The convergence of the 007s of Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and China
In recent days, it has been leaked that the 50 pages of agreements between Brazil and Venezuela signed during the Lula-Maduro meeting also include the exchange of 007. Now the Cuban spy instead Fernando González is on an official visit to Lula’s Brazil to meet various authorities, Cuba’s official news agency Prensa Latina confirmed. Yesterday González met with authorities in Belén, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará, including Mayor Edimilson Brito, a member of the Socialism and Freedom Party, and the Rector of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Emmanuel Zagury.
With China, however lula he had signed intelligence deals on his trip in April. Meanwhile, a Russian spy posing as a Brazilian who was captured by the International Criminal Court is now in prison in Brasilia. Lula will have to decide in the coming days whether to send her back to Russia or extradite her to the US on an equal footing with Moscow, which has requested this.
Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Turkey, Maduro’s new “strategic alliances”.
“We are forming strategic alliances with emerging countries, with the new world powers, so that Venezuela shines in the world, so that Venezuela can grow in its investments, so that Venezuela can grow in its real economy,” the president said in an act broadcast by the Democratic Party channel status VTV. maduro, who showed a video summarizing his recent official visits to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, assured that these countries, along with Brazil, are the “most important in terms of emerging economies” where “new powers” have emerged. “And there, in this world, there are Brazil, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, three countries that have expressed their desire and willingness to support Venezuela in everything related to the investments that our country needs, the Technology that our country needs to move forward in a period of economic growth, the development of the real economy,” he said.
Amnesty International is taking emergency measures to help Jose Daniel Ferrer, who has been missing for 82 days
The Cuban political prisoner’s family have not seen him since March 7 and are demanding proof of his existence.
“Democracy in Colombia is in danger,” ex-President Ivan Duque said of Petro’s violent attack on press freedom
In his administration’s worst scandal since allegations by Armando Benedetti, who revealed in an audio recording that $3 billion was poured into the campaign from drug dealers and that what he knows could lead to a new trial of 8,000 people, Petro yesterday said furiously attacked media. “They just searched other Presidency offices. SEMANA (a very reputable weekly newspaper) orders and the prosecution obeys,” he said yesterday amid demonstrations in support of his government’s reforms. Meanwhile, former ambassador to Caracas Benedetti, his ex-wife and children have received death threats and fled to Europe.
The Iranian President on official visits to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua
Iran has close ties with all three countries, but particularly with Nicolás Maduro’s regime, with whom it cooperates on key areas such as defence.
Paolo Manzo, June 9, 2023
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