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Representatives of more than 40 countries – including China and the United States – participated this Saturday in a summit to make progress towards ending the war in Ukraine.. The meeting, sponsored by Saudi Arabia in Jeddah, has been marked by the absence of Russia, but also by the participation of countries that have not condemned the invasion by Moscow, such as Brazil or India. The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, hopes to be able to get closer to governments that until now have remained neutral in the conflict and reach agreements with the countries punished by the increase in the price of grain after the start of the war. “(The summit) is very important because, on issues like food security, the fate of millions of people in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world depends on how fast the world (participating countries) moves to implement mechanisms to achieve peace”, declared Zelensky hours before the meeting. Dozens of countries have expressed concern about their food security, after Russia canceled the grain agreement negotiated with kyiv and the UN; that allowed a security corridor for the shipment of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

The current summit is a follow-up to Ukraine-hosted talks in Copenhagen in June, which were designed to be an informal meeting to make progress toward creating a dozen principles to end the war.. The Ukrainian formula includes respect for the territorial integrity of the country and the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, including the territories that Moscow has annexed.. Russia, for its part, has previously rejected some principles that kyiv wants to include in the roadmap towards the end of the conflict.. The Kremlin, which is not participating in this weekend's summit, declared that it would “closely follow” the meeting.. “We need to understand what goals are set and what will be discussed,” Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said.

The summit in Jeddah stands out for the attempt to involve a wide variety of countries, especially those governments that have shown more neutral positions since the beginning of the conflict. One of them is China, which has maintained a neutral stance and economic agreements with Moscow and kyiv since the start of the war and has rejected calls and criticism from Western countries to condemn the Russian invasion.. Beijing participates in the summit, with its special envoy for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui. “China is willing to work with the international community to continue to play a constructive role in promoting a political solution to the Ukraine crisis,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said ahead of the summit.. On the other hand, the United States has sent its national security adviser, Jake Sullivan.

For its part, Saudi Arabia has supported the resolutions of the UN Security Council, which denounces the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the unilateral annexation of territories in the east of the country.. However, Riyadh has been criticized by Washington for playing with oil production to drive up prices, at a time of heightened concern over gasoline prices following the imposition of sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.. The Saudi oil production cut, which sought an increase in the price of a barrel, was interpreted as support for Moscow, although Riyadh has called for a balance in its relations with both countries, including inviting Zelensky to a summit of countries in May. arabs.

This weekend's summit is the first major diplomatic meeting organized by Saudi Arabia after the scandal over the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose assassination was allegedly ordered by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, according to international investigations.. In the last year, Riyadh has made a diplomatic turn to be a more competent global player, with meetings with the US and Chinese governments.. It also carried out a rapprochement with Qatar and a ceasefire agreement in Yemen.

Judge Carol Patricia Flores sent the doctor, the anesthesiologist and two nurses to preventive detention, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, for kidnapping and hindering criminal proceedings, accused of the disappearance of Floridalma Roque, a Honduran woman who traveled from New York to Guatemala to undergo a cosmetic surgery operation on June 13 and who, since then, has been missing after never having left the Perfectima Body clinic, located in the wealthy zone 14 of the capital.

They are the doctor and director of the clinic, Kevin Malouf, relative of Antonio Malouf, former Minister of Economy of this Central American country between January 2020 and March 2022, the anesthesiologist Lidia Viviana Silva and the nurses Luis Alberto Castro and Susana Rojas, who were arrested on Friday of last week in the framework of an investigation led by the Femicide Prosecutor's Office.

Floridalma Roque went to the clinic on June 13 to undergo a surgical procedure for facial rejuvenation and liposuction of the arms. She arrived accompanied by a relative who promised to pick her up the next day at ten in the morning when she was discharged, although when she arrived, Dr. Malouf informed her that the woman had already left three hours before leaving. the clinic after requesting a vehicle through the inDrive app. Since then, they have not heard from her and she has not shown any signs of life, so the family filed a complaint with the Public Ministry, which activated an Isabel Claudina Alert, which is in charge of searching for the missing women.

During the judicial hearing, the Femicide prosecutor showed frames in which the nurse Luis Alberto Castro can be seen taking a woman in a wheelchair to a vehicle on June 14, where he got into with his head bandaged and with his clothes on. with which Floridalma arrived at the clinic the day before. Behind that vehicle was another black one, owned by Kevin Malouf, who followed it at all times until in an area of the capital the woman got out of the inDrive and got into the doctor's car.

The judge endorsed the prosecutor's thesis, according to which nurse Susana Rojas impersonated Floridalma Roque, posing as her so that the video surveillance cameras could capture the moment when the patient supposedly left the clinic in a wheelchair and boarded a vehicle. To do this, there are several means of investigation that demonstrate it, such as the fact that the inDrive was requested from the nurse's phone and application, while the signal from her mobile device was also detected in the area where she got on the Kevin Malouf vehicle. Likewise, the doctor's phone signal was also in the same place where the alleged victim got out of the taxi and boarded Malouf's car.

Minutes later, the doctor returned alone to his clinic and, later, the nurse Susana Rojas arrived, who had not been captured by any camera when she left the building where the medical center is located, so everything indicates that It was about the woman who was taken out in a wheelchair and who posed as the patient who has disappeared today.

The judge stressed that, with the investigative means presented by the Prosecutor's Office, it can be established that “until today, the whereabouts of Floridalma Roque are really unknown, for which reason that protected legal right of freedom of locomotion was violated “. Thus, he indicated, “it is not really known what happened to her after arriving for a surgical procedure”, despite the fact that the people imprisoned today declared before the Prosecutor's Office that Mrs. Roque “had left” after sleeping one night in the clinic , after there had been no complications in the operation.

Calls involving the doctor

However, the Prosecutor's Office reproduced an audio of a telephone call from Dr. Malouf to Medical Alert requesting their urgent help, given that, as he informed them, there was a “post-operated” patient who is suffering from “brachycardia of hell. Please, come quickly,” he asked them, although they never arrived, since it is a private health care service to which Malouf was not registered.. Likewise, another audio was played in which the surgeon called the Meykos pharmacy to request the anticoagulant medicine Heparin, although they replied that they only had it in gel, for which he rejected it since he wanted it to be injected.

Another of the means of investigation that the Prosecutor's Office has are some frames in which Dr. Malouf is observed transporting a kind of plastic barrel that reached almost to his waist and that he used to throw away biological waste.. Currently, it is unknown where that barrel is and what it contained inside when the surgeon took it away. In those same images, the nurse Luis Alfredo Castro is seen carrying some bags, the content of which is also unknown.. The judge stressed that right now “we are not judging Roque's death, but rather that said person has not been located after entering the clinic on June 13, so “up to now, the only thing we know is that he may supposedly be deprived of liberty”.

The Prosecutor's Office also showed as a means of investigation the electronic withdrawal of 950,000 quetzales (118,000 euros) by Dr. Malouf, days after a telephone call was intercepted between the sister of the nurse Susana Rojas and her mother in which she warned her of that the surgeon had planned to escape and had offered money to the other three involved to defend themselves and “see what they do” with the problem.

For her part, the doctor's lawyer compared the entire Prosecutor's investigation to a “novel” and revealed that, at the time of the surgery on Floridalma Roque, the anesthesiologist Lidia Viviana Silva suffered severe abdominal pain, a consequence of which the doctor The nurse gave her fentanyl after the operation was over, which kept her sedated until the next day.

He went further by pointing out that Malouf's phone calls to the Meykos pharmacy and Medical Alert were not related to any medical complication of the patient, but to the anesthesiologist's state of health, given that, despite having been injected with fentanyl , “he was grimacing in pain which could have indicated bowel perforation”. This argument fell minutes later when the Prosecutor's Office reproduced the surgeon's call to Medical Alert in which he specified that he had a problem with a 'post-operated' patient, thus ruling out that it was the anesthesiologist.

“This is not a novel”

The judge reminded the lawyer that this “is not a novel issue” and told her that Floridalma's relatives “deserve respect”, because the investigative media “reveal that this person is deprived of his freedom and is very The communication that incriminates Malouf in the sense that he wants to give money” to the other three people involved and that “he is going to leave the country” is important.. From now on, the Prosecutor's Office has two months to investigate and on October 16 the Intermediate Stage Hearing will be held in which the judge will decide whether or not to send the four accused of the disappearance of Floridalma to an oral and public debate.

During the hearing this Friday, the victim's eldest son, José Roque, recalled that the family had not known his mother's whereabouts for 52 “horrible” days: “We know that she entered that clinic and never left.”. For this reason, she said that “it is not possible that these people to whom she entrusted her life disappear and pay us in this way”, so she stressed that she does not want this to go “unpunished”.. Finally, he assured that “in one way or another we want our mother to appear to be able to remedy this pain that we have.”

Floridalma's sister, Ercy Parachico, also spoke, who through tears addressed the nurse and anesthesiologist directly, looking at their faces: “we hope that you who are women and, if you have children and a mother, speak, because we as a family want know where it is.”

One of the family's hypotheses is that the woman died during the surgical intervention, taking into account the background of Dr. Malouf, who is facing two other investigations by the Prosecutor for Crimes Against Life. The first for the crime of culpable homicide after the death of a 25-year-old girl during a cosmetic surgery operation at the same clinic, while the second is for the crime of culpable injuries after performing an aesthetic procedure on a man who reported it. in 2019 for having left a bad leg.

It was August 7, 2022 when the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, took office. A radical turn for the Latin American country before the assumption for the first time of a left-wing government. Almost a year later, the former guerrilla fighter reaches his first anniversary with worn-out popularity and with a scandal starring his own son splashing him full.

Nicolás Petro Burgos, who is also a deputy of the Assembly of the Department of the Atlantic, was arrested last weekend as part of an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office that accused him of illicit enrichment and money laundering. His ex-wife Daysiris Vásquez would also be involved. Since then, Colombia remained expectant before the next steps of justice. On Tuesday the accusation of the judge arrived at a public hearing held in Bogotá. The point is that the president's eldest son would have received money from drug trafficker Samuel Santander Lopesierra, the Marlboro Man, and from Alfonso Hilsaca, the Turk, who in the past was linked to paramilitaries.

The strongest blow for President Petro and, therefore, for Colombia came on Thursday, when Petro Burgos revealed that allegedly illicit money entered his father's electoral campaign.. “Actually, some of said money entered [Nicolás Petro's] coffers and others went to the 2022 presidential campaign in which our current president, Dr. Gustavo Petro Urrego, was elected,” the first prosecutor delegated before the hearing said. the Superior Court of Bogotá, Mario Burgos, according to Efe.

Adding fuel to the fire was the confession revealed by the Vásquez Prosecutor's Office, who in an audio taken from a phone call says: “Here he is stealing, I am stealing and we are all stealing, in case he wants to accuse me of being a thief.”. This forceful phrase corresponds to a conversation with Máximo Noriega, published by Semana -the same Colombian magazine that published in March the audios of Vásquez that triggered the investigation-. Noriega is a friend of Petro Jr. and until recently a candidate for Governor of the Atlantic.

Faced with such revelations, the Colombian president published a statement on Twitter this Friday in which he shows his “pain” for the “alleged irregularities”. To which he added that he trusted justice and that “nothing and no one can stop the fight of a lifetime against all forms of corruption, and the Government will continue its task and commitment for a better Colombia without distractions.”

In said communiqué he points out: “I will continue resolutely with the presidential agenda”. However, Semana magazine pointed out that he would have canceled a trip scheduled for yesterday to Palmar de Varela for a meeting with businessmen.

Prior to said announcement on the social network, on Thursday he pointed out that they are trying to overthrow his Executive and that he will remain in charge until 2026. He also said about the illicit financing and about those who affirm that he knew about it: “If that were true, this president had to leave today, because I am not [Álvaro] Uribe, I am not [Juan Manuel] Santos, I am not [ Iván] Duque, I am not one of those who have passed behind, I come from another way of understanding things, I am not going to criticize, but we come from another sensibility”.

The Colombian political class did not take long to speak out in the face of such a scandal. Among them, one of those mentioned by Petro: former president Álvaro Uribe, who alluded to a case for which he was investigated and said on Twitter: “I must remember that the Supreme Court, the magistrates who deprived me of my freedom, filed the unfair process against me for the alleged Ñeñe Politics. They practiced countless tests. They can review the financing of all my campaigns”. Former presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo described Petro Jr.'s testimony as a “bomb”, which “shakes the foundations of democracy.”

While Colombia, whose society was already polarized by the peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), assimilates all the statements and waits for judicial decisions, the calls for a national march on the next 16 have already started. of August. In the different appeals, the resignation or trial of President Petro is requested. It is not the first time that a part of Colombians has demonstrated against the Colombian president, they already took to the streets on June 20 to protest against some reforms proposed in Congress. For his part, the president of the Investigation and Accusation Commission – the only one that can initiate an impeachment process -, Wadith Manzur, said this Friday that Congress is already investigating Petro for irregularities, reported Efe.

Corruption is one of the persistent ills of Latin America, which was almost entirely dotted by the Odebrecht case.

He is 77 years old, one less than criminal charges against him in three legal processes (for now) that could send him to jail for the rest of his days. And yet, he is the undisputed leader of the Republican Party and is tied with the president

“The first building of the University of Economics and Trade is on fire as a result of the latest attack on Donetsk,” the Russian-controlled city in eastern Ukraine.

There were no people inside the building during the bombardment, in which a hundred firefighters are working, equipped with 12 water tanks and three ladders.

Ukrainian forces used cluster munitions in the shelling that caused the fire, said Alexei Kostrubitsky, the Russian-installed emergencies minister for the region Moscow calls the Donetsk People's Republic.

Ukraine, which received supplies of US cluster munitions last month, has vowed to use them only to clear concentrations of enemy soldiers.

Cluster munitions have been used by both sides in the course of the war in Ukraine, which has lasted 17 months.

Russian forces claimed to have destroyed two drones over the Briansk region, bordering Ukraine and Belarus, which has been the scene of multiple attacks by Ukrainian forces and pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups.

For its part, Russia launched a multi-wave strike overnight against Ukraine, using 70 air assault weapons, including three cruise and hypersonic missiles and Iranian-made drones, the Kiev Air Force said Sunday.

It was not immediately clear if damage was done in the overnight attack or what happened to the 10 cruise missiles that were not shot down and were targeting the Khmelnytskiy region and its Starokostiantyniv military airfield.