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Thursday, 03 April 2025
ECUADOR: Drug trafficker ‘Fito’ indicted in US
On 2 April US prosecutors announced charges against the alleged leader of the Ecuadorean gang Los Choneros, José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias ‘Fito’.
Thursday, 03 April 2025
BRAZIL: Top court rejects pre-trial detention for Bolsonaro
On 2 April Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes, the judge overseeing a case regarding an alleged coup plot to overturn the 2022 election defeat of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), rejected a request for Bolsonaro to be arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.
Thursday, 03 April 2025
HAITI: Mass protests against violence
On 2 April thousands took to the streets in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince to protest against insecurity and gang violence, calling for the resignation of the nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) and head of the police (PNd’H).
Thursday, 03 April 2025
ARGENTINA: Milei criticised over Falklands comments
On 2 April Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei met fierce criticism from politicians of diverse stripes when he expressed hopes that residents of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) might one day “prefer” to be Argentine rather than British.
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