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Estos son los artistas y horarios del show de medio tiempo de la final del Mundial 2026

Al igual que el Super Bowl, la final del Mundial 2026 tendrá este domingo por primera vez un espectáculo de medio tiempo que promete deslumbrar al público por el nivel de artistas que participarán, entre los que destacan Madonna, Shakira, las estrellas del k-pop BTS y Justin Bieber, entre otros.

El espectáculo de descanso se realizará en el Estadio Nueva York Nueva Jersey, en East Rutherford, Nueva Jersey, y contará con la dirección de Chris Martin, vocalista de la banda Coldplay.

“Madonna, Shakira y BTS son figuras internacionales cuya música transciende fronteras y generaciones. Nos enorgullece darles la bienvenida al primer espectáculo de la historia en el descanso de una final de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA”, dijo la FIFA en un comunicado.

El director de orquesta venezolano Gustavo Dudamel anunció en Instagram que también participará en el espectáculo de medio tiempo conduciendo a la Filarmónica de Nueva York y a la Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela.

Finalmente, los personajes de “Sesame Street” y “The Muppets” también estarán en el show, una iniciativa que busca reforzar el propósito de que todos los niños tengan acceso a educación de calidad a través del Fondo de Educación FIFA Global Citizen.

El espectáculo de medio tiempo tiene una duración prevista de 11 minutos, pero, ante las dudas que suscita tener tantos artistas de fama mundial en escena en tan poco tiempo, hay reportes, sin confirmar por la FIFA, de que el show podría extenderse hasta los 25 o 30 minutos, incluyendo el tiempo para montar y desmontar el escenario.

Por ejemplo, la presentación de Bad Bunny en el Halftime Show del Super Bowl 2026 fue de 14 minutos; en total, el espectáculo de medio tiempo requirió 25 minutos para erigir el escenario y luego removerlo.

Estos son los artistas del espectáculo de descanso.

  • Madonna
  • Shakira
  • BTS
  • Justin Bieber
  • Gustavo Dudamel
  • Coldplay junto al coro PS22
  • Burna Boy
  • Los personajes de “Sesame Street” y “The Muppets”

Antes del partido de la final entre Argentina y España, se realizará la ceremonia de clausura de la Copa del Mundo, para la que la FIFA también ha previsto la participación de estrellas del cine y de la música.

“La ceremonia de clausura evocará la misma emoción con la que se dio la bienvenida al mundo en las ceremonias de apertura en Canadá, México y Estados Unidos. La cita combinará música, cultura y fútbol, y dará pie al esperado partido en el que se proclamará al campeón de esta competición histórica”, dijo Heimo Schirgi, director de Operaciones de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026 en el comunicado.

Se espera que Laura Pausini y Robbie Williams interpreten el himno de la FIFA, “Desire”. Según la organización, Jennifer Hudson cantará una versión especial del himno nacional de Estados Unidos.

La FIFA informó que la ceremonia de clausura comenzará a la 1:30 p.m., hora de Miami; esto es, 90 minutos antes del comienzo de la final. Las puertas del Estadio Nueva York Nueva Jersey se abrirán a las 11:00 a.m. hora de Miami.

Estos son los artistas anunciados para esta ceremonia:

  • Robbie Williams
  • Laura Pausini
  • Jennifer Hudson
  • Nicole Scherzinger
  • Tom Cruise
  • El youtuber IShowSpeed

El inicio del partido está fijado a las 3:00 p.m. hora de Miami de este domingo 19 de julio.

Si el partido transcurre sin incidentes, la hora estimada para el inicio del espectáculo de medio tiempo es de 3:50 p.m. hora de Miami a las 4:00 p.m. hora de Miami.

Debe calcularse que 90 minutos antes del inicio comienza la ceremonia de clausura. Y alrededor de 50 minutos después de que empiece el partido tendrá lugar el espectáculo de medio tiempo.

Este es el horario de inicio del partido de la final del Mundial 2026 según algunos países de la región.

  • México (Centro), Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica: 1:00 p.m.
  • Colombia, Perú, Panamá y Ecuador: 2:00 p.m.
  • Bolivia, Venezuela, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Chile: 3:00 p.m.
  • Estados Unidos (hora de Miami): 3:00 p.m.
  • Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay: 4:00 p.m.
  • España: 9:00 p.m.

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Prediction markets allow people to bet on wildfires. Experts fear it will fuel arson

(CNN) — When the Eaton fire swept through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena last year, it claimed 19 lives and incinerated thousands of buildings — one of which was the home of Kaitlyn Trudeau’s grandfather. His house burned to the ground; he lost everything. But while he grappled with trauma, others saw dollar signs in the disaster.In January 2025, as the LA wildfires raged, people placed bets on Polymarket, one of the leading prediction market platforms. They waged money on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations the flames would reach and when they would be contained.It was “pretty dystopian,” said Trudeau, a California-based climate scientist, who works at the non-profit Climate Central. “It’s not just easy to start a fire — now there’s potentially a financial incentive,” she told CNN this week, as she traveled to Altadena to see her grandfather’s house for the first time since it burned down.Polymarket is part of a booming, multibillion-dollar industry, which allows people to bet on the outcome of almost any future event, from the results of football games and elections, to the number of social media posts Elon Musk makes.Some prediction markets also allow people to bet on wildfires, as well as other climate change-fueled extreme weather events, and experts are sounding the alarm. They fear it risks incentivizing arson and, more generally, that it will distance people from the suffering fires bring.“I worry that it encourages people to think about these events like they are video games, not real-world disasters,” Trudeau said.Polymarket says its platform is a valuable source of information during disasters. “People turn to the news for commentary and they come to Polymarket for information,” a spokesperson said. “While we are not blind to the risks, removing these markets does not prevent a tragedy but makes the most accurate information less accessible to the people who need it most.”People have been betting on the weather long before the dawn of the internet, said Lauren Ducat, a clinical and forensic psychologist based in Australia who studies firesetting. But the accessibility of online platforms has the potential to make these wagers “more pervasive and open them to larger markets,’ she said.Polymarket says what it does is distinct from gambling. The company doesn’t use the term “bets,” instead people “trade on future event outcomes,” and users compete against each other not against the “house.”The Polymarket team creates markets, with input from users, by formulating questions to which the answer is usually “yes” or “no.” Users buy shares in an outcome for between $0 and $1. If “yes” shares are trading at $0.65 each, for example, that means the market thinks there’s a 65% chance of that outcome happening. Shares in the correct outcome are paid out at $1 each.Polymarket may be one of the biggest platforms of its kind, but it’s not alone. Another site called WyldFyre focuses on California fires and has the tagline: “You can’t predict fire. But you can trade on it.” It doesn’t use any form of real-world currency yet, but experts are still worried about the signal these sites send.The problem with wildfires — unlike hurricanes or earthquakes — is that humans can directly influence them. “Anybody can set a wildfire,” said Ed Nordskog, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s arson investigator and profiler.Nordskog said he would normally play something like this down, especially as only a tiny number of people ever commit arson. But through his work he has noticed a strong connection between obsessive gambling and fire setting. “A surprising number of (arsonists) set their fires near casinos that they frequent on a daily basis,” he said.There is still little data on the topic, Nordskog added, but “this has some disturbing possibilities.”Arson is not the sole concern. People could choose to influence fires that have already started. A firefighter, for example, could be incentivized to let a fire burn a little longer to win a bet on acres burned.There have already been suggestions people may be going to some lengths to secure payouts. On April 6, evening temperatures at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris suddenly spiked by several degrees Fahrenheit, according to sensors located on the site. It happened again on April 15.This data was being used for Polymarket trades, and the unusual heat resulted in some big payouts for those who had bet on Paris reaching seemingly unlikely levels of heat. Speculation was rife; one unproven theory was that someone had heated the sensor with a hairdryer.French national weather service Météo-France has filed a police complaint “for alteration of the operation of an automated data processing system,” a spokesperson said.Polymarket said “we comprehensively surveil for illegal activity” and the transparency of its blockchain-based platform allows it to “efficiently identify and trace potential wrongdoers.”There are also ethical questions at play. “Betting on someone’s potential death or harm devalues human life,” said Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University.It could also minimize the seriousness of fires, potentially even blocking community efforts to reduce them by “normalizing” fire and distancing people from its effects, said Theresa Gannon, a professor of forensic psychology at the University of Kent in the UK.However, there can also be benefits to these markets, experts say. Research by Kim Kaivanto, an economist at Lancaster University Management School, found expert prediction markets can be valuable tools for climate forecasting — if they have guardrails.Kaivanto is the director of CRUCIAL, a prediction market designed to forecast climate-related risks such as hurricanes. Its markets are made up of teams of experts who don’t pay to play, but are rewarded with “credits” in proportion to how much accurate information they bring in, Kaivanto said.Whether prediction markets could aggregate useful data for forecasting wildfires remains an open question.It’s unclear how betting could improve a forecast, said Craig B. Clements, director of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center based at San José State University, “there are many complexities to fire spread.”A spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said its fire modeling is “not informed by markets, wagering systems, crowd predictions, or any other form of prediction‑market mechanism” and it is not currently considering using this kind of data.The US Forest Service said the same. “We do not rely on any system that treats wildfire as an event for speculation,” a spokesperson said. Some proponents suggest that prediction markets could be an alternative to insurance, especially as insurers pull out of regions at high-risk for wildfire. Trudeau senses danger, though. It “could so easily be used to prey on people who can’t insure their homes, to play off their fear and make money from it,” she said.One other surprising benefit could be to shift people’s attitudes to climate change, according to recent research. Taking part in prediction markets “actually changes your brain on the topic,” said Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist at Columbia Business School, who co-authored the study.If climate deniers make money betting on climate disasters happening, they “start to see that there’s truth out there, which otherwise you reject,” Cerf said. “Eventually it leaks into your psyche.”That doesn’t mean he’s an unwavering proponent of the prediction market platforms in their current form, however. “It’s the Wild West,” he said. “They basically chase whatever makes money.”There are attempts to apply some guardrails. In March, California Governor Gavin Newsom strengthened a ban on insider trading by state officials on prediction market platforms. And representatives from Utah and California introduced bipartisan legislation to prohibit trades on “terrorism, assassination, war, gaming… or illegal activity.”But for now, the sector is booming and people continue to put their money on deadly climate disasters happening.In the comments section of a trade last year on the Palisades fire, one Polymarket user wrote: “That was fun. Thanks everyone. Until the next time!”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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