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Thursday, 17 October 2024
COLOMBIA: Ceasefire extended with three EMC factions
On 16 October Colombia’s government extended a bilateral ceasefire with the three factions of the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) guerrilla alliance that remain engaged in peace talks.
Thursday, 17 October 2024
BRAZIL: Lula shores up ties with banking sector
On 16 October Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted a meeting to strengthen ties with the national banking federation (Febraban) and the country’s largest private banks.
Thursday, 17 October 2024
NICARAGUA: Activist warns of new wave of property confiscations
On 16 October Gonzalo Carrió, a member of Nicaraguan human rights NGO Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua Nunca Más (CDHNN+), denounced a new wave of illegal property seizures by the authoritarian Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega.
Thursday, 17 October 2024
MEXICO: Hefty sentence for former security chief
On 16 October Mexico’s former public security minister Genaro García Luna (2006-2012) was sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison for accepting bribes from a major drug trafficking organisation (DTO).
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