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Friday, 30 May 2025
COLOMBIA: Gov’t attempts to defer fiscal reckoning until 2026
On 29 May business lobbies in Colombia raised alarm about a decree issued by the finance ministry the previous day that will bring forward some business tax payments due in 2026 to this year.
Friday, 30 May 2025
BRAZIL: Lula seeks to appease MST social movement
On 29 May Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurated the ‘Maila Sabrina’ rural settlement in the southern state of Paraná, which will be run by local family farmers.
Friday, 30 May 2025
MEXICO: Musicians murdered in alleged cartel killing
On 29 May authorities in Mexico’s northeastern state of Tamaulipas announced that five members of a musical group who disappeared in the border city of Reynosa on 25 May had been murdered by alleged drug cartel members.
Friday, 30 May 2025
ARGENTINA: Government cracks down on Tren de Aragua
On 29 May Argentina’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, said that an active cell of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan organised crime group that has spread across the Americas, had been broken up, with 12 people arrested in the federal capital and the provinces of Buenos Aires and Corrientes.
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