On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council postponed votes on U.S.-proposed resolutions to address gang violence and ease supply shortages in Haiti. The resolutions, which the U.S. and Mexico support, would send a multinational action force to contest criminal gangs’ control over water and fuel supplies.
In the coming days, the Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations will appoint a congressperson to investigate the case and deliver an initial report, then Castillo will present a defense to Congress.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Vice President Francia Márquez, and Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva at the Casa de Nariño as the first stop on his week-long trip to Colombia, Chile, and Peru.
On Monday, the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) voted to terminate President Mauricio Claver-Carone, after the IDB’s 14-member executive board unanimously recommended his firing.
On Tuesday, world leaders began gathering in New York for the high-level debate of the UNGA’s seventy-seventh session. The debate, which was the first entirely in-person General Assembly since the start of the pandemic, was opened by Secretary-General António Guterres, who alluded to the war in Ukraine, rising energy and food prices, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis.
On Saturday, following King Charles III’s official ascension, Antiguan and Barbudan Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced that he would hold a referendum within the next three years to decide whether to remove the British monarch as the country’s head of state and become a republic.
On Sunday, 61.8 percent of Chileans voted to reject the Constitutional Assembly’s draft, while 38.1 percent voted to approve it. Nearly 13 million of 15 million Chileans and residents who were eligible to vote cast ballots across more than 3,000 voting centers.
On Sunday, Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Rander Peña Ramírez welcomed the new Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela, Armando Benedetti, in Caracas, signaling the resumption of bilateral diplomatic ties after a three-year break.
On Monday, prosecutors in Argentina publicly requested that former President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison for alleged corruption during her eight years as president and her husband’s preceding four years in office.
Last week, widespread arsons, hijackings, and shootings prompted the government to deploy federal and national guard troops across Mexico. Mexico’s Security Cabinet reported 260 people died during the four days that armed gangs shot civilians, conducted “narco blockades,” and set fire to shops, buses, and cars.
