🇧🇷 — Title of citizen of Paraíba granted to Jair Bolsonaro is published in the Official State Gazette

The text of the law emphasizes that the title of citizen is granted to the former president due to his “relevant services rendered to Brazil and the State of Paraíba”.

🇧🇷 ⚒🚩 — A warning to Brazilians: the MST is back in the game

The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra/Landless Movement (MST) announced that it will return with the invasion of properties in 2023. The threat was revealed in a text named “Carta de Luziânia”, in reference to the city of Goiás.

The invaders attacked agribusiness — “which concentrates land, destroys nature, promotes deforestation and poisons us with pesticides”. A group of more than 400 people participated in the meeting.

According to the leaders, the idea is to assemble groups to take land across the country, as happened at the beginning of Lula's first government, in 2003, without punishment.

Did you know that the MST is financed by the Open Society?

🇧🇷🚩💥 — Leader of the Workers' Party (PT) in the Senate wants the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to arrest the leader of the Liberal Party (PL), the opposition party to the new government.

This problem created a discussion between both parties, which made any possibility of negotiation to balance projects impossible.

Something similar happened with Dilma in 2015, when her party created several problems with the MDB, Michel Temer's party, vice president at the time and interim president after Dilma's impeachment.

🇧🇷⚖️🏥🇨🇺 — Justice determines the rehiring of Cubans in 'Mais Médicos', which embezzled money to the Cuban dictatorship

The initiative was interrupted in 2018, after Cuba terminated its contract with Brazil due to the victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential elections of that year.
The Cuban government also declared that the proposals for revalidation and proof of the doctors' capacity were a 'negligence'.

The Federal Regional Court (TRF) gave the Union ten days to present an execution plan for the rehiring of professionals.

The measure is in line with the Lula government in resuming the program that transferred money to Cuba through the hiring of doctors.

🇦🇷 During a press conference held in Buenos Aires jointly with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Latin American leader spoke about the conflict in Ukraine.

🗨 "Argentina and Latin America are not thinking of sending weapons to Ukraine or any other place in conflict," warned the Argentine president.

🇧🇷 — War between militiamen and drug dealers reaches its 14 days and the victory of the Comando Vermelho (C.V) is achieved with the death of a militia leader in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

With this trend, there is the possibility of the advance of traffickers to regions controlled by the militia in the West Zone and the return of the Comando Vermelho's domain throughout the state.

🇧🇷 🚩🇫🇷 — Through a telephone call, Mácron tells Lula (PT) that he will visit Brazil in 2023

According to presidential assistants who accompanied the conversation, Lula invited Mácron to visit Brazil and visit the shipyard in Itaguaí, in Rio de Janeiro.

At the shipyard, conventional submarines and a nuclear-powered submarine are being built as a result of bilateral cooperation between Brazil and France.

Recently, diverse ideologies rallied against Macron in France through protests and strikes that brought more than 1.5 million people to the French streets.

🇧🇷🚩🏳️‍⚧️ — Brazilian university hospital (USP) has almost 300 children/young people making gender transition

The Hospital das Clínicas (HC) of the University of São Paulo (USP) has 280 minors in the process of gender transition.

Of this total, 100 are children between 4 and 12 years old; while 180 are teenagers from 13 to 17

In addition to this public, there are 100 adults, from 18, in the same situation.

Did you know that the USP is financed by the Open Society?

🇧🇴🇨🇳 — Chinese consortium CBC, led by battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology (Catl), will develop untapped lithium deposits in Bolivia, which has the world's largest reserves of the mineral but few local means to develop them.

According to the Bolivian government, the company is going to invest more than US$ 1 billion, with the objective of producing lithium batteries in the country by 2025. The value represents the first phase of the investment and is destined for the construction of roads, the installation of the base and infrastructure and energy supply.

Bolivia has the richest lithium deposits in the world, with an estimated 21 million tons, or 23% of the total in 2021, according to the US Geological Survey.

🇵🇪💥⚰️ — Death toll in demonstrations in Peru reaches 65 after first victim in Lima; protests are heading into their 54th day

On the same day that Congress rejected a proposal to bring forward general elections, one person died in a clash between security forces and protesters against the Dina Boluarte government in Lima, Peru.

People who were present at the scene reported that hooded protesters kicked and pushed the railing next to Congress in Lima. Afterwards, they used makeshift shields and threw stones at the police, who fired rubber bullets and stun grenades.

🇧🇷💥🚩⚖️📑 — In one of the closest elections in the history of the Brazilian Senate, the site known for gathering confirmed and undefined votes for this election shows a technical tie between the names; Marinho is for right wing parties, Pacheco is for left and center parties.

https://comovotasenador.com.br/

🇧🇷🇻🇪💥 — Venezuelan deputy says that Yanomami in a deplorable situation came to Brazil from his country

Venezuelan National Assembly deputy Romel Guzamana said on social media that the indigenous Yanomami with signs of malnutrition in Brazil are refugees from hunger in the neighboring country who crossed the border between the countries.

"I denounce the serious malnutrition of our Yanomami indigenous brothers in Bolivar state. They crossed into Brazil in search of food, another violation of indigenous human rights by the Maduro regime," he wrote.

The version about the indigenous people has been publicized by the opposition of the dictator Nicolás Maduro's regime, without support among Brazilian authorities and specialists. In an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, Guzamana, who is an indigenous member of the banned ethnic group and is a member of the Amazonian Parliament, said that the Venezuelan Yanomamis have kinship relationships with Brazilian indigenous people.

🇧🇷🤝 🚩— In a post on Telegram, Bolsonaro highlighted the timeless relationship with the crisis among the Yanomami indigenous people, according to the speech of Aldo Rebelo, a former supporter of the PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil), former Minister of Defense and Pres. of the Chamber

• Aldo Rebelo, former PCdoB, Minister of Defense and President of the Chamber, talks about the Yanomami, illegal mining and greed for the Amazon.

• In 2012 he was rapporteur for the Forest Code in the Chamber. The final report had the support of the Bancada Ruralista and also my vote. The left voted against.

• More than an opinion, a statement about how our indigenous people live.

• As a deputy and PR, we have always defended similar agendas on the Amazon.

🇵🇪 🇺🇸 Peace Corps evacuates volunteers from Peru amid worsening political crisis

⬛️ “Peace Corps/Peru has temporarily evacuated all volunteers to another Peace Corps post,” Blackwell said in an email. “The safety and well-being of Peace Corps volunteers is our top priority. We are closely monitoring the security situation with local partners on the ground and the U.S. Embassy in Lima.”

⬛️ A person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive withdrawal, said the volunteers are headed to the Peace Corps’ post in Ecuador.

⬛️ The decision comes after weeks of popular unrest against a government that has taken over following a failed December coup attempt by a Peruvian president facing impeachment. The South American country has had a politically tumultuous few years, cycling through several presidents amid various corruption and other scandals.

⬛️ Peace Corps volunteers often work in areas far from national capitals and with less immediate protections than U.S. diplomats — meaning they are sometimes the first group of U.S. workers to be evacuated when unrest hits.

⬛️ Analysts are fearful that the situation in Peru — and the conditions that allowed Peace Corps volunteers to work there — aren’t set to improve.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/30/peace-corps-peru-political-crisis-00080297

— Are you prepared for the most infernal 24 hours in the history of the Brazilian Senate since April 11, 1964?

🇧🇷💰 — Consolidated public sector obtained in 2022 a primary surplus of BRL 126.0 billion (1.28% of GDP), compared to a surplus of BRL 64.7 billion (0.73% of GDP) in 202.