Key Points —Argentine President Javier Milei will host Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel at Casa Rosada at 14:00 on Thursday, April 23 — the first formal activity after the president’s return from his third state visit to Israel, and Thiel’s third known encounter with Milei since February 2024. —Thiel — whose estimated fortune ranges from US$23 […]

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Key Points —Luisa María Alcalde accepted President Claudia Sheinbaum’s offer on Wednesday, April 22 to lead the Consejería Jurídica del Ejecutivo Federal, leaving her post as national president of the Morena party after 18 months. —The move fills the vacancy created by Esthela Damián Peralta, who resigned the Consejería Jurídica to seek the Morena gubernatorial […]

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Key Points —Ecuador’s Corte Nacional de Justicia approved the Topo extradition on April 22 at 15:00, clearing Darío Javier Peñafiel Nieto — second-in-command of Los Choneros after Fito’s July 2025 transfer — for delivery to the Eastern District of New York on seven charges tied to large-scale narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses. —The decision was […]

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Brazilian group BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest investment bank, is awaiting authorisation from Uruguay's Central Bank (BCU) to begin operating in the local financial market following its $175 million acquisition of HSBC Uruguay, agreed in July 2025. Group executives expect regulatory approval to come through by mid-year, allowing them to begin operations gradually in the second half of 2026.

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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