Nicaraguan police said on Saturday they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the Central American country had been frozen. Investigations “confirmed the unlawful removal of resources from bank accounts that had been ordered by law to be frozen,” the police said in a statement. Ortega’s government has intensified attacks against the Catholic Church in the wake of 2018 anti-government protests in which some 360 people died after what human rights groups call police repression. The police statement said the bank accounts were linked to religious figures convicted of treason and other crimes, and that the investigations confirmed the funds entered the country irregularly. Ortega also suspended ties with the Vatican in March, shortly after Pope Francis compared his administration to the Nazi dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

Yet Leonardo Favio, who would turn 85 today and was the most popular director in Argentine history —and also happened to be one of the most successful romantic singer-songwriters in Latin America— remains unknown to foreign audiences. An essential figure in Argentine popular culture, Leonardo Favio was born Fuad Jorge Jury in 1938 in Luján de Cuyo, in southern Mendoza. Favio’s filmmaking career began with a trio of art-house films based on short stories and/or written by one of his two brothers, Zuhair. Favio paused his huge musical success after his second LP to focus on directing what would become landmark box-office hits. Favio has proven cinema lives inside these things, it doesn’t narrate them using external resources,” Argentine scholar Horacio González once said to describe him.

Dozens of packages of cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas as well as the name “Hitler” were seized at a port in northern Peru, from where they would have been shipped to Belgium, police said on Friday. Police said it was investigating whether there were links to Nazi groups, saying there were no well-known groups in Peru and that it was possible the symbol was only being used as a style. Peru and Colombia are the largest producers of coca leaf and cocaine in the world, according to the United Nations. Last year alone, Peruvian authorities seized more than 86 tonnes of drugs and illicit substances, including 28 tonnes of cocaine. After being shipped to a Belgian port, Bolanos said the drugs would have been distributed across Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Spain.

Taibo is in charge of practically everything, from publishing and decisions regarding public policy, as well as day-to-day operations. You came to take part in Proyecto Ballena, which this year is based on the concept of “political imagination”. Now, it ‘s hard to find [writer Osvaldo] Soriano’s books because there’s a generation that reads essays. His novels like Cuarteles de Invierno or No habrá más penas ni olvido were formative in the best of ways. A key element of sentimental education is related to ethics and myths, to what a teenager sticks in his backpack.

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Brazil’s government said on Friday the United Nations has confirmed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the COP30 climate change summit in November 2025. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the announcement in a video alongside his foreign relations minister and the governor of Para state, where Belem is located. “I’m convinced it is going to be a great event,” said Lula, who had previously pledged to try to bring the U.N. climate talks to a city in the world’s largest rainforest. The leftist leader last year attended the COP27 in Egypt as president-elect, pledging to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis. “That is very important.”Belem is the second most populous city in Brazil’s Amazon after Manaus, which hosted games of the 2014 World Cup.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday he had a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his willingness to establish peace talks with both sides of the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin confirmed the call and said Putin told Lula that Russia is open to dialogue over Ukraine. Lula has pitched himself as a peace broker to end the war, which began when Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. His proposal, based on Brazil’s tradition of non-intervention and neutrality, calls for a group of nations not involved in the war to engage both Russia and Ukraine in talks. The leftist leader was expected to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Japan this month, but the meeting fell through because of scheduling.

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Vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner delivered a speech today under the rain in front of thousands of people in Plaza de Mayo, a landmark site in Argentina’s political history. In her hour-long presentation, Kirchner, commonly known as CFK, spoke of the achievements she and her husband’s administrations accomplished, but offered no hint as to who the Frente de Todos (FdT) coalition candidate should be. President Alberto Fernández, who is estranged from Kirchner, did not attend, while Economy Minister and potential candidate Sergio Tomás Massa was present. We need added value and technology in order to have quality jobs and good wages, which is what the country needs. (…) The country needs to recover a Judicial Power that has evaporated among the tricks of a clique unworthy of Argentine history,” she said, in regards to the judiciary and the Supreme Court.

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Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said on Wednesday the institution had been “deaf” to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusations in recent weeks led to protests and a legal investigation. The accusations were sparked by the publication in Spanish newspaper El Pais in April of the diary of a late Jesuit priest, which contained multiple confessions of sexual abuse of children in the schools he ran in Bolivia. It alleged Church officials knew about the abuse but did nothing. Since April, some 200 people have come forward to say they suffered abuse in religious-run schools in the country. The country’s attorney general is also investigating the multiple accusations of abuse.

Argentina is in talks to renew and potentially expand its currency swap line with China, official sources confirmed today. The government’s goal is to double the free access amount, taking it to US$ 10 billion, an official source told the Herald. The country has free access to some US$5 billion as part of the China currency swap agreement that totals 130 billion yuan (US$18.81 billion). Another government source told the Herald that the idea is to expand the total amount of the swap as well. China has been touting international usage of the yuan currency as a rival to the U.S. dollar, gaining a foothold in South America where it is the largest trade partner for many regional economies.

The Federal Administration of Public Income (AFIP) notified 5,780 taxpayers who did not declare MEP dollar operations exceeding US$ 50,000 and failed to pay the corresponding income tax. In a communiqué, the AFIP said it seeks to “avoid several situations that could result in tax non-compliance.”The agency’s databases made it possible to detect the transactions. The MEP dollar is the implicit exchange rate when investors buy shares or bonds in pesos and sell them in dollars in the local market. The government made the decision in the context of other measures regarding the MEP and blue chip swap exchange rates. The due date for the filing of the tax returns and the payment of income tax and personal property tax is on June 30.