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Machado thanks seven EU countries for their Venezuelan “commitment to democracy”

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal on Sunday for their “commitment to Venezuelan democracy,” after they signed a joint statement asking the electoral authorities to publish all the voting minutes of last Sunday’s presidential elections.
“On behalf of the Venezuelans, I thank you for this important joint statement from the governments of Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Portugal, reaffirming their commitment to democracy in Venezuela,” Machado wrote on social network X.
The former deputy supported the demand that the minutes” presented by the largest anti-chavist coalition, the Democratic United Platform (PUD), be verified as soon as possible, “at the international and independent level, in view of the fact that “the regime did not do so within the deadlines established by law.”
“Likewise, we appreciate the call for an end to the persecution and repression that in recent hours has been cruelly deployed against innocents who are only demanding that the popular sovereignty they exercised last Sunday be respected,” he added.
Machado insisted on the minutes of the voting witnesses in “more than 80% of the tables and available at resultadosconvzla.com, leave no room for doubt. Edmundo González Urrutia is the elected president of Venezuela,” despite the fact that the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed President Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
Chavismo dismisses these documents and does not consider them valid.
On Saturday, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal signed the joint declaration in which they ask “the Venezuelan authorities to publish without delay all the voting minutes in order to guarantee the full transparency and integrity of the electoral process.”
In this initiative, promoted by Italy and France, they expressed “deep concern about the situation in Venezuela after last Sunday’s presidential elections.”
“We call on the Venezuelan authorities to publish all the voting minutes without delay in order to guarantee the full transparency and integrity of the electoral process,” it reads.
On Friday, the CNE offered a second balance of results in which it ratified Maduro’s triumph with 51.95% of the votes, while González Urrutia obtained 43.18% of the support, with the count of 96.87% of the minutes transmitted, which have not yet been published.
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.”
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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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