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OAS asked the Peruvian government on Monday (01.30.2023) to call general elections promptly and expressed its concern about the excessive use of force during the protests against President Dina Boluarte.

🇵🇪 🇺🇸 Peace Corps evacuates volunteers from Peru amid worsening political crisis

⬛️ “Peace Corps/Peru has temporarily evacuated all volunteers to another Peace Corps post,” Blackwell said in an email. “The safety and well-being of Peace Corps volunteers is our top priority. We are closely monitoring the security situation with local partners on the ground and the U.S. Embassy in Lima.”

⬛️ A person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive withdrawal, said the volunteers are headed to the Peace Corps’ post in Ecuador.

⬛️ The decision comes after weeks of popular unrest against a government that has taken over following a failed December coup attempt by a Peruvian president facing impeachment. The South American country has had a politically tumultuous few years, cycling through several presidents amid various corruption and other scandals.

⬛️ Peace Corps volunteers often work in areas far from national capitals and with less immediate protections than U.S. diplomats — meaning they are sometimes the first group of U.S. workers to be evacuated when unrest hits.

⬛️ Analysts are fearful that the situation in Peru — and the conditions that allowed Peace Corps volunteers to work there — aren’t set to improve.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/30/peace-corps-peru-political-crisis-00080297

#Syria 🇸🇾: "Muhojir Tactical" (affiliated with Tavhid va Jihod, #Uzbek sub-group of #HTS) released a new video from #Idlib.

The group also displays an uncommon AK-104 carbine, modified and suppressed AK-74M rifles with a GP-25 UBGL and customized/shortened AKM assault rifles.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1620093070976114688

⚡🇷🇺🇪🇬🇺🇸 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov received a message from his American counterpart through the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs during a meeting in Moscow.

The US urges an immediate end to the war and for negotiations to begin.

🇫🇷🛩🇺🇦 — 🇫🇷 France joined the discussion on the supply of fighters to Ukraine; negotiations began on possible deliveries of Mirage 2000 aircraft.

🇹🇷🚫🇸🇪🆗🇫🇮 — 🇷🇺 Russian digital newspaper VZGLYAD on Telegram:

🇹🇷🇸🇪🇫🇮Sweden's accession to NATO is officially frozen indefinitely. At least for months, it is possible that for years. Finland could get into the alliance in its own way, but did not want to because of solidarity with the Swedes, to whom the Turkish president set "impossible" conditions. Now they hate him for it. But the West is leading things to something that will have to be glorified — for the same.

The State Department openly offers Erdoğan a bribe in the form of F-16 fighter jets if he agrees to NATO expansion northward. Erdoğan refused.

Behind the Kurdish separatists is a long bloody trail of terrorist acts. And the demand not to let the Swedes down until all the accomplices of the terrorists are handed over is the position not only of Erdoğan or the ruling Justice and Development Party, but of Turkey as a whole.

There is reason to believe that sooner or later Ankara will still be pushed through (through the Americans), and NATO will still expand to the north. Only the option in which Scandinavia is saved from destruction by neutrality, although unlikely, is still more likely than the scenario that Russia will attack the Finns and Swedes just like that.

In the event of a major war, being a NATO state on Russia's western borders is not a privilege, but something like membership in a "suicide squad"

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