I dagens avsnitt diskuterar vi mordplanen mot Costa Ricas president, relationen mellan Kuba och USA och rykten om ”pågående samtal”, avhuggna huvuden som hittats på en strand i Ecuador, Venezuelas frigivning av politiska fångar, mötet mellan María Corina Machado och Donald Trump samt FARC:s uppmaning att bilda en ”supergerillaallians” mot Donald Trump.

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Veckans nyheter fokuserar på Venezuela och den senaste veckans händelser där, men vi diskuterar också brasiliansk guldutvinning i Guyana och det spända läget i Colombia efter USA:s hot mot president Gustavo Petro.

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I dagens avsnitt går vi igenom allt som hände igår i samband med den amerikanska attacken mot Venezuela och tillfångatagandet av Nicolás Maduro. Vi intervjuar också den venezuelanske demokratikämpen och advokaten Ian Barrera Sosa.

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SVT Nyheter – Venezuela

Donald Trump tal efter attacken mot Venezuela

No war yes peace song

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I veckans avsnitt fördjupar vi oss i läget i El Salvador och berättar om landets mycket omtalade president Nayib Bukele. Ellen berättar också om sina erfarenheter av El Salvador under Bukeles precis införda undantagstillstånd i mars 2022. Vi pratar om Bolivias närmande till Israel, Kubas eventuella kontakter med USA gällande situationen i Venezuela och om Machados mottagande av Nobels fredspris. Vi tar upp de amerikanska sanktionerna mot ett colombianskt nätverk som anklagas för att ha sänt stridande till Sudan, om Honduras ännu inte fastställda valresultat och om kaoset som utbröt i Brasiliens parlament under ett lagförslag som syftar till att sänka den före detta presidenten Bolsonaros fängelsestraff.

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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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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.

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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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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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I veckans avsnitt diskuterar vi några av senaste veckans nyheter från Latinamerika. Nyheterna vi diskuterar denna vecka är: De sexuella trakasserierna mot Claudia Sheinbaum, den stora polisoperationen i Brasilien där över 121 personer dog, EU-CELAC toppmötet i Colombia, fångarna i ett fängelse i Ecuador som hittades hängda, Rodrigo Paz insvuren som Bolivias nya president och Venezuelas militära mobilisering.

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Reuters – Venezuelan military preparing guerrilla response in case of US attack (2025)

Al Jazeera – Venezuela prepares massive deployment of forces in case of US attack (2025)

The Guardian – Navy carrier fuels Trump’s anti-drugs operation in Caribbean and Latin America (2025)

AP News – Bolivia’s long-ruling party almost eliminated from Congress, vote results show

AP News – Rodrigo Paz sworn in as Bolivia’s new president amid fuel crisis

Reuters – Ecuador homicides increase 40% through July, over 5,000 killed

Al Jazeera – Explosions hit Ecuador; local criminal gang and ex-FARC dissidents blamed

AP News – Dozens of inmates found hanged in Ecuador prison

AP News – Deadly rioting in Ecuador prison leaves 31 inmates dead

AP News – EU, Latin America and Caribbean nations hold summit overshadowed by US military operation

Eunews – Leaders desert EU–CELAC summit in Colombia amid new US pressure on Latin America (2025)

European Council – International summit EU–CELAC, 9 November 2025

EU–LAC Foundation – EU–LAC general information portal

European Council – Joint Statement EU–CELAC (2025)

The Guardian – Investigation launched after Rio police raid (2025)

Senado Federal do Brasil – CPI do crime organizado será instalada nesta terça-feira (2025)

Agência Brasil – Igualar facções ao terrorismo prejudica inquéritos, diz relator da CPI (2025)

CartaCapital – CPI quer saber o objetivo real de operação com 121 mortos no Rio (2025)

The Guardian – Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest-ever police raid (2025)

El País – El Comando Vermelho, grupo carioca del narco con 30.000 hombres en expansión (2025)

AP News – Brazil police operation in Rio favelas (2025)

AP News – Brazil police raid in Rio de Janeiro favela (2025)

The Guardian – Brazil investigation of Rio police raid (2025)

Reuters – Over 40 bodies seen after Rio’s deadliest police operation (2025)

Reuters – Brazil’s deadliest police raid failed to capture or kill gang leaders (2025)

UN-Habitat – The Challenge of Slums: Brazil chapter (2016)

IBGE – Aglomerados Subnormais: Informações Territoriais (2022)

CBS News – Man arrested after groping Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum

Al Jazeera – How unsafe is Mexico for women? Claudia Sheinbaum assaulted

(Article) – The groping of Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum was more than just a personal assault

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