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The Napa-based wine company announced in a news release that the two appointed directors will help the wine company continue to grow.
Napa winery Fior Di Sole has hired two directors for its newly restructured sales department. Lana Lobao will be the new director of private label brands and export sales while Sergio Serafini will head as the director of national sales.
Lobao has been employed at Fior di Sole for over 15 years, according to a Sept. 2 news release, and will work to expand the company’s private wine labels and export efforts. Seragini has worked in wine sales for over 20 years in the industry, most recently serving as the company’s western regional sales manager.
Previous roles include sales positions at Wine Hooligans, Classic Wines of California and Epic Wines and Spirits.
"We believe that the restructuring of our Sales Department, along with the expertise that Lana and Sergio bring, will propel Fior di Sole into its next chapter of growth,“ founders Valentina Guolo and Stefano Migotta said in the release. “Their leadership will be instrumental in continuing to elevate our brands and expanding our reach in both domestic and international markets."
The release also said this restructuring will help continue to grow the family-owned and operated winery based in Napa.
You can reach Staff Writer Sara Edwards at 707-521-5487 or sara.edwards@pressdemocrat. com. On Twitter @sedwards380.
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Observational studies of long-term users of ayahuasca
suggest an increase in resilience via improvements in emotion and cognition
Ayahuasca has also demonstrated clinical antidepressant effects in human and animal studies; however
its potential prophylactic action in depression has not been previously studied
this experimental study sought to evaluate the potential prophylactic effects of repeated and long-term ayahuasca use
subjected to a protocol for induction of depressive-like behavior
some juvenile marmosets were kept in their family groups (GF = 7)
the animals were removed from the family and kept socially isolated
part of the isolated animals made up the group in which ayahuasca was administered (AG
AG animals took ayahuasca (1.67 mL/300g body weight) at weeks 4 (before isolation)
More adaptive stress response was observed for the AG when compared to the IG
The AG showed higher cortisol reactivity and fecal cortisol levels than IG
AG animals showed no signs of anhedonia and no increase in chronic stress-related behaviors
ayahuasca seems to promote the expression of resilient responses
buffering the emergence of depressive-like behaviors and cortisol alterations associated with major depression
These results are encouraging for further research on the prophylactic use of psychedelics to prevent psychopathologies associated with chronic stress
Ayahuasca can induce some mild acute side effects, such as increased blood pressure and heart rate, vomiting and nausea, as well as a brief increase in anxiety (Riba et al., 2001; <a href="#B34">dos Santos et al., 2012</a>). However, the toxicity of ayahuasca is low (<a href="#B10">Bouso et al., 2011</a>) and does not induce dose tolerance (<a href="#B39">Gable, 2007</a>; <a href="#B36">F&#x000E1;bregas et al., 2010</a>)
making it an interesting substance to be tested in prophylactic protocols despite its acute side effects
Given the advantage of validating protocols that prevent the incidence of MDD
and the potential therapeutic and protective effects of ayahuasca
the potential prophylactic effects of ayahuasca in the emergence of a typical depressive state in marmosets were evaluated during the use of a protocol for induction of depressive-like behavior
It was hypothesized that the prophylactic use of ayahuasca will increase resilience in juvenile marmosets and prevent the onset of fecal cortisol changes and the emergence of depressive-like behaviors
The animals were housed at the Primatology Center of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
which has followed the standards of the National Council for the Control of Animal Experimentation (law No
entitled &#x0201C;Lei Arouca&#x0201D;) and international standards of the Animal Behavior Society and International Primatological Society
The experimental protocols of this study were approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use according to protocol 032/2014 and addendum No
and the diet was based on a specific small animal feed
supplemented with a multivitamin complex and glycogen
The animals were taken care of by a veterinarian
The breeding house kept the animals in natural conditions of light
The animals in family groups were housed in two cages measuring approximately 3.0 &#x000D7; 2.0 &#x000D7; 1.0 m each
connected by a door that allowed them to pass through
while the socially isolated animals were kept in single cages with dimensions of 3.0 &#x000D7; 2.0 &#x000D7; 1.0 m
there was a barred door where water (ad libitum) and food were served
The cages had a grid roof that allowed animals to be exposed to the outside environment receiving natural light
The cages were enriched with branches of natural trees
and a nest box for the rest and comfort of the animal
The design was based on previous studies that have validated and tested the induction of depressive-like behavior in juvenile marmosets through chronic social isolation (<a href="#B41">Galv&#x000E3;o-Coelho et al., 2017</a>; <a href="#B19">da Silva et al., 2019</a>) (<a href="#F1">Figure 1</a>)
the baseline phase (BP) is 4 weeks of every other day of data collection
which was followed by social isolation stress for depression induction (isolated phase- 9 weeks)
This group had three ayahuasca gavages: 1st Gav (27th day of BP); 2nd and 3rd Gav (along isolated phase
being 25 days after the previous administration)
animals that were submitted to these same study phases
did not receive the ayahuasca prophylactic intervention
the animals remained in their family group for 13 weeks without any intervention
FW is the final week of the study with daily data collection
Eighteen animals were randomly divided into three groups: In the first
the animals were in their family groups for 4 weeks
when behavioral and endocrine (fecal cortisol) profiles were recorded
the animals were socially isolated for 9 weeks (Isolated Phase)
a protocol for inducing a depression-like behavior state
the animals did not have visual contact with conspecifics
but auditory and olfactory contact was possible
there was no spatial constraint during the isolated phase
these animals received the first prophylactic administration of ayahuasca via gavage (1st gavage)
then two more gavages were made 25 and 50 days after the 1st gavage (totaling three gavages throughout the study)
Gavage is a common veterinary technique used in marmosets and other animals
where the animal is immobilized by the veterinarian and a liquid is introduced into the stomach through a flexible tube placed in the mouth by a second person
The ayahuasca brew was donated for this study free of charge by Barquinha Temple
an ayahuasca religious institution located in Ji-Paran&#x000E1;/Roraima Brazil
The same batch was used throughout the study and for all animals
both boiled in water (100&#x000B0;C) for 60 h
The final solution was stored in glass bottles in the refrigerator
The main compounds in ayahuasca were measured using mass spectrometry resulting in the following values: 0.36 &#x000B1; 0.01 mg/mL DMT
0.24 &#x000B1; 0.03 mg/mL harmaline and 0.20 &#x000B1; 0.05 mg/mL tetrahydroharmine
The ayahuasca solution was stored in the refrigerator at a temperature near 4&#x000B0;C
The administered dose was 1.67 mL/300 g of marmoset body weight. The marmoset dose was initially based on the dose used in Brazilian religious ceremonies; there is around 1 mL of ayahuasca/kg. However, we adapted the human dose to the physiological characteristics of the marmoset using an allometric scale that considers metabolic differences between species and was described by <a href="#B65">Pachaly (2006)</a>: (1) basal metabolic indices of humans of a common 70 kg individual
70 &#x000D7; 700.75 = 1.694 kCal; (2) basal metabolic indices of the common marmoset (300 g)
70 &#x000D7; 0.30.75 = 28.38 kCal; (3) dose of ayahuasca in mL per kCal
100 mL/1.694 kCal = 0.06 mL/kCal; and (4) equivalent dose for a common marmoset
0.06 mL/kCal &#x000D7; 28.35 kCal = 1.67 mL
The frequency of ayahuasca administration used in this study was based on an average frequency of ayahuasca consumption in Brazilian religious rituals and psychedelic-based psychotherapy models (<a href="#B16">Carhart-Harris et al., 2021</a>). The administration of ayahuasca was performed by veterinarians and researchers via gavage (<a href="#B19">da Silva et al., 2019</a>)
Table 1. Behaviors based on <a style="color:grey;" href="#B77">Stevenson and Poole&#x00027;s (1976)</a> ethogram adapted to the stress context (<a style="color:grey;" href="#B41">Galv&#x000E3;o-Coelho et al., 2017</a>)
The quantitative dependent variables in this study are behavior and fecal cortisol data. Since there is large variability across individuals in behavioral and cortisol responses to social isolation (<a href="#B44">Galv&#x000E4;o-Coelho et al., 2008</a>; <a href="#B45">Galv&#x000E3;o-Coelho et al., 2012</a>; <a href="#B29">de Sousa et al., 2015</a>)
we have used in statistical analysis the percentage of variation of cortisol and behaviors between baseline and the last week of study (week 9)
The categorical independent variables are the groups (FG
Reactivity for each subject was calculated as follows: ([&#x02211; FW &#x02212; &#x02211; BP]&#x0002A;100) / &#x02211; BP
and cortisol by ([Md(FW)-Md(BP)]*100)/Md(BP)
We have used, in the descriptive statistics, the median as a measure of central tendency and interquartile range, which shows the spread of the middle half of the distribution to the second or third quartiles. There is supplementary material (<a href="#SM1">Supplementary Table S2</a>) containing the values of central tendency and variability for all behaviors and cortisol by study phase
For the behaviors classified by Boruta as important or in indecision shadow
the nonparametric multivariate Kruskal-Wallis test
were applied to compare the reactivity between the groups
the effect size is reported as &#x003B7;2 for Kruskal-Wallis and r for the Mann-Whitney test
The &#x003B7;2 effect size was calculated as &#x003B7;2&#x000A0;=&#x000A0;H-k&#x0002B;1n-k
The r effect size was calculated as r&#x000A0;=&#x000A0;Zn
where Z is the Z-statistic from the posthoc test and n is the number of observations
the significance level considered was p &#x02264; 0.05 (two-tailed)
Importance of behaviors for group discrimination as assessed by the Boruta algorithm
Green boxplots: important variables; yellow boxplots: undecided relevance; red boxplots: not important variables; gray boxplots: shuffled data at three levels of importance&#x02014;high importance (low shuffle)
and low importance (high shuffle); black dots: outlier
The algorithm uses such shuffled data to decide on the importance classification
The score of importance is given on the x-axis
n = 7); each black dot represents an individual
&#x0002A;Kruskal Wallis non-parametric multivariate test
showing the difference in the individual behavior of the final week compared to the baseline phase ([&#x02211; FW &#x02212; &#x02211; BP]&#x0002A;100) / &#x02211; BP
and family group (FG n = 7); each black dot represents an individual
&#x0002A;Kruskal Wallis non-parametric multivariate test p &#x02264; 0,05
showing the difference in the individual cortisol levels of the final week compared to the baseline phase
([Md(FW) &#x02212; Md (BP)]&#x0002A;100) / Md(BP)
We observed an apparent prophylactic action associated with ayahuasca administration via increased resilience
and stimulating cortisol reactivity during chronic social isolation
jacchus administered with ayahuasca demonstrated a more adaptive stress response than isolated animals without this intervention
as well as behavioral reactivity and fecal cortisol levels similar to those of animals living in their families
In marmosets, autogrooming is a stress-reduction behavior (<a href="#B62">Neumann et al., 2001</a>; <a href="#B14">Burkett et al., 2016</a>). In this study, the AG showed lower reactivity to autogrooming when compared to the IG, and similar to FG. Thus, ayahuasca might be mediating resilience growth through a complementary mechanism to autogrooming. A previous study with marmosets and ayahuasca did not observe modulation of autogrooming (<a href="#B19">da Silva et al., 2019</a>)
this is the first study to investigate the long-term action of ayahuasca on cortisol
the low number of animals may interfere with the interpretation of statistical results and make them not fully generalizable
such as preferential access and competition for preferred foods in sucrose intake in the non-isolated control group
individual differences in innate coping strategies
and natural changes due to shifts in developmental stages
the application of a single intervention schedule (dose and frequency) is also a limitation
a higher sample size with the inclusion of females and different age groups
as well as a protocol with sham gavages in the stressed group and different doses and frequencies of treatment with ayahuasca are recommended
despite the stability of the juvenile II stage
investigations considering a month-to-month age could make the data more accurate
This is particularly important because the juvenile stage is a phase of transition and transformation
although such changes are characteristic of adolescent animal models
and are also present when studying mental disorders in the human species
To our knowledge this is the first experimental study that has tested a classic psychedelic in a prophylactic regimen
an intervention applied before the onset of some symptoms and attenuating their onset in situations of chronic stress
The evidence presented could stimulate a promising new area of human research with classic psychedelics
The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors
The animal study was reviewed and approved by Ethics Committee on Animal Use of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (protocol 032/2014 and addendum No
NG-C and MMG designed the experiment and wrote the first version of the manuscript
This study was financed in part by the Coordena&#x000E7;&#x000E3;o de Aperfei&#x000E7;oamento de Pessoal de N&#x000ED;vel Superior &#x02013; Brasil (CAPES) &#x02013; Finance Code 001
MMG was supported by CAPES (Higher Education Improvement Coordination
The National Science and Technology Institute for Translational Medicine (INCT-TM Fapesp 2014/50891-1; CNPq 465458/2014-9)
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest
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The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.901425/full#supplementary-material">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.901425/full#supplementary-material</a>
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allegations of mafia links … ‘It’s the worst start to a presidency’ in decades
fired up his smartphone and announced he was backing the far-right frontrunner
“I’ve reached the conclusion I’m going to vote for Jair Bolsonaro,” the rightwing rocker declared in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Bzxjrczes&amp;t=25s" data-link-name="in body link">his YouTube endorsement</a>
“Bolsonaro is the only chance of something new.”
On a recent afternoon, however, <a href="https://twitter.com/lobaoeletrico" data-link-name="in body link">the gravel-voiced singer</a> sank into a chair on the same terrace and admitted to a severe case of buyer’s remorse
Not to mention a series of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/bolsonaro-carnival-pornographic-tweet-ridiculed" data-link-name="in body link">bizarre gaffes</a> – including sharing a pornographic video with his 3.4 million Twitter followers – that have led some to question whether Bolsonaro will even see out his four-year term
“Not even Syd Barrett ever had such a bad trip,” Lobão said
has emerged as one of the rightwing populist’s most ferocious critics
assailing his administration in a succession of searing media appearances
Opinion polls show Bolsonaro’s approval ratings have plunged since his 1 January inauguration with <a href="https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2019/06/27/ibope-aprovacao-do-governo-bolsonaro-em-junho.htm" data-link-name="in body link">32% of Brazilians now considering his government bad or awful</a> compared with 11% when he took power
More than half of Brazil now says it does not trust the president
“It is the worst start to a presidency since the return of democracy [in 1990],” said Mauro Paulino
“A lot would depend on the opponent … but if there was another election today
bile-filled rhetoric and contempt for human rights
Bolsonaro has long been a hate figure for Brazil’s left
But a growing number of conservative voices are also now questioning his presidency
“His popularity is falling because people feel baffled by the things he is doing and saying,” said Eliane Cantanhêde
a columnist for the conservative Estado de São Paulo newspaper
another of Bolsonaro’s most trenchant critics
São Paulo congressman <a href="https://twitter.com/mamaefalei" data-link-name="in body link">Arthur do Val</a> insisted he and his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/brazil-activists-march-free-markets-margaret-thatcher-rand-paul" data-link-name="in body link">libertarian group, Movimento Brasil Livre</a>
didn’t regret backing Bolsonaro “for a single second”
He accused hostile lefty journalists of unfairly portraying Brazil’s president as a grouch
an ogre and “a 2019 Hitler who wants to kill homosexuals”
But what mark would Val give Bolsonaro’s first six months in power
“Four and a half out of 10,” the politician replied
Val’s primary gripe was the excessive influence of the ideological wing of Bolsonaro’s administration – led by an eccentric US-based polemicist called <a href="https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/jair-bolsonaros-guru" data-link-name="in body link">Olavo de Carvalho</a> – and its obsession with waging irrelevant ideological battles instead of promoting key reforms
He was also perplexed that control of presidential communications had been entrusted to the president’s “most hot-headed son”
who has launched a succession of social media attacks on perceived enemies in his father’s administration and on Brazil’s right
The “antics” of such figures risked enabling a leftwing comeback
“If the country ends up with a negative impression of the right and goes back to voting for the left
then I think we’ll be going down a very dangerous path.”
I believe things are going really well,” said Emerson Medeiros
praising what he saw as Bolsonaro’s commitment to pension reform and fighting corruption
On the night of Bolsonaro’s victory Medeiros and his wife, Cláudia, joined huge celebrations in São Paulo, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/bolsonarianos-take-to-the-streets-in-awe-of-new-law-and-order" data-link-name="in body link">pronouncing their new leader the “saviour of the nation”</a>
“I still feel as excited as I did that day,” enthused Cláudia
The couple denied being blind followers of the president, or <a href="https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/contra-a-corrente/bolsominions-quem-sao-do-que-se-alimentam-19177930.html" data-link-name="in body link">Bolsominions</a> as they are known in Brazil
“I’m not that mad person who will eternally adulate him if he screws up or if it all goes wrong with his sons and they really are corrupt,” Cláudia said, in reference to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/it-smells-dirty-scandals-loom-over-bolsonaro-after-first-month-in-office" data-link-name="in body link">suspicions of corruption</a> swirling around Bolsonaro’s eldest son
They also expressed unease at Bolsonaro’s public blunders – including his recent insinuation that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-lgbt-politics/homophobic-remarks-by-brazils-president-may-harm-tourism-industry-idUSKCN1S300L" data-link-name="in body link">sex tourists were welcome in Brazil</a> as long as they were not gay
“But I still have the feeling things are moving in a good direction,” Emerson added
“The media focuses too much on the bad things and never highlights the good.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/edsonsalomao" data-link-name="in body link">Edson Salomão</a>, a founder of the Direita São Paulo (Rightwing São Paulo) group, gave Bolsonaro an even sunnier report card, though he struggled, when asked, to list the main achievements of his first six months in office.
“I’m trying to remember all of them now. Let me just have a look here,” Salomão floundered, reaching for his smartphone. “There are so many.”
Salomão spurned Lobão’s criticisms as the ramblings of an irrelevant has-been.
Read more</a>“There are some voices I prefer not to hear – and Lobão’s is one of them,” he laughed
“I think he’s good at making music – he should stick to that.”
whose real name is João Luiz Woerdenbag Filho
saying he could no longer bear to be associated with the zealots around Bolsonaro
<a href="#img-2" data-ignore="global-link-styling" aria-hidden="true" tabIndex="-1" class="open-lightbox dcr-13fd1ms">View image in fullscreen</a>Brazilian rock star Lobão once urged people to vote for Jair Bolsonaro; now he says: ‘We are in the lap of an absolutely troglodyte and retrograde right.’ Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian“I absolutely cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of fanatics, villains, loons … flat-Earthers,” he complained.
“We are in the lap of an absolutely troglodyte and retrograde right … [and] this grotesque and caricatured right will automatically, naturally pave the way for the return of the left.”
Read more</a>Lobão said he saw some redeeming features to Bolsonaro’s administration, chiefly the pragmatic vice-president, Hamilton Mourão, and <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/fd0b68d0-2b25-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7" data-link-name="in body link">finance minister, Paulo Guedes</a> – “a cool guy” he hoped could haul Brazil’s economy out of the “bog”
he felt “dread” at its reactionary tack and Bolsonaro’s allegiance to “utterly tacky” hardline televangelists
Lobão admitted having no idea where a Bolsonaro government might lead
Ten months on the bearded rocker seemed even less sure
So anything could happen – and we are inside it,” Lobão riffed
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The second-floor balcony of an ornate Parisian property overlooks the street near the Arc de Triomphe
a stylish hallway leads to a courtyard filled with plants
A doorbell reads &quot;Zacarias&quot; — but when a reporter rings
Some neighbors say they don&#039;t know the family; others say they haven&#039;t seen them since the COVID-19 pandemic
 The inner courtyard that leads to the apartment owned by the former Venezuelan cabinet minister in Paris
The apparently vacant apartment was bought in 2016 by a company set up by relatives of a former Venezuelan cabinet minister whose family is accused of handling tens of millions of dollars in suspected bribes
They are just one example of several high-profile Latin Americans investigated for corruption or criminal activity who have sunk money into French real estate
an investigation by OCCRP’s Latin America team and its partners found
Other buyers of high-end French listings included a former Peruvian president suspected of taking bribes
a Venezuelan investigated over allegedly fraudulent dealings with the state oil company
and the son of a former Brazilian minister investigated for alleged corruption
the people were investigated in connection with Operation Car Wash (“Lavo Jato”)
a massive corruption and money laundering scandal in Brazil that revealed billions of dollars in state funds had been siphoned away in corrupt deals
OCCRP’s member center the Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (BIRD) downloaded
and processed information published by the French government in different datasets
including French companies’ beneficial owners
To make the information easier to search, BIRD <a href="https://bird.bg/frestate/" target=”_blank”>created a search engine</a> that allowed reporters to connect the dots between properties and the people behind the companies that own them
Reporters first identified people of public interest
and relatives of officials who had been investigated or involved in corruption cases
reporters sent requests to France’s property registry services — known by its French acronym
SPF — to obtain deeds of sale and other documents
These revealed the names of the notaries involved and additional details of the transactions
The same data was also scraped by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective
which carried out a separate analysis with Transparency International and Transparency International France
particularly in Paris and on the French Riviera
make it an attractive destination for dirty money
While the country has relatively open property registries
anti-corruption advocates say lax enforcement and loopholes still make it possible to use French real estate purchases to launder money and hide illicit funds
over two-thirds of French real estate owned through companies is held anonymously
Transparency International and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective said in a report based on available data on French company and real estate ownership
a French lawyer and anti-corruption advocate
said that the “prestige” of places such as Paris
can encourage international money laundering
“The result is a particularly attractive real estate market
which makes it possible to launder substantial sums,” he said
Eight member states immediately closed their registers to the general public after the decision
France initially restricted access to its register
but then announced the registry would remain open “pending the adoption of a new legal framework at the EU level.”
Here are some of the key findings from the investigation:
Reporters found that close relatives of Haiman El Troudi
El Troudi served as transport minister from 2013 to 2015
and then as a member of parliament from 2015 to 2020
located on the exclusive Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris
is held in the name of a Paris-registered company — Saint Mathis 238
since renamed SCI Republic — which was set up in 2016
The owners of the company are El Troudi’s mother-in-law and her son
A couple years before the apartment was purchased
tens of millions of dollars in suspected bribes from Odebrecht
the Brazilian construction firm at the heart of the “Car Wash” scandal
flowed into multiple bank accounts which were controlled by El Troudi’s wife
A 2020 Portuguese investigation document — first reported by <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article254884287.html">the Miami Herald</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://armando.info/el-espirito-santo-blanqueo-el-botin-de-el-troudi/">Armando.info</a> — shows that Portuguese investigators believed El Troudi’s wife was behind a Panama-registered offshore company
which had received more than $90 million in alleged bribes from Odebrecht
A separate set of documents from Switzerland
showed that Swiss authorities had found that El Troudi’s wife and mother controlled eight bank accounts in the country
The authorities linked certain payments to contracts to build the Caracas metro system
 The entrance to the building where El Troudi’s relatives own an apartment
Venezuela’s state prosecutor’s office publicly stated it would summon the two women for alleged involvement in the bribery scheme
a Venezuelan judge dismissed the case against El Troudi’s wife and mother-in-law
The prosecutor assigned to the case said he was forced into exile the same year
El Troudi does not appear to have faced any charges
Portuguese and Venezuelan authorities did not respond to requests for comment on the case’s status
The Swiss attorney general’s office declined to comment
Reporters attempted to reach El Troudi by text message
and left letters at addresses listed for his family in French documents
The Paris property is not far from the historic Champs Elysées and Arc de Triomphe
they found the name “Zacarias” on the doorbell of a seemingly empty apartment
Reporters were also able to link El Troudi’s mother-in-law and her son to two other Paris apartments
one in the same building and another on the same street
French registry documents show that a company called Santa Elena Estates Inc
bought one of these apartments for about 2.3 million euros and the other for about 1.2 million euros
Santa Elena Estates Inc. was set up in the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis in March 2012, just a few months before the properties were purchased, and its directors were listed as Elita del Valle Zacarías Díaz, and her son Pedro Donaciano Baptista Zacarias, according to documents found in <a href="/en/the-pandora-papers/">the Pandora Papers</a>
a massive leak of documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with OCCRP and partners
French records show that one of the properties — the one purchased for 1.2 million euros — was sold in November last year for around 966,000 euros
The records show Elita and her son were still directors of Santa Elena Estates at the time of the sale
a Venezuelan businessman reportedly investigated for money laundering
has bought multiple expensive properties on the French island of Saint-Barthélemy
it bought a plot of land and two connected properties — a main house and a smaller unit — on Saint-Barthélemy for a total of 19.9 million euros
was founded in 2008 to acquire a three-bedroom villa on Saint Barthélemy for 2.24 million euros
for a three-bedroom beachside villa worth 11.4 million euros
The beachside property features a swimming pool
According to a 2019 report in the Miami Herald, Luis Oberto and his brother have been <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article237084814.html">investigated for money laundering</a> in the U.S
The report quoted sources familiar with the investigation as saying the brothers were suspected of receiving billions of dollars into Swiss bank accounts
which had been misappropriated through fake loans to the Venezuelan state oil company
Over $4.8 billion was allegedly embezzled through the overall scheme
officials did not respond to requests for comment on the case
court records did not show any ongoing case
Last year, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.mp.gob.ve/index.php/2022/09/01/fiscal-general-informo-sobre-detencion-del-ex-vicepresidente-de-finanzas-de-pdvsa-por-desfalco-de-4-850-millones-de-dolares/">Venezuela’s prosecutor said</a> an arrest warrant had been issued for Oberto and his brother
but no other details were immediately available
Venezuelan authorities did not respond to requests for comment on the case
French records seen by reporters show that Ganesha and Bucefalus’ properties in Saint Barthélemy were seized by French authorities in February and March 2022 as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation led by the Paris prosecutor’s office
said that the Bucefalus properties were purchased with money transfers from bank accounts held by two offshore companies — Violet Advisors S.A
both of which Venezuelan prosecutors had linked to the alleged PDVSA scheme
Lawyers for the Oberto brothers did not respond to requests for comment
three-bedroom apartment in the heart of Paris
Brazilian authorities filed money laundering and corruption charges against Márcio Lobão and corruption charges against his father
who they alleged had received some 50 million reais ($12 million) from Odebrecht and the waste management company Estre Group in connection with the Car Wash scandal
 The entrance to the building in Paris’s 6th arrondissement
The two are now on trial in Brazil’s Federal District Court
Márcio and his brother Edison Filho were also targets of a search and seizure operation
an offshoot of the investigation that had detained Márcio in 2019
Charges were not brought against Filho and the current status of that case is unclear
located near a Gucci store in the wealthy sixth arrondissement
was purchased for 1.4 million euros in October 2008 through his company SCI Guignard
where his children and wife were also partners
The building is cast in the classic Parisian “Haussmann” style
When reporters visited the property in April 2023
they found a doorbell marked “Guignard,” but no one answered when they rang
A neighbor confirmed that Márcio was sometimes seen staying in the apartment
The property was not mentioned in Car Wash case court documents seen by reporters
though a judicial decision authorizing Lobão’s 2019 arrest did show he made deposits into bank accounts he held in France
Lobão’s lawyer said that his client had properly declared all his assets
He also stressed that Lobão had not been found guilty of any of the allegations in the Car Wash scandal and said that the 50 million reais figure stated by the prosecutor was “incorrect.”
“It is important to note that the Federal Public Prosecutor&#039;s Office has not succeeded in proving any of its accusations up to this moment,” he said
After serving a term as Peru’s president in the 1980s
Alan García fled the country in 1992 to escape the authoritarian regime of Alberto Fujimori
Media reports from the time suggest he lived between the two countries until 2001
García and his wife bought a four-bedroom apartment in the upscale 16th arrondissement in Paris
along with a cellar space and a separate small bedroom on the seventh floor in the same building
The property is located on a quiet side street near the Avenue Henri-Martin thoroughfare
García and his then-wife set up a company called SCI FIDES
and donated them to their four children — all but one of whom were minors at the time
where García and his wife bought an apartment and a cellar space
Peru’s congress began investigating García for alleged corruption and illicit enrichment while in office
But the statute of limitations expired in 2001
and he returned to Peru that year and ran for president again
a congressman named Fernando Olivera filed a complaint with Peru’s attorney general about García’s purchase of the Paris apartment
but eventually retook the presidency five years later
The income or asset statements he filed at the time only listed three properties in Lima
García then said in a sworn statement that he did not have any movable or immovable property in the country or abroad
Peru’s congress and its Public Ministry — a government entity similar to a prosecutor’s office — were again investigating García for alleged illicit enrichment regarding his property purchases in Lima
García was also caught up in the Brazilian Car Wash money laundering and corruption investigation
a preliminary 10-day arrest warrant was issued against him as prosecutors prepared charges that he took bribes from the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht
He committed suicide just as he was about to be arrested
Reporters attempted to contact García’s wife through the family’s lawyer but did not receive a response
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What:<a href="https://womenofwardrobe.org">Women of Wardrobe</a> (WOW) 13th annual &quot;Sizzling Summer Soirée.&quot;
Where:<a href="https://tootsies.com">Tootsies</a>
The scoop: New York fashion designer <a href="https://jaygodfrey.com">Jay Godfrey</a> and jewelry designer <a href="https://shopclaudialobao.com">Claudia Lobao </a>of San Antonio wowed close to 300 young women who poured in for the annual late-summer social that attracts some of the city&#39;s brightest up-and-comers
 Godfrey presented his fall collection while Lobao assisted the ladies perusing her wildly popular gold and silver wares
 Leading the pack of young professionals supporting Dress for Success was WOW president Susan Oehl and glam emcees Mia Gradney and Chita Craft
 The troops were well fed and watered thanks to contributions from Armandos
 The event raised $14,000 and most of the lucky ladies went home with must-have swag bags filled with goodies
Brazil (AP) — The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan
8 in an attack on Brazil&#8217;s democracy left behind a trail of destruction whose full scope is only now coming into full view
Following a painstaking survey of the ruins
the national artistic heritage institute on Thursday night released a 50-page report
the bulk of which is a photographic catalog of the damages
They go far beyond the shattered glass on the exteriors of the presidential palace
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sculptures decapitated and ceramics smashed
Carpets were found soaked with water from the buildings&#8217; sprinkler systems
The rioters — die-hard supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat — marred the iconic marble ramp leading up the presidential palace with scratches
Into a historic wooden table at the Supreme Court they carved “Supreme are the people” — a phrase popular among backers of Bolsonaro
who often strained against the checks of the top court
A person inspects the damage after the supporters of Brazil&#8217;s former President Jair Bolsonaro anti-democratic riot at Planalto Palace
Among the artworks destroyed was a 17th-century clock made by Balthazar Martinot and that the French royal court gifted to the Portuguese King
The only other Martinot clock in existence is in France’s Palace of Versailles
Brazil&#8217;s presidency said in a statement
A 60-year-old bronze sculpture of a flautist by Bruno Giorgi was also trashed
and its pieces found spread across a room on the presidential palace&#8217;s third floor
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Vandals pitched rocks through the canvas of a mural by Emiliano Di Calvalcanti
The presidential palace said in its statement that the painting
though works of that size tend to fetch quintuple that amount at auction
Artwork by Brazilian painter Di Cavalcanti is damaged
after the supporters of Brazil&#8217;s former President Jair Bolsonaro participated in an anti-democratic riot at Planalto Palace
it was obviously deliberate,&#8221; Rogerio Carvalho
said in an interview while sitting before the disfigured painting
The work &#8220;was perforated in seven places using rocks taken from the square with a pickaxe
there is a movement of intolerance toward what this palace represents.”
The total cost of the destruction hasn&#8217;t yet been established
Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco placed the damage in his congressional chamber alone in the millions
Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Federal Police surveys will enable the attorney-general&#8217;s office to hold perpetrators financially responsible
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This collection “is an artistic treasure of the Brazilian people
which belongs to the nation and whose integrity needs to be respected,” Brazil’s culture minister
“The idea is to create a memorial about this violence we suffered
AP writer Biller reported from Rio de Janeiro
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MA -- If you have driven on Lowell Street in the past three decades
you may have noticed the passion project Wilson J
That was the year Lobao decided to build his own boat
But not just any boat: Lobao set out to build a 45-foot Roger Simpson Liahona Trimaran
earning him the nickname the Boat Builder of Lowell Street
Lobao died in a freak accident last year at the age of 76 and with the boat still unfinished
Now the family is looking to give it away to anyone willing to promise to finish the boat and pay the $25,000 they estimate it will cost to remove it from the property and get it ready to sail
The family has sold Lobao's Lowell Street house; the closing on Friday starts a one-year timer included in the purchase-and-sale agreement for the boat's removal from the property
we have to send it to salvage," Hanselman said
"We really want to find someone who will take it by this fall so it doesn't have to spend another winter out in the weather."
Hanselman said her father-in-law was well known in Peabody
His catch phrase was "Simply marvelous" and
he was the type of guy who whistled Christmas carols year-round
The family was devastated when he was crushed by boulders while clearing brush in his yard last August
Investigators believe Lobao was working near a culvert separating his property from a neighbor's when a retaining wall collapsed
was diagnosed with brain cancer and died in January
prompting the family to put the house up for sale and wondering what to do with the boat
"We are looking for somebody with his same passion to finish the boat and sail it," Hanselman said
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a degree in mechanical engineering
Lobao enlisted and tested rocket engines for the Air Force during the Vietnam War
he returned to the North Shore and took a job with Ted Hood Sailmakers in Marblehead
which started his obsession with the sea and sailing
the boat started to take shape in the yard of his Lowell Street home
The family has posted <a href="https://nh.craigslist.org/boa/d/45ft-trimaran/6628033907.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ads on Craigslist</a>
as well as Facebook groups for boat enthusiasts
Hanselman said one prospective buyer from Florida has shown interest
but no one has promised to take the boat and finish the work
The family is including a write up from Green Marine in Yarmouth with what needs to be done to finish it
"It was his dream to sail the boat and with his passing it became our dream to see it sail," Hanselman said
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - On the morning of Feb
a cyclist chugged his way up the curves of Rio de Janeiro's most popular sport cycling road
one fruit plummeted from the heavily laden canopy of Tijuca National Park
cracking his helmet and sending him sprawling
There had long been stories of the world's largest tree-borne fruit divebombing passersby
and that was potential trouble for Marisa Furtado and Pedro Lobão
a couple who have taken up the challenge of rehabilitating the fruit's public image
Jackfruit is abundant during the Southern Hemisphere's summer
it has been consumed more by the poor or enslaved; in barbecue-mad Brazil
the idea of fruit substituting for meat is viewed with suspicion
Ecologists disdain it for crowding out native species in 13 federal conservation units across Brazil's Atlantic Forest
And now cyclists spreading news of the accident on message groups and Facebook were accusing the fruit of assault
One posted that he had skidded out on jackfruit
like a jackfruit exploding so close it splattered a bike's spokes with shrapnel
But this isn't the jackfruit Furtado knows and loves
She dreams of a pilgrimage to the jackfruit's point of origin
73-pound jackfruit -- enough to prepare roughly 150 dishes
Its Yuletide message: 'œMay abundance be with you all in 2021'ť
jackfruit tenderloin -- and insists that they are both tasty and nutritious
'œHistory loads the jackfruit with prejudice
Today we hear about the jackfruit that stinks
So everyone who adapted this well to Brazil should be exterminated?'ť
the Portuguese transported jackfruit seedlings to Brazil
an environmental and ecological history specialist
Rio's forest was getting cleared for timber
an associate professor at Rio's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC)
Jackfruit thrived in the degraded soil and produced gargantuan fruit that crashed to the ground and tumbled downhill
The trees -- which can reach 80 feet tall -- took root
including agoutis and black capuchin monkeys
according to a paper that journal Tropical Ecology published this month
Population densities are higher where jackfruit is their primary food
an ecology professor at Rio's Federal Rural University
You simplify the tropical chain,'ť said Abreu
a biologist who has studied jackfruit's invasiveness
To the extent Brazilian humans consume jackfruit
It tastes like a combination of pear and banana
jackfruit has been a meat alternative for centuries
even called 'œtree goat'ť in West Bengal state
coinciding with global interest in the 'œsuperfood,'ť he said
plant-based restaurant Teva' s top-selling appetizer is BBQ jackfruit tacos
His clientele is often surprised by a fruit normally encountered littering trails in a state of pungent rot
'œThey're impacted because they start to open their minds to a universe they didn't know,'ť said Biron
Furtado and Lobao's organization is Hand in the Jackfruit ( Mao na Jaca
a twist on the phrase 'œfoot in the jackfruit,'ť which means to slip up or go too far
The expression is evocative for anyone who has plunged a Havaiana sandal into decomposing mush
from which seeds protrude like garlic cloves
Furtado and Lobão loaded 139 pounds of seeds into a squeaky shopping cart for delivery to a chef in Babilonia
enjoyed jackfruit flesh and roasted seeds as a girl
she dreamt up a spin on shredded chicken dumplings made from jackfruit
She says jackfruit could end Brazilian hunger -- a fresh concern after the government ended COVID-19 welfare payments
and the jackfruit can bring lots of nutrients to your body and be a source of income,'ť Tchelly said
the road into Tijuca park has become an  ideal venue for socially-distanced exercise
Some cyclists contacted authorities after the accident
demanding action that could include cutting overhead branches or tree removal
removal of jackfruit trees was an internal issue of the park
But now there are jackfruits threatening lives!'ť said Raphael Pazos
founder of Rio de Janeiro's Cycling Safety Commission
Furtado tried to calm the outcry by reaching out to cyclists
She sought to steer them toward mapping jackfruit trees' locations
posting signs about their benefits and organizing collection of fruit
jackfruits could be snagged using a truck-mounted crane then donated to surrounding communities
with Hand in the Jackfruit holding workshops to teach the sticky
She spoke at length with Tijuca park's coordinator
Furtado acknowledges the importance of diversity
but argues a centuries-old Brazilian resident shouldn't be cast out of the garden
'œIt's an inheritance that needs to be valued
cultural and environmental points of view,'ť she posted on Instagram
'œEradicating it would be a huge error and part of the arrogance of those who don't perceive life is dynamic.'ť
But some scientists disagreed -- at least as far as Tijuca park is concerned
'œI'm 100% in the camp of taking it out from the park; it's exotic
human livelihoods aren't depending on it,'ť said Emilio Bruna
president of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
PUC's Oliveira said there's no doubt ecologically that native species should be substituted for jackfruit in Tijuca park
it's free fruit for people who don't always have access to it
it's apparently not as invasive as believed
It becomes hyper-dominant where soil is degraded
but an experiment of his showed seeds didn't germinate in robust forest
'œA good forest has a certain amount of defense against the jackfruit tree,'ť he said
He said populations should be managed through girdling: slicing off a bark ring
Abreu said herbicide injection is more effective
and his models indicate killing 5-10% of mature trees annually is enough to put a given population on the decline
The government's management plan for Tijuca park says jackfruit eradication should be prioritized; some 2,000 trees were girdled there between 2016 and 2017
It isn't clear what percentage of the park's total that represented
cyclists from the safety commission convened at Tijuca park's entrance
Furtado's efforts had worked -- to some degree
They embraced her proposal to collect and distribute jackfruit to surrounding communities
and decided to present it at the next meeting of the park's consultative council
'œWe didn't even know an association that did this existed,'ť Pazos said after the meeting
'œThere's no way to dislike the idea of giving food to the population.'ť
They supported emergency collection by Hand in the Jackfruit
but still favored girdling all roadside jackfruit trees
He pointed out that another jackfruit had dropped just downhill
Furtado concedes a few roadside trees could be removed as a last resort if collection or pruning proves impossible
She vehemently opposes girdling or herbicide
and believes in management through consumption
'œIf we eat the jackfruit and their seeds,'ť she said
AP writer Aniruddha Ghosal contributed from New Delhi
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Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of a Curitiba prison Friday
less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled that a person can be imprisoned only after all the appeals have been exhausted
Hundreds of supporters were gathered outside the federal police building in southern city of Curitiba, hoping to catch a glimpse of the popular, 74-year-old politician who is appealing <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/still-popular-brazils-lula-starts-serving-jail-sentence">his conviction of corruption and money laundering</a> in connection with the purchase of a beachfront apartment in Sao Paulo state
A stage was set up for him to address the crowd
tweeted &#8220;Lula Free&#8221; with a video of himself working out and lifting weights in a gym inside the prison
where he has been detained since April 2018
he could find himself back in prison if his appeals don&#8217;t go his way
It is not yet clear what political role Da Silva will seek to occupy now that he is free
The former leader of the leftist Workers&#8217; Party
better known in Brazil by its Portuguese acronym PT
whose politicians and voters have ceaselessly called for his release
Political analysts believe Da Silva could rally the opposition
which has been demoralized by the corruption scandals
impeachment of Da Silva&#8217;s hand-picked successor
a clobbering in the 2018 general elections
Aside from his promise to root out corruption and curb violence
far-right President Jair Bolsonaro ran a strong campaign on anti-Workers Party sentiment
He won the election with 55% of the vote and was sworn in on Jan
had been favored to win the 2018 presidential election
but his conviction eventually prohibited him from running
The former president has said that when free
he would travel around the country rallying opposition
Political analysts say he might not immediately enter into frontal opposition with Bolsonaro
seeking instead to influence the next presidential election in 2022
&#8220;The thing that makes Lula most dangerous to Bolsonaro is that Lula understands the long game,&#8221; said James Bosworth
stressing that the politician had run four times before being first elected in 2003
&#8220;Lula is an old school union and political organizers who is going to take his time placing PT and other allies into positions to take advantage of Bolsonaro&#8217;s weaknesses in the coming years,&#8221; he said
The former union leader is widely referred to as a &#8220;political animal&#8221;
He presided over a period of rapid economic growth fueled by a commodities boom that expanded the country&#8217;s middle class
His huge Bolsa Familia welfare program helped lift millions from poverty
and he left office with an approval rating above 80%
His impassioned oratory can just as easily elicit laughter or tears from those among his supporters
a professor in political science at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas university in Sao Paulo
Da Silva&#8217;s release will have profound consequences on both sides of Brazil&#8217;s political spectrum
it will serve Bolsonaro&#8217;s anti-PT and anti-Lula rhetoric
it ends the PT&#8217;s &#8216;Free Lula&#8217; rhetoric
and forces the party to take on another agenda.&#8221;
Left-leaning supporters hailed the release of their standard-bearer
but want more and are now advocating for his name to be cleared
the former leader remains entangled in several court cases
he was also sentenced by a lower court judge in a case regarding alleged ownership of a farmhouse in Atibaia
He has denied any wrongdoing in both cases and accuses Car Wash prosecutors and then-judge Sergio Moro
justices will decide whether Moro was biased when he delivered his rulings
his conviction regarding the apartment continues to bar Da Silva from running for office
Protests in major Brazilian cities have been scheduled for this weekend
aimed at showing support for Moro and his crusade to decrease crime and endemic corruption
attacks on the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling will doubtless feature loudly
Associated Press writer Mauricio Savarese in Sao Paulo contributed to this report
Brazil (AP) — As fires raged in parts of the Amazon
Mydje Kayapo sat in a small boat looking out over the Curua River in the Bau indigenous reserve
&#8220;The fire is coming closer and closer to our reserve,&#8221; he told a visiting news team from The Associated Press
&#8220;Now it is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away.&#8221;
helps organize a village watch group to protect the community&#8217;s lands from encroaching flames as well as illegal loggers
miners and others seeking to exploit the area
With fires spreading quickly to wide swaths of indigenous territories in recent weeks
a 77% increase from the same period last year
Many of those were set in already deforested areas by people clearing land for cultivation or pasture
With over 98% of Brazil&#8217;s indigenous lands within the Amazon
the threat to groups like Kayapo&#8217;s are particularly exposed
Indigenous people from the Mura tribe show a deforested area in unmarked indigenous lands inside the Amazon rainforest near Humaita
According to Brazil&#8217;s National Space Research Institute
an estimated 3,553 fires are now burning on 148 indigenous territories in the region
It&#8217;s being badly destroyed,&#8221; Kayapo said
&#8220;We indigenous people need to be united.&#8221;
As a multitude of international players discuss how to develop and protect the Amazon
Kayapo and others find themselves on the front line of firefighting efforts and an ever-acrimonious feud with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
Boslonaro has come under harsh criticism for environmental policies that some say are weakening safeguards in the rainforest
He maintains Europeans are trying to infringe on his country&#8217;s sovereignty
while also arguing that the demarcation of indigenous lands has hindered business interests
he reasserted his claims at a meeting of Amazon regional governors
arguing that reserves are being exploited by outsiders to halt the growth of Brazil&#8217;s economy
&#8220;Many reserves are located strategically
someone arranged this,&#8221; Bolsonaro said
&#8220;Indians don&#8217;t have a (political) lobby
but they have managed to get 14% of our national territory.&#8221;
indigenous leaders have some of the most at stake
a leader in the municipality of Conquista D&#8217;Oeste in Mato Grosso state
appeared woeful as he walked along the banks of the Sarare River
&#8220;The non-indigenous do whatever they want and then put the blame on the Indian,&#8221; Katitaurlu said
explaining that when his group reported a fire to authorities
a rancher said the tribe had set the blaze themselves
felt the effects of farming and ranching expansion even more acutely and said inspectors were &#8220;not going after&#8221; the criminals
&#8220;Some years ago there were a few (fires) but now there are more,&#8221; Katitaurlu said
this is the largest (fire) that has ever happened and the smoke is coming here
but two days ago it was full of smoke and hot.&#8221;
leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations pledged to help protect the Amazon region with $20 million in funds
in addition to a separate $12 million from Britain and $11 million from Canada
French President Emmanuel Macron has engaged in an increasingly personal feud with his Brazilian counterpart
while Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said Latin America countries &#8220;have sovereignty over the Amazon.&#8221;
Leaders of all Amazon nations except Venezuela will meet Sept
6 &#8220;to come up with our own unified strategy for preserving the environment
and also for exploration sustainable in our region,&#8221; Bolsonaro said Wednesday
Although Brazil&#8217;s president and international players have dominated the discussion
some indigenous leaders appear to feel the most effective way to influence environmental preservation policies is to raise their own voices — or take matters into their own hands
&#8220;I think this president doesn&#8217;t know the constitution very well,&#8221; said Kayapo
if they try to come here &#8230; we will react against the Bolsonaro government and say: &#8216;Not here
one indigenous woman wearing face paint and a headdress addressed the camera and also vowed to &#8220;resist for the sake of the forest
&#8220;We from the Xingu River are connected to you
all together standing in defense of the Amazon,&#8221; she said
&#8220;We are on the front line and we need your support
Associated Press journalist Leo Correa reported this story in Altimira
AP journalist Mario Lobao reported in Conquista D&#8217;Oeste and AP writer Anna Jean Kaiser reported from Rio de Janeiro
2019 at 4:27 pm ETThe move to Pope&#x27;s Landing is scheduled for 2 a.m
Wednesday and Route 128 will be closed for a short period while the trip is underway
 ( Lisa Hanselman/Used with permission)A team made up of Court Taus and David Stennett​ emerged from Florida and agreed to move the boat and finish work on it
as the family had hoped for.​ ( Lisa Hanselman/Used with permission)PEABODY
MA — A boat that a Peabody man started building in the backyard of his Lowell Street home in 1984 was scheduled to launch Wednesday morning
Crews spent most of the day Monday prepping the boat for its move to Pope's Landing in Danvers
where the new owner will prepare it to sail to Florida
didn't get to complete before he died in 2017 will be finished
In August 2018, Lisa Hanselman, Lobao's daughter-in-law, contacted Patch and told us about the <a href="https://patch.com/massachusetts/peabody/sale-famous-peabody-boat-astonishing-price-0" target="_blank">family's attempt to honor her father-in-law</a>
who many knew only as "The Boatbuilder of Lowell Street." The family sold Lobao's home
starting the clock on a contingency in the sales agreement that the boat would be removed from the property within a year
the family has been looking for someone to complete work on the boat so it could set sail
The first person who <a href="https://patch.com/massachusetts/peabody/family-late-peabody-man-finds-sailboat-savior" target="_blank">agreed to complete work</a> on the 45-foot Roger Simpson Liahona Trimaran fell through in May
seemingly sentencing the project to the scrap heap
But a team made up of Court Taus and David Stennett emerged from Florida and agreed to move the boat and finish work on it
The move to Pope's Landing is scheduled for 2 a.m
the boat Wilson's Legacy should be in the water by 11 a.m
The family was devastated when he was crushed by boulders while clearing brush in his yard in 2017
was working near a culvert separating his property from a neighbor's when a retaining wall collapsed
prompting the family to put the house up for sale and wonder what to do with the boat
Lobao enlisted in the Air Force and tested rocket engines during the Vietnam War
The family posted <a href="https://nh.craigslist.org/boa/d/45ft-trimaran/6628033907.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ads on Craigslist</a> and Facebook groups for boat enthusiasts hoping to find an owner
after much criticism from environmentalists
politicians and even from oil industry executives
the Brazilian government launches a comprehensive oil spill contingency plan
is being launched one day after the giant Libra pre-salt field auction
 It&rsquo;s hard to understand why the PNC wasn&rsquo;t announced before the Libra auction
according to the biggest Brazilian newspaper O Globo
had been ready and shelved in a Brazilian State Department office for over one year
the plan was announced one day after this same newspaper alerted that the Libra field was going to be auctioned without any oil spill contingency plan ready
 This really looks like a serious case of negligence by the government
no one is taking any responsibility for this negligence and it does not look like anyone within the government ministries will even be punished for it
The PNC announcement was made jointly by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and the Environmental Ministry (MMA) and deals with major oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon tragedy at the Macondo field in the GoM
The PNC plan calls for the implantation of a pro-active real-time offshore oil spill monitoring system
training of emergency crews and more rigorous fines in order to minimize the consequences of oil spills
It also delegates responsibilities in dealing with the spills
expected environmental impacts and the sensitivity of the local environment
If the spill crosses international borders the PNC plan will immediately be put into play
The operator of the field that causes the spill will automatically be charged with the costs of the oil spill containment
The PNC also places the MMA as the body responsible for preparing the response capability at a national level
such as the Chevron operated Frade field spill in 2011
but does specify more rigid control over the actions taken by the field operator and sets clear penalties for deviating from the approved emergency plans and actions
This limited plan exists since the year 2000
and was put in place after a Petrobras oil spill in Guanabara Bay
Many environmentalists are still skeptical about the PNC and it will be interesting to examine the plan in-depth and also hear what will be discussed about this during the upcoming OTC Brasil conference to take place in Rio de Janeiro next week
Below: MMA Minister Isabela Teixeira &amp; MME Minister Edison Lob&atilde;o during the announcement of the PNC
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A massive power failure blacked out Brazil’s two largest cities and other parts of Latin America’s biggest nation for more than two hours late on Tuesday
leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline
All of neighboring Paraguay also lost power
The huge Itaipu dam straddling the two nations’ border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power
Sao Paulo and at least several other big Brazilian cities
Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said
He said outages hit nine of the 27 states in a country of more than 190 million people
The cause of the failure had not been determined
but Lobao said strong storms uprooted trees near the Itaipu dam just before it went offline and could be to blame
the lights in Rio’s Copacabana neighborhood flashed back to life
prompting cheers and thunderous car honking
“It’s sad to see such a beautiful city with such a precarious infrastructure,” said Igor Fernandes
a shirtless 22-year-old law student pedaling his bike down a dark Copacabana beach
“This shouldn’t happen in a city that is going to host the Olympic Games.” 
Lobao said the hydro plant at the dam itself was working
but there were problems with the power lines that carry electricity across Brazil
Brazil uses almost all of the energy produced by the dam
the national energy agency blamed the blackout on a short-circuit at an electrical station near Sao Paulo
saying that failure shut down the entire power grid supplied by Itaipu
All of Paraguay went dark for about 20 minutes
said the blackout did not start at the hyrdoelectric complex
It said the most likely cause was a failure at one or more points in the transmission system
The blackouts came three days after CBS’s 60 Minutes news program reported that several past Brazilian power outages were caused by hackers
Brazilian officials had played down the report before the latest outages