The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against the ICC | Beginner Spanish class Nº069

Today's story: The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against the ICC. You will hear it in Spanish first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in Spanish: El gobierno de Trump prepara sanciones contra la CPI

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:33) Three more stories today

(01:40) Today's headline, slowly

(02:25) Block in the present

(03:07) Something may happen soon

(03:50) Access to things

(04:21) Today's grammar point

(04:58) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/spanish/a1/2026-09-21

TODAY'S SPANISH TEXT

El gobierno de Trump prepara sanciones contra la CPI

Las sanciones pueden bloquear casi todas las operaciones con la CPI.

La CPI es la Corte Penal Internacional.

Reuters dice que el anuncio puede llegar pronto.

The Wall Street Journal dice que una decisión puede estar lista esta semana.

Las sanciones pueden cortar el acceso al dinero, a los bienes y a los servicios de personas y empresas de Estados Unidos.

ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE

El jefe de Anthropic pide frenar la IA para que China no alcance a EE. UU.

Mourinho protesta por el arbitraje tras el derbi

Trump prepara una semana de ONU y Xi en Estados Unidos

WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (bloquear)

- vocabulary (Corte Penal Internacional)

- vocabulary (puede llegar)

- vocabulary (esta semana)

- vocabulary (acceso)

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