The Federal Police (PF) of Brazil is investigating a man who He allegedly tried to enter the Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence in Brasilia, where the president was present Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the time of the incident.
According to the Presidential Communications Secretariat, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a black vehicle attempted to break the blockade of the streets leading to the Alvorada Palace and the Jabru Palace (official residence of the vice president). The researchers detailed that the driver was a local resident and stopped there after going in the opposite direction.
Local media detailed that “the driver disobeyed the guards’ order to stop and continued the march until he punctured his tires in a security device with metal perforators, before fleeing the scene.
To stop him, a security guard fired two shots at the vehicle. According to the report from the Brazilian newspaper “Globo”, after being discovered, the man was summoned to testify at the Supervision Office of the Patriotic Front in Brasilia.
Israel declares Lula da Silva “persona non grata” for his statements on the Holocaust
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katzdeclared last Monday to the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva “persona non grata” for comparing the current war against Hamas in Gaza to the Holocaust.
“He is persona non grata in the State of Israel as long as he does not retract his statements and apologize”stated Katz, referring to the left-wing leader of the main Latin American power.
The Brazilian leader declared the day before that the conflict between Israel and The Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza was “not a war, but a genocide.”
From the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he participated as a guest at the annual summit of the African Union, Lula also compared Israel’s offensive with Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate the Jews, generating strong rejection in Israel.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has not happened at any other time in history. In reality, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” said Lula, who returned to power in January 2023 succeeding the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.
In response, the Israeli government summoned Brazil’s ambassador to Israel and invited him to meet with the head of diplomacy at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem.
Lula’s statements “They are a shame and a serious anti-Semitic attack against the Jewish people and the State of Israel”Katz declared during a visit to the memorial, which AFP attended.
Tax on Brazil’s super-rich generates the best collection in history in January
He tax to the investment funds of the super rich of Brazil implemented by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva allowed the tax collection in January was the best in history.
The increase in collection, which reached almost 7% year-on-year, is considered the key piece for the zero deficit objective set by the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, by 2024, within the new fiscal framework, which replaced the 20-year public spending ceiling that governed from 2016 until last year. said the Receita Federal, the tax collection body, dependent on the Ministry of Finance.
Brazilian tax collection reached 280,636 million reais (56,800 million dollars) in January.
The result is the best recorded in real terms for all months in the historical series of statistics, which began in 1995.
Source: Ambito
