LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Brazil held talks with Mexico, Chile, Germany over green bond project

The latest in Latin American politics today:

Brazil held talks with Mexico, Chile, Germany over green bond project SAO PAULO - The Brazilian government has engaged in talks with Mexico, Germany, Colombia and Chile as it looks to set up a framework to issue ESG bonds amid a push for sustainability-linked measures, the country's Finance Ministry told Reuters.

Government officials earlier this year said the South American country planned to issue its first-ever green bond in 2023, with its new leftist government looking to use its environmental agenda to attract investment. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva campaigned last year on pledges to fight deforestation, seeking to reverse the policies of far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who oversaw a spike in Amazon rainforest destruction.

Suspect in Paraguayan prosecutor's murder arrested in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO - A man suspected of ordering the murder of a top Paraguayan prosecutor last year has been arrested in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's federal police said on Friday.

Paraguayan Miguel Angel Insfran Galeano is accused of being involved in the assassination of organized crime prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was shot dead last May on the island of Baru, Colombia, while on his honeymoon. Insfran, known as Uncle Rico, was arrested in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, a neighborhood in the western part of the city, before being taken to federal police headquarters and then to a Rio de Janeiro prison.

Brazil police launch fresh raid to fight illegal mining in Yanomami lands SAO PAULO - Brazil's federal police said on Friday they had launched a fresh operation to fight wildcat mining in the Yanomami indigenous territory amid a humanitarian crisis blamed on illegal gold miners in the region.

The police operation adds to enforcement raids launched earlier this week by Brazil's environmental and indigenous agencies to expel thousands of wildcat miners from the country's largest indigenous reservation. (Compiled by Steven Grattan; editing by Deepa Babington)

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