🇦🇷🏴❗️⛓ — The government of President Javier Milei has sent a bill to the Argentine Congress that lowers the age of criminal responsibility to 13 years. The government has also requested urgency in approving the measure, according to a statement from the Ministry of Security.

📝 Currently, the age of criminal responsibility in Argentina is 16 years. According to Bullrich, the goal of the bill is to "protect the Argentine citizen from crime" and "end impunity."

☄️ The bill, named the “Juvenile Penal Regime,” establishes a new penal regime for adolescents between 13 and 18 years old who commit crimes. The penalties can reach up to 20 years in prison, as reported by the Argentine newspaper "La Nación."

"This is an issue that all governments have been pushing aside year after year, and it costs Argentine lives. Populism, the lie of a present state, and the educational catastrophe have left the country unable to protect itself from crime. This bill aims to end impunity.

It is important for young people to have opportunities, but the main opportunity is to live in a community with low crime rates, reducing the number of young offenders. Those who commit crimes must know that if they do, they will have to pay!"

💬 To justify the law, Justice Minister Mariano Libarona argued that times have changed, and consequently, so have young people. He cited the case of the gang rape of a Jewish girl in France, committed by 12 and 13-year-old adolescents, as an example of the severity of the situation.

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🇧🇷🤡🛠 — Lula compares himself to Marx, Lenin, and Fidel Castro and says he wants to “revolutionize Brazil”

➡️ President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) emphasized that the Federal Constitution is the primary resource necessary for a leader to transform the country. Citing philosophers Karl Marx and Lenin, figures often referenced by the radical left, Lula stressed the importance of regulating the rights already provided for in the Constitution.

➡️ It is worth noting that in his 1917 work, The State and Revolution, Vladimir Lenin explicitly mentions the practical application of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” through a violent revolution. Fidel Castro, in turn, adopting a Marxist-Leninist model of development, converted Cuba into a dictatorship of the proletariat under the command of the Communist Party, the first in the Western Hemisphere.

🇧🇷 The event was attended by several ministers and government authorities, including Margareth Menezes, Minister of Culture; Renan Filho and Alexandre Silveira, ministers giving a joint speech; and Jader Filho, who spoke alongside the president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.

🏹 🇷🇺 🏭 Artillery production in Russia.

— At the start of 2022, Russia produced 250,000 rounds of 152mm ammunition annually.
— By early 2023, production increased to 1 million rounds per year.
— For 2024, Russia expects to manufacture 1.325 million rounds of 152mm shells.
— 122mm artillery ammunition production is projected to reach 800,000 rounds in 2024.
— Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) production is growing rapidly:
2023: 33,000 rounds of 122mm Grad rockets
2024: Expected to exceed 500,000 rounds
📎 Source: RUSI analysis, quoting an internal RU MoD report
— Also, a recent CNN report claimed Russia is producing artillery shells at a much faster rate than Ukraine's allies, with the ability to manufacture around 4.5 million 152mm shells this year at a cost of $1,000 per round.
— In contrast, European countries and the US are only expected to produce 1.3 million 155mm shells combined in 2024, at an average cost of $4,000 per unit.

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🇵🇦🤝🇺🇸 Panama's new president vows migration crackdown with assistance from Washington

Panama's new president, Jose Raul Mulino, took office on Monday vowing to curb illegal immigration, with his government quickly signing an agreement with the United States to crack down on migration through the treacherous Darien Gap jungle passage.

In the agreement, signed by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who attended Mulino's inauguration, the United States agreed to "cover" the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panamas-new-president-promises-curb-illegal-migration-boost-economy-2024-07-01/

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🇵🇦José Raúl Mulino sworn in as Panama’s new president

José Raúl Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama’s next president, facing pressure to slow irregular migration through the Darien Gap that connects his country with Colombia.

The 65-year-old former security minister has promised to shut down migration through the jungle-clad and largely lawless border.

🗣“I won’t allow Panama to be an open path for thousands of people who enter our country illegally, supported by an international organization related to drug trafficking and human trafficking,” Mulino said Monday, after he was sworn in. “I understand that there are deep-rooted reasons for migration, but each country has to resolve its problems.”

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was among those who attended his inauguration.

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