🇵🇪 Peru's government sentences 27 people for social protests

A total of 27 people were sentenced for "acts of vandalism" in Ica, Peru, committed during the protests taking place in the Andean country to demand the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.

🗨 "They received convictions of more than three years in prison and are required to pay civil reparations for an amount greater than 50,000 soles (about $12,990)," the Ministry of the Interior said in a statement.

Additionally, 22 people received pretrial detention while they are being prosecuted for "violent acts" in different regions of the country, the institution reported.

⛽️🛢️🇻🇪🇮🇷 Venezuela and Iran will sign a 406 million euro contract to renovate the Paraguaná Refining Complex

PDVSA and the state-owned Iranian National Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) will increase fuel production at the Paraguaná Refining Center marks a step towards ending the dependence on Venezuela from US refining technology.

The companies are now expected to sign a 460 million-euro contract to renovate the 955,000 bpd Paraguaná refining complex in the coming weeks, according to sources cited by Reuters.

🇨🇦🇻🇪 New York pays for voluntary transfers of Venezuelan migrants to Canada

The New York City Hall is promoting and paying for voluntary transfers of Venezuelan emigrants to Canada, according to several testimonies collected by EFE from beneficiaries of this trip that is processed at the same bus station.

A first bus with immigrants left this Monday and another is preparing for the night from Monday to Tuesday, as EFE was able to verify.

“I am leaving because I left three children in another country (Bolivia) and here the immigration process is slow, it takes a long time and a lawyer charges $10,000 to get a work permit and Social Security, and does not even guarantee anything. A paralegal is cheaper but they can't defend you in court,” said Alfredo, a Venezuelan sitting in a corner at the Port Authority bus terminal in downtown New York.

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🇨🇱🔥 There are 26 deaths from fires in Chile

Explotion in a Ilegal PDVSA oil camp

Venezuela ranks 139 out of 141 countries with the slowest Internet speed in the world.

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Four alleged members of the Tren de Aragua were arrested in Cúcuta

🇻🇪🇹🇷🇸🇾Venezuela sent this Tuesday 50 specialists from different areas to Turkey and Syria, countries that were affected by the earthquakes that left more than 7,200 dead.

"We have prepared, enlisted and arranged more than 50 technical professionals, doctors, specialists in disaster care, identification and search for people. Likewise, all their technical equipment, as well as the first tons of food and medicines that leave for Syria and Turkey", reported the Minister of the Interior, A/J Remigio Ceballos.

He added that these specialists are part of the Simón Bolívar Humanitarian Task Force, who with their departure "open a logistics train" to attend to any other requirement in the disaster zone.

🇨🇼🇻🇪 Amnesty International assures that "Curaçao continues to detain Venezuelans and denies them protection"

Amnesty International published its most recent report in which it concluded that the situation of Venezuelan migrants in Curaçao has not improved, on the contrary, those who arrive on the island are detained and even denied protection.

“For more than a year, the cases of four men and one woman whose stories had been included in the 2021 report have been followed up and interviewed again between December 2021 and October 2022. Their situation last year not only It has not improved, but has worsened in some cases," says the report published on its website this Tuesday.

In this regard, the director of Amnesty International Netherlands, Dagmar Oudshoorn, highlighted that “we see the steps that the Curaçao authorities have taken to improve the human rights situation of Venezuelans seeking protection in Curaçao. But they are not enough. The authorities must redouble their efforts and the Kingdom of the Netherlands must lend its support to that end."

In a video released by those affected, it is seen how the mayoress of the Candelaria municipality, Carmen Elena Benítez, interrupts the protest to threaten and shout at the teachers present.

🇻🇪🇪🇸Spain orders the blocking of the account of former Chavista vice-minister Nervis Villalobos in Luxembourg

The Spanish Justice ordered the blocking of an account in Luxembourg with 40 million euros attributed to Nervis Villalobos, Vice Minister of Electric Power of Venezuela in the regime of former President Hugo Chávez, as part of the case about the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA for which he is being investigated in Spain