🇧🇷🚩 — Lula continues to feature a speech of hyperbole with a revanchist tone and divides the Brazilian population; he also confirms the creation of a possible 'Tribunal de Manaus', a plan by the Workers' Party (PT) to judge Bolsonaro in a theatrical way.

Lula returns to classify Dilma Rousseff's impeachment as a "coup" during his party's (PT) anniversary.

“Genocide will have to be judged by the number of people who died innocently in this country”, said the current president about Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

He also said that everything he did "in 13 years of the PT was destroyed in 6 years after the coup"

🇧🇷🤝⚖️🚩📃 — Lewandowski accepts request and suspends action that investigates donations to the Lula Institute, leaving the investigation incomplete and stalled in court; former minister Antonio Palocci and businessman Paulo Okamotto were among those investigated.

The court was investigating possible donations by Odebrecht to the Lula Institute, totaling R$4 million. According to the investigation, the case occurred between December 2013 and March 2014.

Lewandowski responded to a request from the defense of Okamotto, the current director of the institute. The lawyers allege that the STF recognized the irregularity of part of the evidence used by Lava Jato — the Odebrecht leniency agreement, for example. According to Okamotto, the process occurred in default of legal criteria.

Recently, Lewandowski participated in a seminar organized by the Landless Movement (MST), in Guararema, in the interior of São Paulo. In the audience, leftists followed the event, some even with government positions.

🇨🇱🚩🔥🚨 — Deaths from wildfires in Chile rise to 25 after death of forest worker; country is in a state of crisis and warns tourists to be careful

The Chilean government has confirmed the death of a forestry worker who was helping to extinguish the fires that ravaged southern Chile, bringing the total number of deaths to 25 since they started.

Chilean authorities have also arrested 38 people, including five minors and 33 adults, for their alleged involvement in the forest fires, which have burned more than 425,000 hectares.

In 2012, the Chilean government suspected that the native Mapuche population was responsible for the forest fires that shook the country. Now, with the new government, they avoid commenting on this matter.

🦠🇦🇷Argentina declares a health emergency after detecting cases of avian flu in the north of the country

In the framework of a press conference, the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina, Juan José Bahillo, said that the authorities were aware of the spread of the virus in wild birds throughout the American continent.

"Our National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (SENASA) confirmed the detection of the avian influenza virus in wild birds, in the Andean goose species in the province of Jujuy. It forces us to declare a health emergency in our territory," he declared. Bahillo.

The official added that it was impossible to prevent the virus from reaching the country because it is a disease that is commonly transmitted among migratory birds, which frequently travel to Argentina from the north of the continent.

🇲🇽💥 — Hundreds of birds invade the streets of Mexico and intrigue residents; grouping of birds can mean the arrival of an environmental crisis

Images were taken in the region of the Mexican state of Guajanato

🗳🌐💥🚨 — According to a group of journalists, Israeli company manipulated 33 elections in the world

The company, without legal existence, called “Team Jorge” by journalists, following the pseudonym of one of its managers, Tal Hanan, is made up of former members of the Israeli security services, according to information released this Wednesday, 15, by the French organization Forbidden Stories, which brings together journalists from 30 vehicles, including Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El Pais.

Three journalists from the group pretended to be potential clients to collect information for several months about “Team Jorge”. The structure claims to have "acted in 33 election campaigns at presidential level", he told his fake clients, according to Radio France, where one of the undercover reporters works.

Of the 33 campaigns for the elections, reported another official interviewed by journalists, “two thirds of them took place in Anglophone and Francophone Africa, 27 were successful”.

🇧🇷🚩💸 — Misuse and corruption in the Rouanet Law (incentive to culture) causes brands to receive a millionaire fine; the amount raised by Volkswagen Brasil to sponsor the Brasilidade Sinfônica project, backed by the government between 2012 and 2013, had been R$ 1 million

The penalty was applied by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) based on the Anti-Corruption Law. According to the CGU, the companies “would have reallocated money from the project for their own benefit”.

The case was one of those investigated in the Federal Police's Operation Boca Livre, which investigated fraud against the Rouanet Law between 2002 and 2014.

🇧🇷💥🌳 — “Lula government fell into a diplomatic trap imposed by rich countries’”, says Aldo Rebelo

Former Defense Minister Aldo Rebelo the environmental agenda he considers imposed on the Amazon by rich countries. For him, this agenda impedes the development of the region. When commenting on the visit of the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to Brazil, the former minister pointed out a “diplomatic trap” in the idea that environmental protection conflicts with economic development.

“We gave in and, little by little, Brazil accepted the issue of the environment without the right to development, which puts us in a trap here, in the Amazon, where you have 23 million Brazilians, more than the population from Paraguay and Uruguay together, with no prospects,” he said.

“It is necessary that the interests of Brazil are also considered. (...) They want to use the worst fossil fuel, which is coal, and they want to make environmental demands here that they have no correspondence in their own country”, he criticized.

🌎⚕️📄🦠⚠️ — Avian flu returns to scare South America; 3 countries are affected, region close to Brazil also suffers from crisis

The Ministry of Agriculture of Uruguay confirmed the first case of avian flu in the country. Contamination was found in a black swan near Lagoa Garzón. The city is 180 kilometers from the border with Rio Grande do Sul — in Brazil, the State is among the largest producers of chicken meat.

There are also rumors of the detection of at least one case of avian flu in the Argentine province of Jujuy, close to the border with Chile. The local government, however, did not confirm the information.

🇧🇷🚩⚖️📱🌐 — Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) says that 'regulation of social media is one of the most important issues of the current moment the world is experiencing'

"The internet democratized access to information, knowledge and public space, changing the course of history. But it also made possible the unfiltered circulation of disinformation, hatred, deliberate lies and conspiracy theories, putting at risk the very freedom of expression, democracy and people's fundamental rights”, said the minister.

Barroso also defended the regulation of the internet: “Democratic countries all over the planet are looking for the optimal point of regulatory balance capable of preserving all the values ​​that are at stake in this debate”.

🇧🇷🇺🇦🌎⚠️ — Ukraine calls for an end to Latin America's neutrality in the war and a better relationship with Brazil; Ukrainian government also criticized former president Jair Bolsonaro for close relations with Russia.

🇧🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Lula's chancellor says that the Brazilian government "got off the fence" and confirms that Brazil will defend Ukraine in the conflict with Russia

In the recent meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Lula stated that “when one doesn't want to, two don't fight”, maintaining an ambiguous discourse on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The speech seemed small and staggering on the geopolitical issue.

On the other hand, Chancellor Mauro Vieira tries to justify: In my interpretation, what he meant by those words is that, when two are at war, if one side makes a gesture and the other follows, that may open up a chance for negotiation. By the way, the president has stated numerous times that he condemns the Russian invasion and the war. Unlike the Bolsonaro government, now Brazil has left the fence.

🇵🇪🗳 — Peruvian president meets with leaders of right-wing parties to negotiate elections in 2023; Keiko Fujimori will enter the talks and secure space for the next election

According to the newspaper La República, Boluarte intends to seal an agreement with different parties to try to approve the government project that foresees general elections in the country in October 2023, with a possible second round in November, but without holding a referendum to call a constituent Assembly.

The Peruvian press did not say whether Boluarte also intends to meet with representatives of leftist parties, such as Free Peru (the former party of the president) and Together for Peru, which have been decisive for the non-approval of previous projects.

Peruvian leftist parties are also calling for the creation of a new Constitution.

🇧🇷🌎🤖⚠️ — Dozens of countries call for regulation of the use of AI in the military industry; countries fear risk "of unintended consequences".

"There is worldwide concern about the use of AI in the military and the potential unreliability of artificial intelligence systems", highlights the text, released after the first international conference on the subject, held in International Court of Justice.

The text was signed by more than 60 countries, including the United States, China, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Spain, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala, which expressed their concerns related to the "lack of clarity about responsibility " of artificial intelligence applied to Defense.

"Never let the human factor escape the responsibility it must assume. Never trust artificial intelligence", emphasized General Jörg Vollmer, former commander of NATO.

🇧🇷🚩 — Lula (PT) will stop calling impeachment a 'coup' so as not to embarrass his ministers who voted against Dilma; request was made by allied members in the government

Behind the scenes, ministers argued to Lula that the speech “embarrasss” several of his ministers, who defended Dilma’s removal from the Planalto Palace in 2016.

Of Lula's 37 ministers, at least 7 voted in favor of impeachment in the National Congress when they were parliamentarians or gave statements in defense of the leftist president's departure.

🇧🇷💥💉⚕️ — Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) asks for archiving in investigation against Bolsonaro; decision still casts doubt on the effectiveness of the vaccine against COVID-19

Lindôra Araújo, deputy attorney general of the republic, asks the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to close the investigation against Jair Bolsonaro for using material and supposedly associating the vaccine against covid with AIDS and says that he cannot be criminally prosecuted for this. “Political and Electoral Debate”.

Lindôra says that Jair's speeches "reinforce a standard of conduct that is in line with his political action since the beginning of the pandemic, which indicates that the required authority (Jair Bolsonaro) did not act with the intention of generating panic in the population."

Bolsonaro claims that the issue of vaccines is just a time difference between the "current moment, and a future problem". He also said that "the truth will prevail" on this matter.

🔗🇦🇷💥💸🐄 — Argentina tries another price freeze, this time for beef; a country that suffers from chronic inflation, Argentina has become accustomed to government announcements of flawed plans to freeze prices.

Alberto Fernández's management announced the Precios Justos Meat program, which aims to establish reductions of 30% to 35% in the prices of seven cuts of beef. The plan includes subsidies for producers to pay for up to 40% of the feed needed for animals awaiting slaughter in confinement and benefits for butchers to reduce tax evasion.

Producers and specialists expressed revolt and skepticism when commenting on the announcement of Fair Beef Prices.

“It is a discriminatory measure that creates disincentives for production. Measures of this nature have been taken for several years and production has not grown, while other countries continue to conquer domestic and foreign markets,” said the president of the Argentine Rural Society, Nicolás Pino, in an interview with Clarín.

🇧🇷🚩🔓⚖️ — Former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral is acquitted by the Justice in a lawsuit about embezzlement of money in subway works; the crimes he was convicted of amounted to more than 400 years in prison - now, nothing counts.

According to the preliminary injunction, the former governor had no proven involvement in the case of embezzlement of money in the integration works of Line 1 of the Metro. Even at liberty, Cabral will have to comply with precautionary measures, such as wearing an electronic anklet and appearing monthly in court.

Cabral was suspected of involvement in the scheme that embezzled money in the works to integrate Line 1 of the Metro/Subway, an intervention made for the 2016 Olympics.

The entire process was annulled, in the same variant that annulled Lula's processes.