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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