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Nanotechandmorefuture wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:48 am I wonder how LATAM will fare in the future with all this tech and stuff.
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Mexico’s Proposed Energy Reform Could Have Broader Consequences for Democracy at Large
by Cody Copeland
April 5, 2022

https://www.courthousenews.com/mexicos- ... -at-large/

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MEXICO CITY (Courthouse News) — A case in Mexico’s Supreme Court concerning the president’s proposed electricity reform could have implications reaching much farther than the country’s energy sector: democracy at large.

While the case concerns President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s attempt to undo energy reforms from previous decades, the ruling could reveal how much influence Mexico’s executive branch now wields over the judiciary.

Initially proposed as two separate administrative regulatory policies in 2020 that the court deemed unconstitutional in February 2021, the reform is a combination of the two policies created by López Obrador, who said he did so without changing “even a comma” of the previous proposals.

Among other changes, the reform aims to give the country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) first rights to all energy purchases, a move experts say will stifle competition and put billions of dollars of foreign investment at risk.
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One of the issues up for debate was whether or not access to electricity is a human right that the state is obligated to provide. Six of the ministers said they did not agree that the issue is before the court and moved on to debate other aspects of the reform.
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Economist Rodrigo Chaves to Become Costa Rica’s New President
April 4, 2022

https://www.latinorebels.com/2022/04/04/chaves/

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(Latino Rebels) COSTA RICA: Economist Rodrigo Chaves won Sunday’s presidential election ahead of ex-President José María Figueres (1994-1998). Chaves, from the Social Democratic Progress Party (PPSD), was projected to secure victory with about 52.9 percent of the vote according to the official preliminary partial tally of the run-off ballot.

The anti-establishment candidate and former World Bank official is popular among voters who reject traditional politics and grew concerned over the country’s national debt. Figueres’ National Liberation Party has dominated the country’s politics at the local and national levels over the past half-century.

Chaves promised to use referendums to bypass congress to bring change in Costa Rica. as a large number of voters grew discontent with the political establishment. The 60-year-old had already positioned himself as the favorite candidate coming in second in an initial vote on February 6.

During Chaves’ tenure at the World Bank, he was accused of sexual harassment; he denied the accusations
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Cuba and US take tentative step with talks on migration
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba and the United States took a tentative step toward unthawing relations and resuming joint efforts to address irregular migration, a senior Cuban official said Friday following the highest-level talks between the two countries in four years.

There were no major breakthroughs, but the mere fact that the U.S. was holding substantive talks was a sign relations might be looking better under President Joe Biden after going into deep freeze under his predecessor, Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said.

“They seem committed. They ratified that they are committed to the agreements in place," Fernandez de Cossio said. "So we have no reason to mistrust what they’re saying, but time will tell.”

The talks did not focus on broader U.S.-Cuba relations but more narrowly on restoring adherence to previous agreements that were intended to curtail the often-dangerous irregular migration from the island to the United States.
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Mexico President Proposes Dramatic Electoral Reforms
by Maria Verza
April 29, 2022

https://www.latinorebels.com/2022/04/29 ... alreforms/

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government on Thursday proposed a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s electoral system and the agency that oversees it—one of the country’s most trusted institutions. It would reduce the size of Congress and state legislatures while having the federal elections board chosen by voters, potentially adding a higher degree of politics to what has been an independent body.

The proposal also would reduce federal funding of political parties and spending on elections in general—a repeated target of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has often feuded with the National Electoral Institute.

The proposals presented by López Obrador and several members of his Cabinet would create a new federal elections authority to replace the institute, as well as eliminate similar state-level bodies.

“There is no intention of imposing a single party,” López Obrador said. “What we want is that there is a true democracy in the country and that electoral frauds end … to leave a true democratic state established.”

But the path for what will surely be a controversial reform package would be difficult. López Obrador’s party and its allies do not have the two-thirds majority in Congress required to make constitutional changes. The main opposition parties have already said they oppose such changes.
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At least four dead as explosion rocks historic hotel in Havana
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An unexplained explosion at a historic hotel in Old Havana killed at least four people and destroyed much of the building on Friday morning, Cuban officials said.

Thirteen people were missing. Firefighters and a rescue team searched the rubble of the Hotel Saratoga, where people could still be trapped, according to a tweet from the official account of the Cuban presidency. The causes of the explosion were unclear, the tweet said, but preliminary investigation pointed to a gas leak.

Videos and images on social media showed smoke filling the air and crowds gathering in the street outside the hotel. A photo published by the news agency Reuters showed at least one body in the street outside the hotel covered with a sheet.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials were at the scene.
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Mexico’s 100,000 ‘Disappeared’ A Tragedy, Says UN Rights Chief Bachelet
May 18, 2022

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(UN News via Eurasia Review) The news that more than 100,000 people in Mexico are now officially registered as “disappeared” is a tragedy, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for action to tackle the country’s longstanding problem.

A national database has listed all those who’ve been reported missing in the country since 1964, and the tally continues to climb, amid ongoing drug gang violence and a lack of effective investigations.

To date, only 35 of the disappearances recorded since then have led to the conviction of the perpetrators, a “staggering rate of impunity”, said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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In a statement, the UN human rights chief urged the authorities to continue to implement reforms and ensure justice for the victims and their families.

“The crime of enforced disappearances is one of the worst things, for the families, precisely because they never get closure and rarely sadly are bodies found,” said UN rights office spokesperson Liz Throssell.
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The cartels control a large part of Mexico and central America and has literally zero value on human rights. They will kill people as they see people as trash. It is a disease on humanity. 300,000 killed in the past 30 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/es/post- ... parecidos/
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The truce between gangs and the government in El Salvador has been broken
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President Nayib Bukele asked El Salvador’s congress Sunday to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days.

Bukele has used the emergency powers to round up about 16,000 suspected gang members, following a spate of murders in March.

Rights groups have criticized the measures, saying arrests are often arbitrary, based on a person’s
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Nicaraguan Bishop Fasts to Protest Police Harassment
May 20, 2022

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua began an “indefinite fast” Friday inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day.

Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of Matagalpa and a fierce critic of President Daniel Ortega’s government, said in a video published by his diocese that police had even breached his “circle of family privacy” while he visited a niece.

Ortega’s government arrested dozens of political opposition leaders, including most of the potential candidates, in the months before his reelection to a fourth consecutive term last year. His government has shut down dozens of nongovernmental organizations that he accuses of working on behalf of foreign interests to destabilize his government. Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have been chased into exile.

The Catholic church remains influential but has not escaped Ortega’s wrath. He has accused its priests of being “terrorists and coup plotters” and blamed them for participating in his “failed overthrow.”

Álvarez was one of the bishops who supported demonstrators in massive street protests that broke out in April 2018 and became a call for Ortega to step down. Since then, Álvarez’s sermons often criticize the government and demand the release of political prisoners.
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