- María Corina Machado described it as “absurd” that Petro and Lula continue to ask for the minutes. Polichacao warned about a gang of scamming mechanics. Doctors urge that polio vaccine capacity be increased. And the IMF predicts 3% growth for Venezuela | Photo: EFE
On Tuesday, October 22, opposition leader María Corina Machado described it as “absurd” that the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, continue to ask that the government of Nicolás Maduro publish the minutes of the elections on July 28.
For its part, the Police of the Municipality of Chacao alerted the community about the presence of a gang of mechanics who are dedicated to scamming. While Alejandro Crespo, president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics of Aragua, assured that an increase in investment in polio vaccines is necessary to avoid risks of contagion in the country.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts growth of 3% in 2024 and 2025 for Venezuela, after the 4% recorded in 2023.
The Argentine Prosecutor’s Office assured that the toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy of singer Liam Payne have not yet been concluded.
Below are the most notable news from Tuesday, October 22:
1. María Corina Machado participated in a session of the Colombian Senate and showed the electoral records
Representatives of the opposition leader María Corina Machado showed this Tuesday, October 22, in the Senate of Colombia, the electoral records that give victory to Edmundo González Urrutia as president of Venezuela
The MINUTES reached the Senate of Colombia! pic.twitter.com/ySKhBGIfNs
— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) October 22, 2024
Machado described it as “absurd” that the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, still request that the electoral records of the elections held on July 28 be published.
“There is nothing more to wait, it’s been three months. It is absurd to continue asking the regime to deliver minutes that it is not going to deliver,” said the opposition leader in an interview for the Colombian radio station. Blue Radio on Tuesday, October 22.
Likewise, he highlighted that the opposition has the minutes, that “they are original copies and that the world already knows them.”
“We must understand that this period (of requesting the publication of the minutes) has closed and I can understand the position of Presidents Petro and Lula in the sense of trying to maintain a certain neutrality in order to maintain a dialogue with the regime, But they haven’t even answered the phone,” he added.
The Municipal Police of Chacao alerted on Tuesday, October 22, about a way of working used by criminals who pose as supposed mechanics in the municipality.
According to Luis Gonzalo Fernández, general director of the police agency, the criminals pretend to be pedestrians and one of the individuals warns a driver that the vehicle is supposedly leaking oil or that there is a problem with a wheel.
Once the citizen gets out of the car, the person takes advantage of a moment of distraction to pour oil into the engine or loosen a part. Then, suggest that you know someone you trust or a workshop where they can repair the alleged failure “immediately.”
The victim, under deception, agrees and pays the supposed mechanic for his “help”, which becomes a scam, since the vehicle does not present any problem.
Due to this situation, the authorities have already arrested two men in flagrante delicto, identified as Jean Carlos Veloz Sierra and Ángel Miguel Itriago, who posed as vehicle mechanics to commit fraud in the municipality.
Alejandro Crespo, president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics of Aragua, assured that an increase in investment in polio vaccines is necessary to avoid risks of contagion in the country.
In that sense, he stated that vaccine coverage against the virus in Venezuela is 61%, which is why he recommended that the population take children to health centers to receive the vaccine and increase this coverage to 95%.
We must take our children to be vaccinated at the designated centers as soon as possible, not rushing as an emergency, but in a sustained manner over the following months,” the doctor urged during an interview in Radio Union on October 22.
4. IMF predicts 3% growth in Venezuela in 2024
The IMF announced on Tuesday the 22nd that it foresees a growth of three tenths of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America and the Caribbean for 2024, up to 2.1%, and 2.5% in 2025, two tenths less than in its calculations of July.
In the case of Venezuela, it estimates a growth of 3% in 2024 and 2025, after 4% in 2023
The World Economic Outlook (WEO) report recalls that the region grew 2.2% in 2023 and reflects that the figures expected for this year and next are well below those of the emerging markets as a whole. and developing economies.
Developing countries grew by 4.4% in 2023 and the IMF anticipates that they will grow by 4.2% in 2024 and 2025, which does not change the July forecast in the first case and reduces it by one tenth in the second.
“If we exclude Argentina and Venezuela, which have very idiosyncratic developments, we are actually improving our forecast. Overall, when we think about the region, we think it has weathered the numerous shocks that have affected the world economy,” said the deputy director of the IMF Research Department, Petya Koeva Brooks in an interview with the EFE news agency.
5. 40% of migrant families report having suffered violence in Mexico
40% of migrant families surveyed at the Mexican borders by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC) say they have suffered violence against one of their members during their stay in Mexico, according to the civil organization in a report. statement issued this Tuesday.
The new report published by the association reflects interviews with 817 people located in the cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, and Tapachula, the largest city on the southern border.
According to these testimonies, the violence suffered by families includes extortion, kidnapping, physical assault, gender violence or arbitrary detention and family separation.
Additionally, the IRC interviewed 150 migrants traveling through Mexico or waiting to cross into the United States, from whose testimonies it identified “that the priority needs for people on the move were food, the main concern for 64% of those surveyed.” .
The Argentine prosecutor Andrés Madrea who is investigating the death of Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, received the musician’s father, Geoff Payne, on Tuesday, October 22, to convey the details of the investigation.
The head of the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 14 informed the father of the 31-year-old British musician that the toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy have not yet been completed, the results of which are necessary to define the details of the delivery of the body. .
The prosecutor also let him know that he “has no knowledge” to date of other studies or laboratory analyzes and “nor did he disclose” any type of specific technical report outside the exclusive framework of the investigation and the judicial process corresponding to the case.
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