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Friday, 26 July 2024
VENEZUELA: Campaigns close ahead of election
On 25 July campaigning closed ahead of Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election.
Friday, 26 July 2024
BRAZIL: Lack of agreement on G20 global wealth tax
On 25 July Brazil’s finance minister, Fernando Haddad, opened the two-day G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Rio de Janeiro and repeated the Brazilian government’s calls for member states to agree on a global wealth tax on billionaires.
Friday, 26 July 2024
EL SALVADOR: Renewed rights concerns over state of exception
On 25 July seven local human rights groups in El Salvador issued a joint press release stating that between 27 March 2022 and 30 June 2024 they had received 6,426 reports of human rights violations which had taken place under the state of exception, which the authoritarian government led by President Nayib Bukele implemented in late March 2022 to tackle gangs.
Friday, 26 July 2024
ARGENTINA: Caputo upbeat after meeting IMF chief
On 25 July Argentina’s economy minister, Luis Caputo, met the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, on the sidelines of the G20 summit of finance ministers and central bank presidents in Brazil.
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