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Trial of former president Fujimori for massacre begins in Peru

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December 19 |

The trial against former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, his former advisor Vladimiro Montesinos and 21 others investigated for the crime of aggravated homicide in the Pativilca massacre case began this Monday, according to local judicial sources.

According to the information, the hearing will be in charge of the Fourth National Superior Criminal Court.

At the beginning of the trial, Public Prosecutor Elsa Delgado Pérez stated that former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) implemented an anti-terrorist policy that consisted of “eliminating presumed terrorist elements” through operations carried out by the Colina undercover detachment.

The Public Prosecutor explained that Fujimori developed this national policy with the issuance of new laws and the organization of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), through which he ordered special intelligence operations related to the fight against terrorism in the country.

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“One of those operations was carried out by the Colina detachment,” which “assassinated six residents” of Pativilca, north of Lima, on Jan. 29, 1992, and proposed the appointment of trusted personnel in those entities of the Armed Forces, Delgado said.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s accusation, Colina is the undercover military group that was also responsible for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, for which Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009, but now the former president is following this trial in freedom, after his pardon was reinstated this year.

However, the Public Prosecutor’s Office previously requested the preliminary detention of the former president and a new sentence of 25 years in prison, considering that crimes against humanity have been committed.

The former president was remotely connected to the hearing from his daughter Keiko’s house in Lima, accompanied by his lawyer, and his former intelligence advisor Vladimiro Montesinos was also connected from the Callao Naval Base, former military chiefs and the former members of Colina from the prisons where they are being held for having sentences in force, all of whom are involved in this trial for homicide, murder and forced disappearance.

In the case of Montesinos, the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office affirmed that he was the “de facto head of the SIN”, since he shared control of this entity with its director, Julio Salazar Monroe, and was in charge of designing “a policy of eliminating presumed terrorist elements”.

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He was the one “in charge of implementing the illegal fight against terrorism, through these illegal operations,” orders that were carried out by the Colina detachment, he specified.

“He ordered, with Alberto Fujimori’s knowledge and consent, that Colina carry out this intelligence operation aimed at eliminating alleged terrorist elements,” said Delgado in his accusation against the defendants.

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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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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.

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