International
The Prosecutor’s Office asks to prevent Peru’s departure from the suspended attorney general Patricia Benavides

The Prosecutor’s Office of Peru sued before a supreme court the impediment of leaving the country for the suspended attorney general, Patricia Benavides, investigated for allegedly leading a network of influence trafficking.
The request presented by the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Crimes Committed by Public Officials before the Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation is based on a procedural danger due to the probable belonging to the criminal organization of the investigated, backed by “numerous elements of conviction,” the Public Prosecutor’s Office said in its social network X account.
This request from the Prosecutor’s Office is known after a team of anti-corruption prosecutors arrested seven people and intervened 21 properties in Lima. The above as part of the investigation of the alleged corrupt network in the Prosecutor’s Office for which Benavides has been suspended from charge.
The Public Ministry reported that the operation was carried out by the Special Team of Prosecutors against Corruption in Power (Eficcop). It had the support of 23 prosecutors and more than 100 police officers.
The operation began at 03:40 am (08:40 GMT) and resulted in the preliminary arrest of seven people for the alleged commission of the crimes of criminal organization, aggravated collusion, influence peddling and others, in addition to 21 raided homes.
The intervention is carried out within the framework of the investigations by prosecutor Christian Niño Torres, against Jaime Villanueva, Miguel Girao, José Luis Castillo and others who, according to official information, have been linked to Benavides.
Benavides described the operation as a “coarse maneuver” made to “force” his dismissal.
“I reject the crude maneuver, evidently agreed to set up a psychosocial with prosecutors and police to impress the authorities and public opinion and thus force the unjust dismissal,” he said in a video shared on social networks of his lawyer Jorge Del Castillo.
At the end of November, the National Board of Justice (JNJ) opened a lawsuit in Benavides. For the investigation that Eficcop follows him following the complaint of an alleged influence trafficking network in the Prosecutor’s Office.
Benavides, who was suspended from office for six months, said that he is a victim of “an arbitrariness” motivated “by political interests.”
International
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.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

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.”
International
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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