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Edmundo González Urrutia warns that the Prosecutor’s Office’s summons lacks “guarantees”

The standard-bearer of the majority opposition of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, said that the summons of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) to appear, as part of an investigation for alleged “conspiracy” and other crimes, lacks “guarantees of independence and due process.”

In a video published on social networks, the leader of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic United Platform (PUD) – said that the MP “intends to submit to an interview without specifying in what condition he is expected to appear and pre-qualifying crimes not committed,” although he did not confirm his attendance.

According to the summons, he must appear on Monday at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT), as part of an investigation for the “alleged commission of the crimes of usurpation of functions, forging of a public document, instigation to disobedience of the laws, computer crimes, association for crime and conspiracy.”

González Urrutia, who claims to have won the presidential elections of July 28, despite the fact that the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner, said in the video that the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, “has behaved, repeatedly, like a political accuser,” since he said, “condemns in advance and now promotes a summons without guarantees of independence and due process.”

In his message, the former ambassador urged Maduro to “understand, for a good time, that the solution is not in repression, but in the international, independent and reliable verification of the minutes, which cannot be replaced by a sentence issued outside the Constitution,” referring to the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that validates the re-election of the Chavista.

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The opponent demanded from the authorities, for “peace and well-being of the country,” the publication of the minutes and respect for “the popular will expressed in the elections of July 28 that largely favored the political change that represented” his candidacy.

In addition, he reiterated that the opposition he leads favors “the search for formulas that, with strict submission to popular sovereignty, allow channeling an orderly, peaceful transition with guarantees for all.”

“Venezuela lives hours of uncertainty and unrest, the product of your commitment to violate the will to change,” he added in the video.

The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the website where the opposition coalition claims to have published “83.5% of the minutes” of the presidential elections, which evidence, according to this anti-chavista sector, the triumph of González Urrutia.

 

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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.”

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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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