Brasilia, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), extended for 60 more days the investigation that hangs today on the activities of Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in the United States.

The Federal Police (PF) requested the moratorium on day 3. In his decision, De Moraes considered the need to continue the investigations and due diligence still pending.

The judge opened the inquiry on May 26 at the request of the Attorney General's Office.

According to Attorney General Paulo Gonet, Bolsonaro's scion could have committed the crimes of coercion, obstruction of investigation and violent abolition of the rule of law.

For Gonet, the lawmaker would be acting from the northern country to unduly influence decisions of the Supreme, especially in cases involving his father.

De Moraes also ordered the PF to monitor and preserve the content posted by the deputy on social networks related to possible crimes.

Eduardo Bolsonaro announced on March 18 that he would take a leave of absence from his mandate and remain in the United States to “seek just punishment” for De Moraes.

When he announced to step aside, he claimed that the magistrate was using his office as an instrument of “blackmail and coercion” and his intention was to fight for justice for those involved in the anti-democratic acts of January 8, 2023 when an uprising was attempted after the electoral victory of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Publicly and repeatedly, Eduardo Bolsonaro stressed that he “will only return to Brazil when Minister Alexandre de Moraes is sanctioned by the United States.”

The statement was backed up by meetings with U.S. legislators.

When he announced to step aside, he stated that the magistrate was using his office as an instrument of “blackmail and coercion” and his intention was to fight for justice for those involved in the anti-democratic acts of January 8, 2023 when an uprising was attempted after the electoral victory of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Publicly and repeatedly, Eduardo Bolsonaro stressed that he “will only return to Brazil when Minister Alexandre de Moraes is sanctioned by the United States.”

The statement was backed up by meetings with U.S. legislators such as Senator Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Representative Cory Mills.

The declared objective of the trip of the congressman is to promote sanctions against De Moraes, whom he accuses of violations to freedom of expression and of acting in an authoritarian manner from the Supreme Court.

Rubio confirmed that his government is considering imposing corrective measures against the STF minister, based on the Global Magnitsky Act, legislation that allows the U.S. Executive to freeze assets, block assets and deny visas to people accused of serious human rights violations or significant corruption.

Such statement was celebrated by Eduardo Bolsonaro on social networks.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump defended Bolsonaro Sr. on digital platforms.

He claimed that Brazil is committing a “horrible act” in its treatment of the ultra-right former president, accused of coup plotting and who is allegedly being persecuted.

The deputy son applauded Trump's assertion and affirmed that “this will not be the only news coming from the United States”.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) China's Prime Minister Li Qiang today praised his country's growing ties with Brazil, calling those relations the “best in its history”.

In a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the Brics summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, Li affirmed that both sides are working together to build a fairer world.

China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Brazil in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the Brics itself and the Group of 20, Li stated.

The premier also pledged that Beijing would work with Brazil to unite the large number of developing countries, promote inclusive economic globalization and equitable and orderly global multipolarization, and inject greater stability and certainty into the world.

Lima, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) A large police contingent today forced the withdrawal of hundreds of informal miners camped in front of the Legislative Palace to demand a law to replace the government decree that bans 50,000 of them.

At the same time, the protest continues with at least six blockades in the southern regions of Ica, Arequipa and Cusco and the northern region of La Libertad, and the leaders of the movement called to intensify the road closures.

According to the official report, there was no violence in the operation to remove the miners who remained there waiting for their request to be attended to and for the first step to be taken, the initial parliamentary approval in the Energy and Mines Congressional Commission.

The legislative working group, however, last night rejected a bill by leftist legislators that proposed to replace the law approved years ago for the formalization of the miners, which was achieved only by a small minority.

The opposition bill proposed to extend once again until the end of 2026 the deadline for formalization, which according to the recent decree will end at the end of the year, and to modify the procedures to make them more viable.

The complexity of the issue includes armed crime in illegal mining areas in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios and the Andean region of Pataz, human trafficking and the use of polluting substances in gold mining.

The social nature of the problem was pointed out by one of the blockaders on the outskirts of the southern town of Ocoña, arguing that expelling from the activity 50 thousand people prevented from formalizing will generate millions of unemployed people who, directly or indirectly, depend on informal mining,

The Vice Minister of Energy, Ronald Ibarra, declared that the 50 thousand excluded have not accredited their presence in the operation zones and only 31 thousand who started the formalization process will be able to work.

For opposition congressmen, such as Guido Bellido, the problem is essentially social, in addition to the fact that hundreds of thousands of hectares of mining concessions are monopolized by large companies, which only exploit 2.5 percent of these territories.

Informal and aresanal miners operate on the idle lands of these concessions, which belong to the State, which has authorized the operations of the large mining companies.

Bellido criticized the Minister of Energy and Mines, Jorge Luis Montero, for ignoring that these lands belong to the State and claiming that miners are invading the properties of formal companies.

Máximo Franco, leader of the National Confederation of Small and Artisanal Mining, stated that the Government should cancel the concession of lands not exploited by the companies and award them to informal and artisanal miners.

Brasilia, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) The Office of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU, Attorney General's Office) of Brazil announced that it is preparing today to act in the case of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Court, summoned again by a U.S. court.

De Moraes was summoned by the District Court of Florida in a lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump's social media company and Rumble, a Canadian digital platform, both of which are banned in the South American giant.

The judge argued in February that Rumble committed “repeated, conscious and willful contempt of court orders” and disobeyed the Brazilian judiciary.

Now, the magistrate has 21 days to respond or he could receive a default judgment from the U.S. court. The AGU indicated in a statement that it is preparing drafts of legal intervention on behalf of Brazil, in case it decides to act at any time.

According to the assessment of U.S. prosecutors assisting the AGU in monitoring the case, the companies should request the subpoena through central authorities responsible for international legal cooperation,

However, to date, there has been no decision from the Florida court, in which the case is being heard, ordering a subpoena to the Supreme Court counsel.

Rumble and Trump Media filed a petition with the Florida court in February, accusing De Moraes of disrespecting the sovereignty of the United States.

The lawsuit, made public on the 19th of that month, alleges that the minister violated U.S. laws by ordering the blocking of the account of blogger Allan dos Santos, a fugitive and the subject of an arrest warrant for spreading disinformation and attacking members of the Supreme Court.

An extradition request filed by Brazil was denied by Washington in March 2023.

On February 9, Rumble received notification of the court decision ordering the blocking of the content creator's profile, under penalty of a daily fine of 50 thousand reais (just over nine thousand dollars) in case of non-compliance.

Invoking the impossibility of complying with this type of order, the company notified the Supreme Court on the 17th that it was waiving its representation in the lawsuits related to the platform.

Trump Media joined the request arguing that it is also affected by the restrictions imposed on Rumble, as the company provides services essential to the operation of Truth Social, the Republican president's social network.

Similar to YouTube, both in functionality and visual aspect, Rumble was created in 2013 and does not use filtering algorithms on published content, going in the opposite direction of social networks that seek to inhibit hate speech and protect rights.

San José, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) The revocation by the United States of the tourist visa of the president of the Legislative Assembly, Rodrigo Arias, is having a great impact on Costa Rican society.

The decision transmitted the day before by Washington, which also implied the cancellation of the document of Constitutional Court judge Paul Rueda, was confirmed by the press office of the Constitutional Court, according to the newspaper Delfino.cr.

Arias, for his part, admitted in a statement that the U.S. decision to withdraw his tourist visa generated “a deep surprise”, and said he did not know “any objective reason that merits it, since all my life I have had a friendly and respectful relationship with the United States”.

The legislative authority set 14:59 (local time) as the time when he was notified by the Embassy in Washington about the cancellation, and expressed his confidence “in getting to know the reasons for this decision, for me incomprehensible”.

The President of the country, Rodrigo Chaves, on his part, described in a press conference as “shameful” that the leader of the Congress and the Vice President, Vanessa Castro, are prevented from entering the northern country.

The new visa revocation extends the list of high-ranking local officials who have been deprived of that right by the United States during the current administration of President Donald Trump, including the brother of the leader of Congress, former President Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The legislative leader is also the fifth Tico deputy to be banned from entering the United States, after Francisco Nicolás Alvarado, Vanessa de Paul Castro, Johana Obando and Cynthia Córdoba, although that right was also invalidated to legislator José Pablo Sibaja, but without a visa.

Others affected by the measure are the auditor of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) Ana Sofía Machuca; the Telecommunications manager of that entity, Luis Diego Abarca; and the former managers Carlos Luis Mecutchen and Jaime Palermo.

Also from that energy agency were affected the head of the Development and Construction Division of the Network, Douglas Eduardo; and the president of the union Internal Front of ICE Workers, Carlos Stradi.

According to Delfino.cr, the U.S. embassy and the Department have so far refrained from offering details on the reasons for the above mentioned revocations, although the official position of that country regarding the omission of individual explanations in these cases is well known.

The news about the visa cancellations on Wednesday arrived when the legislature began the plenary session of the day in Congress, headed by its president, who left the premises after delegating Vice President Vanessa de Paul Castro to lead the debate.