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Friday, 18 September 2026
Friday, 18 September 2026
BRAZIL: Lula increases social spending ahead of election
On 17 September Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree to increase the social welfare payments of the government’s flagship social initiative, the Bolsa Família cash transfer programme, by 15%.
Friday, 18 September 2026
HONDURAS: Nasralla fined over campaign finance irregularities
On 17 September Honduras’ Unidad de Financiamiento, Transparencia y Fiscalización (UFTF), an entity that monitors campaign finance, announced it was fining November 2025 presidential candidate, Salvador Nasralla, of the opposition Partido Liberal (PL), L146.46m (US$5.45m) for campaign finance irregularities.
Friday, 18 September 2026
MEXICO: Suspect arrested in major femicide case
On 17 September Mexico’s federal public security minister, Omar García Harfuch, announced the arrest of Francisco Javier ‘N’, the main suspect in the femicide of Claudia Tacoronte, a Spanish exchange student who was murdered in Morelos state five days earlier.
Friday, 18 September 2026
ARGENTINA: Milei blasts media over economic reporting
On 17 September Argentina’s President Javier Milei lashed out at the media in the wake of the publication of a string of weak economic data.
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