Latin America
“Is Palestine a country? Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here,” said Jair Bolsonaro, who won his national election on Sunday with 55.1 percent of the votes. “You do not negotiate with terrorists.”
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has stated that he will move Brazil’s Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and that his first international trip as president will be to Israel.
Junk cleaned from the water will be turned into an art installation dedicated to “reducing consumption of single use plastic in all forms, including plastic cups, straws, bags and bottles.”
Investigations from the United States, Israel and Colombia have linked, through several financial transactions, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s alleged accomplice Alex Saab to Hezbollah.
Congratulating Benitez on Wednesday on his new role, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence “strongly encouraged” him to “follow through with Paraguay’s previous commitment to move the embassy as a sign of the historic relationship the country has maintained with both Israel and the United States,” according to a White House statement.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez to reconsider the decision to undo his predecessor’s move.
“Israel views with utmost gravity the extraordinary decision by Paraguay, which will cloud bilateral relations,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Anti-Israel activists organize protests outside concert venues in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. In Santiago, BDS members put up posters of conductor Yeruham Scharovsky spattered in blood.
The South American nation is under fire for not responding to a poster showing blood dripping from the conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
“This gratuitous gesture, which does not advance peace one iota, is simply stunning for a Colombian leader who expanded ties to Israel and the U.S., and is a Nobel Peace Laureate,” said AJC CEO David Harris.
Argentine police arrest 14 Lebanese nationals operating in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay on suspicion of counterfeiting, arms trafficking and terror financing • $10 million in assets seized • Suspects linked to the Iranian-backed group.
The AMIA bombing—the deadliest in Argentine history—killed 85 people and injured hundreds more. It remains unsolved, the investigation mired in scandal and cover-up.
