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Thursday, 8 August 2024

BOLIVIA: Electoral authority criticises Arce’s referendum proposal

On 7 August a spokesperson for Bolivia’s supreme electoral court (TSE), Tahuichi Tahuichi Quispe, criticised President Luis Arce’s proposal to hold a multi-question referendum alongside overdue judicial elections.

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

BRAZIL: Annual deforestation down in Amazon

On 7 August Brazil’s environment ministry announced that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest from August 2023-July 2024 was down 45.7% compared to the same period in 2022-2023.

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

NICARAGUA: Brazil-Nicaragua relations sour

On 7 August the Nicaraguan and Brazilian press reported that the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega had ordered the expulsion of Brazil’s ambassador to Nicaragua Breno de Souza Brasil Dias da Costa, citing diplomatic...

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

MEXICO: Another setback in US arms trafficking lawsuit

On 7 August Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) responded to the decision by a federal US judge to dismiss much of the lawsuit it had presented against seven major US gun manufacturers and one wholesaler.

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

ARGENTINA: Milei responds to Fernández gender violence scandal

On 7 August Argentina’s President Javier Milei stated that the “only solution” to gender violence was to be tough on aggressors, the day after a complaint for alleged domestic violence was filed against former president Alberto...

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Thursday, 8 August 2024

In brief: Argentina’s mining and energy production up

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest index on mining and energy production, which shows a 3.3% rise year-on-year in June and an 8.2% year-on-year rise across the first six months of 2024. Crude...

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VENEZUELA: Returning to the negotiating table?

As Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election looms, the opposition is hoping for one last chance to level the playing field with some democratic concessions from President Nicolás Maduro. Negotiations between the government and the opposition seem poised to resume in Mexico. But hopes for a breakthrough will be muted, and the....

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ARGENTINA: Bullrich wins debate but all eyes now on peso

Patricia Bullrich was the strongest performer in the second presidential debate on 8 October in marked contrast to the previous week. Whether it is enough to catapult the candidate for the right-of-centre opposition coalition Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), into one of the top two berths in the first round....

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The LatinNews Podcast

On Episode 10 of The LatinNews Podcast, we ask Jo-Marie Burt, professor of political science and Latin American studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University about Guatemala's presidential elections.

Guatemalans will vote on 20 August in the second round of the presidential elections in which establishment candidate Sandra Torres is pitted against outsider Bernardo Arevalo. We discuss the complex tangle of Guatemala's political landscape, the symbolic significance of Arevalo's surprise success in the first round and how the corporate authoritarian elites might swing the elections to their favoured candidate.

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