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An update on Peru

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César Muñoz
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La
@Defensoria_Peru
:
- Condenó el intento de golpe de Castillo
- Pide una investigación independiente de posible uso desproporcionado de la fuerza por fuerzas de seguridad
- Condena actos de violencia durante protestas.

Eso es una defensa coherente de los derechos humanos.

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The
@Defensoria_Peru
:
- Condemned Castillo's attempted coup
- Calls for an independent investigation of possible disproportionate use of force by security forces
- Condemns acts of violence during protests.

That is a coherent defense of human rights.

Defensoría Perú
@Defensoria_Peru
#Comunicado Defensoría del Pueblo reafirma su compromiso con la protección de derechos ante crisis que afecta al país 👉🏾 https://bit.ly/3VqGoVH
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#Comunicado Ombudsman's Office reaffirms its commitment to the protection of rights in the face of a crisis affecting the country 👉🏾 https://bit.ly/3VqGoVH
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Also this

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El embajador de México en Perú es una persona muy cercana al ámbito de la cultura. Siempre atento a todo lo que pasa y dispuesto a involucrarse.
Entiendo las razones para expulsarle. Probablemente es lo que corresponde ante las injerencias de López Obrador.
Pero es una pena.

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The Mexican ambassador in Peru is a person very close to the field of culture. Always attentive to everything that happens and willing to get involved.
I understand the reasons for expelling him. It is probably what corresponds to the interference of López Obrador.
But it's a pity.
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And after this, I hope he flies to Brussels and convinces the EU for more funding. It is the only thing that can win that war.
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I don't like politicians - because, with very, very few exceptions, they are dishonest, selfish, manipulative, etc.
But you gotta love Zalensky.
He's the anti-politician politician.

In a previous visit to the U.S. (in September, 2021), he was still new and intimidated - so he was cleanly shaved and wore the typical politician's disguise/uniform of a suit and tie.

But this time, because he is more comfortable being himself, and due to the situation we're all too familiar with, he wasn't clean shaven, and he wore a soldier's uniform. Not the fancy soldier's uniform adorned with 7 pounds of medals and which is always immaculately clean (because it never sees any physical action) that other politicians wear to impress the blind, but the simple dark khaki/olive green sweater and pants that civilian soldiers wear.

Gotta love this guy...
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The RWNJ's are up in arms because he came in the uniform of a soldier at war. Cooler heads are reminding them of the time Churchill showed up during WWII in a field uniform but then again many of them were too busy cheering for the other side...
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ti-amie wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:42 pm The RWNJ's are up in arms because he came in the uniform of a soldier at war. Cooler heads are reminding them of the time Churchill showed up during WWII in a field uniform but then again many of them were too busy cheering for the other side...
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Somewhere in this topic, I said it. If I were rich and Russian, I would never go above a 1st floor.
This is ridiculous. They don't even bother to hide their M.O. anymore. Let's see what Modi does.
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Jair Bolsonaro wrecked Brazil’s presidential palace, TV report suggests
Journalist touring residence with new first lady is shown torn sofas, broken windows and art damaged by the sun
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 6 Jan 2023 16.09 GMT

Jair Bolsonaro’s wrecking of the Amazon made him a global outcast – but his acts of desecration were not limited to the rainforest.

A report by the Brazilian broadcaster GloboNews suggests that even the official presidential residence – a 1950s masterpiece by the architect Oscar Niemeyer – was defiled by the far-right politician during his four years in power.

One of the network’s leading political correspondents, Natuza Nery, took a tour of the Palácio da Alvorada (Palace of Dawn) on Thursday with Brazil’s new first lady, Rosângela Lula da Silva, and was unimpressed with what she saw.

“The overall state of the building, which is Brasília’s most iconic … is not good … and will require many repairs,” reported Nery, who was shown torn carpets and sofas, leaky ceilings, broken windows and jacaranda floorboards, and works of art damaged by the sun.

Photographs of the rundown palace more resembled images of dilapidated student accommodation than a listed building designed by one of the world’s most celebrated modernist architects.

A tapestry by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, one of Brazil’s most celebrated 20th-century artists, had been damaged after being moved from the library and hung in the sun. “Unfortunately, it will have to be restored,” the first lady said.

Nery said several works of art had disappeared altogether from the palace, which was completed in 1958, two years before Brazil’s purpose-built capital was inaugurated by the then president, Juscelino Kubitschek.

The first lady, who is widely known as Janja, said she had felt “rather disappointed” and “shaken” by the state of disrepair of her new home. A Brazilian cactus planted by her husband, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during his 2003-10 presidency had reportedly been removed. Bolsonaro left a disposable ballpoint pen – one of the symbols of his populist administration – on one of the palace’s desks.

Bolsonaro, who abandoned Brasília on the eve of Lula’s swearing-in last Sunday, looks unlikely to return soon. He is in Florida, and reportedly fears prosecution for alleged crimes including his anti-scientific response to a Covid pandemic that killed nearly 700,000 people in his country.

A report in the Brazilian magazine Istoé this week claimed the former president was pressuring the Italian government to grant his family citizenship and hoped to move there after a stint in the US to avoid jail. Bolsonaro reportedly believed Brazilian authorities would be unable to extradite him from the European country, from where his great-grandfather Vittorio Bolzonaro emigrated in the late 19th century.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... 1673021845

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29 bystanders, or 29 of his minions? Big difference.
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ponchi101 wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:36 pm 29 bystanders, or 29 of his minions? Big difference.
From the article:
Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence after Mexican security forces arrested Ovidio Guzman, the country's defence minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday.
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Ovidio Guzman photographed after his arrest on 5 January 2023. Pic: Mexico Secretaria Defensa Nacional (SEDENA)/Reuters

I have no idea why they covered his eyes.
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