A little less than 48 hours after the attacks by supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro against the presidential palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil is looking for those responsible. ” The police are investigating those who financed the terrorist acts », title O Globowhile on the front page of the newspaper Extrais displayed a huge picture people arrested, gathered under a marquee in the capital, Brasilia. 1,500 people have been arrested since Sunday, specifies Estado de Sao Paulo . Justice is investigating those who financed the trip and the mobilization of the rioters. The number of suspects is not specified, but they come from ten different states in Brazil, according to the federal police.
More surprisingly, the newspaper Estadoexplain that protesters were visibly inspired by the riots in Sri Lanka last July, to motivate the troops and carry out their attack. Telegram channels favorable to former President Jair Bolsonaro had already been sharing publications on the subject since the weekend of Lula’s official inauguration on January 1. But Google searches on the subject spiked significantly on Friday and Saturday, hours before the Brasilia riots. They came in particular from the states that voted the most for Jair Bolsonaro.
That being said, the main source of inspiration for these attacks is obviously the riots of January 6, 2021 in Washington, against the Capitol. ” Instead of being a model of democracy, the United States has taught the rest of the world to reject the election results and to stir up the rage of popular disappointment”regrets an editorialist of the washington postwho nevertheless welcomes the response “ promising of Brazilian institutions in the face of the riots.
17 protesters killed in Peru
Nearly 9,000 demonstrators attempted to invade the airport in the town of Juliaca, near Lake Titicaca in the southeast of the country, on Monday to protest against the dismissal last month of the left-wing former president Pedro Castillo. Faced with stone throwing, the police responded with tear gas, then fired live ammunition. In the end, 17 people were killed on Monday alone, bringing the death toll from the protests that started last month in the country to 39.
“Stop the killing »implores to his “One” La Republica . The popular center-left daily points to the responsibility of the government and Congress. The demonstrators demand the departure of the interim president, Dina Boluarte, the suspension of Parliament and early elections from this year 2023. In its editorial,La Republica denounces regional inequalities, and the historical abandonment of the province where yesterday’s demonstrations took place. A region with a large indigenous Aymara population, often discriminated against.ElComerciospecifies that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights must begin tomorrow, Wednesday, January 11 an observation visit to the countryin response to the invitation of the interim government.
In Haiti, queues to get a passport, hoping to go to the United States
A compact crowd, gathered in front of the counters of the direction of migrations in Port-au-Prince, appears on the sites of the Haitian media. Last week, as a prelude to the opening of the summit of North American countries (which begins this Tuesday, January 10 in Mexico City), Joe Biden announced that 30,000 visas would be issued each year to nationals of Cuba, Venezuela , Nicaragua and Haiti.Le Nouvellistedescribes the overwhelmed security guards, the users tired of waiting in the stifling heat of the office, also exhausted from being transferred from one administration to another to collect all the documents in their file.
In his editorial, the newspaper castigates jokes and mockery of those who have already managed to leave the country, and some of whom are trying to discourage their compatriots from following the same path. “We cannot be the first detractors of the most beautiful of adventures, that which consists in pursuing the dream of a better life.writes Frantz Duval, who refuses to oppose those who remain to those who leave the country. So, “let’s go, if necessary“, he concludes, disillusioned.