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According to this @AP bombshell, “The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into #Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez.” https://t.co/n3u4Tl0QN2
Bolivian protests calling for center-right President Rodrigo Paz to resign intensified Monday as demonstrators swarmed government buildings and a protest leader faced terrorism charges over the unrest. https://t.co/Gzeh4uaJ0d
Reports began to run that #MORENA Sen Enrique Inzunza Cázares, sought by the US for #organizedcrime has been detained in San Diego, CA. If true, this is unprecedented--a seating senator is now in custody in the US. The issues #Mexico's government has to deal with will have grown.
When we initially reported in February that Saab was detained, the pushback was enormous. He is chilling at home, he’s totally fine, said his lawyers and associates. Declining to comment is an acceptable response to a journalist. Lying is not.
‘Hondurasgate’, la supuesta trama injerencista de Estados Unidos e Israel para desestabilizar a México y otros gobiernos progresistas
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Members of Salvadoran investigative news outlet El Faro, which has exposed gang negotiations an corruption in Bukele's government, have had their assets frozen, the outlet announced today
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Bloomberg News is hiring a bureau chief based in Bogotá to lead coverage of Colombia and Venezuela. It is, as you might imagine, a great job!
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The local Peru results are wild to analyze. There are departments where the top candidates nationally didn't even place among the top five candidates locally. Large segments of the country will feel completely unrepresented in the second round presidential campaign.
Peru looking increasingly likely to go to a run-off between Keiko Fujimori and Rafael López Aliaga, both right-wing candidates.
But Peru is not 'joining' the right-wing turn in Latin America.
It already turned right in 2023 under Dina Boluarte & a hyper-powerful congress...
UN Fact-Finding Mission on #Venezuela warns the recent Amnesty Law doesn't acknowledge govt responsibility, and doesn't set up a transparent pathway to independent investigations or other mechanisms to uncover the truth and bring reparations to victims. https://t.co/PUYrjETDA0
Crowds pack the station on opening day of the "Insurgente" train linking Mexico City to Toluca. Travel time drops from two hours to fifty minutes for 90 pesos ($5), and linked to subway. Turns out infrastructure in the public interest is popular—who knew?
NEW: Trump on Thursday will have lunch at 12:30pm with Nobel Peace Prize winner and #Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House
And there you have it. #Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice appoints Vice President @delcyrodriguezv as the country’s acting president, but sidesteps the specific constitutional language mentioning a timeline for new elections (see Articles 233/244)
“The U.S. decapitated Venezuela and I expect to see jockeying for power” says @ChrisSabatini. “This is not a democratic transition. It’s not even a regime change – yet"
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The president’s more aggressive approach to Latin America is welcomed by many in the Cuban diaspora. They see one of their own – Secretary of State Marco Rubio – as an architect of the shift that, for them, has been a long time coming. #cuba#rubio#castro https://t.co/7pemMt4MBk