Representative Beto Preto has until Monday (17th) to reach a settlement in impropriety case
Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
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16/4/2025
Curitiba event addresses screen impact on families, urging parental responsibility.
Theimpacts of technologies, screens, on family formation and early childhoodeducation are highlighted in the 6th International Family and EducationSeminar, right now, this Saturday (23rd). In Curitiba, the maximum allowedcapacity in the Poty Lazzarotto Auditorium of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum isfilled with participants, and there are also those following online.
Fivepresentations are expected throughout the day. The first (Angela, alreadycompleted) and the second (Ana Maria, in progress) address the pre-pandemicworld, when an unprecedented stage of digitalization was being experienced.
ForAna Maria Araujo de Venegas (Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Universityof Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome), equipment and network connections create a newrelationship between the individual and the world, whereby a cell phone iscapable of commanding us: "find a Wi-Fi now!".
Regardingwhat we experienced before the coronavirus, "medicine challenged deathmany times. With each new discovery, we started living longer", recallsthe speaker.
In aninterview with Lab Jornalismo 2030, the National Secretary of the Family,Angela Gandra Martins (Ph.D. in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grandedo Sul), believes that parents must assume responsibilities regarding theirchildren's education, because they are protagonists in education. It is not,however, about hierarchical control.
AngelaGandra Martins, National Secretary of the Family:
Weare talking about a life project that children freely choose, and for whichthey have the support of their parents.
Regardingthe use of technologies and the possible imbalance in terms of time dedicatedto them, Angela catches some parents off guard.
Angela:
Whenwe talk about the problem of screens, we are not only talking about whatchildren watch, but about the preference of some parents for their cell phonesto the detriment of family interaction.
For information about thecomplete content, whether or not there are places available for today, or otherservice matters, use WhatsApp, at this link. The Seminar agenda is here.
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Digital tools reshape family bonds, impacting early childhood growth.
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Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
Federal Congressman for Paraná, Beto Preto (PSD), has until Monday (17th) to accept or reject a deal with the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). The summons was ordered by the 1st Court of Public Finance of Apucarana (PR), relating to a case of administrative impropriety.
As a condition for closing the case, the MP proposes that Preto compensate for damages and pay a fine of R$ 25,000. In the lawsuit, the prosecution points to losses to public funds caused by a fraudulent bidding process in 2013, amounting to R$ 127,194.43.
Beto Preto headed the Health Department in Paraná during the pandemic. It was then that he made a name for himself in the election that took him to Brasília. He is currently on Governor Ratinho Júnior's shortlist for succession to the Iguaçu Palace. If convicted of an act of impropriety, he could have his political rights suspended.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Beto Preto, then president of the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Ivaí Valley (Cisvir), contributed to a bid-rigging scheme by assisting a criminal organization led by the deceased businessman Marcelo Cernescu.
The then-president approved a bidding procedure without considering several irregularities. The scheme involved, according to the MP, shell companies and the contracting of services considered unnecessary because they should have been provided directly by the public administration.
In the initial petition, the prosecution describes illegalities in the bidding process for the contracting of an object described as "unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal".
Furthermore, the elements gathered in the investigation indicate that, to achieve the illicit objectives, regardless of the contracting municipality, a similar modus operandi was employed, consisting of a joint effort between public officials and businessmen of the group to "assemble" bidding processes for the contracting of an unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal object, whose acts bear clear indications of concealment.
—Initial petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
For the MP, the items in the bidding process do not justify hiring a private company, and it is a mere artifice "unequivocally created for the diversion of money from public coffers".
Congressman Beto Preto even had his assets frozen, along with the other defendants. Due to a change in the Administrative Improbity Law approved in 2021, the judge in the case ordered the unfreezing of the assets.
Micro-doc reveals Jenin camp reality, a symbol of Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.
Ten Palestinians were killed and one hundred injured by Israeli military forces in one of the largest operations against Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in years.
Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank, where Jenin is located, since 1967. This represents 56 years of illegal occupation, violating international law.
Palestinians are the largest refugee group in the world. They have lived in refugee status for 75 years, both abroad and within Palestine itself, without the right to return to their regions of origin or even to move freely within their own country.
Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation, the expulsion from their homes, and the chronic violence to which they are subjected.
We, writer and journalist Cassiana Pizaia, and analyst and journalist Vinícius Sgarbe, produced a micro-documentary about Jenin over a year ago, following two trips to the Middle East.
