LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Brazil's crowdfunded insurrection leaves paper trail for police

Colombia police seize grenades, dozens of guns belonging to dissidents BOGOTA - Colombia's national police said on Monday they confiscated an arsenal of weapons, including guns, grenades and a machine gun belonging to dissidents from the now-disbanded FARC rebel group.

The latest in Latin American politics today:

Brazil's crowdfunded insurrection leaves paper trail for police In Brazil, a wildly successful government-run payments system, Pix, has become a key financial pillar underpinning former president Jair Bolsonaro's election-denial movement, allowing his most ardent fans to crowdfund alternative media outlets and far-right demonstrations.

But now, as authorities seek to identify the funders of the Brasilia riots by Bolsonaro supporters on Jan. 8, the same tool that helped to forge the insurgent movement will be used by investigators to take it down, around a dozen police and anti-money laundering officials told Reuters. Colombia police seize grenades, dozens of guns belonging to dissidents

BOGOTA - Colombia's national police said on Monday they confiscated an arsenal of weapons, including guns, grenades and a machine gun belonging to dissidents from the now-disbanded FARC rebel group. Though the Estado Mayor Central dissidents have rejected the 2016 peace deal signed by the FARC, they agreed to a recent ceasefire with the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro, who has promised to make peace or surrender deals with Colombia's armed groups.

The arsenal of 33 guns, a M-60 machine gun, grenades, more than 30,000 bullets and uniforms was being transported in two vehicles found abandoned in Narino province, in southwestern Colombia. Mexico president names National Guard commander to senior security role

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador named the commander of the country's National Guard as deputy security minister Monday, the latest in a string of appointments of former military members to serve in civilian roles. General Luis Rodriguez will join the security ministry, Lopez Obrador said at a regular news conference, and David Cordova will replace him to take the helm of the National Guard.

Brazil's Lula doesn't intend to revoke labor, pension reforms, VP says SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva does not intend to revoke the country's labor and pension reforms, two market-friendly moves passed by Congress in recent years, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday.

Alckmin, who is also Lula's minister of industry and trade, reiterated at an event hosted by Sao Paulo's industry group FIESP that the government would now push for a tax reform in Latin America's largest economy. Colombia arrests two more suspects in Paraguayan prosecutor's murder

BOGOTA - Two more people suspected of participating in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor have been arrested, the Colombian prosecutor's office said on Sunday. Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, 45, known for fighting organized crime, was shot dead on the island of Baru near the Caribbean city of Cartagena while honeymooning with his wife.

Four people have already been jailed in Colombia for their involvement in his killing, and a man in Venezeula was arrested in December. (Compiled by Steven Grattan Editing by Alistair Bell)

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