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Really guys, just click on the link to the full article.
I dare you! 
So do the voters truly believe him?
I guess not.
Things aren't as that great for one of Trump's allies.
MIDDLE EAST
LATIN AMERICA
I guess that corrupt politicians have to help each other in times of crisis.
White House in Crisis
Quote:President Joe Biden fumbled an opportunity to show he isn’t asleep at the wheel in his first address to the nation after Thursday’s damning special counsel report portraying the president as a senile old man.
In a hastily arranged Thursday night address from the White House, Biden confused yet another world leader, referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as “the president of Mexico.”
“I think that, uh,” Biden said before a long pause, continuing, “as you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not wanna open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.”
Biden’s untimely gaffe, made when the president shuffled back to the podium after initially ending the press conference, is the latest in a recent string of mixing up world leaders.
This year, Biden has described recent conversations with foreign leaders who died many years ago, one as far back as 1996.
The address was his first opportunity to showcase his mental capacity to do the job of President of the United States of America after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report released earlier on Thursday referred to the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Hur and his team interviewed the president for several hours last fall. Their report relayed shocking examples of Biden’s “significantly limited” memory.
The report says Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
Really guys, just click on the link to the full article.
I dare you! Quote:President Joe Biden snapped at a reporter who brought up concerns — documented in polling — that Americans harbor about his age after he addressed the nation about the special counsel report finding he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency.”
After delivering brief remarks, Biden began fielding questions from the press, and reporters zoned in on his age and memory. One reporter drew Biden’s ire when she raised concerns about his age.
“Mr. President, for months when you were asked about your age, you would respond with the words, ‘watch me,’” she noted, prompting Biden to say, “watch me,” from the podium.
“Many American people have been watching, and they have expressed concerns about your age,” she followed up.
“That is your judgment! That is your judgment,” the president interjected with his brow furled and finger pointed. “That is not the judgment of the press.”
“They express concerns about your mental acuity, they say that you are too old. Mr. President, in December, you told me, ‘there are many other Democrats who could defeat Donald Trump,’ so why does it have to be you now?” she fired back.
“Because I’m the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States and finish the job I started,” he responded.
So do the voters truly believe him?Quote:A Harvard-Harris poll published in late January found that 63 percent of the 2,346 registered voters sampled had “doubts about his fitness for office,” while nearly 70 percent said he was “showing he is too old” for the presidency.
I guess not.
Quote:Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA) declared President Joe Biden “unfit” for office following his press conference on Thursday, during which he angrily scolded a special counsel for questioning his cognitive abilities.
“The President’s press conference this evening further confirmed on live television what the Special Counsel report outlined. He is not fit to be President,” the speaker declared on X.
President Joe Biden angrily attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur during his press conference on Thursday for mentioning in a recent report that the president had trouble remembering when his son Beau died.
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The report says the investigation “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen” but does not establish guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Yet Hur’s assessment of Biden’s “significantly limited” memory also played a part in his decision not to prosecute.
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“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness
Quote:This week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden would consider gutting the number of deportations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents unless the House and Senate passed billions in funds for DHS to more quickly get border crossers into the U.S. interior and the NGOs that aid the process.
“Because congressional Republicans are choosing partisan politics over our national security and refusing to pass the bipartisan national security agreement that includes significant border reforms and funding, over the coming weeks, ICE will be forced to reduce operations because of budget shortfalls,” Jean-Pierre said on Air Force One:
We have asked Congress for additional funding and resources, and every time Congress has provided less than we asked for, or most recently, completely ignored our supplemental request. [Emphasis added]
Jean-Pierre’s comments came after a bill from Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) went down in flames in the Senate. The bill, among other things, would have funneled countless billions of American taxpayer money to DHS and contracted NGOs to more efficiently get border crossers into American communities.
Specifically, the bill provided $1.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Shelter and Services Program (SSP) and $2.3 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Refugee Entrant and Assistance program.
Both programs are boondoggles for NGOs helping the federal government facilitate illegal immigration into the U.S. interior.
Trials
Quote:Trump’s lawyers reject the accusation that Trump’s actions amount to insurrection and appealed on a host of issues, including whether Section 3 applies to presidential candidates at all, whether it requires Congress to pass a law to consider disqualification, whether states have any right of action to make their own determinations on this issue, and whether Trump was denied due process in Colorado.
It appears clear that Trump is about to win big, likely either 8-1 or even a unanimous 9-0 decision. Such a decision would very likely boost his lead in the polls as the presidential election swings into high gear.
One point several justices appeared to agree with is that the president is not an officer of the United States. That term instead refers to federal officers appointed by a president, not the president himself. Various provisions in the Constitution, like the Appointments Clause, the Commission Clause, and the Impeachment Clause, mention the president separately from “officers of the United States” or an office “under the United States,” and Section 3 should be interpreted consistent with those other provisions.
Justice Clarence Thomas questioned the lawyer representing the Colorado voters seeking to disqualify Trump what historical examples they could point to about state officials or state courts declaring national candidates ineligible on the ballot. That lawyer, Jason Murray, had none.
“I’d like to sort of look at Justice Thomas’s question sort of from the 30,000-foot level. I mean, the whole point of the Fourteenth Amendment was to restrict state power, right?,” Chief Justice John Roberts said as a follow-up, listing various protections in the Fourteenth Amendment. “States shall not abridge [citizens’] immunity, they won’t deprive people of property without due process, they won’t deny equal protection. And on the other hand, it augmented federal power under Section 5. Congress has the power to enforce [the Amendment through legislation].”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have none of it. Referencing a court decision from the year after the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification in 1868, Kavanaugh pushed back:
On your point it that it’s been dormant for 155 years, I think the other side would say the reason for that is Chief Justice Chase’s opinion in 1869 in Griffin’s Case to start, which says that Congress has the authority here, not the states. That’s followed up by the Enforcement Act of 1870, in which Congress acts upon that understanding, which is followed – and there’s no history contrary in that period, as Justice Thomas pointed out – there’s no history contrary in all the years leading up to this of states exercising such authority. I think the reason it’s been dormant is because there’s been a settled understanding that Chief Justice Chase, even if not right in every detail, was essentially right, and the branches of the government have acted under that settled understanding for 155 years. And Congress can change that. And Congress does have [18 U.S.C. § 2383], of course, the Insurrection Act, a criminal statute. But Congress could change it, but they have not, in the 155 years, in relevant respects for what you want here today, at least.
Kavanaugh separately made the point that regarding the insurrection crime referenced in that exchange, Section 2383, Trump has never even been charged with that crime, to say nothing about being convicted under it.
Things aren't as that great for one of Trump's allies.
Quote:A federal judge rejected former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to stay out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Thursday Navarro’s claim that he might succeed on the appeal was not enough of a basis to postpone the four-month prison sentence.
The judge sentenced Navarro to four months in prison last month after the former aide was convicted in September on two counts of contempt of Congress, one for refusing to testify and one for refusing to turn over documents.
Mehta said Navarro must report to his designated Bureau of Prisons facility at a date to be specified by the bureau. If the ruling holds, he would be the first Trump aide to serve prison time for crimes stemming from the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Mehta rejected a host of claims from Navarro, who argued he had “testimonial immunity” because of his position in the White House during the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and that the prosecution was politically biased because of his loyalty to Trump.
“If anything, the record demonstrates just the opposite,” Mehta wrote, noting the absence of political bias in the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Trump aides Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, both of whom were subpoenaed but did not testify before Congress.
Navarro also was unable to convince Mehta that Trump had invoked executive privilege to bar any testimony to Congress.
“After over a year of litigation, Defendant still has not offered what he thinks is required for a proper invocation of executive privilege,” Mehta wrote.
MIDDLE EAST
Iran, Saudi Arabia & South Korea
Quote:Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Vice President Mohammad Eslami announced on Monday that construction has begun on a fourth nuclear reactor in the city of Isfahan.
According to Eslami, the “process of pouring concrete for the foundation of the reactor” is now underway. His office told Iranian state media that, when completed, the ten-megawatt reactor will test fuel, produce industrial radioisotopes, and process pharmaceuticals.
Isfahan currently has three research reactors. Iran has one operational nuclear power plant, a 3,000-megawatt facility in Bushehr. A second reactor using Russian designs has been under construction at Bushehr since late 2019, and a third is planned after that.
Last Thursday, Eslami announced that an entirely new nuclear power complex is planned in the city of Sirik, and it will be more powerful than the existing reactor at Bushehr, with a capacity of about 5,000 megawatts.
“We must reach the production capacity of 20,000 megawatts of nuclear power in the country by the year 2041,” Eslami said, suggesting that at least one more reactor will be planned after Sirik and the Bushehr expansion.
Iran International, a dissident media organization, was highly skeptical of Eslami’s claims on Sunday, pointing out that the price tag for the Sirik reactor would be at least $20 billion — a difficult bill for Iran to pay given international sanctions against its nuclear missile program.
“The difficulties Iran has faced in building new power plants in the last ten years raise doubts about whether the 25,000 megawatts of new electricity that the previous national development plan sought to bring about can be achieved,” Iran International said, noting that Iran claimed it would generate five percent of its power with nuclear and other non-fossil-fuel methods by 2021 but actually managed only one percent.
Iran has always insisted its enthusiasm for enriching uranium is purely for civilian purposes, such as generating electricity and creating medical products. In reality, Iran is spending a fortune on amassing a huge stockpile of uranium enriched far beyond any conceivable civilian need, but just below the level needed for atomic weapons.
Quote:The South Korean Ministry of National Defense on Tuesday announced Saudi Arabia has agreed to purchase a $3.2 billion surface-to-air missile defense system, while China gushed that its weapons “attracted great interest” from the Saudis at a defense show in Riyadh over the weekend.
The Saudis are also making strides with indigenously produced military systems, potentially marking the definitive end of the Kingdom’s dependence upon the United States for defense products.
Saudi arms purchases from the U.S. became politically problematic for two main reasons: criticism of heavy civilian casualties from the Saudi intervention in Yemen’s civil war, and the growing schism between Riyadh and Washington following the election of President Joe Biden. Human rights activists have pressured the U.S. to halt arms sales to protest the Saudi’s human rights record and their conduct in the war in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia remained the largest customer for American military hardware at the close of 2023, ringing up $84.3 billion in purchases. The Saudis have one of the largest defense budgets in the world, ranking behind only the U.S., China, Russia, and India.
The trend away from complete reliance on the U.S. for arms began with Saudi Vision 2030, the roadmap for a post-oil economy devised nearly a decade ago by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who is now the de facto chief executive of the country.
LATIN AMERICA
The Good News
Quote:Reuters noted on Tuesday that Biden’s team is now “cozying up” to Bukele, praising the health of democracy in El Salvador, and even publicly congratulating Bukele on his commanding 85-percent election victory.
For his part, Bukele has backed away from the confrontational stance he took when he felt the Biden administration was trying to push him around. At the nadir of the relationship two years ago, Bukele published a private chat with the top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador, who was angered enough by the revelation that she left the country.
Neither the Biden State Department nor Bukele has entirely abandoned their beefs with each other, however. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s congratulations to Bukele on his reelection included a little jab about the fine work of “electoral observers” to keep the election clean and an even less veiled promise that the U.S. remains focused on “good governance, economic prosperity, fair trial guarantees, and human rights in El Salvador.”
Bukele is beloved in El Salvador, admired across the hemisphere, and yet viewed with deep suspicion by human rights groups because he turned his country from one of the most dangerous in Latin America to one of the safest, by throwing a considerable portion of the population in jail.
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Salvadorans fleeing violence and poverty have migrated to the U.S. for decades, hitting record levels in 2021. Following the gang crackdown that began in March 2022, the number of Salvadorans reaching the U.S. southern border fell, dipping 36% from 2022 to 2023, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Bukele has also implemented measures such as hefty taxes on flights from 57 largely African countries to dampen onward U.S. migration.
Also, while El Salvador clearly wants to maintain good economic relations with the United States and keep hefty foreign aid checks coming, Bukele has made it known that he could turn to Beijing if Washington freezes him out. El Salvador has developed its own brand of Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy,” balancing the U.S. and China against each other, letting each other know that the other is a suitor waiting in the wings.
The Unusual News
Quote:Professional soldiers from Colombia bolster the ranks of volunteers from around the world who have answered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for foreign fighters to join his nation’s war with Russia.
A 32-year-old from the city of Medellín was trying to save a colleague wounded in three days of heavy fighting with Russian forces. Russian drones attacked the group and shrapnel from a grenade dropped by one pierced his jawbone.
Colombia’s military has been fighting drug-trafficking cartels and rebel groups for decades, making its soldiers some of the world’s most experienced.
With a military of 250,000, Colombia has Latin America´s second-largest army, after Brazil´s. More than 10,000 retire each year. And hundreds are heading to fight in Ukraine, where many make four times as much as experienced non-commissioned officers earn in Colombia, or even more.
“Colombia has a large army with highly trained personnel but the pay isn’t great when you compare it to other militaries,” said Andrés Macías of Bogotá’s Externado University, who studies Colombian work for military contractors around the world.
Retired Colombian soldiers began to head overseas in the early 2000s to work for U.S. military contractors protecting infrastructure including oil wells in Iraq. Retired members of Colombia’s military have also been hired as trainers in the United Arab Emirates and joined in Yemen’s battle against Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The Bad News
Quote:Former Chilean president Sebastián Piñera died in a helicopter crash on Tuesday evening as he was traveling to southern Chile with three members of his family, who survived.
Piñera, 74, was the first and so far only center-right president of Chile since its return to democracy at the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, having served two presidential terms from 2010 to 2014 and 2018 to 2022.
The former Chilean president was reportedly piloting the crashed helicopter, having taken off from the home of Chilean businessman José Cox on Tuesday afternoon after sharing a meal. Piñera was accompanied by his sister Magdalena, his son-in-law Ignacio Guerrero, and Guerrero’s son.
Initial reports indicate that the helicopter took off in rainy and foggy weather conditions, which caused it to crash in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco minutes later. Piñera was reportedly unable to unbuckle his seatbelt and sank with the helicopter. The three survivors were able to swim to the shore, where they were rescued and aided by local security and members of the Emergency Medical Attention Service (SAMU). Piñera’s body was recovered from the depths of the lake and transported in a Chilean Navy boat.
Local media reported on Wednesday morning that according to Magdalena Piñera, who survived the crash, the former president’s last words were, “you jump first, because if I jump with you, the helicopter will fall on all of us,” as he maneuvered the helicopter in an attempt to save their lives.
Magdalena Piñera described her brother as a “great man, a very generous and very brave man.”
Quote:The government of Chile declared a state of emergency after more than 100 fires erupted that have so far claimed the lives of 122 people and ravaged thousands of homes in the central region of Valparaíso.
While some media outlets have reported that the fires are the result of an ongoing heat wave and drought, Chilean government authorities are reportedly investigating the possibility that someone started at least some of the devastating and unprecedented wildfires intentionally. Authorities announced the arrests of two individuals allegedly related to the fires on Monday morning.
Officials with Chile’s National Defense announced they had detained at least two individuals suspected of having started fires near the Viña del Mar botanical garden, which was completely destroyed. The individuals have not been identified in public at press time, nor have the specific charges leading to the reported arrests.
The arrest of the two suspects comes hours after the superintendent of the Valparaíso Fire Department, Juan Paredes Brante, asserted that some of the presumed wildfires may have been intentionally caused:
Even if we have the best intent, as the commander of the Valparaíso firefighter corps said, while they managed to advance in the Salto de Agua emergency, they saw when another fire was being started with accelerant liquids in the southern part of the Laguna de la Luz sector. This is real, this was affirmative. Even if we work well, we are seeing that it keeps burning behind our backs.
“From the experience in Salto del Agua, yes. This is totally intentional, that is a reality that we must face, and especially because sectors have been burned that did not have to be burned,” Paredes Brante said.
Quote:Venezuelan opposition leader and banned frontrunner in the yet-to-be-scheduled presidential election against dictator Nicolás Maduro, María Corina Machado, announced that a mob of socialists attacked her campaign event on Wednesday, beating her supporters “with sticks and stones.”
“More than 100 regime colectivos attacked with sticks and stones and injured numerous attendees,” Machado wrote in a message on Twitter. “The police present, through their inaction, abetted the armed colectivos.”
The term colectivo is used in Venezuela to mean socialist regime-linked armed thugs who have waged campaigns of terror against known dissidents through street beatings, extrajudicial killings, and other violence since the time of late dictator Hugo Chávez. The colectivos, unlike the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), are not official arms of the Maduro regime and thus offer some distance between the dictator and his oppressive forces.
The presidential candidate published a video in which a mob was hurling rocks at a vehicle, cracking its windows, as visible from within. She also released a video of a man dressed in a Vente Venezuela shirt covered in blood, apparently suffering from a head wound that bled onto his neck and shirt.
Vente Venezuela is Machado’s center-right political party.
Other videos that Vente Venezuela shared from the event, which occurred in the Venezuelan state of Miranda, showed a throng attacking the outside of the rally venue.
Quote:Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to hand over his passport – effectively trapping him in the country – as part of a broad probe into an alleged “coup” plot following Bolsonaro’s defeat in the 2022 presidential election.
The measure is part of a broad operation known as Operação Tempus Veritatis (“Operation Time of Truth”). Police reportedly seized Bolsonaro’s passport from his office located at the headquarters of the Liberal Party (PL) in Brasília on Thursday noon local time.
The court order demanding Bolsonaro hand over his passport was issued by (STF) Minister and “anti-fake news crusader” Alexandre de Moraes. The operation claims to dismantle a purported “criminal organization” acting to keep Bolsonaro in power through a coup following his defeat in the October 2022 election.
According to de Moraes’ court order, Bolsonaro and his allies, after the results of 2022’s election, allegedly prepared a “coup” through a purported decree that contained provisions for the arrest of de Moraes alongside other STF members and other local authorities, as well as the immediate call for a new election.
The court order also reportedly stated that Bolsonaro and his allies were actively monitoring de Moraes himself and that Bolsonaro personally decided to arrest the STF minister before calling for new elections.
The probe’s large operation saw officials from the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) conduct 33 search and seizure warrants on Thursday morning, as well as four preventive arrest warrants and 48 different precautionary measures.
The list of targets, led by Bolsonaro, includes some of his former ministers and military officials, as well as former advisers during his presidency. The precautionary measures reportedly include the prohibition of those targeted from maintaining contact with one another, a ban on leaving Brazil, and the suspension of the exercise of public functions.
Quote:Recently, Costa Rica faced a serious water contamination crisis affecting various sectors of San José, prompting decisive action from authorities. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed the initiation of an investigation file in response to the escalating situation.
Led by the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), the probe has yet to pinpoint any suspects in connection with the contamination, which has sent shockwaves across affected communities.
The crisis unfolded on Monday, January 22, with residents reporting an unusual smell and taste of gasoline in areas including Moravia, Goicoechea, and Tibás. The issue quickly spread to districts in Montes de Oca and the central canton of San José, alarming authorities, and residents alike.
Despite initial ambiguity, the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) eventually confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in low concentrations, issuing warnings against water usage and consumption.
In response to the risks posed by the contaminated water supply, authorities initiated a distribution process via cisterns while intensifying efforts to clean affected tanks. However, these measures yielded little success, exacerbating frustration among impacted residents. Subsequently, authorities opted to interconnect alternative water supply points in a bid to mitigate the crisis.
Amid growing uncertainty, questions regarding the nature of the contaminant loomed large. While early studies dismissed the presence of xylene, subsequent intervention by the University of Costa Rica (UCR) confirmed its involvement in the contamination.
Prosecutor Luis Diego Hernandez emphasized the need for a thorough investigation in light of these developments. “The case was opened following sampling conducted by Acueductos y Alcantarillados and public universities, which identified the substance as xylene,” he stated.
Hernandez underscored the versatile nature of xylene, highlighting its use in various industries and its potential ties to the drug market, including in the production of fentanyl.
Crucially, investigators are working to determine whether the contamination resulted from a direct or indirect spillage. “Current indications suggest that the contamination affected surface water rather than groundwater, indicating a discharge prior to the water’s entry into the treatment plant,” Hernandez explained.
Meanwhile, the Costa Rican Drug Institute (ICD) initially refuted any association between xylene and fentanyl. However, subsequent verification revealed regulatory measures surrounding the substance’s commercialization, raising questions about its legality.
Daniel Ortega is Back with Some Terrible News
Quote:Seven organizations were canceled for “non-compliance” in their financial reports, and their assets will pass to the State, and eight for “voluntary dissolution of members,” according to two resolutions published in the official newspaper La Gaceta.
A resolution by the Ministry of the Interior shut down seven bodies that “did not report their Financial Statements for periods of between 02 to 11 years in accordance with fiscal periods, with detailed breakdowns of income and expenses, balance sheets, details of donations (origin, source and end beneficiary) and Board of Directors.”
These NGOs were left “in breach of their obligations, in accordance with the Laws that regulate them, and hindering the control and supervision of the General Directorate of Registry and Control of Non-Profit Organizations,” the publication said.
Nicaragua tightened laws following protests against President Daniel Ortega’s government in 2018, which left over 300 dead in three months of street blocks and clashes between opponents and supporters, according to the UN.
Ortega’s government, which considered the protests an attempted coup promoted by Washington, claimed some NGOs financed them.
The closed Evangelical organizations include the Evangelical Mission Association “Cristo Viene” of Nicaragua, the Centro Misionero Esperanza de Dios Church Association and the Sicar Evangelical Church Association.
The legal statuses of Viviendas León NGO, Sonati-Nicaragua Association and Global Partnerships were also canceled, as well as the Rescatando Huellas Foundation, dedicated to the care and shelter of dogs and cats.
The movable and immovable assets of those seven associations will be transferred to the State, according to the legislation governing non-profit organizations, the Interior Ministry said.
Quote:Nicaragua granted asylum this Wednesday to former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli, days after he lost the last appeal to overturn an almost 11-year prison sentence for money laundering.
Martinelli “requested asylum at the Embassy of the Republic of Nicaragua in Panama, considering himself persecuted for political reasons and at risk,” reads a note sent by Managua’s foreign ministry to Panama, adding that President Daniel Ortega’s government decided to grant it.
The note, read in Managua to the press by the vice president and Ortega’s wife, Rosario Murillo, asks Panamanian authorities “to provide assurances for the prompt departure and humanitarian transfer of asylum seeker Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal to the territory of the Republic of Nicaragua”.
The right-wing former president (2009-2014) had started his campaign for the May 5 presidential election last Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court published the ruling rejecting his last legal appeal to overturn the prison sentence.
Managua has granted asylum to other Central American former presidents and senior officials facing legal troubles, including former Salvadoran leftist presidents Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) and Salvador Sánchez Cerén (2014-2019).
After the Supreme Court ruling, the Electoral Tribunal must formalize his disqualification from the presidential race. Martinelli’s conviction was to become final this Friday, allowing Panamanian authorities to order his arrest.
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