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Today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief looks at 🇲🇽’s shock therapy to its judiciary. Plans for the nationwide election had already rankled trade partners before it produced a top court full of judges tied to the ruling party on Sunday. https://t.co/vxDtszP8Cu

This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about Suriname’s election amid growing international clout. The country is ramping up plans for offshore oil production and sent the Caribbean’s first Secretary-General to the OAS. https://t.co/t1uDW26BS4

Today’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief is about the uproar in El Salvador over what experts say is a swift closing of civic space, with journalists fleeing, a top government critic arrested, and a new law taxing and tracking nonprofits. Many see echoes of 🇳🇮. https://t.co/NApBMKGvjm

Gracias por este hermoso obituario @Guilledraper "In his final speech to parliament, after listening to many colleagues and political rivals praise him, Mujica stressed that there was no place for hatred in his life because he knew what such feelings could generate."

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Uruguay’s José Mujica, who went from urban guerrilla to tortured prisoner to elected president, has died at age 89. https://t.co/5sC4HYqKNn

In today’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief, Trump expands his approach of FTO listings for Latin American crime groups to 🇭🇹. The move underscored the lack of a unified security strategy in the country despite the many actors engaged there, @romainlecour said. https://t.co/YNP4HOMTbs

Today's @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief is about two long-anticipated tests for Argentina's Milei: reaching a new IMF deal and partially floating the peso. The float has so far proved naysayers wrong, while the deal tells a larger story of 🇺🇸-🇦🇷 relations. https://t.co/DkYqlPJEd6

RT @ForeignPolicy: In the face of Trump’s dramatic new trade barriers, Latin American countries are getting more creative, writes @cculbert…

Today in @ForeignPolicy: How Latin America produced a nonaligned pope. Not only Francis’s experience of the Cold War in Argentina but also the 🇦🇷 spiritual tradition of theology of the people influenced his approach to the Vatican’s geopolitics. https://t.co/h4tyeGdZpV

In today's @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief, Ecuador’s Noboa is reelected president, Chile continues its large-scale battery boom, and Peruvians remember the iconoclastic Mario Vargas Llosa. https://t.co/VUw6Jf2nCA

In today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief: regional leaders talk trade and the UN Secretary-General election in 🇭🇳, 🇨🇱 enlarges its estimate of lithium resources, and an Indigenous team from 🇪🇨 makes history in the South American Cup. https://t.co/Efr6lCRuXg

This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about how officials in the region are responding to Wednesday’s round of U.S. tariffs—which some expected would be more severe. Plus, what Gabriel Boric and Narendra Modi agreed on during Boric's visit to India. https://t.co/Sf8TPOxAK8

RT @LATAMProg: 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #PlazaCentral, “Shifting Migration Trends in the Americas,” a conversation between journal…

Today's @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief: Lula is hosted as 🇯🇵 1st state visit since 2019 as both look to diversify trade. He went on to 🇻🇳. Can Asian countries help 🇧🇷 weather what one diplomat called the "very fluid global economic & political environment"? https://t.co/R57irgJeaa

Today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief looks at How regional leaders are responding to the deportation of Venezuelans to 🇸🇻 🇭🇳 remembers a Garifuna music icon 🇨🇴 and 🇧🇧 rethink their climate finance plans https://t.co/qdiDh15zhF

In today’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief: the near-shutdown of asylum at the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽 border has mixed up migration patterns in the Americas. More people are seeking refugee status in 🇲🇽—drawing a spotlight on the strengths & pitfalls of its own asylum system. https://t.co/9slf3Wv13s