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  • Brazil to Support the Entry of Venezuela to the BRICS

    โ€œIt is incredible and inexplicable that one country (the United States) imposes 900 sanctions on another country (Venezuela) just because they don't like it,โ€ Lula stressed.

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    During the press conference held after a private meeting, Lula announced that he supports the admission of Venezuela to the BRICS, an international cooperation forum that includes the world's largest emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

    The Brazilian president also recalled that he criticized the European and American rulers who recognized the opposition politician Juan Guaido as "president in charge of Venezuela."

    Such a recognition was the consequence of a geopolitical "narrative" deliberately built against the South American country and its legitimate government.

    "President Maduro returns to Brazil after 8 years. I have fought with the U.S. For me, it was so absurd that people who defend democracy turn their backs on an elected person with his people. The prejudice against Venezuela is very great."

    "Now, it is in your hands that Venezuela make its own narrative and go back to being a sovereign country where only its people, through a free vote, decide who should govern. Then our adversaries will have to apologize for the havoc they have caused done," Lula told Maduro.

  • Protests in Germany after woman convicted of attacking neo-Nazis

    German police clashed with protesters in at least one city on Wednesday after a woman was convicted of taking part in several attacks on neo-Nazis and members of right-wing extremist groups.

    According to police in Leipzig, around 800 people gathered in the city following the verdict, with ABC News reporting that an unknown number had attempted to break through police barricades. Some also threw projectiles at officers, including stones and fireworks. There were also demonstrations in Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen.

    The 28-year-old woman, identified only as โ€˜Lina E.โ€™ due to Germanyโ€™s strict privacy laws, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison after being convicted by a court in Dresden of membership of a criminal organization and of causing serious bodily harm. Three co-accused men were also handed custodial sentences.

    Prosecutors had accused Lina E. of possessing a โ€œmilitant extreme-left ideologyโ€ and of participating in a string of attacks on prominent members of Germanyโ€™s neo-Nazi scene. The charges against the defendant accused her of six violent attacks between August 2018 and the summer of 2020, which resulted in injuries to 13 people. Two of those attacked received life-threatening injuries.

    In closing comments, the judge who presided over the case said right-wing extremism posed a far greater threat to Germany than any left-wing groups with which Lina E. was associated. He added, though, that Nazis had the same rights as any other citizen in the country, even if their ideologies are abhorrent.