At UNGA, Lula Connects With Trump, U.S. Announces Argentina Bailout

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Pointing points this week: Regional leaders are eliminating United Nations General Assemblyand The presidential candidate in Chile He puts his policy of migration, and Mexico speaks trade With Canada.

There were many things that could be predicted in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for this week in New York City.

Among them are the points of discussion of Latin American leaders: Colombian President Gustavo Petro criticized the World War on drugs, and Argentine President Javier Millie criticized the unusual development goals, and called on Brazilian President Luiz ENA DODA Silva to the southern global countries to play a greater role in international rule.

Meanwhile, Chilean President Gabriel Borik took a long -term step to support former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in the race for the following year. The situation revolves traditionally between the international regions, with Latin America and the Caribbean Sea region after that.

But Unga brought a lot of surprises, too. In his speech on Tuesday morning, when US President Donald Trump included his usual grievances against Brazil, he issued a qualification out: He had a “little problem in saying this” because he embraced moments if not before in the gradual area to the platform.

Trump said the two were “excellent chemistry” and plans to meet next week. He spent a lot of time to praise Lula as Brazil did, saying that his positive impression of the Brazilian President was a “good sign.”

Trump’s comments came during the worst moment in American relations in Brazil for decades. The United States applied a major tariff to Brazilian goods and the Brazilian judges’ sanctions as a punishment for the trial and condemnation of former President Gere Bolsonaro, Trump ally.

Allies had not immediately described the political exchange with Trump as a victory. “No one in the world is resisting magic Lol It is famous without positive personal relationships with some of the leaders who disagree with them; During his first period in his post, from 2003 to 2011, it included US President George W. Bush.

Other factors may also explain Trump softening towards Brazil. For anyone, the American president is unpredictable. His threats against Brazil did not stop condemning Bolsonaro.

Brazilian business leaders recently met with members of the Trump district in Washington, on the pretext that the American definitions caused negative consequences for consumers, Fulha de S. Paulo It was mentioned on Tuesday. According to some businessmen stressed that the American aggression was making it not more popular.

Andrei Bagliarini wrote a valuable opportunity for the two leader Foreign policy. Now, the energy of Brazilian diplomats will turn into preparation for the planned conversation between Lula and Trump-and try to avoid friction with some of the world leaders.

UNGA was the second big title of Latin America on Argentina.

After the right-wing Miley party lost the Buenos Aires County elections this month-which led to a possible poor result in mid-October-the country’s investors began selling Argentine pezus. To maintain the currency from the low target price of the government, the central bank spent more than a billion dollars last week in the purchase of Bizo.

Argentina does not have enough reserves to keep the dollars spend so quickly. Therefore, Miley appealed to his political allies in the Trump administration for assistance. This week, he received results.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessin wrote on Wednesday on social media that the United States is negotiating a $ 20 billion swap line with Argentina. Washington is also ready to buy dollar bonds and issue the new credit for the country if necessary as part of coordination “to prevent excessive volatility,” he added.

Pisint said that if the next middle periods have a “positive” result, he will direct the new direct investment of the United States to the country, “Pisent said. Separately, Trump Millie supported his re -election in 2027.

The size and the explicit nature of the American financial intervention in the Argentine economy are unusual. Pesin realized this destiny, as he wrote that Trump’s support for Melly was “rare” and that the relationship between the United States Arginetina has “a geopolitical strategy.”

If Bessent’s interventions succeed, they will maintain the confidence of investors in the Biso – and the United States will not need to publish some of the tools it placed on the table, such as a new credit issuance. This will not be clear even after mid -Argentina.

Meanwhile, the United States’s huge support for Benus Aires raises questions about what Washington might ask in return. “There is no free lunch in foreign affairs,” political risk analyst Thiago de Aragao wrote on social media on Wednesday.

Aragão in detail continued the concessions that the United States might seek from Argentina behind the scenes, including the United States to reach critical minerals in Argentina, export controls to prevent some Chinese technologies, and the most strict military cooperation. On Tuesday, the Argentine newspaper Claaren I stated that Washington had asked Argentina to cancel the arrangement of exchanging currencies of previous currencies with China.

Aragau wrote that Trump’s saving plan for Argentina could mean “today’s criticism of sovereign options that last for a decade.”

Monday, September 29, to Friday, October 3: Trump is expected to speak Lula.

Tuesday, September 30: The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to discuss Haiti.

The United States trades strikes. The US Drug Control Administration urged the Trump administration to carry out direct military strikes on the targets of drug trafficking inside Mexico this year, Washington Post I mentioned last week. According to what was reported, some of the senior Trump administration officials retracted against the recommendation – which have not yet reached its fruits – the congress has not been stated with such strikes.

The administration has chosen to proceed with the military strikes on boats claiming to carry drugs from Venezuela, which prompted the decline of the US Congress. The attacks also appeared significantly in an emergency meeting of the Latin American community and the Caribbean Sea region (CELAC) on the sidelines of UNGA this week.

Celac has a few concrete achievements of her name. But amid American military threats against the region, it can gain new energy as a consultative forum.

Canada’s Mexican relationships. Canada and Mexico will coordinate before the upcoming review of the United States, Mexico and Cananga Convention (USMCA) and strengthen both railways and ships in an attempt to develop bilateral trade. They launched a four -year action plan that expects cooperation in ports, research, development and commercial promotion.

Although USMCA has worked as a basis for political and economic relations in North America in recent years, Canada and Mexico have sometimes had a distant relationship. Only about 3 percent of Mexican exports are currently going to Canada. After months of economic uncertainty from the United States, leaders said they aim to change this.

Latin music in the capital In September and October, a series of musicians from all over the hemisphere offers performances small performances in Washington as part of the celebration of NPR for the month of Spanish heritage in the United States. It is part of the Tiny Desk concert series, which is free to watch online.

Artists have so far included national icons such as the Colombian Valino Artist Carlos Vivis, Argentine rocks, Vito Pes, as well as rising stars such as Brazil Luisa Berina and Lido Pimienta from Colombia.

The list of extensive artists is still on the deck, including the young generations that adopt popular melodies-such as Silvana Estrada in Mexico-and a particularly strange option, a group of lyrical dolls that have become famous in the satirical Chilean TV program 31 minutes.

The exhibition gained popularity with children and adults throughout Latin America in the first decade of the twentieth century due to the humorous and educational diving in topics such as endangered species and how to work the sewage system. 31 minutes Also preserved pop video clips, with songs designated for worldly topics (such as the strike “I got a bad haircut”.

Although the show is devoted to making people laugh, his Creator said clinic A news site is that it is preparing for a small office with the utmost seriousness: “We put all our focus, knowledge and accuracy in it.”

Chilean presidential candidate Jose Antonio Cast speaks to the media as he reaches the first presidential debate, hosted by the Chelsevson TV channel, in Santiago on September 10.Rodrigo Arangua/AFP via Getty Images

The presidential election campaign on November 16 in Chile is in full swing. The candidates conducted the first televised discussion this month, and on Monday, the right -wing candidate Jose Antonio Cast revealed new policies about one of the best issues in the race: immigration. Kast arrived at the last presidential elections in 2021, but lost to Boric.

Cast pledged to take the “Chilean first” approach and make the unrelated immigration a criminal crime.

In recent years, some immigrants not documented in Chile have been qualified to obtain programs that give them permission to live and work. The country has absorbed many Venezuelans who flee economic and political turmoil over the past decade. But Kast said that it would not give a legal status to the unconfirmed Venezuelans in Chile, who were estimated in 2023 to number more than 200,000.

The Chilean presidential elections usually include two rounds, and Cast leads with an overwhelming majority of opinion polls to obtain a potential vote in the surface flow. The other centers are the conservative Evelyn Mattei and the left Janet Jara. Many opinion polls show right -wing candidates in fourth and fifth. In general, expectations for the elections show what the Chilean policy swing to the right since the election of Borik.

Kast pledged to reduce the state’s participation in the Chilean economy, remove the restrictions imposed on private investors in the Lithium sector, and increase the role of the army in combating crime.

Mattei also pledged more aggressive positions on migration and crime – and this week, saying that it would deploy 10,000 new military police throughout the country – but take a more moderate position on economic issues.

Jara said that she will codify the country’s Venezuelan immigrants with an increase in the minimum wage, the police intensify and the expansion of prisons.

In addition to the immigration policy, other aspects of foreign policy have not shown prominently in the elections. While some of their right -wing peers in Latin America criticized China, he said from the gate that he would not cut economic relations with Beijing.