🇨🇺🇨🇳🛬 — Cuba is trying to revive its diminished tourism sector with Chinese travelers

➡️ A report from Global Times, a media outlet serving the Chinese Communist Party, states that searches for keywords like "Cuban hotels" and "flights" increased "by more than 40% on the Ctrip travel platform compared to the previous day." This happened half an hour after the announcement of a visa-free policy starting this month for Chinese citizens.

❌ Cuba became an "unattractive tourism market," reported Diario de Cuba a year ago. The reasons are not hard to guess: poor quality of services in hotels, including power outages, lack of supplies and food, as well as insecurity, fuel and medicine shortages.

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🇧🇷❌🇨🇳🇸🇬❗️ — Brazilian Congress passes a law backed by Lula's Government placing a 92% Tax on ALL importations (independent of value), focused mostly on Chinese and Singaporean Companies, as Shein, Shopee and Ali Express!

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🇧🇷🪖💥⚰️ — 🇧🇷 During rescue missions due to the floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), it was reported in the municipality of Canoas that a Brazilian Army truck, driving against the traffic, collided with a vehicle, resulting in 3 deaths and 2 injuries

Local residents who are following the accident took to social media to call for the Army to be taken off the streets in order to prevent further accidents.

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🇻🇪🗳 — The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, controlled by the regime of Nicolás Maduro, has published the official ballot for the presidential elections on July 28, which shows the positions that both political parties and their candidates will occupy on the voting machines.

➡️ With the publication of the ballot by the CNE, the candidates can be divided into three main categories: the candidate of the dictatorship, the opposition, and the "opposition" who play into the hands of the Chavista regime. The ballot can no longer be modified, and any changes made prior to the date will not be reflected on the day of the election.

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🇧🇴🚩⁉️ — In a turnaround, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia has indicated that former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) remains the leader of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) until the new leadership, elected at a party congress promoted by sectors loyal to the government of Luis Arce last Sunday, is confirmed

❗️ According to Tahuichi Quispe, a member of the TSE, the leadership chaired by Morales for the past 27 years remains "valid and recognized" by the electoral body until a new one is registered and recognized.

⌛️ Meanwhile, Gustavo Ávila, also a member of the electoral body, confirmed that the report on the MAS congress held from May 3 to 5 in the city of El Alto by the bloc loyal to Arce, will be known in 15 days, and the validity of the new leadership will be determined.

🔥 Following these announcements, Arce-aligned sectors warned that they will "mobilize" if the new president of MAS, Grover García, who replaced Morales, and his leadership are not ratified.

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🇧🇷🤡⭐❌🇮🇱 — The Lula government caters to its own leftist core and suspends the purchase of armored vehicles from Israel

➡️ The Brazilian Army has temporarily suspended the signing of the protocol for the purchase of Israeli howitzers. The acquisition of 36 armored combat vehicles was planned. The Israeli company Elbit Systems, and its Brazilian subsidiaries Ares Aeroespacial e Defesa and AEL Sistema, won the bid, which could amount to R$ 750 million, to offer the Atmos 2000 system.

📝 According to the Army, the postponement was in response to the need to resubmit the process, once again, to the legal advisory of the Ministry of Defense, which made changes in the final phase of the bidding. The goal is to justify the reasons that led to the choice of the Israeli defense giant.

☄️ The selection of Israeli equipment elicited reactions from leftist leaders and public figures. They expressed their dissatisfaction by signing a letter calling for an end to commercial transactions with Israeli companies.

🚩 The purchase of Israeli equipment, which defeated competitors from the Czech Republic, France, and China, prompted reactions from members of the Workers' Party (PT), such as former federal deputy José Dirceu, and personalities such as singer Chico Buarque, and former National Secretary for Human Rights Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, as well as entities like Amnesty International. They signed a letter to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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