Carlos Mattos is already being held in the maximum security prison of Cómbita

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Wilson Ruiz – Minister of Justice

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Thursday, March 3, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). The businessman Carlos Mattos is already in the maximum security prison of Cómbita, due to his irregular departures from the La Picota detention center in Bogotá.

“Carlos Mattos was transferred from La Picota prison to a maximum security facility in Cómbita, Boyacá. In this place he will be in a pavilion under the same conditions as all the inmates, ”the Minister of Justice, Wilson Ruiz, announced.

After the scandal over Mattos’ departures, involved in two cases of judicial corruption, in which he offered money to judicial officials to benefit from decisions to continue leading the monopoly of the sale of Hyundai cars in Colombia, the head of the Justice portfolio announced the creation of new prison measures so that these acts of corruption do not happen again.

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Calendar of events to be held in Medellín for this 2022 - Medellín - Colombia

Medellin continues to consolidate as the capital of big events. And to confirm this statement, the Municipal Mayor’s Office announced the launch of the city events agenda, which for this year already has more than 200 activities and meetings, between public and private.

The possibility of benefiting more than 20,000 artists and bringing together a varied public around these extraordinary city competitions is due to Decree 0907 of 2021, issued by the Mayor’s Office and known as a single window for events.

Indeed, said Decree, which modernizes and simplifies the procedures for producers of performing arts and concerts, converted Medellín in the city of Colombia where it is easier to hold events.

“Thank the merchants, businessmen, and the cultural sector for trusting us, because we also trust you, and all this is done thanks to a purpose and that is to change that internal bureaucracy that existed to hold events. We went from 26 procedures to 11 for the well-being of businessmen and citizens”, expressed the Secretary of Government and Mayor (e) of Medellín, Esteban Restrepo, in the presentation of the events agenda.

The agenda starts this month with the commemoration of the Month of the Theater, continues with the International Dance Day, on April 29, and extends to the Book Events. The first will be the Popular Book Days Fair, on May 21 and 22. In July, the 14th edition of the Parada Juvenil de la Lectura will be held, on the 16th and 17th; and the Book Festival, which will be held for 10 days, from September 9 to 18.

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The reggaeton player confirmed his date in Medellín.

The meeting of milongas, dance and tango will be from June 23 to 27, with the XVI Medellin International Tango Festival.

The celebration of the Month of Sexual Diversity will be in June and will bring pride back to the streets with a program that highlights the León Zuleta Awards, on June 24, and the Gay Pride March, on June 3. July.
The circus tradition will be on July 1, 2 and 3.

Ciudad Altavoz will be on July 22, 23 and 24 and the International Speaker Fest this year will be held on November 12, 13 and 14. Medellín is Afro will be on October 15 and 16.

November will be a month of great meetings such as Miradas Medellín Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts that will be from November 23 to 27.

Other notable events are: the sixth International Dance Season, which will be on November 25, 26 and 27, and the meeting of the Network of Artistic and Cultural Practices, on the 26.

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The December celebrations will be filled with color and Christmas atmosphere with the Martial Band Festival, on the 3rd and 4th, and the Festival of Myths and Legends will maintain its date of December 8.

Concerts

Important concerts and the visit of great artists will also be protagonists during 2022.

Christian Nodal, La Banda MS, Jessi Uribe and Jerry Rivera, Fito Páez, Caifanes, LP, Alberto Plaza, Maluma and Bad Bunny are some of the artists who will visit the city.

“We are very grateful and very happy. We can contribute a lot to the progress and development of the city. More than 2,000 indirect jobs generated by concerts, tourism and the arrival of tourists to the city,” said Santiago Camargo, an event organizer and businessman from Medellín.

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Afghans Protest, Say Entire $7 Billion Held in US Belongs to Them

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — 

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims, saying the money belongs to Afghans.

Protesters gathered outside Kabul’s grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.

Biden’s order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N. to provide aid to Afghans. The country’s economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into Afghanistan with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban.

Afghanistan’s Central Bank called on Biden to reverse his order and release the funds to it, saying in a statement Saturday that they belonged to the people of Afghanistan and not a government, party or group.

Torek Farhadi, a financial adviser to Afghanistan’s former U.S.-backed government, questioned the U.N. managing Afghan Central Bank reserves. He said those funds are not meant for humanitarian aid but “to back up the country’s currency, help in monetary policy and manage the country’s balance of payment.”

He also questioned the legality of Biden’s order.

“These reserves belong to the people of Afghanistan, not the Taliban. … Biden’s decision is one-sided and does not match with international law,” Farhadi said. “No other country on Earth makes such confiscation decisions about another country’s reserves.”

White House officials said there is no simple way to make all the frozen assets available quickly to the Afghan people.

Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their families have legal claims against the Taliban and the $7 billion in the U.S. banking system. Courts would have to sign off before the release of humanitarian assistance money and decide whether to tap the frozen funds for paying out those claims.

In all, Afghanistan has about $9 billion in assets overseas, including the $7 billion in the United States. The rest is mostly in Germany, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland.

“What about our Afghan people who gave many sacrifices and thousands of losses of lives?” asked the demonstration’s organizer, Abdul Rahman, a civil society activist.

Rahman said he planned to organize more demonstrations across the capital to protest Biden’s order.

“This money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, not to the United States. This is the right of Afghans,” he said.

Taliban political spokesperson Mohammad Naeem accused the Biden administration in a tweet late Friday of showing “the lowest level of humanity … of a country and a nation.”

Biden’s Friday order generated a social media storm with Twitter saying #USA_stole_money_from_afghan trending among Afghans. Tweets repeatedly pointed out that the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals, not Afghans.

Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University in Afghanistan and a social activist, tweeted: “Let’s remind the world that #AfghansDidntCommit911 and that #BidenStealingAfgMoney!”

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was brought to Afghanistan by Afghan warlords after being expelled from Sudan in 1996. Those same warlords would later ally with the U.S.-led coalition to oust the Taliban in 2001. However, it was Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who refused to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. after the devastating 9/11 attacks that killed thousands.

Still, some analysts took to Twitter to question Biden’s order.

Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the U.S.-based Wilson Center, called Biden’s order to divert $3.5 billion away from Afghanistan “heartless.”

“It’s great that $3.5B in new humanitarian aid for Afghanistan has been freed up. But to take another $3.5B that belongs to the Afghan people, and divert it elsewhere—that is misguided and quite frankly heartless,” he tweeted.

Kugelman also said the opposition to Biden’s order crossed Afghanistan’s wide political divide.

“I can’t remember the last time so many people of such vastly different worldviews were so united over a US policy decision on Afghanistan,” he tweeted.

50 years of the Conference of Ministers of Justice is held in Colombia

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Wilson Ruiz – Minister of Justice

Enrique Gil Botero – secretary general of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries.

RPTV NEWS AGENCY team:

Journalist: Liz Castrellon

Camera and Edition: John Reyes

BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Thursday, February 10, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). This 2022 will be held the 50th edition of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-America, which will be held between February 15 and 17 in Barranquilla, after the World Congress of Jurists will be held in the Atlantic capital on last December 2 and 3.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Peru are some of the 16 countries that have already confirmed their attendance at this event in which proposals for a new horizon in the Ibero-American Justice will be discussed.

“It is a true honor for Colombia to be the host country for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-America, which will bring together a select group of jurists,” said Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz.

In this sense, the head of the justice portfolio added that the event “will allow the promotion of institutional transformation processes and public justice policies as a contribution to the social welfare of the region.”

For his part, Enrique Gil Botero, general secretary of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries, stressed that the meeting will serve to analyze the contributions to the development of justice and the challenges in 2022.

“It is an event where the ministers of the 22 countries will examine the course of these 50 years in terms of public policies, in terms of international treaties,” he said.

For this conference, the participation of 22 Ibero-American countries is expected in which issues of justice, rights and democracy will be discussed based on what has been learned in half a century of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-America (Comjib).

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