The elected president of Venezuela Edmundo González Urrutia had to flee to Spain and is currently in exile in that country after the regime issued an arrest warrant against him for subversion. González Urrutia obtained 67% of the votes in the election day of July 28, against 30% for Nicolás Maduro with 83.5% of the votes verified with published tally sheets, winning in all states (source: resultadosconvzla.com). We reject the arrest warrant, and the fraud intended by the National Electoral Council – CNE of Venezuela, proclaiming Nicolás Maduro as president-elect for a new presidential term and its ratification by the Supreme Court of Justice-TSJ, both without showing the voting minutes or any other support.  EnergiesNet ” Latin America & Caribbean web portal with news and information on Energy, Oil, Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Technology, and Environment.– Contact : Elio Ohep, editor at  EnergiesNet@gmail.com +584142763041-   The elected president of Venezuela Edmundo González Urrutia had to flee to Spain and is currently in exile in that country after the regime issued an arrest warrant against him for subversion. González Urrutia obtained 67% of the votes in the election day of July 28, against 30% for Nicolás Maduro with 83.5% of the votes verified with published tally sheets, winning in all states (source: resultadosconvzla.com). We reject the arrest warrant, and the fraud intended by the National Electoral Council – CNE of Venezuela, proclaiming Nicolás Maduro as president-elect for a new presidential term and its ratification by the Supreme Court of Justice-TSJ, both without showing the voting minutes or any other support.
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Latam Brief: Mexican journalists shot and wounded (December 30, 2023)

Four reporters shot at in front of a military installation in Guerrero.
Gunmen attacked the reporters, who were returning from covering a murder in Chilpancingo. Three were wounded
Four reporters shot at in front of a military installation in Guerrero. Gunmen attacked the reporters, who were returning from covering a murder in Chilpancingo. Three were wounded. The car in which the journalists were traveling when they were attacked, in an image from social networks (El Pais)

Latin America Daily Briefing

Five Mexican journalists were shot and wounded on Tuesday, in the single worst day of violence against the country’s press in more than 10 years, reports the Associated Press.

This week’s shootings come just days after three journalists were abducted and held for days. They were later released, and there was no information on the motive for their abduction.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places on earth for journalists, including war zones. In the past five years alone, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented the killings of at least 54 journalists in Mexico.

(See also El País.)

More Mexico

  • “Mexico has labeled hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on fossil fuel infrastructure at state energy company Pemex and state electricity utility CFE as expenditure to address climate change and promote energy transition over the past decade,” according to a Reuters analysis of documents.

Haiti

  • Many Haitians do want international security support, but “to succeed and be credible among the Haitian population, the MSS mission must adopt specific and clear procedures to prevent human rights violations, particularly exploitation and sexual abuse, and ensure accountability for transgressions,” argues Gedeon Jean in Americas Quarterly.

Regional

  • Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger died yesterday, at age 100. His controversial diplomatic legacy was vast. “He was criticized for his policies in South East Asia and in Latin America, including his responsibility in bombing Vietnam and his support for Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile,” notes El País.

  • “While many hailed Kissinger for his brilliance and broad experience, others branded him a war criminal for his support for anti-communist dictatorships, especially in Latin America. In his latter years, his travels were circumscribed by efforts by other nations to arrest or question him about past U.S. foreign policy,” notes Reuters.

  • His death “brings new global attention to the long paper trail of secret documents recording his policy deliberations, conversations, and directives on many initiatives for which he became famous,” according to the National Security Archive, which compiled a select dossier of declassified records relating to Kissinger’s legacy. “This historical record also documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights and support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad…”

Critter Corner

  • Evolutionary biologists “detailed the courtship rituals of a new species of “sea firefly” — a tiny crustacean no larger than a grain of sand that stages a spectacular underwater display by sneezing up glowing mucus” off the coast of Panama, reports the New York Times.

Jordana Timerman / Latin America Daily Briefing
http://latinamericadailybriefing.blogspot

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