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Mexico gives $110 a month to Venezuelans deported in the face of an agreement with Maduro
The Mexican Government grants 110 dollars a month for six months to Venezuelan migrants returned to their country under social programs before an agreement signed with President Nicolás Maduro, as revealed on Thursday by Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena.
“It is very important, we have just signed an agreement with Venezuela, with the president, Nicolás Maduro, which is called ‘Return to the Homeland’. We are sending Venezuelans back to their country because we really can’t with these amounts,” Bárcena said at the morning government conference.
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs mentioned that the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “has instructed that every migrant” returned to Venezuela “have a support like the one given here” in Mexico, from the Young People Building the Future programs, of professional apprentices, and Sembrando Vida, for peasants.
“So we already have an amount that we are already giving to the migrants who return to Venezuela, we actually give them a card, so that they can join a program,” he said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had already announced in December the resumption of the repatriations of Venezuelans in Mexico with support under these Mexican programs linked to ‘Vuelta a la patria’.
But now, Bárcena detailed that there are agreements with the Venezuelan Companies Polar and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as well as Mexican companies in that country, such as Bimbo and Femsa, to accome returned migrants as apprentices.
“We give them six months of a stipend, it is more or less than 110 dollars a month, which is wonderful for them, and then there is an incentive for them to return, we have already managed to repatriate a very significant amount of Venezuelans,” described the diplomat.
The agreement occurs in the face of the growth of irregular migration through Mexico, which rose by 77.2% in 2023 to exceed 782,000 people, of which the main country of origin was Venezuela, with almost 223,000, an annual increase of 131.81%, according to the statistics of the Government’s Migration Policy Unit.
“We have relations with all governments and in this we try to have cooperation because everyone passes through our territory,” López Obrador defended.
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Geert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
The leader of the Dutch extreme right, Geert Wilders, reached a “provisional” agreement on Wednesday to form a government with three other center-right parties, which he will now send to the Dutch Parliament for debate, although they have not yet agreed on behalf of the candidate for prime minister.
As announced by Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), there is already a “provisional” agreement with the other three center-right parties: the liberal VVD, the Christian Democrat NSC and the BBB farmers’ party, although there are still disagreements about pensions and “the discussion about who will lead that government will be resumed at a later date” because they have not yet decided on this point.
Wilders won the general elections on November 22, but had to resign his aspiration to the position of prime minister to unblock the dialogue with the other parties.
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Diana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, arrived this Wednesday unexpectedly at the headquarters of the Public Ministry to be interrogated by the interim Attorney General, Juan Carlos Villena, as part of the preliminary investigation opened for the crimes of corruption and bribery by the so-called ‘Rolex case’.
Boluarte arrived at the tax headquarters, in the historic center of Lima, at 9:20 a.m. (14.20 GMT) sheltered by a large police security display and entered aboard an official van with dark moons.
As has happened on previous occasions, the ruler is not expected to offer subsequent statements about this interrogation.
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The filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
Iranian filmmaker Mohamad Rasoulof, who fled his country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, will go to the Cannes Film Festival to present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’, his lawyer Babak Paknia told EFE.
“He (Rasoulof) will participate in Cannes,” Paknia said on Wednesday.
Rasoulof will present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’ at the French festival, which is about a judge who deals with the protests unleashed by the death of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini in 2022 after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil well.
Some actors of the film, however, will not be able to attend since the Iranian authorities do not allow them to leave the country, according to Paknia, who also stated that they have opened a new judicial case against the director for the film.
“They have opened a new case for this new film,” said Paknia, who did not explain the charges.
Rasoulof announced two days ago that he had fled his country to Europe after being sentenced to eight years in prison, lashes and the confiscation of property for the crime of “collusion with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country.”
The filmmaker, winner of the Golden Bear of the Berlinale with ‘The Life of Others’ in 2020, a film that deals with the death penalty in the country, has had numerous problems with the country’s authorities and has been sentenced to prison on three occasions.
He was last arrested in July 2022 for criticizing the repression of protests unleashed by the collapse of a building that caused dozens of deaths two years ago and eight months later he was released.
In recent weeks, Iranian courts have multiplied convictions against artists and academics who are critical of the Islamic Republic.
In one of the most noted cases, a revolutionary court sentenced rapper Tomaj Salehi to death for sedition, propaganda against the system and incitement to riots for supporting the protests unleashed by Amini’s death.
In those protests, young Iranians and women called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths and the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which eight demonstrators were executed, one of them in public.
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