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Lula holds first meeting with ministers; find out more at Curto Flash

Friday was eventful for members of the new government. Lula met with his 37 ministers for the first time. Find out more at Curto Flash, our selection of the main headlines of the moment.

First ministerial meeting

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met, this Friday (6), with his 37 ministers for the first time. “We are not a single-minded government,” said Lula, demanding that his collaborators strive to come up with converging ideas for the “reconstruction of this country” after Bolsonaro’s “authoritarian government.”

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Lula too promeYou treat your ministers as if you were “a mother”: “with a lot of respect, a lot of education and demanding a lot of work from each one of you”. (AFP)

Secrecy expired

Lula government technicians mapped information that was classified as confidential and that should already be available to the public, but is not. The Armed Forces, Federal Police (PF) and Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), according to the survey, have at least 70 requests for access to documents whose confidentiality has already expired. (G1)

The classified documents deal with topics such as the Brazilian space program, analyzes of presidential security and threats to society and the State. There are also cases of information about the activities of foreign companies in Brazil and about foreign policy.

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Children without vaccines

The Secretary of Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, Ethel Maciel, said this Friday (6) that there is a shortage of children's vaccines against Covid-19 in the country, but that the department is negotiating with Pfizer to bring forward deliveries of vaccinations scheduled for the end of this month. Stocks for those over 12 years old are up to date. (UOL)

“We received the ministry with a shortage of pediatric vaccines. We will try to negotiate better, but the expected arrival date is at the end of January.”

Genivaldo de Jesus

The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, announced this Friday (6) that he ordered the payment of compensation to the family of Genivaldo de Jesus, murdered by agents of the Federal Highway Police in May 2022. The head of the ministry said it was “clear the civil liability, in light of the Constitution”, of the death of Genivaldo, who was asphyxiated after being locked in a vehicle during a police stop in the municipality of Umbaúba, in Sergipe. (Estadão) 🚥

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Billions to Ukraine

The United States announced a new $3 billion military aid package for Ukraine. The Pentagon is yet to provide further details, but assistance will include armored personnel carriers and self-propelled projectiles, said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. (AFP)

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