander blockade), Estefany Toledo (Ecuador tariffs), Marcela Peña (economy), Felipe García (crime), Héctor David Santamaría (Briseño), Jessica Gutiérrez (electoral), César Moreno (international), and JJ Osorio (sports). 3. Bogotá Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán criticized the national government over a vallenata concert held inside Itagüí prison in Antioquia, calling it 'a disgrace' and stating the prison system 'does not rehabilitate' criminals, who continue committing crimes from inside. 4. Galán also criticized President Petro's 'paz total' policy and accused him of romanticizing crime, arguing that justice exists to protect society rather than to seek revenge. 5. In Santander, peasant farmers blocked eight road points leading to Barranquebermeja, San Gil, Cúcuta, the Atlantic coast, and Palo Negro airport, protesting property tax increases from the multipurpose cadastral update; 35 flights were cancelled. 6. The Santander protest leaders described the cadastral assessment as 'unjust,' saying it made landowners appear rich on paper without actual economic gains. 7. Ecuador imposed 100% tariffs on Colombian imports, threatening $350 million in annual exports from the Valle del Cauca—the department's second-largest trading partner—affecting pharmaceuticals, electrical conductors, confectionery, tuna, personal care products, and sugar. 8. Juan Manuel San Clemente of the Valle del Cauca inter-business committee said the tariff 'annihilates' the commercial relationship and that affected sectors are now looking toward the North American market as an alternative. 9. Ecopetrol's Reficar refinery in Cartagena launched Colombia's first solid sulfur production unit, with a capacity of 1,000 tonnes per day and planned exports of 6,600 tonnes per month, potentially covering 70% of the domestic market. 10. FARC dissident structure Jaime Martínez is named by authorities as responsible for the April 9 massacre of six men in the vereda La Meseta, between Popayán and Cajibío in Cauca; approximately 10 armed men entered a home and shot the occupants. 11. Rewards of up to 5 billion pesos are offered for information leading to alias Iván Márquez, and 4 billion pesos each for cabecillas John Cuarenta and el Zarco Aldinever; Interpol red notices have been issued for these leaders across 196 member countries. 12. In Briseño, Antioquia, approximately 100 students remain out of school and about 200 teachers have not returned to rural schools after FARC dissident combat involving drone-launched explosives wounded three soldiers. 13. Former Foreign Minister and presidential candidate Luis Gilberto Murillo attributed the passport system delays partly to former chancellor and now UK ambassador Laura Sarabia, who he said refused to sign a production contract with Portugal. 14. Murillo said the CITAG system's ongoing failures are related to cybersecurity measure updates and defended his own tenure at the Foreign Ministry, saying he had a positive relationship with the private contractor Thales Gemalto. 15. Presidential candidate Mauricio Liscano called for restoring state control over prisons, cited the Itagüí prison concert as evidence that criminals exercise leadership from inside, and urged Colombia and Ecuador to resolve their tariff dispute. 16. NASA's Artemis 2 mission reached its climax on the night of the broadcast: Orion returned from the far side of the moon and re-entered Earth's atmosphere at 7:07pm Colombia time at 40,200 km/h. 17. The heat shield—186 blocks of Avcoat ablative material each 3.8cm thick on a titanium base—was designed to withstand plasma temperatures of 2,700°C during a phase in which Orion was completely surrounded by ionized plasma. 18. All communication between Orion and Earth was lost for six minutes during the deepest phase of reentry; 11 parachutes then deployed to slow the capsule to 20 mph for splashdown 60 miles off California. 19. Colombian Liliana Villarreal, NASA's Artemis 2 landing and recovery director, oversaw the operation; Navy divers and helicopters were positioned to retrieve the crew once the capsule was safe to approach. 20. In cycling, 19-year-old French rider Paul Seiza won the fifth stage of the Vuelta al País Vasco in a mountain finish, leading the general classification by 2 minutes 30 seconds over German Florian Lipowitz; Colombia's Harold Tejada finished sixth on the stage and overall.

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