Nature claims Latin American lives
At least 25 people have died in the last hours in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Ecuador because of heavy rains. The population affected by landslides and floods is counted by thousands in these countries. In El Salvador, five people were reported dead in a landslide, while others died in accidents and other circumstances related to the rains.
In Guatemala, a couple died buried under a wall that did not resist the onslaught of nature, while in Honduras the overflowing of a river left several areas cut off from communication. Ecuadorian authorities reported 16 deaths after a landslide last Sunday. The question is how prepared are the civil protection systems in these countries for this type of disasters.
SourceA painful regional debt
The Paraguayan president is sometimes a pleasant surprise. In recent statements at a business event on family farming, he has charged against the lack of integration in the region. "The pandemic crisis of the year 2020-2021, which hit the whole world, the region [...] that was hit the hardest was Latin America, we were the region that fell the most. And the explanation is very simple: external shocks affect more the countries that are less integrated and South America is one of the regions of the world that is less integrated", said Santiago Peña.
The region has infinite possibilities to reach better levels of development, both within each country and taking into account its potential as a whole, but the irreconcilable ideological agendas and the economic models implemented prevent their realization. However, Peña acts accordingly with his demands, something that can be demonstrated in his interesting association with Bolivia beyond the differences of political concept. The head of the López Palace advocated the creation of infrastructure for small producers to export their yields efficiently.
Peña with Luis Arce, the president of Bolivia (source).Your quick regional roundup
Last Friday Mexican security forces rescued eight Central American migrants—their nationality is not specified—after an intense armed confrontation with a group that had kidnapped them in the state of Veracruz. The drama of irregular migration, time and again, is marked by the vulnerability of the migrant. Recently, a Cuban male reported in a Facebook group that he had been raped by individuals pretending to be migration authorities.
Yet there, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the recent murder of a mayor-elect was an "execution", in a new day in which he must be held accountable for the violence with political overtones that marred the electoral process. The politician was shot while traveling by bus in the early hours of Monday morning, a dynamic that I find quite suspicious, coupled with the fact that he dispensed with the police protection he had been assigned. Violence continues to mar Mexico's socio-political development daily.
Gabriel Boric demanded Argentina to remove ASAP two solar panels installed by the Argentine Army on the Chilean side of the border, which are responsible for supplying energy to a Navy installation. Milei's management at the head of the Casa Rosada has been marked by a dangerous alignment with the West in the military order—about which Russia warns—, and which corresponds to a reinforcement of the role of the Army with a revisionist approach. "The borders are not something with which one can have ambiguities", declared Boric from France, while in Argentina they point out that the Chilean is trying to take internal pressure off himself.
And this is all for our report today. I have referenced the sources dynamically in the text, and remember you can learn how and where to follow the LATAM trail news by reading my work here. Have a nice day.
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