🇵🇪 Boluarte assures that the Armed Forces are "the main allies of the Peruvian people"

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte received the command baton of the Armed Forces and the Peruvian National Police, becoming the first woman to receive the artifact that distinguishes her as supreme head of both law enforcement bodies.

Despite the fact that the authorities of the Andean country have been accused of abuses during the protests, the new president maintained that the Army is a bulwark for the security of the Peruvian people.

🗨 "You are the guardianship institutions of the homeland, you represent the Peruvian nation, you are the non-deliberative forces that work for a more united country", said Dina Boluarte during her speech from the courtyard of the Government Palace .

The president assured that the Army and the National Police are "the main allies of the Peruvian people in the fight against the true enemies of the homeland."

🇺🇸🇻🇪✍🏻 The United States extends the emergency decree that considers Venezuela "a threat".

🚩 A Venezuelan businessman linked to Chavismo killed his three-year-old son and then took his own life in Miami

Authorities in Florida, United States, are investigating the deaths of Venezuelan-American businessman José Manuel Gonzalez Testino, 53, and his 3-year-old son on Tuesday night in an apartment in Coconut Grove, Miami.

Officials who found the lifeless bodies in the luxurious home at 2669 South Bayshore Drive in Miami estimate that, based on how they observed the gunshot wounds, it would have been a homicide followed by a suicide.

In 2018, Testino had been detained at the Miami International Airport for bribing an official of the Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) company in exchange for favorable business treatment. The businessman controlled multiple companies and was accused in the US of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

According to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas, Testino and an accomplice paid at least $629,000 in bribes to a former PDVSA official in exchange for him taking steps to “direct” oil company projects to their companies, give them priority when it comes to receiving payments and granting PDVSA contracts in US dollars instead of Venezuelan bolivars.

The local press also points out that Testino was collaborating with the US justice system in investigations into a corruption scheme linked to PDVSA and its US subsidiary, Citgo.

🛢️ Repsol increases its exposure in Venezuela due to "improvement of the political and social situation"

"The crisis situation in the country (Venezuela) entails uncertainty in the development of Repsol's businesses," says the 2022 consolidated annual report of the Spanish oil firm. "However," he adds, "prospects have improved as a result of the improvement in the political and social situation and a relative decrease in the coercive measures of the United States government."

The changes established in the US licenses for certain companies to do business with PDVSA have echoed in the Repsol situation. In fact, the company's total equity exposure in Venezuela increased by 38%.

🇻🇪🗳️✅ Presidential candidate María Corina Machado confirms that she is empowered to hold public office in Venezuela.

An elderly woman, in a delicate state of health, was taken to the Pérez Carreño Hospital in Caracas , where relatives reported that they denied her care, claiming that there are no beds available.

🚙🇮🇷 🇻🇪Government reports commercialization of 532 Iranian cars

The Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, led the broadcast this Thursday, March 2, for the fourth anniversary of the Great Transport Mission.

He assured that the blockade due to sanctions affected the arrival of batteries, automotive oils and tires. According to Rodríguez, "now Venezuela is looking for its own path."

For his part, the Minister of Transportation, Ramón Velásquez, pointed out that, in 40 days since the arrival of the 1,000 Iranian vehicles, 532 vehicles have been sold through the QR system and the next arrival of another 2,000 vehicles is expected.

Colectivos tried to completely invade a land belonging to the Federation of Colleges of Nursing Professionals in San Bernardino, Caracas.

Venezuela demanded this Thursday the "complete, immediate and unconditional" end of the sanctions imposed on some thirty countries in the world during the XIX summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.

⚡️ Government of Peru terminates the functions of its consul in Mexico

Boluarte affirmed that he made that determination because the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, "has decided to support the coup d'état carried out by the now former president Pedro Castillo, on December 7, 2022."

🇨🇴✈️🇻🇪 The Colombian state company Satena makes its first direct commercial flight to Caracas

The Satena airline made its first flight this Friday through a new direct route that both countries open after the resumption of their bilateral and commercial relations.

The Colombian Ministry of Defense explained that a total of 29 Colombian and 15 Venezuelan passengers traveled on this first direct flight to Caracas.

First time?

⚠️Congress of Peru rejects another debate on the advancement of elections for 2023

🚨🌎🇻🇪 An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 is registered in Táchira.

🇻🇪👨‍⚕ Venezuelan doctor achieved the first lung transplant with robotic surgery in South America

https://elpublicotv.com/medico-venezolano-logro-el-primer-transplante-de-pulmon-con-cirugia-robotica/

FANB seized a submarine used to transport drugs

🇪🇨 The Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office requests house arrest for Lenín Moreno for the 'Sinohydro' case

During the hearing to formulate charges, for the alleged crime of "bribery", which took place at the headquarters of the National Court of Justice in Quito, the Attorney General of Ecuador, Diana Salazar, requested preventive detention for Moreno and another 36 investigated in this case, known in the media as 'Ina Pepers'

However, as for the former president and 13 other defendants, because they were over 65, house arrest was requested, a measure contemplated in the Ecuadorian Constitution.

🇻🇪🏞️Yapacana: more than 3 thousand hectares would be poisoned and deforested

NGO SOS Orinoco organization denounced this Thursday, March 2, through a video posted on Twitter that 3,200 hectares of the Yapacana National Park, in the state of Amazonas, are poisoned and deforested with mercury.

They affirmed that in the area there are 86 gold extraction machines on top of the tepuy. They added that this business, outside the law, occurs with the approval of the current national government and the previous one, with the consent of the Venezuelan military and the Colombian guerrilla.

Likewise, the organization indicated that the Yapacana National Park is the most affected by illegal mining in the entire country.

According to SOS Orinoco, there are at least 8,000 mining intervention points throughout the park. Of these, 350 are located at the top of the Tepuy.

In an ordinary session of the Delegate Commission of the National Assembly elected in 2015, held this Thursday, March 2, Romel Guzamana expressed that they have denounced the situation of the Yapacana National Park whenever they can.

“This hill is a natural monument that has a lot of gold and is one of the richest National Parks in Latin America,” he said.

Guzamana believes that there is no honesty for indigenous peoples. "There is a lack of authority, they don't know of a local government capable of guaranteeing their safety."