🇺🇸📞🇮🇷🇮🇹— A second round of nuclear talks between the U.S. and the Iranian Regime is expected to take place in Rome on Saturday, two sources with knowledge of the issue to Axios

The Trump administration was satisfied with the first round of talks in Oman, which went according to plan and achieved their objective of shifting the format from indirect —handled through intermediaries — to direct, with officials conversing directly.

The Trump administration wants that to be the format in Rome, a venue switch suggested by the U.S. side.

🇺🇸📞🇮🇷 — The two lead negotiators, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, spoke for around 45 minutes on Saturday, a source with knowledge told me.

It was the highest-level dialogue between U.S. and Iranian officials in eight years

🇪🇨🗳❗️ — Pro-Venezuela & Pro-China Leftist Luisa Gonzalez says that she doesn't recognizes the results of the Presidential election in Ecuador

🇵🇾🤝🇪🇨 — Paraguayan President Santiago Peña congratulated Daniel Noboa on his victory by telephone and reaffirmed his commitment to working together for the good of both peoples.

🇪🇨🗳📹 — Ecuadorian conservatives take the streets of the country to celebrate Daniel Noboa's victory

🇪🇨💬 — Daniel Noboa: "Ecuador has already chosen a different path… Ecuador does not want to return to the past."

🇪🇨🗳❗️ — It's official!: The National Electoral Commitee of Ecuador announced the victory of Daniel Noboa in the presidential ballot, confirming him as elected president of the South American Nation.

Such a thing is a major defeat for the Russian/Chinese-backed Puebla Group that wanted to oust Noboa from the leadership position of Ecuador

Ecuador is also a hotspot for Trump's administration anti-cartel strategy, as the Andean country is the entry door and final logistics point for Chinese triads & Mexican cartels smuggle drugs from Asia to US-Mexico

🌐🌹⁉️🇪🇨 — Consulting teams from the Puebla Group urged participating governments (aligned with the political left in Latin America) not to immediately issue statements congratulating Daniel Noboa on his victory in Ecuador’s presidential elections:

🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇪🇸 Spain
🇲🇽 Mexico
🇵🇪 Peru
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇻🇪 Venezuela

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump: "We have a deficit with the EU of $350 billion. And it's gonna disappear fast. And one of the reasons and one of the ways that can disappear easily and quickly is they're gonna have to buy their energy from us."

🔗 unusual_whales

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump says no exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics — suggests new tariff coming

President Trump settled the debate over the tariffs on iPhones and other Chinese-made devices — saying that there is no “exemption” and that new duties are coming.

“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,'” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday. “There was no Tariff ‘exception’ announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”

“We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.”

https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/us-news/iphones-and-other-chinese-made-electronics-will-likely-be-subject-to-more-trump-tariffs-commerce-secretary-lutnik-says/

🇸🇴📡 Musk Announces Starlink License For Somalia

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that his Starlink satellite internet service had been granted a license in Somalia.

"Today is another historic day for Somalia's communications and technology sectors, today we have issued here and provided Starlink, one of the major satellite telecommunications and internet services company the license to operate in Somalia," a post on state media outlet SONNA said.

It added that the license had been issued after two years of discussions.

https://www.barrons.com/news/musk-announces-starlink-license-for-somalia-80e75b6c

🇩🇪 Germany has admitted 8.4 million people -- equivalent to a 10% of its pre-existing population -- in just 15 years. In American terms, this would be like four New Yorks. This turbocharged large-scale demographic change is unsustainable and is not, in fact, being sustained.

🔗 Andrew Hammel

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Since *Wednesday*:

We have had:

- Universal “reciprocal tariffs”
- A removal back down to 10%
- 50% Chinese tariffs
- 90% Chinese tariffs
- 104% Chinese tariffs
- 125% Chinese tariffs
- 145% Chinese tariffs
- Electronics exempted
- Electronics now potentially back on.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

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Argentine bonds on Wall Street are skyrocketing by +17.9%. This is due to the end of the exchange rate controls and the agreement with the IMF.

🇺🇸 A United States miliary build up is currently occurring in the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise.

Moving additional cargo, munitions, air defense systems and equipment, USAF activity in the region has soared. Here's a look at what flew and where.

🔗 Faytuks Network

🇺🇸🤝🇸🇻 — US President Donald Trump welcomes Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House