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The Congress of Peru approves a law that limits crimes against humanity, in defiance of the Court of Justice

The Permanent Commission of the Congress of Peru approved on Thursday, in a second vote, the law that proposes to limit the application and scope of crimes against humanity and war crimes, in open challenge to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH), which asked the Peruvian State to annul it for the prescription it meant for those cases.
The rule was approved with 15 votes in favor, 12 against and no abstentions in a session of the Permanent Commission, which put it as one of the first topics of debate.
The Court of Justice had requested on Tuesday “the State of Peru, through its three Powers, to take the necessary actions so that they are not adopted, revoked or not given effect to Bill No. 6951/2023-CR that provides for the statute of limitations for crimes against humanity perpetrated in Peru.”
He also ordered Peru to submit a complete and detailed report on the fulfillment of his mandate no later than August 9.
The initial proposal was approved on June 7 by the plenary of Congress with 60 votes in favor, but it required this second vote for ratification and, precisely, this court ordered Peru on June 13 to stop its procedure until it issued a resolution on the subject.
The project was proposed by the Fujimori party Fuerza Popular and the ultra-conservative Renovación Popular, a bench made up in part of former heads of the Armed Forces, and aims to prevent anyone from being prosecuted for crimes against humanity or war crimes that occurred before 2002 and, therefore, excludes the period of internal conflict (1980-2000) that left more than 69,000 victims in the country.
The Prime Minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, said on Wednesday that he is “indignant” by the order of the Court of Justice on the bill, until today.
“Indignant, absolutely indignant, by what was resolved by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that decides in the most unusual way, and without any precedent, on a bill that has not even become a law,” Adrianzén said when consulted on the subject.
The prime minister added that “it is intolerable” for the supranational court to call on the three powers (Executive, Legislative and Judicial) “of a sovereign member state,” such as Peru, not to approve or apply a law.
He pointed out that he is promoting a joint pronouncement of the three powers to express “the rejection of this type of provision from supranational justice.”
Human Rights organizations affirm that this initiative will affect access to justice and truth for victims of human rights violations, specifically in the cases of La Cantuta and Barrios Altos, for which former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison.
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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