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The Congress of Brazil postpones the discussion of the project that tightens penalties against abortion

The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil announced that it will debate “without haste” the controversial bill that equates abortion after 22 weeks to homicide, after last week it approved to process it as a matter of urgency.

The president of the Lower House, Arthur Lira, declared at a press conference that the matter will be dealt with “broadly” during the second half of the year, but assured that “the rights already guaranteed” will not be reviewed.

“Nothing will move forward that brings any harm to women,” said the center-right deputy, after the initiative provoked a wave of rejection by feminist organizations and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva himself, who went so far as to call it “madness.”

Likewise, Lira announced that a “representative commission” will be formed to involve the whole of society in the discussion of the project, presented by deputy Sóstenes Cavalcante, an ally of the evangelical churches and the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

In this way, the Lower House backs down and withdraws the urgency that was approved by the conservative majority and that allowed the project to be processed more quickly and reach the plenary of the deputies directly.

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Despite diluting the times, Lira defended that deputies should not “flee the responsibility” of debating any proposal, no matter how “arid” it may be.

The project proposes to equate abortion after 22 weeks with simple homicide even for the victims of a rape, one of the three cases in which Brazilian law allows the termination of pregnancy, along with the risk of death for the mother and the anencephaly of the fetus.

If the measure were approved, the penalties, which range from six to 20 years for simple homicides, would be even higher than those imposed on rapists.

Brazilian bishops supported the “important” initiative last week, while hundreds of women took to the streets of several cities in the country to claim that “a girl is not a mother.”

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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.

“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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