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Monday, 30 March 2026
Monday, 30 March 2026
ECUADOR: CNE accused of meddling as elections moved forward
On 29 March the Comisión Nacional Anticorrupción (CNA), an Ecuadorean civil society organisation, accused the national electoral council (CNE) of becoming a “political operator” after it changed the date of regional elections in a move which could exclude the main left-wing opposition party Revolución Ciudadana (RC).
Monday, 30 March 2026
BRAZIL: Congress rejects report implicating Lula’s son in corruption scandal
On 28 March Brazil’s congress concluded its joint committee inquiry (CPMI) investigating the corruption scandal surrounding the national social security agency (INSS) that emerged last year, with the CPMI committee rejecting the final report presented by the inquiry's rapporteur, federal deputy Alfredo Gaspar, of the right-wing Partido Liberal (PL).
Monday, 30 March 2026
MEXICO: Gov’t addresses disappearances
On 27 March Mexico’s government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum presented the results of a review of the national registry of missing persons.
Monday, 30 March 2026
ARGENTINA: Major win in US court case
On 27 March a US appeals court annulled a US$16bn payment that Argentina had been ordered to pay by a lower US court to compensate former shareholders of its nationalised oil company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF).
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