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Friday, 29 August 2025

BRAZIL: Authorities hail major money laundering bust

On 28 August Brazil’s federal police (PF) and other federal and state authorities launched a series of operations to raid properties and arrest suspects implicated in an alleged money laundering scheme involving the financial and fuel supply sectors.

Friday, 29 August 2025

HAITI: US proposes new force to tackle gangs

On 28 August Dorothy Shea, acting US representative to the United Nations (UN), told the UN Security Council (UNSC) that the US and Panama are drafting a resolution which would establish a ‘Gang Suppression Force’ in Haiti and a “UN Support Office to provide logistical support to efforts on the ground”.

Friday, 29 August 2025

MEXICO: Fistfight in the senate triggers legal action

On 28 August Mexico’s outgoing senate president, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, of the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), said he had submitted a formal complaint to the attorney general’s office (FGR) after a fistfight broke out during the final session of the permanent commission of congress involving himself and Senator Alejandro Moreno, the president of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

Friday, 29 August 2025

ARGENTINA: Violence mars election campaign

On 28 August a campaign event in Argentina’s north-eastern province of Corrientes involving Karina Milei, the general secretary of the presidency and President Javier Milei’s sister and most trusted adviser, had to be abandoned after an outbreak of violence between supporters of rival political parties.