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Monday, 07 July 2025
COLOMBIA: Key suspect in assassination attempt arrested
On 5 July Colombian police arrested Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias ‘El Costeño’, the alleged coordinator of the 7 June assassination attempt against senator and presidential aspirant Miguel Uribe Turbay.
Monday, 07 July 2025
SURINAME: National assembly elects country’s first female president
On 6 July Suriname’s parliament elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons of the main opposition party, the populist Nationale Democratische Partij (NDP), as the country’s president.
Monday, 07 July 2025
MEXICO: Gov’t launches plan to combat extortion
On 6 July Mexico’s Public Security Minister Omar García Harfuch presented the national strategy against extortion as part of the wider security strategy of the government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Monday, 07 July 2025
ARGENTINA: PJ to present joint electoral list
On 6 July the governor of Argentina’s most populous province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, announced that the Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) would stand united in the provincial legislative elections on 7 September and the federal congressional mid-term elections on 26 October.
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