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Tuesday, 04 June 2024
BOLIVIA: Protesters block roads as MAS crisis drags on
On 3 June Bolivia’s Public Works Minister Edgar Montaño said that the blocking of highways by protesters constitutes the beginning of a “coup” against President Luis Arce’s government.
Tuesday, 04 June 2024
BRAZIL: New electoral court president sworn in
On 3 June Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha was sworn in for a two-year term as president of Brazil’s superior electoral court (TSE), the country’s top electoral authority.
Tuesday, 04 June 2024
GUATEMALA: Gov’t claims victory in fight against extortion
On 3 June Guatemala’s interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, said authorities had seized dozens of cell phones, along with money, knives, alcohol, and routers during an operation the previous day to recover control of the ‘El Infiernito’ maximum security prison in Escuintla department.
Tuesday, 04 June 2024
CHILE: Mapuche leader goes on hunger strike
On 3 June the leader of a radical Mapuche militant group, Héctor Llaitul, went on hunger strike in his cell in Chile’s southern city of Concepción, the capital of the region of Biobío.
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