In the headlines: in Brazil, the show of force of the supporters of Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro surrounded by his supporters during the demonstration in Sao Paulo, September 7, 2021 AFP - MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL
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Tense atmosphere Tuesday, a national holiday that looked more like a political rally. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Brazilian president responded to his appeal in major cities across the country. The opposition, although more weakly mobilized, also demonstrated, demanding the departure of a president accused of threatening democracy, of having pitifully managed the Covid-19 crisis, as well as the economy, with almost unemployment. record and a lot of inflation.
In
CNN-Brazil's
footage
, Bolsonaro flies a helicopter over the ministries plaza in Brasilia above a huge crowd who greeted him with the cry of “Mito, Mito”.
If "the Myth" - this is his nickname - is at the lowest in popularity ratings and is given the loser against ex-president Lula in the election of 2022, he is above all engaged in an arm wrestling with the Federal Supreme Court (TSF) which opened several investigations against him, in particular for the dissemination of false information and for his repeated attacks against the electronic voting system in force since 1996 in Brazil.
System that he considers fraudulent without ever providing proof.
In his speeches, Jair Bolsonaro attacked more particularly one of the judges of the TSF, Alexandre de Moraes:
"
Either he is put back in his place, or the Supreme Court will suffer consequences that nobody wants" he declared before concluding during his trip to Sao Paolo: "I want to say to those who want to surrender ineligible: only God will remove me from here
”.
What about the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary?
Immediate reaction of the President of the Supreme Court published by
Globo
: the Court will not bow to threats said Luis Fux, who will speak officially in plenary today.
Mexico: Supreme Court finds unconstitutional criminalization of abortion
A historic decision passed unanimously that will allow Mexicans across the country to voluntarily terminate their pregnancy. It all started with a review of articles of the Penal Code of the state of Coahuila, in the north of the country, explains
Excelsior
, where women who had abortions faced prison terms of up to three years. A sanction therefore deemed unconstitutional by the wise, but which does not legalize abortion qualifies
La Reforma
which recalls that only Oaxaca and Mexico City have totally decriminalized it.
In fact, the decision, which only concerns the State of Coahuila for the moment, creates a precedent, a jurisprudence, which will in fact slow down the inclinations of judges in other States, to prosecute women accused of the offense of abortion since the federal justice will then be able to annul them.
El Financiero
, which publishes photos of pro-abortion activists who took to the streets on Tuesday waving their green scarves to celebrate the news.
As a reminder, 4,600 women are currently being prosecuted for having abortions in Mexico and therefore now have a chance of escaping prison.
Guantanamo: the trial of the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks postponed again
A few days before the commemorations of the attacks in the United States, and after two years of hiatus, the trial of the alleged mastermind of the attacks should have resumed Tuesday at the American base at Guantanamo in Cuba.
After two hours of discussions between jurists, it was postponed until next week for procedural matters.
The
New York Times
reporter
could only see the white hair that had grown on the heads of the five accused in one year (date of their last appearance) who have been waiting to be tried since 2006. “
This new hearing postponement shows how difficult this trial is
”seems to sigh Carol Rosenberg, great specialist for the American newspaper of the detentions at Guantanamo, which she follows for 20 years.
Because when it is not the pandemic, it is the Defense lawyers who postpone the holding of hearings each year, seeking to exclude from the trial key documents suspected of having been obtained under torture.
Not to mention the problems linked to the appointment of the brand new judge, Colonel Mc Call, whose legitimacy to preside is questioned today, which is further delaying the start of the trial.
Venezuela: Alex Saab extradited from Cape Verde to the United States
Colombian businessman Alex Saab, very close to President Nicolas Maduro, will be extradited to the United States from Cape Verde, where he was arrested a little over a year ago.
He is accused by the Americans, but also by Colombia and Mexico of being at the heart of a vast network of money laundering and corruption thanks to his companies in the agri-food and construction industry, closely linked to the Venezuelan government. . The amount of money supposedly laundered: $ 350 million all the same, recalls the Colombian newspaper
L'Opinion
.
According to his lawyers, at the time of his capture, he was on his way to Iran to negotiate humanitarian aid as Venezuela's special envoy.
A quasi-diplomatic status that should have protected him according to them, we can read in
L'Avanguardia
.
Not enough to convince the Constitutional Court of Cape Verde which ruled in favor of his extradition, without any date having been announced.
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