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Tuesday, 29 September 2026
BRAZIL: Misinformation about Bolsonaro deepens judicial rivalries
On 28 September the president of Brazil’s superior electoral court (TSE) and a justice on the supreme court (STF), Kássio Nunes Marques, filed a complaint to the STF president, Edson Fachin, about recent rulings by rival STF justices over whether to restrict false information that has spread online about right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
HAITI: More gang violence in Artibonite
On 28 September the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)-authorised Gang Suppression Force (GSF) announced that three armed individuals had been killed in Haiti’s Gros-Morne commune, Artibonite department after its personnel came under fire.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
MEXICO: Gov’t reveals new evidence in Ayotzinapa case
On 28 September Mexico’s interior ministry (Segob) announced that four new lines of investigation have led to new evidence emerging in the Ayotzinapa case, in which 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Guerrero state disappeared in September 2014.
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
CHILE: Foreign minister faces questioning amid sovereignty concerns
On 28 September Chile’s Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna appeared before the lower chamber of congress to answer questions about Chile’s relationship with the US and Argentina, which have both been subject to recent controversy.
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