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Future Colombian Minister of the Interior: We will explore the future possibility of the Constituent Assembly

The future Minister of the Interior of Colombia, Juan Fernando Cristo, assured on the date, when his appointment was announced, that he will assume the portfolio with the purpose of seeking a national agreement that allows to explore “the possibility” of convening a National Constituent Assembly, an idea of President Gustavo Petro.
Christ, who was Minister of the Interior during the mandate of Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), assured in a statement that one of his fundamental purposes will be “the search for a true national agreement that allows the possibility of convening a National Constituent Assembly under the parameters of the Constitution of ’91 to be explored in the future.”
Thus, next week he will begin to talk to all sectors, such as allies, opposition, high courts, unions, guilds and employers.
The purpose is “to see if we finally achieve a national agreement that eventually can or not – and that will arise from the conversations – end in the Constituent Assembly that would not be convened or elected, it would be a process that begins now and that if we reach a national political agreement it would be elected in the next Government, not in this Government.”
Petro has been outlining in public events the idea of a Constituent Assembly that allows the inclusion of the social reforms proposed by his Government and that are bogged down in Congress.
However, in the latest statements, instead of talking about convening a National Constituent Assembly, he has mentioned that it must be the people themselves who ask for it, as a primary constituent.
Christ himself, a traditional liberal politician who was a senator for 16 years (1998-2014), Minister of the Interior between 2014 and 2017 and delegate of the Government in the peace negotiations with the FARC, had shown himself in statements on his social networks against the Constituent Assembly saying that it is “unfeasible.”
But now it is open to this possibility if there is a national consensus for it and in a future legislature, which would mean that it would not be Petro who would carry it forward.
Christ, who will replace Luis Fernando Velasco, another liberal, led as a minister the Constitutional Reform of Balance of Powers that eliminated presidential re-election and, as a senator, was the author of the Law on Victims and Restitution of Lands. In addition, he led the agenda for implementing the peace agreement with the extinct FARC.
Among its purposes precisely, in addition to seeking the national agreement, will be the implementation of the peace agreement signed in 2016, in addition to “deepening the territorial autonomy of Colombia” and of course promoting the Government’s legislative agenda.
“In the coming days we will meet with all the ministers, those who are coming and the incoming ones, and with the president of the Republic to define the priorities of that legislative agenda, within which there will undoubtedly be the labor reform, the health reform and a new effort to bring forward the statutory law of Education,” said the new Minister of the Interior.
Christ is the last addition to Petro’s cabinet for the second half of his mandate.
Petro also announced in recent days changes in the ministries of Justice, where Néstor Osuna will be replaced by criminal lawyer Ángela María Buitrago; in Agriculture, where Jhenifer Mojica will be replaced by Martha Carvajalino, and in Transport, from which William Camargo leaves and María Constanza García arrives.
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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