Ellen är tillbaka och vi diskuterar veckans nyheter samt fördjupar oss i valet i Honduras. Vi diskuterar bland annat avslöjandet om att Colombias presidentfru lever lyxliv i Sverige, benådningen av Honduras förra president, de stigande HIV-fallen i Argentina, telefonsamtalet mellan Trump och Bolsonaro och den diplomatiska krisen mellan Mexiko och Peru.

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Kontakt: latinamerikapodden@gmail.com

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Källförteckning:

Expressen – Colombias presidentfru Verónica Alcocer lever lyxliv i Sverige (2024)

Expressen – Gustavo Petro till attack mot Expressens avslöjande (2024)

Expressen – Presidenthustrun på flykt i Stockholm (2024)

Buenos Aires Herald – HIV infections rise as state condom distribution drops (2024)

El Colombiano – Censura a diario Expressen por reportaje sobre Verónica Alcocer (2024)

BBC News – Report on Colombian First Lady controversy (2024)

Latin Times – Sheinbaum responds to Peruvian government threats over asylum case (2024)

The Guardian – Peru severs diplomatic relations with Mexico after asylum dispute (2025)

Euronews – Peru breaks diplomatic relations with Mexico over asylum claim (2025)

El País – Perú declara persona non grata a Sheinbaum (2025)

El Financiero – México rechaza la declaración de persona non grata a Sheinbaum (2025)

Reuters – Honduras prepares to vote amid fraud accusations (2025)

Reuters – Nasralla edges ahead in Honduras election count (2025)

Reuters – Trump raises doubts about Honduras vote count (2025)

Financial Times – Analysis of Honduras political crisis (2025)

PBI Honduras – Elections in the midst of crisis (2025)

Human Rights Watch – Protect Hondurans’ right to free and fair elections (2025)

Human Rights Watch – Honduras country chapter (2025)

UNHCR – Honduras Operational Update (2024)

InfoSegura – Violence and crime monitoring Honduras 2020 report

Freedom House – Honduras: Freedom in the World (2024)

Al Jazeera – Trump and Lula discuss tariffs and sanctions (2025)

NBC Los Angeles – What to know about the Honduras presidential election (2025)

Contracorriente – Honduran state’s lack of interest in solving Ana Hernández case (2023)

CIA World Factbook – Honduras country profile

Freedom House – Honduras country profile

America Magazine – Honduras protest over femicide (2023)

El Heraldo – Protests demanding autopsy in Ana Hernández case (2023)

La Prensa – Judge orders forensic autopsy in Ana Hernández case (2023)

HCH – Report on delays over Ana Hernández’s body (2023)

IM-Defensoras – Attacks against women human rights defenders, preliminary data (2023)

IM-Defensoras – Seeking truth and justice should not cost us our lives (2025)

Amnesty International – Report on women human rights defenders in Honduras (2025)

Statista – Feminicide rate per 100,000 women in Honduras

PAG Honduras – Human rights bulletin (2025)

CRD – Per Anger Prize 2025 awarded to Honduran activist (2025)

BTI Project – Honduras country report (2024/2025)

Crisis Group – Fight and Flight: Tackling roots of Honduras emergency (2024)

LAPOP / Vanderbilt – CARSI Honduras survey report (2016)

Reuters – Leading candidates in Honduras presidential election (2025)

Al Jazeera – Trump-backed candidate leads Honduras presidential vote (2025)

Washington Post – Honduras election context (2021)

BSS News – Report on Honduras election developments (2025)

Reuters – Nasralla leads tight Honduras election as fraud claims linger (2025)

YouTube – Video report on Honduras election dynamics

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I veckans avsnitt pratar vi om söndagens president- och kongressval i Honduras, Rodrigo Paz politiska förslag och Perus undantagstillstånd. Vi diskuterar senaste händelserna i konflikten mellan USA och Venezuela samt ECLACs senaste rapport för Latinamerika. Slutligen fördjupar vi oss i resultaten från COP30-mötet i Belem och dess betydelse för Latinamerika.

Instagram: @latinamerikapodden

Kontakt: latinamerikapodden@gmail.com

Ljud: https://transistor.fm/free-podcast-intro-music

Källförteckning:

AP News – State of emergency in Peru as Venezuelan migrants move north from Chile

Reuters – Peru to declare border state of emergency to prevent entry of undocumented migrants

YouTube – Report on Peru/Chile–Venezuela migration dynamics (video 1)

YouTube – Report on Peru/Chile–Venezuela migration dynamics (video 2)

SPW / Sexuality Policy Watch – E-book on gender, politics and Latin America

CEPAL – Income concentration still extreme in Latin America

El País – Venezuela calls US measure against “Cartel de los Soles” a fabrication (2025)

El País – Chavismo mobilizes amid US threats (2025)

US Treasury – Press release on action related to “Cartel de los Soles”

Al Jazeera – What is Cartel de los Soles? US terrorist designation explained (2025)

AP News – Report on US designation involving Venezuela (2025)

Washington Post – Analysis ahead of Honduras election

Reuters – Hondurans face tense election with fraud scrutiny (2025)

Reuters – Leading candidates in Honduras election (2025)

Reuters – Trump hopes Honduras elects conservative Asfura (2025)

WOKV / Cox Media Group – Hondurans elect new government (2025)

El País English – Trump intervenes in Honduras elections (2025)

El País English – Ruling party reacts to Trump’s support (2025)

Al Jazeera – What to know about the Honduran presidential election (2025)

CBS News – What is Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles? (2025)

The Guardian – Maduro responds to US cartel terrorism designation (2025)

Omni – Maduro vows to defend Venezuela after US accusations (2025)

AP News – Bolivia political crisis and MAS tensions (2025)

Reuters – Bolivia negotiating multilateral loans amid crisis (2025)

El País – Rodrigo Paz cuts public spending and removes taxes amid crisis (2025)

Social Protection and Human Rights – Social Panorama 2018 brief

Global Landscapes Forum – What happened at COP30?

Mongabay – Brazil seeks alternative fossil-fuel roadmap after COP30 failure (2025)

Al Jazeera – World reactions to the COP30 climate deal (2025)

Carbon Brief – COP30 key outcomes (2025)

Reuters – No roadmap to end deforestation after Brazil’s COP30 (2025)

Human Rights Watch – COP30 fails to address climate crisis drivers (2025)

Economic Times – COP30 key takeaways on finance, emissions and unity (2025)

PBS – COP30 ends without fossil fuel phase-out roadmap

Svenska Dagbladet – Mixed reactions to incomplete COP30 agreement

The Guardian – Fossil-fuel lobbyists at COP30 (2025)

The Guardian – Fossil-fuel giants in the crosshairs as COP30 avoids total failure (2025)

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I veckans avnsitt diskuterar vi nyheter från veckan. Vi går igenom valresultatet i Chile, tjänsteresan till Taiwan av panamanska diplomater, fängslandet av en ecuadoriansk knarkkung, det senaste från Venezuela och relationen till USA samt skandalen om att Nestle påstås ha socker i barnmat i Latinamerika. Vi diskuterar också mer djupgående det eskalerande våldet i Mexiko.

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Kontakt: latinamerikapodden@gmail.com

Källförteckning:

AP News – Panama accuses China of meddling over lawmakers' Taiwan trip

arXiv – 2508.06509 (2025)

ResearchGate – Ruling Violently: The exercise of criminal governance by the Mexican Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG)

SciELO Books – Criminal governance chapter (Abello 2020)

UNDP – Crimen organizado (2025)

Stanford King Center – Working Paper 545

Baker Institute – Victimology & extortions in Mexico

El País – Mexico’s omertà: millions of merchants pay a fee to criminals (2024)

ICRC – Crime wars: operational perspectives (2023)

US Congress – CRS Report R45199

AP News – Mexico journalists homicides

RSF – Mexico country profile

Human Rights Watch – Mexico (2025)

Amnesty International – Killings of journalists under state protection (2024)

Forbes – Why Mexico is the deadliest country in the Americas for journalists (2024)

Council on Foreign Relations – Criminal violence in Mexico

Crisis Group – Crime pieces: effects of Mexico’s war on drugs explained

PMC – Article on violence/public health (2021)

Integralia – First political violence report (2024)

RELAP – Article on population/migration (2023)

New Lines Institute – The rise of militarized cartels in Mexico

AP News – Mexico mayor killed in Michoacán

Turning Point – Democracy at gunpoint: violence and power in Mexico’s elections (2025)

ACLED – Five key takeaways: 2024 elections in Mexico

Reuters – Mexican candidate assassinations hit grim record (2024)

Noria Research – Data on electoral violence Mexico 2020–2021

Council on Foreign Relations – Criminal violence in Mexico

Human Rights Watch – Mexico country chapter (2025)

El País – Mexico ends 2024 with 70 daily homicides (2025)

Al Jazeera – Chile faces presidential runoff between Jara and Kast (2025)

The Guardian – Chile election: crime and migration fears (2025)

AS/COA – Chile’s presidential vote: Jara vs. Kast (2025)

Reuters – Chile’s far-right rises in Congress, needs allies for reforms (2025)

The Guardian – Kast favourite to be next Chilean president after first round (2025)

Wall Street Journal – Wilmer Chavarría fake death and arrest in Spain

Al Jazeera – Nestlé accused of risking baby health in Africa, Asia and Latin America (2025)

AP News – Mexican authorities arrest suspect in assassination of mayor in Michoacán

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