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The Venezuelan Prosecutor rejects the use of the concept of “forced disappearance” instead of “arrest”

The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, rejected on Wednesday the indiscriminate use of the concept of “forced disappearance” when there is an arrest of opponents or activists accused of crimes, in which cases – he assured – the State acts in accordance with the rights.
“I find it disgusting that every time the Venezuelan State acts, the international media that look like public facades of conspiracy plans make the figure of forced disappearance appear,” Saab said, referring to the arrest of Whillfer Piña and Renzo Flores, members of the opposition political organization La Causa R.
On Tuesday, Saab reported that these two members of the opposition political organization Causa R were arrested in the town of Maturín (northeast), for the crimes of conspiracy and threats of slaughter against President Nicolas Maduro
Saab explained that the crimes of the detainees Whillfer José Piña Azuaje and Renzo Estibenz Flores, are part of a chain of acts that began in May 2023 and have lasted over time to the present day.
On the other hand, Saab rejected that international organizations, “instead of defending human rights, intend to protect those who want to attack the country.”
“To those who seem that arresting these subjects for threatening the life of the president is an excessive measure, I remind you of the long history of arrests and convictions in the United States for threats against the different presidents of that country,” said the prosecutor, who recalled the successive attempts to attack Maduro, such as on August 4, 2018, for which drones were used.
The official insisted that the State will continue to defend the country’s peace and will avoid, whenever possible, acts of this nature.
Among the evidence found by the authorities, there is the publication of a threat in the Whatsapp state of Piña, which says that “in Maturín (where the Venezuelan president traveled this Monday) it will be the death of Nicolás Maduro.”
On the phone where the WhatsApp was hosted, seized for analysis, a conversation was discovered between Piña and Renzo Flores. In this, groups of armed hooded men are mentioned to carry out the planned operation with other individuals, whose names do not appear in the text.
The prosecutor detailed that, during the interrogation, Renzo Flores stated that he met Piña about 8 months ago. The latter had mentioned to him a plan that he was organizing with former comrades of the Military Academy. It consisted of recruiting 50 soldiers to take one so
The two subjects will be presented to an anti-terrorism court this Wednesday afternoon, accused of conspiracy, association and attempted assassination.
The arrest and subsequent presentation of Flores and Piña before the courts denies, de facto, that there was a forced disappearance, as stated on Tuesday by the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform and Causa R.
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Trump declares Antifa a “major terrorist organization” following Charlie Kirk’s death

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has designated the anti-fascist movement Antifa as a “major terrorist organization,” describing it as “a dangerous, radical left-wing disaster.”
Trump stated on his Truth Social account that he will also recommend investigating individuals who fund Antifa “in accordance with the highest legal standards.” The announcement follows the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10.
Speaking during an official trip to the United Kingdom, the president said the move aims to protect citizens and emphasized that any violent actions attributed to Antifa will be met with the full force of the law.
In his post, Trump did not clarify the mechanism he would use to enforce the designation. Antifa is a highly decentralized network in the U.S., composed of activists identifying as anarchists, anti-capitalists, or communists, without a defined leadership, making it unclear who or what exactly would be targeted.
Trump has repeatedly accused the network of inciting violence, including riots following George Floyd’s death in 2020 during his first term. He has expressed a desire to classify Antifa as a terrorist group on multiple occasions, though experts and officials have highlighted the legal challenges of sanctioning such a decentralized collective.
Since September 10, the day Kirk was killed in Utah, Trump has publicly blamed the “radical left” for the political violence in the country. Several employees at U.S. companies and universities have been fired or sanctioned for inappropriate comments regarding Kirk’s death, including staff at Nasdaq, Perkins Coie, and a student from Texas State University expelled for reenacting the killing during a vigil.
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Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.
On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.
According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”
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Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’

Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.
“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.
“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.
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