Brazil refuses to sell tank ammo for Ukraine Leopards – media. + West escalates more and More AND MORE Death and Destruction

from thefreeonline by Major Censored News Agency on 28 Jan, 2023 20:21

Lula da Silva had previously said that Kiev deserves some blame for the current conflict

Lula da Silva points during a meeting with governors and leaders

Brazilian President Lula da Silva shot down an offer to sell tank ammunition to Germany for use in Ukraine, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Friday. A vocal critic of the West’s policy toward Ukraine, Lula has striven to remain neutral on its conflict with Russia.

The president allegedly rejected the request at a meeting with Brazilian defense chiefs and Defense MInister Jose Mucio last week.

According to the paper’s sources, since-dismissed army commander Julio Cesar de Arruda told Lula that Germany wished to purchase just under $5 million worth of shells for its Leopard 1 tanks.

Lula reportedly considered asking Berlin to guarantee that it would not send the ammunition to Ukraine, but ultimately declined the offer, “arguing that it was not worth provoking the Russians,” as Folha de Sao Paulo put it.

Less than a week later, Germany formally announced that it would donate a company-sized force of Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, and would allow other countries operating the tanks to transfer them to Kiev.

It is unclear whether the ammunition referenced by Folha is compatible with both generations of Leopard tank.

Like his right-wing predecessor, the left-wing Lula has taken a neutral position on the conflict in Ukraine. While Jair Bolsonaro’s government formally condemned Moscow at the UN General Assembly over its military operation, neither president has imposed sanctions on Russia, and each has partially blamed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for the outbreak of hostilities.

GENOCIDE: Over 570 Yanomami children under age of 5 died in the past 4 yrs from preventable diseases directly linked to illegal gold mining!

The Brazil/Venezuela border has been dominated by illegal gold mining for decades and a substantial part of Yanomami blood gold transits through Venezuela and filters into the global gold supply chain, declared with false documents as “legally sourced” gold!

from thefreeonline on 28th Jan 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro at Rainforest Art Project

“More than a humanitarian crisis, what I saw in Roraima was a genocide. A premeditated crime against the Yanomami, committed by a government impervious to the suffering of the Brazilian people,” newly-elected President Lula said the day after visiting a health clinic crowded with Yanomami patients in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima’s state.

He accused his predecessor, Bolsonaro, of encouraging the tens of thousands of wildcat gold miners who invaded Yanomami Lands during Bolsonaro’s 2019-2022 term and ignoring Indigenous communities’ repeated appeals for help.

PERU. Puppet Government Rewards police with bonus for Repressive action and Killings

translation from thefreeonline on 28th January 2023 by insurgente.or

PERÚ. El gobierno títere premia con un bono a la policía por su acción represiva y asesinatos

In the midst of the questioning of the brutal repression, the government decided to reward the police with an economic bonus.

The amount was not announced. It was reported by the head of the ministerial cabinet, Alberto Otárola, upon leaving a meeting with the president of Congress, José Williams, a retired general accused of human rights violations. The meeting was at the Legislative headquarters.

Disparando al cuerpo hoy en el centro de lima . pic.twitter.com/vKAlwgI1dS
— Paloma 🌳 (@palomaduarte26) January 21, 2023

The joint presentation of both before the press was an apology for the repression and they did not accept questions.

With a disastrous death toll from shots fired by security forces, hundreds injured, beatings and arbitrary arrests, Otárola and Williams coincided in praising the behavior of the police, calling it “very professional” and even “heroic”.

“We will request a loan to grant a special bonus for the heroic police,” declared Otárola, the most visible face of government authoritarianism.

“They have it well earned,” said the former military accused of the massacre of 69 peasants who is now president of Congress.

from La Jornada

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PERÚ. El gobierno títere premia con un bono a la policía por su acción represiva y asesinatos

27 enero 2023

in AMÉRICA

En medio de los cuestionamientos a la brutal represión, el gobierno decidió premiar a los policías con un bono económico.

USA tries to prevent a Russian offensive in Ukraine by offering a sort of war endgame deal with Russia

**The war party in Washington has floated possible terms of concession to Russia’s security objectives explicitly and directly, without the Ukrainians or its NATO vassals in the way.**

from thefreeobline on 28th January 2023 by John Helmer at johnhelmer.org/ via Antinuclear.net

BLINKEN CONCEDES WAR IS LOST – OFFERS KREMLIN UKRAINIAN DEMILITARIZATION; CRIMEA, DONBASS, ZAPOROZHYE; AND RESTRICTION OF NEW TANKS TO WESTERN UKRAINE IF THERE IS NO RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE

David Ignatius, a mouthpiece for the US State Department has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convey this urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council, and the General Staff in Moscow.

The terms Blinken has told Ignatius to print appeared in the January 25 edition of the Washington Post. The paywall can be avoided by reading on here.

The territorial concessions Blinken is tabling include Crimea, the Donbass, and the Zaporozhye, Kherson “land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia”. West of the Dnieper River, north around Kharkov, and south around Odessa and Nikolaev, Blinken has tabled for the first time US acceptance of “a demilitarized status” for the Ukraine.

Also, US agreement to restrict the deployment of HIMARS, US and NATO infantry fighting vehicles, and the Abrams and Leopard tanks to a point in western Ukraine from which they can “manoeuvre…as a deterrent against future Russian attacks.”

This is an offer for a tradeoff – partition through a demilitarized zone (DMZ) in the east of the Ukraine in exchange for a halt to the planned Russian offensive destroying the fortifications, rail hubs, troop cantonments, and airfields in the west, between the Polish and Romanian borders, Kiev and Lvov, and an outcome Blinken proposes for both sides to call “a just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity”.

Massacre in Peru: ‘Democracy’ at War against the Peoples – Raúl Zibechi

spring, summer, autumn, winter and massacre.”
Manuel Scorza

from thefreeonline on January 27, 2023 by Raúl Zibechi and MaryAnn Tenuto-Sanchez by Chiapas-Support

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On January 4, a regional strike began in the country’s south, which had been interrupted in December by the Christmas holidays. More than 60 road blocks (especially in Cusco, Apurimac, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Puno), demanding elections in 2023 and the resignation of Congress, which has only 8% support in the population.

The result was 17 deaths, adding up to a total of 48 killed since Pedro Castillo’s former vice president, Dina Boluarte, assumed the presidency.

On January 9, tens of thousands of Aymara community members entered the city of Juliaca, the largest in the department of Puno, in a peaceful demonstration that was repressed from helicopters with tear gas and from the ground by police who fired bullets that exploded in bodies (https://bit.ly/3GBlOw2 ).

In addition, police fired gas at nurses and medical personnel who attempted to treat the wounded, beat doctors and firefighters and according to some reports stole medicines.

Almost all the deaths happened in three hours, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., according to detailed accounts by the newspaper La República.

To the dead must be added around 300 wounded, including children and journalists, especially in the regions of the Quechua and Aymara peoples of Apurímac, Ayacucho, Puno and Arequipa.

These are the crimes of Peruvian democracy, of a political caste that has always governed the country from a racist State “whose decomposition Fujimorism initiated, continued with the other governments, parties and businessmen corrupted by Odebrecht, and that today murder to continue in the distribution of power,” as a statement from social organizations points out.

These are crimes endorsed by a parliament that is corrupt to the core. Proof of this is that the plenary session of Congress shielded, on the same day, the parliamentarian Freddy Díaz who is investigated by the Public Ministry for the sexual rape of a Legislative worker in his own office (https://bit.ly/3X0mJ08).

Hours later, the same Congress gave a vote of confidence to a government that carries more than 40 deaths on its back and when the Prosecutor’s Office is beginning to investigate the president, the prime minister and the ministers of Interior and Defense, for “crimes of genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries committed during the demonstrations of the months of December 2022 and January 2023 in the regions of Apurimac, La Libertad, Puno, Junín, Arequipa and Ayacucho” (https://bit.ly/3CBFUVW).