Costa Rica's government disclosed receipt of an intelligence report describing an alleged plan to assassinate President Laura Fernández, with officials indicating the plot was being coordinated from a maximum-security prison by leaders of the drug-trafficking organization Los Lara.

Palestinians in Chile push back over new president's pivot toward Israel Submitted by Ana Maria Monjardino on Mon, 06/08/2026 - 14:07 Chile’s Palestinian community, the largest outside the Arab world, pushes back against Jose Antonio Kast's moves to restore ties with Israel Demonstrators carry a banner against Israel's genocide in Gaza during the so-called “Las Ollas Vacias” (Empty Pots) march organised by the Palestinian community in Chile, in Santiago on 9 August 2025 (Rodrigo Arangua/AFP) Off A new wave of right-wing governments are deepening ties with Israel across Latin America, overturning the “pink tide” that drove foreign policy in solidarity with Palestine in the continent for many years. In few places is this more surprising than Chile, home to the largest Palestinian community outside of the Arab world and North Africa.  President Jose Antonio Kast was elected in December following a campaign centred on countering immigration, bolstering national security and cutbacks on public spending. An admirer of Chile’s notorious dictator Augusto Pinochet, his rhetoric mirrors that of Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei, El Salvador’s millennial dictator Nayib Bukele, and Donald Trump, whose approach to US hegemony in the Americas has been dubbed the “Donroe Doctrine” by various observers.  Alongside newly-elected leaders in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Honduras, Kast’s adherence to this new right-wing order includes a haste to renew relations with Israel, despite its genocidal war in the occupied Gaza Strip.