LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Lula offers to host UN climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon

The latest in Latin American politics today: Lula offers to host U.N. climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon

SHARM EL-SHEIKH – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a warm welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday, where he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future U.N. climate talks. “I am here to say to all of you here that Brazil is back in the world,” he said, speaking at an event alongside governors of Brazilian Amazon states.

A leftist who won his third term in office last month, Lula said he would seek to make Brazil the host of COP30 in 2025 and would aim to put the venue in the Amazon rainforest, rather than the more populous coastal region. Ecuador exploring potential new deal with the IMF for 2023 -Minister

QUITO – Ecuador’s government is exploring a possible new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of its 2023 financing plans, which could also see bond issues to international markets, Economy Minister Pablo Arosemena told Reuters. Ecuador reached a 27-month credit deal with the IMF for $6.5 billion in September 2020, which was renegotiated by President Guillermo Lasso and finishes at the end of this year.

Lasso’s spending plan for 2023 needs financing worth $7.58 billion, which is mostly expected to come from issuing local debt and loans from multilateral organizations. Cuban president to meet Putin next week in Moscow

The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow, the RIA News agency reported on Wednesday, citing the Cuban ambassador. U.S. judge rules COVID-era border expulsion order unlawful

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled a pandemic-era order used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico was unlawful, a decision that could have major implications for U.S. border management. In a 49-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said the policy was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated federal regulatory law.

The ruling will complicate President Joe Biden’s strategy for deterring record-high border crossings. The administration late on Tuesday filed an unopposed motion to delay the implementation of the decision by five weeks to allow it to move additional resources to the border and coordinate with state and local governments and nonprofits. Cuba and U.S. make progress in migration talks, but more is needed, Cuba says

HAVANA – Cuba and the United States are making progress in talks aimed at curbing a migration crisis that saw a record number of Cubans arrive at the U.S. border last year, but those advances are not enough to stem the tide, Cuba’s top diplomat in the talks said on Tuesday. Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told reporters that despite steps in the right direction, the United States had yet to address the root of the problem.

“We reiterated our concern about (U.S.) measures that encourage illegal emigration,” said De Cossio, citing existing migration policies that prioritize Cubans seeking entry to the United States over those of other nationalities. Guatemalan anti-graft judge resigns, blasts manipulation of justice

GUATEMALA CITY – A well-known anti-corruption judge in Guatemala resigned on Tuesday after accusing the judiciary of mismanagement, the latest in a string of resignations that critics blame on President Alejandro Giammattei’s efforts to consolidate power. Miguel Angel Galvez, a judge with two dozen years on the bench focused largely on corruption, organized crime and civil war cases, blasted what he described as a lack of judicial independence in a video posted in his Twitter account. (Compiled by Steven Grattan; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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