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Monday, 23 March 2026
BRAZIL: Lula deepens cooperation with Paraguay and other regional partners
On 22 March Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended an event to launch the latest conference for the United Nations (UN) convention on the conservation of migratory specifies (CMS), which will run from 23-29 March in Campo Grande, the capital of Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state.
Monday, 23 March 2026
CUBA: Gov’t defiant as electricity grid collapses again
On 21 March Cuba’s state power company, Unión Eléctrica (UNE), reported that Cuba had suffered a national blackout.
Monday, 23 March 2026
MEXICO: Teachers’ strike ends without resolution
On 21 March Mexico’s influential teachers’ union, Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), announced that its 72-hour strike had ended without reaching any agreement with the government.
Monday, 23 March 2026
CHILE: Kast revising environmental regulations to drive growth
On 22 March environmental groups and activists in Chile staged protests against the far-right government led by President José Antonio Kast in Santiago and other cities to mark World Water Day after it withdrew dozens of environmental decrees in its first full week in power.
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