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Wednesday, 08 May 2024
BRAZIL: Senate approves legislation for flood response funding
On 7 May Brazil’s senate approved a bill (PDL 236/2024) which will facilitate more government funding to address the heavy storms and floods which have been afflicting the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
GUATEMALA/REGION: Arévalo hosts regional migration summit
On 7 May Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo hosted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, among 21 Western Hemisphere leaders, who gathered in Guatemala to attend a ministerial meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, a 2022 agreement signed by the US and other countries to coordinate a regional response to migration.
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
MEXICO: Trump persists with plans for direct action against DTOs
On 7 May US magazine Rolling Stone reported that former US president Donald Trump (2017-2021), who is running as a candidate in the US elections this November, is considering sending “kill teams” into Mexico to assassinate the leaders of drug trafficking organisations (DTOs), should he win a second term.
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
CHILE: Mapuche leader sentenced
On 7 May Héctor Llaitul, the leader of Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), the armed Mapuche separatist movement active in the south of Chile, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a court in Temuco, the capital of La Araucanía region, for “violent usurpation of property, theft and attacks against authority”.
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