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  • The Enhanced Games: A night of hypertrophic delirium in a Las Vegas parking lot Carlos Arribas
    They closed the night with The Killers, vegan rock, but there were no fatalities: no athlete burst a vein or had artificially hypertrophied muscles split open mid-effort; ligaments and tendons held up in the Las Vegas parking lot where, in 35 days, organizers had installed an elevated 100-meter, six-lane sprint track, a 50-meter pool with four lanes, a weightlifting stage and a long platform to seat thousands of spectators. Giant screens and lots of LEDs ran from 6.00 pm to 1.00 am, prime time i
     
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The Enhanced Games: A night of hypertrophic delirium in a Las Vegas parking lot

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By: Carlos Arribas
26 May 2026 at 09:22

They closed the night with The Killers, vegan rock, but there were no fatalities: no athlete burst a vein or had artificially hypertrophied muscles split open mid-effort; ligaments and tendons held up in the Las Vegas parking lot where, in 35 days, organizers had installed an elevated 100-meter, six-lane sprint track, a 50-meter pool with four lanes, a weightlifting stage and a long platform to seat thousands of spectators. Giant screens and lots of LEDs ran from 6.00 pm to 1.00 am, prime time in the city of vice, the hour when life wakes up.

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Fred Kerley (EE. UU.) se impone a Emmanuel Matadi (LBR) y gana los 100 metros con un tiempo de 9,97 segundos en los 'Enhanced Games', celebrados en Resorts World Las Vegas.
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  • Fear of ICE can be deadly: The murdered migrants too scared to report abuse Carla Gloria Colomé
    Vanesa Rodríguez Valdés, based in Las Vegas, and her best friend, Liuddibet Calzadilla, in Barcelona, Spain, talked almost daily about their lives and their families back in Cuba, where they were both from. They talked about how much Valdés missed her teenage daughter and the diminutive size of the bedsit in the United States. On Sunday, May 26, Calzadilla wrote to her to ask how she was. She also asked if her husband Roelmer Sánchez Garrido was at home. If he was not, it meant they could talk f
     
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Fear of ICE can be deadly: The murdered migrants too scared to report abuse

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By: Carla Gloria Colomé
31 May 2026 at 04:00

Vanesa Rodríguez Valdés, based in Las Vegas, and her best friend, Liuddibet Calzadilla, in Barcelona, Spain, talked almost daily about their lives and their families back in Cuba, where they were both from. They talked about how much Valdés missed her teenage daughter and the diminutive size of the bedsit in the United States. On Sunday, May 26, Calzadilla wrote to her to ask how she was. She also asked if her husband Roelmer Sánchez Garrido was at home. If he was not, it meant they could talk freely.

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Acá Yaneicy and Vanesa Rodríguez Valdés in Cuba.
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