Mexico is co-hosting the 2026 World Cup even as the country has been shaken by a wave of cartel violence and revelations of mass graves.
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Key Points —Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted 334 to 127 on Tuesday, April 21, to install Arturo Manuel Chávez López, Frida Denisse Gómez Puga and Blanca Yassahara Cruz García as electoral councillors at the National Electoral Institute for a nine-year term running to 2035. —Chávez López served as regulation and public-policy adviser to Claudia Sheinbaum […]
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Key Points —Sergio Fajardo’s third presidential campaign, registered on March 13 with running mate Edna Bonilla, has pushed his signature education platform into the background to contest security with the right and economic inequality with the left. —The centrist former Medellín mayor has called for the reactivation of oil and gas exploration — a direct […]
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Key Points —Chile’s right-wing president José Antonio Kast is accelerating back-channel talks with the government of Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez to restore consular relations and enable the formal deportation of irregular Venezuelan migrants. —Chile hosts roughly 669,000 Venezuelans and has 44,000 migrants ready for expulsion — 65% of them Venezuelan — but diplomatic relations with […]
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Key Points — President Javier Milei announced Tuesday, April 21 from Tel Aviv — closing his third official trip to Israel — that his government will submit an electoral reform bill to Congress on Wednesday, April 22. The package has three components: elimination of the PASO mandatory primaries, an overhaul of campaign finance rules, and […]
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Key Points — President Gustavo Petro ordered High Commissioner for Peace Otty Patiño on Tuesday, April 21, to evaluate suspending the negotiation with alias Calarcá’s FARC-dissident faction after documented violations of ceasefire commitments — specifically attacks on soldiers and continued Amazonian deforestation for cattle ranching. Calarcá’s Estado Mayor de Bloques was the last FARC-dissident structure […]
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The coming scenarios depend on how much the political system can absorb the discontent stemming from the outcome of this presidential election.
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Today we feature Natalia Lafourcade from Mexico with a video of the song “Maria la Curandera” released in 2024.
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If arrested, she will force Trump to side with democracy. And if she is not detained, she will once again place herself at center stage.
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Key Points — Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 Industrial Labor Report finds Mexico industrial construction has entered a six-quarter rebalancing phase, with supply outpacing absorption and developers extending delivery timelines in border markets. — Mexico City now commands the country’s highest industrial wages at US$4.91 per hour for production and US$4.75 for warehouse roles — 35% […]
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Key Points — President Javier Milei and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the “Isaac Accords” in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 19, a strategic framework explicitly modeled on the 2020 Abraham Accords and extended to Latin American and Western Hemisphere countries sharing judeocristian tradition. — The accords package includes a nine-article counter-terrorism intelligence cooperation memorandum, an […]
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Key Points — NOAA’s April 2026 outlook gives a 61% probability of El Niño emergence in the May-July window rising to 62% for June-August, with a 1-in-3 chance the event classifies as “strong” during October-December 2026. — A moderate-to-strong event would cut Andean GDP by 0.6-1.7 percentage points, threaten 50% of LATAM’s hydro-dependent electricity supply, […]
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