🇧🇷💬🌍 — Hybrid Warfare: Brazil's government will soon create an interministerial commission chaired by the Planning Ministry to unlock projects for integration in South America, a top official said

According to Renata Amaral, secretary of International Affairs and Development, a decree signed by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will establish the commission, which will organize internal activity in the federal government to effectively kick-start the projects.

❗️ Despite expected polarization in the U.S. presidential election and potential spillover effects into countries in the region, Brazil continues to see strong collaboration from neighbors in discussions about integration projects, including Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which have right-wing governments, said Amaral.

💰 Desperately seeking to strengthen ties in the region, Lula's administration settled an unpaid commitment of $100 million to the Structural Convergence Fund of Mercosur (Focem) in late 2023, releasing $70 million to which the country was entitled for the financing, as non-repayable funds, of projects focused on integration and reduction of regional inequalities.

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🇪🇨⚠️🇲🇽 — ⛓ Ecuador has requested Interpol to arrest Walter Solís, former Minister of Public Works under the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), who is currently residing in Mexico: "the Mexican government is harboring criminals"

➡️ Solís is under investigation in the South American country in the same case involving Correa's former president, Jorge Glas. Ecuadorian authorities allege that Glas and Solís committed acts of corruption involving public funds intended for the reconstruction of the province of Manabí after the 2016 earthquake.

🤝 It was the Mexican government, under the leadership of leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that granted Solís refugee status in 2021.

⚖️ In Ecuador, in addition to the corruption charges involving the province of Manabí, Solís faces two eight-year prison sentences imposed by the courts for his involvement in bribery cases as well.

⁉️ The López Obrador government has offered refuge to several former ministers and legislators allied with Correa, claiming political persecution.

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🇸🇻⚡️ — Nayib Bukele consolidated his absolute power in El Salvador with a Congress tailored to his needs, allowing him to pass reforms without opposition; there are 54 congressmen out of 60 seats

The National Concertation Party —an ally of Bukele— obtained two, and the Christian Democratic Party, also allied with the president, one. The opposition only secured three seats, two from the center-right Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) and one from the conservative VAMOS party.

✔️ With this distribution of legislative seats, Nuevas Ideas will not have to negotiate with anyone and can approve the national general budget, international loans, authorize debt issuance, approve exceptional regimes, choose the attorney general, members of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the human rights ombudsman, and the magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal without obstacles.

‼️ Additionally, they can agree and ratify constitutional reforms without obstacles.

➡️ SIn the Constitution in force since 1983, it was included as a requirement for modification that the reform must be ratified in the subsequent Congress. That is, constitutional reform must be submitted and approved in one legislature but ratified in the next one, after elections.

👀 At the request of the Nuevas Ideas deputies, Congress amended that article —Article 248 of the 1983 Constitution— so that the Magna Carta can also be amended in the same legislature with the votes of three-fourths of the elected deputies.

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🇺🇸🇺🇸⚠️🇧🇷🤡 — Economic Issue: What could happen to Brazil if Trump wins the election?

We have prepared an article that outlines the main economic aspects and challenges that the leftist Brazilian government will face if Trump wins the presidential elections in the United States.

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🇧🇷⛈⚠️ — Climate and meteorology experts state that the events of heavy rains and flooding in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) throughout the week can already be considered the biggest climate catastrophe in Brazil's history.