Daily Briefing on Latin America – by Jordana Timerman

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Brazil of being pro-Russian in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine and criticized a joint peace proposal drawn up by Brasilia and Beijing,” reports Politics.

“After Venezuela’s controversial elections, the pact that has long held the region’s left-wing parties together appears to be finally unraveling,” writes Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker.

The forced exile of Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González to Spain over the weekend “has raised new questions about the Biden administration’s handling of one of the worst political crises in the Western Hemisphere and the limited foreign policy tools the U.S. and international partners have at their disposal to counter authoritarian governments,” the Miami Herald.

The developers of El Salvador’s digital crypto wallet have been tasked with leading talks with China on a free trade agreement, reports The lighthouse.

The Chilean government has formally requested files to participate in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court said. The third.

Smarter US security assistance could help Latin America reduce its deadly violence, Paul Angelo argues in Foreign Affairs.

The Ortega government in Nicaragua “is strengthening ‘security’ and surveillance ties with Russia and China, while internally in Nicaragua it is approving new reforms to the Code of Criminal Procedure that will give police the power to request phone records and freeze bank accounts without a court order,” reports Confidential.