Key Points — The CB Global Data regional approval ranking for April 2026 placed Argentine President Javier Milei in 14th place out of 18 Latin American leaders, with a positive image of 36.2% and a negative reading of 59.7%. — Milei’s positive image fell 6.1 percentage points in a single month, from 42.3% in March, […]

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Key Points — Peru’s Interior Minister José Zapata ordered an immediate reinforcement of the southern border in Tacna after Chile launched its first deportation flight, deploying 135 police officers — 100 of them transferred from Cusco, Ica, Arequipa, and Puno — The deployment includes motorized patrols, ATVs, drones for real-time aerial surveillance, and 10 illumination […]

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Key Points — A Chilean Air Force Boeing 737 departed Thursday morning from Santiago with 40 irregular migrants aboard — 19 Colombians, 12 Bolivians, and 9 Ecuadorians — in the Kast government’s first deportation flight, five weeks after taking office — Of the 40 expelled, 25 were removed on administrative orders and 15 on judicial […]

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Key Points — Lima’s former mayor Rafael López Aliaga formally petitioned Peru’s National Jury of Elections (JNE) on Wednesday to suspend the proclamation of second and third-place finishers in the April 12 presidential first round, alleging that logistical failures prevented roughly 608,000 Lima voters from casting ballots and cost him 120,000 votes. He has since […]

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Key Points — President Rodrigo Paz signed Ley 157 on April 8 at a cattle genetics fair in Santa Cruz, allowing small-property holders to voluntarily reclassify their land as medium property through INRA in 10 days, at zero cost. The conversion is voluntary, free, and does not apply to indigenous communal territories. — The trade-off […]

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Key Points — With approximately 89% of actas counted, Keiko Fujimori leads at 16.8%, Rafael López Aliaga holds second at roughly 12%, but Roberto Sánchez of Juntos por el Perú has surged to 11.7% and overtaken Jorge Nieto for third place. — Sánchez gained more than 2 points as rural and southern actas were processed, […]

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