Laura Fernández, a right-wing populist, won Costa Rica's presidential election in a landslide victory, further shifting Latin America to the right. The election followed Fernández's promise to crack down on rising violence linked to the cocaine trade, according to The Guardian.
In other news, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to send humanitarian aid to Cuba this week, despite efforts from Washington to cut off oil access to the island nation. Sheinbaum stated that Mexico was exploring all diplomatic avenues to send fuel to the Cuban people, The Guardian reported. This move came after former President Trump signed an order threatening tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba.
Meanwhile, in the United States, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status (TPS) from up to 350,000 Haitians. Judge Ana Reyes issued a temporary stay preventing Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, from implementing her decision to remove the TPS, which allows Haitians to legally live and work in the U.S. amid turmoil in their homeland, according to The Guardian.
Also in the U.S., Júnior Pena, a right-wing Brazilian influencer who supported Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, was arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey. Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, had declared his support for Trump in a recent video message, falsely claiming that migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were all crooks, The Guardian reported. Pena has reportedly lived in the U.S. since 2009.
Globally, a new study by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights concluded that international law meant to limit the effects of war is at a breaking point. The study, which covered 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months, found that more than 100,000 civilians have been killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity, The Guardian reported. The study described the deaths.
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