🇨🇴🔥📹 — Checkmate against Petro in Colombia? In an apparent end of the line for Gustavo Petro, Colombia's National Electoral identifies MASSIVE irregularities in presidential campaign and sanctions Petro.

The National Electoral Council of Colombia has decided to SANCTION the 2022 presidential candidacy of the communist Petro, both in the first and second round.

📝 The plenary session of the National Electoral Council (CNE) determined, with six votes in favor and three against, that the campaign exceeded the financing limits in the first and second rounds by more than 3.5 billion pesos (approximately US$940,000) and received prohibited contributions.

🕵️‍♂️ In this case, the CNE (National Electoral Council) imposed fines on Petro's campaign manager and current president of the state-owned oil company Ecopetrol, Ricardo Roa, as well as on the political parties Colombia Humana and Unión Patriótica (UP).

❗️ According to Art. 109 of the Colombian Constitution, Petro could end losing the Presidency of the Republic.

🇺🇸💥🇻🇪🇻🇪 — In a video call a short while ago with military personnel, Donald Trump said that ground attacks against Venezuelan traffickers will begin “very soon.”

🇫🇷❌🇪🇺 — 2x French Identitarian activists are being prosecuted for insults and public provocation to racial hatred, following the Islamist attack committed by an Illegal migrant, as they shoulted

"Expel the OQTFs (illegal migrants), you bunch of cowards"

Acording to French media, both are now facing 1 year in prison

The prosecution had requested 6 months suspended + citizenship training.

🔗 Dura lex, sed lex (@duralexsl)

🇺🇦 Zelensky corruption scandal: key figures Myndych and Tsukerman flee to Israel; ministers dismissed, Chernyshov jailed. Servant of People demands govt dissolution, Yermak at risk. Zelensky's power visibly shaken for first time.

🔗 Rybar

🇬🇼🪖📝 — Observers report that Major-General Horta Inta-a was sworn in today as the Transitional President of Guinea-Bissau for a period of one year, following yesterday's coup d'état against Embalo, the fifth junta currently in power in West Africa.

🔗 Brant (@BrantPhilip_):

🇪🇺🇻🇪✈️🚫 — European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), is meeting to decide whether to extend the recommendation NOT to fly to Venezuela until the end of January.

🇵🇪🇨🇱💥 — Illegal migrants block the border between Peru and Chile in Tacna

🇪🇺✈️🚫 — Sky News reports that up to 6,000 A320 planes have been hit by a software issue.

Sky's Emma Birchley reports some aircraft will have to be grounded as a precautionary measure, meaning disruption to flights.

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)