🇻🇪🤝🇨🇳🇮🇷 — Venezuela's regime works to raise the level of its relations of cooperation and friendship with China and Iran; diplomatic representatives of both countries met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil.

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said the minister's meeting with the Chinese Ambassador, Li Baorong, was aimed at “raising the level of its relations of cooperation and friendship” with the Asian country.

During the meeting, Yván assured that China, in addition to being “a friendly nation”, is a “strategic trading partner”, which is why he expressed the desire of the regime led by Nicolás Maduro to “continue to progress in their bilateral cooperation relations”.

🇧🇷🚩 — Lula's Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, visited the Maré complex, one of the trafficking bases in Rio de Janeiro (RJ); the event was mediated by Redes da Maré, which is funded by Open Society

One of the highlights of the conversation was the favela's ability to produce and think about public policy and data.

Flávio Dino also presented The Restitution of the National Public Security Program with citizenship (PRONASCI), based on five axes of action: the fight against violence against women and femicide, with the resumption of the seven women's houses and the launch of 40 more houses throughout the country and anti-racist justice.

In addition, Dino stressed the importance of creating a specific policy for prisoners and help for their releases from jail, as well as punitive measures for police abuses.

The Complexo da Maré is a set of 17 communities that is always disputed by traffickers of the Comando Vermelho (CV) and Terceiro Comando Puro (TCP), two of the largest factions in Rio de Janeiro.

🇵🇪💸💥— Peru records first contraction in economic activity in nearly two years in January

"National production in January 2023 was affected by social conflicts, which led to stoppages, roadblocks, forced closure of markets, impeding the free movement of people and goods,” the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (Inei) said in a report.

Compared to the previous month, Peru's economic activity fell by 1.36% in January.

🇧🇷🤝⚖️🚩💥 — Five cases that used evidence from Operation Lava Jato were suspended by STF Minister Ricardo Lewandowski. It is that these tests had already been annulled by the court, because they were based on Odebrecht's leniency agreements, which had part of the validity annulled by the Supreme Court.

A leniency agreement is intended to get companies to cooperate with investigations. After the decision that considered former judge Sergio Moro partial, these elements were considered useless for the investigation which led to the annulment of several Lava Jato processes.

The suspended criminal actions involve former Senator Edison Lobão, former president of Eletronuclear Othon Pinheiro da Silva, lawyer Rodrigo Tacla Duran, among others.

Operation Lava Jato turns 7 years old this year. Now, the operation finds itself dying because of bureaucracies and friendships with allies in Justice on the part of the accused.

🇦🇷💥🇪🇨 — CRISIS IN LATAM: Ecuador's president Guillermo Lasso declared the Argentine Ambassador to Quito, Gabriel Fuks, “persona non grata,” giving the diplomat three days to leave the country.

The decision was made after María de los Ángeles Duarte, a former Ecuadorian minister convicted of corruption, fled to Venezuela after managing to leave the Argentine Embassy in Quito, where she stayed for more than two years with her underage son.

"Regretting the incomprehensible decision of the Ecuadorian government to request the withdrawal of Ambassador Fuks from Ecuador, we have decided to adopt the same situation with the ambassador of Ecuador to Argentina,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Following this statement, the Ecuadorian government expressed outrage at the Argentine Chancellor and announced his expulsion, causing astonishment in the Chancellor.

🇧🇷💥 ⚒🚩 — Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) of the Landless Movement (MST) reaches the limit of signatures to be activated; application headed by deputies Lieutenant Colonel Zucco, Kim Kataguiri and Ricardo Salles achieved the endorsement of 171 deputies of Congress

The three unified their respective requests for CPI after a meeting of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), which supports the request.

It remains only for the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP), to read the request for the CPI to be created. Advisors close to Lira confirm that Lula and allies will try to prevent CPI from opening.

The MST invaded three productive farms of Suzano Papel e Celulose, in the municipalities of Teixeira de Freitas, Mucuri and Caravelas, in southern Bahia, at the turn of the month.

In addition, the movement recently invaded another land in Bahia and continues to plan to advance the invasions throughout the year, being entirely financed by politicians.

🇦🇷💥💸 — Argentina's Central Bank raises interest rate to 78% per year, surpassing any expectations assessed by economists.

🇨🇱❌🦠🐔 — About 80,000 birds have been exterminated and buried in central Chile this week; cases of avian flu disease continue to disrupt rural sector in Latin America

Cases of avian flu, mainly in wild animals, have been detected in Chile since the end of last year. Argentina confirmed its first case in industrial poultry last month, causing it to suspend exports of poultry products.

Ximena Aguilera, Chile's health minister, said that although the country has seen cases in marine mammals, there has been no human-to-human transmission, but the ministry is closely monitoring workers and people exposed to bird flu.

🇧🇷🤝⚖️🚩💥 — Minister of the Supreme Court (ST F), Ricardo Lewandowski monocratically suspended rules of the laws of State-Owned Enterprises, after 7 years of its approval

The rule, which prohibited the appointment of politicians, ministers and government secretaries to the board of state-owned enterprises, is suspended. Now any politician can take office in these states.

The law was voted by the National Congress in 2016, both by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, was approved and sanctioned by the president of the time, Michel Temer, and after 7 years, it was overturned via injunction, leaving deputies and senators useless as to the case.

The law on State-Owned Enterprises was created precisely to prevent any diversion of transparency, corruption or political enticement. Now, nothing exists for that.