Yanomami Land
Illegal miners operating in the Yanomami Indigenous Land began to flee the territory after the start of repression actions against clandestine activity. Last Wednesday (1st), the Brazilian Air Force began controlling airspace and using aircraft with super-powerful radars. (G1)
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Videos circulating on social media show men and women in groups leaving the region walking through the forest and rivers, in crowded boats.
China's response
The United States this weekend shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it said was spying on important military sites. The Department of Defense confirmed that its fighter jets shot down the balloon over US territorial waters. Afterwards, the Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed “strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US use of force to attack unmanned civilian aircraft.” (G1)
Pope Francis' trip
Pope Francis left South Sudan on Sunday morning for Rome, ending his 40th International Apostolic Journey. The motto of the visit to the country was “That they may all be one”, taken from the Gospel of John, chapter 17. The hope experienced in these days in South Sudanese lands with the presence of the three religious leaders was to help definitively seal the agreement of peace in the country, officially born on July 9, 2011, after the separation from Sudan. (Vatican News)
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Cassation in Santa Catarina
The Municipal Council of São Miguel do Oeste (SC) punished councilor Maria Tereza Capra with the loss of her mandate for breach of decorum after calling a greeting gesture by a group of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro a “Nazi salute” in a video from November last year. (Gazeta do Povo)
The councilor's lawyer, Sérgio Graziano, said that the process is political persecution. “I have never seen such injustice” in 31 years of operation, he commented. The president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann, insisted on the lawyer's thesis in a post on Twitter: “She suffered political persecution and was impeached for questionair Nazi salute made by Bolsonaristas”. Gleisi adds that the “PT will appeal against this nonsense”.
Big tech crisis
It is not new that the technology sector has difficulty recruiting employees taking diversity into account. But the latest wave of cuts at Silicon Valley companies has hit women and Latinos hardest.
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An analysis of data from the website Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs in the sector, reveals that women represented around 39% of the workforce, but 46% of all layoffs since September. Workers of Hispanic origin were also more likely to be among those laid off than among employees retained. (Estadão) 🚥
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