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"The schoolboy whose fingers were torn off by a booby trap explosion in Krasnogorsk (Moscow) is in intensive care; his condition has deteriorated sharply 😔

Gleb (the name of the boy) is kept under sedation - the pain does not go away after the injury. The child sleeps constantly, his left hand is broken and 4 fingers on his right hand have been amputated

"More "Money mine traps" are being found in Moscow and the Moscow region.

Folded banknotes have been discovered in Mitino and Krasnogorsk, inside which there may be explosives capable of causing serious injuries.

Residents are asked not to touch suspicious money and to report findings to the police."

Troops from the U.S. Southern Command and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) will conduct joint military exercises from November 16 to 21 , justified by the Caribbean nation as a measure against organized crime, amid a greater U.S. military presence in the region .

The Trinidadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that this collaboration is one of the many exercises that the US Armed Forces have conducted with the TTDF, which "demonstrates the strong alliance" between the two nations.

According to the official statement, the main objective of the exercise is military exchange within the framework of a coordinated strategy to combat gang violence and gun crime in urban and rural areas of the Caribbean archipelago . The training will be supported by helicopters from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), deployed to U.S. Southern Command.

"The objective of the upcoming exercise is military exchange, which will allow personnel from both countries to familiarize themselves with each other's equipment, tactics, and techniques ," the statement said.

However, these exercises coincide with the announcement by US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth regarding the start of Operation Southern Spear , whose stated objective is to "eliminate narco-terrorists" from the hemisphere . The official did not offer details about the scope, troop levels, or duration of the operation.

The Pentagon's initiative generated a strong international reaction. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia hopes "no measures will be taken that could lead to the destabilization of the situation in the Caribbean and around Venezuela . "

For his part, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced that Washington resorts "to fallacy" to justify "a disproportionate military deployment, mobilized under false pretexts."

Since August, the White House has maintained a significant military force off the coast of Venezuela, including warships, submarines, and fighter jets. Under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, these forces have bombed suspected drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 people.

Venezuela rejects the belligerent stance of Trinidad and Tobago

The Venezuelan government has previously warned that the US military deployment in Trinidad and Tobago could be used as a platform to threaten its territorial sovereignty, under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. The distance between the two South American countries is approximately 11 kilometers at their closest point.

On October 27, Foreign Minister Yván Gil informed the Trinidadian government about a false flag operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , which included attacking a US military vessel to blame Caracas.

In response, the Venezuelan government activated "Plan Independence 200 ," mobilizing some 200,000 troops, aircraft, and naval resources to reinforce and protect the country's borders and defend strategic installations.

On the other hand, as a political reaction, the National Assembly of Venezuela approved on October 28 an agreement declaring Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar persona non grata , holding her responsible for facilitating CIA and Southern Command operations against Venezuela.

The agreement states that this stance constitutes a threat to peace in the Caribbean , a violation of the principles of CARICOM and the CELAC Proclamation as a Zone of Peace , and also affects regional stability and bilateral energy ties.

Foreign fighters from the Syrian army have recently been transferred from the country’s north to the border area with Lebanon, sources told The Cradle on 13 November.

“In recent days, groups of foreign fighters have been transferred from the Harem area in Idlib province to the city of Al-Qusayr, near the Syrian–Lebanese border, coinciding with the movement of heavy military equipment, including vehicles and armored units,” the sources said.

“At the same time, forces affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the ‘Syrian Transitional Government’ attempted to advance and take positions inside Lebanese territory, specifically in the Wadi al-Thalajat area of Ras al-Maara, along the Syrian–Lebanese border in the Damascus countryside,” the sources said, referring to barren areas where the Lebanese army is not present.

According to Lebanese media reports from the last two days, the deployments come as part of clashes between the Syrian army and ISIS cells facing the Lebanese town of Arsal, in border areas on the Syrian side.

Just days ago, the US announced Syria’s official entry into Washington’s ‘anti-ISIS’ coalition, which was formed in 2014 and followed by a widespread US military occupation of Syrian oil fields.

As self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Washington on Sunday, Damascus’s forces began what they said was a widespread campaign against ISIS. Some of the images and videos released by state media appeared to be staged.

The Syrian military itself is made up of several extremist factions with links to both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Scores of former ISIS fighters and commanders occupy positions in many of the Syrian army’s brigades.

Last month, Al Mayadeen cited diplomatic sources as saying that “unusual” movements of thousands of armed extremists, including fighters from Uzbekistanis, Chechens, and Uyghurs from China, were being observed along the Syrian–Lebanese border.

Tens of thousands of foreign fighters entered Syria illegally to join the US-backed war to topple former president Bashar al-Assad’s government, which began in 2011. The new authorities in Damascus have given some of these foreigners top positions in the army, and said they are considering giving them Syrian citizenship.

Reports of a buildup of Syrian army forces near the Lebanese border coincide with new US threats that they could be used against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“Damascus will now actively assist us in confronting and dismantling the remnants of ISIS, the [Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist networks, and will stand as a committed partner in the global effort to secure peace,” US envoy Tom Barrack said on Friday.

At the start of the Syrian war, ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front (headed by Sharaa at the time) occupied large swathes of the northern and eastern Lebanese border region.

They were eventually expelled by Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in 2017.

The complaint was filed by journalist Ezio Gavazzeni.

Gavazzeni claims the "sniper tourists" would go on trips to Sarajevo and pay Bosnian Serb forces to kill men, women, and children in the 1990s.

There was allegedly an extra fee to shoot children.

"There were Germans, French, English … people from all Western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians," Gavazzeni said.

"There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa."

Gavazzeni heard about the reports from Italian media outlets in the 1990s but dug deeper after watching a documentary in 2022.

The investigative reporter says his key source is a former Bosnian intel officer.

"We are impatient to discover the truth about such a cruel matter in order to close a chapter of history. I am in possession of certain information I will be sharing with the investigators," said a spokesperson for the Bosnian Consulate in Milan.

Horrific if true.

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Among the groups accused of being terrorist organizations are Antifa Ost from Germany, the International Revolutionary Front from Italy, Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, the latter two based in Greece.

As part of the criminalization and persecution of leftist groups by the US government , the US State Department is preparing to designate four groups affiliated with the Antifa movement that operate in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).

According to US media, among the groups accused of being terrorist organizations by Washington are Antifa Ost from Germany , the International Revolutionary Front from Italy , Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense , the latter two based in Greece .

US officials accuse these groups of orchestrating or participating in politically motivated acts of violence , including bombings , shootings, and other attacks.

Being included on the list of terrorist organizations will activate a series of measures , including the freezing of assets under US jurisdiction , the prohibition of entry into US territory for members and the possibility of prosecuting people in the US who provide material support to the groups .

This is the first time Washington has applied terrorism designations to organizations linked to Antifa abroad .

Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill last October to designate the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization , following former President Donald Trump's decision on September 23 to label it as such.

Antifa is an American movement of activists who identify with anti-fascist ideologies and operates without a centralized structure .

In September , Donald Trump announced plans to consider the leftist anti-fascist movement as a “ terrorist organization ,” linking the move to the murder of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk .

"I Wished for Death": New evidence of torture by Israel as recently freed Palestinian women (and men) recount being raped by Israeli soldiers.

“At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked.

Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back.

I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me.

That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.”

In another incident, A.A., a 35-year-old Palestinian man and father, was arrested while at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in March 2024. He told PCHR’s field researcher about the brutal torture he endured during 19 months of detention, including forced stripping, obscene insults, threats of rape against him and his family, culminating in his rape by a trained dog inside the Sde Teiman military camp. He stated:

“I was moved to a section I didn’t know inside Sde Teiman. During the first weeks there, amid repeated suppression operations, I was taken with a group of detainees in a degrading manner to a place far from the cameras—a passage between sections. We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me. Then one of the dogs raped me—the dog did it deliberately, knowing exactly what it was doing, and inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces. The dog’s assault lasted about three minutes; the overall suppression lasted about three hours. Because of the severe beating, all of us sustained injuries across our bodies. I suffered a severe psychological breakdown and deep humiliation; I lost control because I could never have imagined experiencing such a thing. Afterward, a doctor stitched a wound in my head caused by the torture—seven stitches without anesthesia. I also suffered bruises, fractures in my limbs, and a rib fracture.”

Former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford confessed to having participated—alongside the British secret service MI6—in a project to “remove from the world of terrorism and bring into politics” the leader of ISIS*, Abdulkadir al-Golani, whose real name is Ahmed Sharaa.

According to Ford, a British NGO invited him in 2023 to collaborate in this “conversion,” and he ended up meeting personally with Golani, who acknowledged that “brutal tactics in Iraq don't work when you have to govern four million people.”

Most surprisingly, Golani, now presented by the West as a “moderate Syrian opposition figure,” has never apologized for the attacks committed by his organization in Iraq or Syria.

Ford's statement reveals what many analysts suspected: the West does not eliminate extremists, it recycles them when it suits its geopolitical interests.

In his words, “we help bring him from the world of terrorists to the world of politics.”

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Reposting this from the Hexbear news mega because i think that it deserves more attention and it may not be entirely clear to people outside of Germany exactly what this means. I made the following comment there:

He’s wrong of course. Poland is not as great a threat as Russia, it’s actually a way bigger threat to Germany than Russia.

Russia keeps asking for a thorough investigation into the Nordstream terrorist attack. Poland keeps justifying the attack and defending the (alleged) perpetrators. Their FM even celebrated it on Twitter and thanked the USA for it. Poland lobbied hard against Nordstream from the very start. Why? Because Poland is an aggressive competitor whose long term strategy is replacing Germany as the EU’s industrial powerhouse.

Russia doesn’t view Germany as a competitor in the same way Poland does. Russia has much more global interests and is not interested in these European power struggles. For decades Russia always had a symbiotic relationship with Germany, subsidizing German industry with cheap energy. Destroying German energy supplies is tantamout to destroying German industry. And who benefits? USA of course but also Poland. Not Russia.

The AfD are fascist scum but they are also politically savvy. They are not wrong to point at how Poland is damaging German interests. They will absolutely win support with this from people who are sick and tired of this German government acting against German national interests to please their Washington masters. I don’t think people here realize just how popular the AfD is in Germany, simply because it is often the only real opposition to the “Systemparteien” (establishment parties).

The more that the establishment continues to destroy Germany’s economy for the sake of this insane anti-Russia crusade that is being now waged by the European elites, the more ground the AfD will gain from disaffected German citizens. Despite the overwhelming propaganda in the establishment media a lot of Germans are not stupid and they can see that the current government’s policies are actively hurting the German economy.

The German left needs to undercut this maneuver by the far right by coming out clearly in favor of a much more transparent Nordstream investigation, and pushing back strongly against continuing down this suicidal path of confrontation with Russia! Else we are just giving the far right a free win when we allow them to monopolize the “sane” (in the eyes of many Germans) position of standing up for German interests against the insane, warmongering EU elites.

Another thing to add is that in the broader picture we should expect to see more of this kind of European infighting. As the overall economic and political situation in Europe deteriorates, the contradictions between EU countries' national interests will become more pronounced.

Whereas when times are good you can paper over these mutually antagonistic interests and keep some kind of "EU consensus" by distributing the wealth, when the overall pie shrinks and competition increases over scarce resources we see more and more nationalistic animosities emerge in Europe.

Whether or not the iron fist of Brussels alone, as the US is now disengaging, is strong enough to repress these national interests and keep the whole artificial construct together is questionable. Already for years we've been seeing the perennial dissenter Hungary at odds with the bloc. Now you can probably add Slovakia and Czechia.

As conditions continue to deteriorate, more and more countries, including eventually also Germany, will inevitably start to reassert their national interests against their neighbors. The crumbling establishment will not be able to keep the lid on the boiling fascist pot down for much longer.

The social democratic consensus is dead. The neoliberal path is a dead end. It is up to the socialist left to present a real alternative to the fascist vision for Europe.

The French government declared on Tuesday that the crimes committed by the United States in the Caribbean , as well as the deployment of military forces in the region , constitute serious violations of international law .

The announcement was made by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot , who warned that Caribbean nations are exposed to constant danger due to the US military presence.

Barrot stressed that, by ignoring international norms, it is vitally important to avoid an escalation of the conflict , which could have adverse consequences for regional stability.

The minister recalled that France maintains a presence on several Caribbean islands , where more than one million French citizens live , and highlighted this point during his speech in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada , at the G7 meeting .

The statement came just hours after the United States expanded its deployment in the Caribbean Sea with the addition of the USS Gerald Ford , considered the world's largest aircraft carrier , whose jurisdiction covers Central America, South America and the Caribbean .

Several Latin American governments have stated that this US maneuver represents a threat to the sovereignty of their people , even though Washington justifies it as part of its strategy against drug trafficking.

In response to the situation, Venezuela announced the deployment of 200,000 troops across the country as a preventative measure against what it described as international threats .

The French statement adds to regional criticism and raises concerns about a potential escalation of diplomatic and military tensions in the Caribbean, where the presence of foreign forces is generating worries about a possible increase in confrontation.

With a powerful message, they denounced the hypocrisy of a state that commits ecocide in Gaza while claiming to talk about environmental protection. Shouting " FreePalestine 🇵🇸!", the Israeli representative was expelled from the room.

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Dozens of protesters stormed the restricted area of ​​the UN climate summit at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, on Tuesday to protest the impact of global warming on human health. The situation created a moment of chaos at the venue as many delegation members were preparing to leave.

André Vieira, a correspondent for teleSUR, reported that earlier in the morning, members of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) occupied the Agrizone headquarters at COP30, denouncing agribusiness as the main culprit behind the climate crisis . The area is located about two kilometers from the Blue Zone, the official COP30 negotiation area, in a space organized by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EBRA), part of the host government.

The participants bypassed security checkpoints and entered the lobby of the large UN-run tent, where climate negotiations are taking place during the event, after dark. "The climate crisis is a health crisis!" was one of the slogans chanted by the protesters, who included healthcare professionals and Amazonian indigenous people, until they were removed by UN authorities.

The protesters denounced the health effects of climate change in the Amazon, stating that these effects are not limited to areas of the region where they claim cases of dengue fever and respiratory illnesses have increased due to rising temperatures . Their complaints encompassed the proliferation of various diseases, and they advocated halting the extraction of fossil fuels, a major cause of global warming, and seeking short-term solutions to address what is already a reality.

During the demonstration organized by the MST, participants represented death with plates containing soy, tomato, and orange, adorned with a skull; others carried backpack sprayers labeled "glyphosate" to denounce the massive use of pesticides and chanted songs denouncing the harmful effects of this model. Divina López, national coordinator of the MST, stated that "the space has been dominated by agribusiness, which seeks to increase its profits and build its image as 'green,' at the expense of nature and communities . "

Among the event's sponsors are Bayer, Syngenta, Nestlé, and PepsiCo, and the major agribusiness entities have a strong presence at the event. André Vieira pointed out that Syngenta is "responsible for a quarter of the agrochemical profenofos, a poison found in the drinking water of millions of people ," Bayer "faces 170,000 lawsuits for contamination caused by its products," and Nestlé "produces—according to its own data—54% of its products with very low safety standards . "

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BRASILIA - Members of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA) are working to include a section in the anti-gang bill, authored by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government, to characterize the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) as a criminal organization.

The president of the FPA, Pedro Lupion (Republicanos-PR), had already presented an amendment on Tuesday, the 11th, which prohibits the State from offering protection to groups "involved in the practice of crimes against private or public property".

This Wednesday, the 12th, after the presentation of the last report by Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), Lúcio Mosquini (MDB-RO) presented another amendment that includes an article in the Law on Criminal Organizations, which would classify as such groups that have "the purpose of invading rural properties, degrading environmental preservation areas, destroying native vegetation, practicing extortion against rural landowners or any related crimes".

"Such conduct, although often disguised as political or social acts, constitutes genuine organized criminal activity, with a hierarchical structure, division of tasks, and self-financing," Mosquini explained.

This amendment has the support of 23 other deputies - among them the leader of the PL, Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), and the leader of the Republicanos, Gilberto Abramo (MG). Republicanos is the party of the Speaker of the House, Hugo Motta (PB). Mosquini is responsible for the rural debt commission of the FPA.

In the new text presented, Derrite backtracked and withdrew proposed changes to the anti-terrorism law and sections that could alter the powers of the Federal Police in response to criticism from the government.

The expectation is that the Chamber will vote on the anti-gang bill this Wednesday.

Venezuelans deported from the U.S. to El Salvador suffered torture, abuse, and even sexual violence during their imprisonment at CECOT, reports the NGO HRW.

“The cases of torture and ill-treatment of Venezuelans in El Salvador were not isolated incidents committed only by a few abusive guards or riot police, but [also] systematic human rights violations,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement issued Wednesday entitled “They Arrived in Hell: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).”

The HRW report, prepared in collaboration with the NGO Cristosal, warns that these migrants have also been victims of “forced disappearances and other serious human rights violations.”

Between March and April, some 252 Venezuelans arrived in El Salvador without any evidence being presented of their links to criminal gangs, following an agreement between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele.

The document states that these prisoners were transferred to CECOT in El Salvador despite evidence of “serious violations in Salvadoran prisons”.

HRW accused the Trump Administration of being “complicit in torture, enforced disappearance and other abuses” and demanded that US authorities “end deportations to El Salvador and any other country where people are at risk of being tortured.”

“The Trump Administration paid El Salvador millions of dollars to arbitrarily detain Venezuelans, who were then subjected almost daily to brutal beatings by Salvadoran security forces… it is complicit in these abuses and should stop sending people to El Salvador or any other country where they risk being tortured,” said Juanita Goebertus, director of the Americas Division of HRW.

Venezuelans deported to El Salvador

HRW and Cristosal researchers interviewed 40 of the Venezuelans who were detained at CECOT and another 150 people, including family members and lawyers.

The report notes that approximately half of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT had no criminal convictions and only 3 percent had been convicted in the U.S. for a violent or potentially violent crime.

According to information obtained by the NGO, the US government recently provided at least $4.7 million (€4 million) to San Salvador to cover, among other things, the costs of detaining these individuals.

'They arrived in hell'

“The nightmare began as soon as I was taken off the plane,” says the report, which quotes Gonzalo, a 26-year-old from Zulia state, Venezuela, who said that a guard hit him on the back of the neck with a stick as he got off the plane.

Those interviewed by HRW and Cristosal reported that the guards periodically beat them with kicks, punches, and batons.

“They would take us all out of the cell, put us in a search position, kneeling, handcuffed behind our backs with our arms above our heads, and beat us with batons, kicks and punches, and then leave us kneeling for 30 or 40 minutes,” said another Venezuelan prisoner, Tirso Z.

Claiming to be frequently beaten by the guards, another Venezuelan prisoner, José Mora, stated that “[The guards] tortured us physically and psychologically.”

“When we protested, they shot us point-blank with rubber bullets, right inside the cell… we were like chickens or rats locked up… and they shot us with rubber bullets,” he added.

While world leaders gather at the UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, in northern Brazil, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is presenting its own proposals to confront the climate crisis, and the capitalist model it argues is behind it. The People’s Summit, an autonomous event organized by grassroots movements from 62 countries, runs from Wednesday (12) to Sunday (16) alongside the official COP.

In an interview with Radio BdF, MST national leader Ayala Ferreira said the movement sees popular agrarian reform and agroecology as concrete paths toward transformation. “Popular agrarian reform is both a necessity and a solution when we talk about confronting the environmental crisis, the capitalist system, and global warming,” she said.

Ferreira emphasized that rural communities have long developed practices of resistance rooted in land democratization and agricultural methods aligned with the limits of nature. She added that MST will bring to the COP “the voices of our rural comrades” and examples of settlements that have become models in environmental restoration and healthy food production.

The movement’s activities during the week include fairs, seminars, and field visits to agrarian reform settlements, as well as participation in the “barquiata”, a riverboat protest marking the start of popular participation at the COP, and the March for Climate and Solidarity Among Peoples, scheduled for Saturday (15). Around 1,300 MST members are expected to take part.

“We will present our national plan to plant trees, produce healthy food, and strengthen education and rural culture,” Ferreira said. “We want to show that the countryside is a territory of life, not of the destructive logic of capitalism.”

The MST will also set up a ‘resistance front’ at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), featuring agrarian reform products and debates on food sovereignty. Visitors will be invited to take part in the ‘paths of agroecology’, a series of immersion activities in nearby settlements.

“Belém will become a melting pot of good practices, good experiences, and powerful encounters,” Ferreira said. “We will make history at COP30 with the largest popular participation ever seen at a climate conference.”