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Tuesday, 26 September 2023
BRAZIL: Lula downplays gender and race as factors in STF pick
On 25 September Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said at a press conference that “there is no need to ask the question of gender or colour” when asked by journalists if he would nominate a female judge to replace the supreme court (STF) justice Rosa Weber, the current STF president, who is due to retire after turning 75 on 2 October.
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
CUBA: US condemns attack on Cuban embassy
On 25 September US officials condemned an attack the previous day on the Cuban embassy in Washington DC, in which a man reportedly threw two Molotov cocktails at the building.
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
MEXICO: Security forces deployed to Chiapas
On 25 September Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his government had increased security presence in the border region of Chiapas state.
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
ARGENTINA: Milei blasts Massa over ‘unity’ proposal
On 25 September Javier Milei, the far-right populist candidate leading the presidential polls in Argentina, accused the two coalitions with which he is competing of being one and the same, representing a political establishment that is on borrowed time.
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