LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Top Mexican diplomat calls US senator ‘racist’

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The latest in Latin American politics on Thursday:

Mexican diplomat calls US senator ‘racist and ignorant’ MEXICO CITY – Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told reporters that Republican US Senator John Kennedy was ‘racist and ignorant’ and was not welcome to Mexico, after the conservative lawmaker told a congressional hearing in Washington that Mexico is economically dependent on the United States, but using language the top Mexican diplomat found offensive.

“Without the American people, Mexico, figuratively speaking, would be eating canned cat food and living in a tent,” Kennedy said. Ecuador’s embattled president launches tax cut proposal

QUITO – Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, facing a new push to oust him from power, has announced a proposed tax cut

for middle-income people and small businesses, but the bill faces long odds due to worsening political instability. The former conservative banker’s proposal has been sent to Congress, where it lacks majority support, using a fast-track process that could see lawmakers vote on it within 30 days.

Venezuela and Colombia will strengthen security along the common CARACAS/BOGOTA border – Venezuela and Colombia will strengthen security

number of soldiers stationed along its common border at informal crossing points where armed criminal groups linked to drug trafficking often operate, according to the defense ministers of the two countries.

The ministers met in Caracas to discuss the security threat from groups “that cross the border and carry out criminal activities in Venezuelan and Colombian territory”, Colombian Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez told a broadcast. Venezuelan television. Officials did not specify how many soldiers would be sent to the border, or when. The border stretches some 2,200 kilometers (1,400 miles), much of it through remote jungle.

U.S.-Mexico Border Under Tension Ahead of End of Title 42 SAN DIEGO/WASHINGTON – Dozens of

Thousands of migrants arrived at the US-Mexico border before Title 42 restrictions ended Thursday night, straining local communities and intensifying political divisions.

Daily arrests topped 10,000 earlier this week. US border towns struggled to shelter new arrivals and provide transportation to onward destinations. The Mexican president said his country was cooperating on the US border to

avoid “chaos”. Judge frees former justice minister arrested over Brasilia riots

BRASILIA – Brasilia’s public security official released when government buildings were stormed by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro on January 8

after almost four months of arrest for his alleged role. Anderson Torres was Bolsonaro’s justice minister and became the capital’s security chief on January 2 and went on vacation to the United States four days later. He was arrested upon his return.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who ordered his arrest to determine whether his absence had contributed to the uprising, ordered his release, saying the police had carried out their investigation and there was no reason to detain Torres. (Compiled by Steven Grattan and Isabel Woodford; Editing by Sonali Paul)

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