Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Brazil’s right-wing has become enamored with the dictatorial government of recently (and unconstitutionally) re-elected Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: In a significant setback for Indigenous rights, on December 14th, 2023, the Brazilian congress overturned President Lula’s veto of several core elements of Bill 2,903/2023 which would have limited Indigenous land claims only to territories occupied during the adoption of the 1988 Constitution.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Brazilian minister Benjamin Zymler of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) has demanded that Petrobras and the Ministry of Mines and Energy provide information regarding possible irregularities in a 759 million-real contract with Unigel.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: On the eve of ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández’s U.S. trial for drug trafficking, current President of Honduras Xiomara Castro issued a statement affirming that she is dedicated to transforming the “narco-dictatorship” she inherited from her predecessor.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Chilean head of state Gabriel Boric issued a “mea culpa” to Sebastián Piñera at the recently deceased ex-president’s state funeral.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: As Peruvian prosecutors attempt to weave a tighter web around Pedro Castillo on far reaching corruption charges, various members of the ex-president’s retinue have chosen to cooperate with investigators in exchange for leniency.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: The Organization of American States (OEA) has announced a plan to observe the upcoming municipal elections in the Dominican Republic.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: The Carnival of Tepoztlán has been called off for the second year in a row for a number of reasons, including the circulation of a video in which an armed man violently threatened a woman.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Enterreno, a collaborative online platform, is dedicated to collecting photos of Chile from 1972–1982 in order to preserve the country’s history.
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Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Javier Milei, president of Argentina, recently visited Pope Francis in Vatican City.
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