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Latin Brief Weekly: X v Xandão

EnergiesNet — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:42:26 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Aug 30, 2024 Jordana Timerman Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes escalated a feud with billionaire Elon Musk yesterday — and Brazil is bracing for a potential shutdown in access to the X social media platform. The feud started earlier this year, when Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts …

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Latam Brief: All you ever wanted to know about Venezuela’s election on Sunday

EnergiesNet — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:50:41 +0000

Internally, González’s support across time and multiple polls remains strong. Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuelans will vote in a watershed presidential election on Sunday. The election is neither free nor fair, Nicolás Maduro’s government has engaged in years of political repression, and drastically limited independent media and civil society. Nonetheless, it is the most significant …

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Latam Brief: Venezuela presidential campaign starts officially

EnergiesNet — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:21:56 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuela’s presidential campaign season officially started yesterday — the vote will be July 28, amid significant uncertainty. President Nicolás Maduro faces his most serious challenge yet as opinion polls favor the opposition, but in a context of ongoing repression against critics, nobody expects a fair election. Experts say Maduro is unlikely …

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Latam Brief: Sheinbaum invites debate on Plan C

EnergiesNet — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:59:42 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said she will encourage broad discussions over constitutional reforms advocated by her political mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The most controversial is a judicial overhaul that would make Supreme Court judges an electoral position, a proposal that has spooked markets as investors fear an accelerated reform …

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Latam Brief: Ortega backtracks on canal plan

EnergiesNet — Thu, 09 May 2024 21:15:41 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Nicaragua’s congress cancelled a concession for a controversial canal project that would link the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The Ortega government touted it as an economic juggernaut, while critics said it would displace rural communities along the canal’s projected path and create massive environmental damage. (Associated Press) The project was …

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Latam Brief: Glas hospitalized

EnergiesNet — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:54:22 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Former Ecuadorean vice-president Jorge Glas was taken to a hospital yesterday from the maximum security jail where he has been held since being captured in last week’s embassy raid, reports the Guardian. He had apparently refused to eat since being transferred to “La Roca” in Guayaquil on Friday night. (See yesterday’s …

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Latam Brief: Venezuelan opposition names placeholder candidate

EnergiesNet — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:47:44 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuela’s Democratic Unitary Platform, a coalition of opposition parties, obtained a last minute window of negotiation for a ballot space in July presidential elections, after electoral authorities prevented its candidate from registering by Monday’s deadline. Yesterday the PUD secretary general Omar Barboza revealed that an unnamed candidate (known as number 13) …

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Latam Brief: Haiti gang attacks continue

EnergiesNet — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:38:58 +0000

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Latam Brief: Bolsonaro holds super big rally in Sao Paulo

EnergiesNet — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:27:11 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rallied in São Paulo yesterday, a show of political strength for the far-right leader who could face jail time in a series of criminal investigations. (Guardian, Reuters, Associated Press) One of the investigations involves his alleged role in the 2023 January attacks …

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Latam Brief: Lula compares Israel’s actions to Hitler’s

EnergiesNet — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:53:58 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, yesterday. He compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to Adolf Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews. Lula said Israel’s military campaign was between a “highly prepared army and women and children”. Israeli Prime Minister …

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Latam Brief: Maduro expels UN human rights office

EnergiesNet — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:18:32 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuela’s Maduro government ordered the local UN human rights office to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave the country. “The government said the UN human rights office must rectify its “colonialist, abusive and violating attitude”, accusing it of playing an “inappropriate role” in the country and supporting …

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Latam Brief: Bolsonaro targeted by federal investigation, forced to surrender passport

EnergiesNet — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:13:36 +0000

Latin America Daily Briefing Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is under federal investigation—overseen by the country’s Supreme Court—for a series of alleged transgressions. The most prominent is the alleged January 8, 2023 coup attempt in which his supporters stormed the National Congress in Brasilia. In addition to the more than 1,400 individuals already charged for …

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