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Friday, 23 January 2026
Friday, 23 January 2026
BRAZIL: Lula shores up ties with Brics partners
On 22 January Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, in which Xi called for a deepening of bilateral cooperation and more efforts to defend the interests of the Global South and multilateral institutions.
Friday, 23 January 2026
HAITI: International alarm over efforts to eject PM
On 22 January the US, Canada, and the United Nations (UN) expressed alarm about suspected efforts within Haiti’s transitional presidential council (CPT) to eject Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.
Friday, 23 January 2026
MEXICO: Authorities arrest alleged leader of Michoacán extortion network
On 22 January security forces in Mexico announced the arrest of César Alejandro Sepúlveda Arellano, alias ‘El Botox’, who is accused of extorting lime growers in Michoacán state.
Friday, 23 January 2026
REGION: Peña urges ratification of EU-Mercosur deal
On 22 January Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña called for the swift ratification of the trade deal between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur by the legislatures of the South American bloc’s member states in the hope that it could pressure the EU to apply it provisionally after it suffered a setback in the European Parliament.
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