🇧🇷💉⛓💥 — For the first time, vials of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than morphine, have been seized in Brazil. The substance is the drug that causes the most overdose deaths in the United States. The seizure was carried out by the Espírito Santo Civil Police, through the specialized Narcotics Department (Denarc).

Police said the operation was launched with the aim of investigating an alleged base used by traffickers to store drugs and various illicit materials, in the rural area near the Duas Bocas biological reserve, located in the municipality of Cariacica, in the Metropolitan Region of Vitória.

According to the police, 31 bottles of fentanyl, 136 kilograms of marijuana, 13 kilograms of cocaine mixture, 2,500 full cocaine pins, as well as thousands of empty pins were seized during the action.

🇧🇷💥💸 — Credit Suisse bond collapse affects Brazilian bank bond trading

Subordinated securities of BB and Itaú, for example, devalued; The impact is expected to be even greater in the coming days.

🇵🇪⛓⚖️💥 — PERU: The Peruvian National Police dismissed eight generals who ordered to repress protests against President Dina Boluarte.

Among the officers dismissed is David Villanueva, the head of the Police delegation in the Puno department, where at least 21 people died from shots made by police officers.

Luis Flores, the head of the Police delegation in the Apurimac department, is also among the officials dismissed. Under his command, agents used long-range weapons to suppress demonstrations nearby the Congress and the government headquarters, where at least seven protesters died.

After analyzing some necropsies and medical reports on the bodies of diseased protesters, Peru’s Ojo Publico outlet denounced that many dead citizens were hit by lead pellets, whose use is forbidden in Peru.

🇧🇷🚩🛠🔥 — An interesting video that appeared here. Protests organized by the PCdoB (far-Left party), PSOL (center-left party), the Central Única De Trabalhadores-CUT (left trade union group), in support of the University layers and their due academic organizations.

Do they protest for life improvements? Improvements at work, in universities, in safer environments to come and go? No. They uniformly protest against Roberto Campos Neto, president of the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), on account of the interest rate of +13%.

I ask the registrants: do the protesters know what interest is? Do you know what is real interest, negative interest implementation, Copom analysis and external dependence? No need to ask further. They don't know, because they are useful mass to the major left-wing parties in Brazil. And they're going to stay that way. Just licking the bone and stuffing the head of the youngest.

🇧🇷🚩🔥💥 — JUST NOW: Criminals tried to blow up the Igapó bridge in Natal (RN). One of the busiest roads in the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, a Brazilian state that has been gripped by crime for more than a week.

⚡️🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexican President AMLO sayS that the Biden Administration has no right to speak about violence in Mexico since it authorized the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline as journalist Seymour Hersh argues.
"If we are talking about acts of violence, how is it that an award-winning journalist in the United States claims that the US government sabotaged the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe?" he taunted.

- Anadolu Agency

🇸🇻⛓💥 — EL SALVADOR: prisoners in the country's largest prison sleep on iron beds and no mattress.

In addition, according to the expert in charge of the prison administration, prisoners often divide and interleave beds because of prison overcrowding. According to him, there are approximately 80 beds for 100 prisoners.

Recently, the construction of the prison in El Salvador for 40 thousand prisoners caused an uproar in the international community, for fears of violation of human rights. However, the country's data cast doubt on criticism of the effectiveness of Bukele's public security actions: the country has been homicide-free for more than 300 days.

🇧🇷🤝💥🇻🇪🚩 — In a rare demonstration critical of Venezuela, the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) expressed "slight concern" about the human rights situation in the neighboring country.

The statement was made by Minister André Simas, a diplomat in charge of the area, during a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. He was commenting on a report made on the country by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Austrian Volker Turk.

"Brazil thanks the High Commissioner for the report and shares his concern about the human rights situation in Venezuela", Simas said.

The diplomat added that the country follow "closely" the issue of human rights and "reiterates its willingness to cooperate to develop joint initiatives in the country."

At the same time, he praised the Government of Nicolás Maduro for allowing Turk access to opponents and members of civil society during a visit to Venezuela in late January.

🇨🇱🌎💥💥 — Another medium-intensity earthquake has struck south-central Chile, and so far there are no reports of casualties or material damage.

According to the National Seismological Center of the University of Chile, the epicenter of the tremor occurred in the commune of Melipilla, 57 km deep, and registered a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale.


Chile is located in the southeastern part of the Pacific circle of fire, the most seismic zone in the world, and suffers hundreds of small tremors due to the subduction of the Nasca plate under the South American Plate.