Where is Gonzalo Lira? Fears for YouTuber missing in Ukraine's Kharkov article

#1. Zakharova is a very big fish and Lira a tiny little puffer fish. Why should she say anything at all? She only elevates his seeming importance.

#2. Lira is a guy with a few cameras who talks on the internet. This makes him a journalist and producer? If so, he is one of a billion such producers and journalists.

#3. Nobody said those were real Ukro Stasis. Get some uniforms and a few dudes, write the script and produce it (!) boom done. I especially liked the little Ukro symbol dish towel hanging on the ceiling. And the toilet scene…really? Unless perhaps you have some kind of fetish.
 
There is a possible RT connection. It is important to note the Duran was started by an RT mucky muck. Lira appeared several times on the Duran. And also important that Lira said he worked for the CIA. This appeared in numerous South American newspaper articles but, Lira seems to not mention this in his USA personna. Zakharova calls him a Chileno but avoids his US citizenship. Interesting.
 
Or, a simple alternative:

#1. Zakharova is a very big fish and Lira a tiny little puffer fish. Why should she say anything at all? She only elevates his seeming importance.

#1. There was no „Gonzalo conspiracy“ from the get-go in the form of him being any kind of „undercover agent“ or „not really in the position he claims“ and Zakharova did the only right thing: She used her power to try to help the guy. „Why should she say anything at all?“. That’s pretty obvious: to try to help a person who has put himself in a very dangerous situation by telling the truth, which could very well end up in him being tortured and/or killed.

#2. Lira is a guy with a few cameras who talks on the internet. This makes him a journalist and producer? If so, he is one of a billion such producers and journalists.

#2. Again, Zakharova is simply doing the right thing: try to use her power to help a person.

#3. Nobody said those were real Ukro Stasis. Get some uniforms and a few dudes, write the script and produce it (!) boom done. I especially liked the little Ukro symbol dish towel hanging on the ceiling. And the toilet scene…really? Unless perhaps you have some kind of fetish.

#3. When a conspiracy is created on weak foundations, and it is tried to approach anything further under this premise, a even bigger conspiracy needs to be invoked to make „the facts“ fit.

There is a possible RT connection. It is important to note the Duran was started by an RT mucky muck. Lira appeared several times on the Duran. And also important that Lira said he worked for the CIA. This appeared in numerous South American newspaper articles but, Lira seems to not mention this in his USA personna. Zakharova calls him a Chileno but avoids his US citizenship. Interesting.

See the last point above. Sometimes a spade is just a spade.
 
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Igor Kolomoisky and Gonzalo Lira

Premiered Apr 7, 2022 Real Talk with Zuby Podcast
Gonzalo Lira Lopez is a Chilean who has lived in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for years and was in Kyiv at the start of the offensive. He shares his thoughts and observations on the conflict in a run of YouTube videos and posts on Telegram and Twitter.

On May 5, we learned that the Security Service of Ukraine detained Chilean journalist and producer Gonzalo Angel Quintilio Lira Lopez. His lot remains unknown at this point.

The Latin American video blogger had been commenting on the events in Ukraine from the epicenter. He explained in detail the sources of the crisis and covered the atrocities of the Nazis, which was not to their taste once again.

This is not his first disappearance. A little more than a year ago (on April 15, 2022) he stopped contacting other people. It turned out that he was being held by Ukrainian secret services who had seized his notebooks and deprived him of access to his accounts. Then they had to release him because of the broad media coverage of his disappearance.

The Security Service of Ukraine is holding him once again, and we urge the journalist community to defend our colleague and demand his immediate release.

In the year of the 50th anniversary of the fascist state coup in Chile, we need to prevent a very similar repetition of those events in Ukraine. The coup led to the forced disappearance of thousands of Chileans, including journalists. We hope for solidarity from the Chilean authorities that consider themselves Salvador Allende’s spiritual heirs.
 
by Space Worm Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 21:38

American YouTuber and columnist Gonzalo Lira was arrested in Ukraine at the start of May because he “publicly justified” the Russian invasion, according to a press release by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The statement says that Lira “has the citizenship of one of the countries of Latin America” but omits that he is also California-born U.S. citizen.

Lira is a resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine and was an outspoken critic of the nation’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Lira has written financial columns, published in Business Insider and even here at ZeroHedge. His Twitter account is still up, and a brief look reveals that — whether you agree with him or not on all stances — his opinions are largely in line with much of the American right. The SBU claimed to have confiscated “mobile phones and a computer with evidence of illegal activity” from Lira’s apartment but no such evidence was made public.

Lira has been charged under sections 2 and 3 of Article 436-2 of Ukraine’s criminal code, which was augmented at the start of the invasion to criminalize the “distribution of materials” that justify Russia’s actions in Ukraine going back to 2014. The law specifically outlaws portraying any military dispute “financed by [the] Russian Federation” in Ukraine as an “internal civil conflict,” a law The New York Times and Wired Magazine are in violation of.

The Ukrainian government has frequently claimed that the violent conflicts in the Donbas region — which killed over 10,000 people between 2014 and 2020 — were financed and armed by the Russians. However, a former NATO official in charge of investigating arms shipments into the Donbas from 2014 to 2018 found that “there were no deliveries of weapons and military equipment from Russia” and instead that most arms were smuggled by defecting Ukrainian soldiers. This official could have been imprisoned under Article 436-2 as well.

Lira faces up to 13 years in prison if he is convicted of both charges.

Of course, American journalists are not as indignant over Lira’s arrest as they are over that of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter being detained in Russia. Federal Reserve minion Nick Timairos did not change his Twitter profile to signal “solidarity” with Lira.

Biden did not praise Lira’s “absolute courage” for speaking against the regime which he lived under nor does it appear the administration has any intent of negotiating his release, two actions it has taken on behalf of Gershkovich.

Daily Beast was the sole mainstream outlet to cover Lira and only did so to slander him.

Each of these individuals was imprisoned for speech and speech alone. Holding a principle in favor of freedom of expression would require standing up for these writers equally. Given the leverage we have over Ukraine, securing the release of Lira would not take so much as a phone call.

Stil, when asked about whether the Biden State Department was aware of Lira’s arrest and if they are working to get him freed, newly appointed spokesperson Mathew Miller said the department is aware of the matter but went no further:



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Gonzalo Lira’s Father Pleads With The US: “He’s Facing 6-8 Years in Prison for Speaking His Mind”​





 
Gonzalo reappeared, he says that he was tortured and part of his money was stolen, he alleges that he was imprisoned for his YouTube videos and that perhaps they released him due to pressure from the Chilean embassy, now he has skipped his trial and is riding a motorcycle to Hungary to request political asylum:


I saw this as well. I’ve posted the videos in the “Where is Gonzalo Lira!” thread. I pray he gets through into Hungary.
 
People in YT comments are suggesting he should go straight to Serbia:
Gonzalo, I hope you made it safe to Hungary, but don’t stay there, don’t get the asylum, go straight to Serbia and get a ticket to Russia or visit the embassy first and discuss your situation. Russian foreign ministry will help you out.
Listen to me, Gonzalo, if you enter Hungary, don't stop there and play asylum card with EU institutions, Orban might appear only one sane in current EU mad house, but Hungary has one of the toughest asylum procedures in the world... So, if you pass border with Hungary, go straight to Serbia, use your USA passport to enter (no VISA needed), and when you enter -- you don't need to do anything, just enjoy freedom. Serbia don't have extradition agreement with USA, from obvious reasons, and that means you are non-existing for Serbian authorities even if USA government issue warrant for you. There you can relax, rest, eat, be a simple tourist, no need to endure administration asylum process, and in next few days simply go to airport and take plane for whatever part of Free World you want, Russia, China, Chile (thank God for that Chilean passport), even to USA if you are eager, but in your place, I would pick some country that is not in love with Ukraine, some no-NATO country, just in case...
Things are getting very dicey for Gonzalo. 😟
 
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