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The Government of Peru calls the raid on Boluarte’s home unconstitutional

The Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Peru, Eduardo Arana, said on Saturday that the raiding of the president’s home, Dina Boluarte, and the Government Palace as part of a preliminary fiscal investigation, shows the cracking of the democratic system and constitutionality.

“What they are doing is politicizing and showing that justice has been politicized in a fact that is unprecedentedly attacking the democratic institutionality, the institutionality of the Presidency and, above all, evidencing the break-up of the democratic system and constitutionality,” Arana said along with the president of the Council of Ministers, Gustavo Adrianzén.

Arana explained that more than 20 police officers and 20 prosecutors showed up at Boluarte’s home and at the Government Palace during the raid and that it responds to a “disproportionate, unconstitutional and illegal measure.”

The minister said that there had been improper use of Justice by the Judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office.

Around midnight on Friday, a team of prosecutors and police officers raided Boluarte’s home for five hours, and then, already in the early hours of Saturday, they did the same in the Government Palace, as part of a preliminary investigation opened on March 18 against the president for the alleged commission of the crime of illicit enrichment.

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For his part, Adrianzén, also stated that the raid is “unconstitutional and disproportionate” and denied that the president would resign.

He said that there is no responsibility on the part of the president for the alleged commission of the crimes that are being investigated.

“The political noise that is being made, which affects investments and the whole country, is serious. What has happened in the last few hours are disproportionate and unconstitutional actions,” Adrianzén said shortly before on the social network X.

He added that Boluarte will provide statements to the Prosecutor’s Office when she is summoned and pointed out that the president had asked for a rescheduling and, “strangely, they did not accept it,” but that she continues to collaborate with the investigation.

In addition, he pointed out that the cabinet ministers express their solidarity with the president and “energically reject these destabilizing political actions, which are conseaded in questionable jurisdictional provisions and reaffirm the politicization of justice.”

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He concluded with a call to the political and social forces “to monitor the constitutional order.”

“The president and the cabinet are determined to continue working for economic reactivation and security. That’s the priority. No one has thought of resigning for this disproportionate action,” he said.

The Boluarte house was raided around midnight this Friday by a team of prosecutors and agents of the National Police of Peru (PNP) as part of a preliminary investigation opened against the ruler for the alleged commission of the crime of illicit enrichment.

The prosecutors carried out the operation for the purpose of registration and seizure of the luxury watches that, according to local media, Boluarte used in different public activities and has allegedly not declared as part of his estate.

And five hours later, in the early hours of Saturday, they also raided the Government Palace, where they still remain.

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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.”