Overview

• Comité ¡Eureka! began a hunger strike in Mexico City’s Zócalo on August 29 to protest years without answers on disappearances and to press for a meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum.
• Sheinbaum received Eureka representatives at the National Palace on August 30 and posted that her government works for the truth, though no specific commitments were disclosed.
• Relatives of the disappeared criticize the MEH and the prior Truth Commission as insufficient, underscoring Mexico’s more than 133,000 people officially listed as missing, according to the RNPDNO.
• In Argentina, audios attributed to former ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo describe alleged kickbacks in medicine purchases and mention figures close to the presidency; the government has denied the recordings’ veracity and said it would pursue legal action against him.
• Opposition lawmakers are leveraging the scandal with plans for interpellations, the reactivated $LIBRA investigative commission, and a Senate push to curb emergency decrees, as Corrientes votes for governor and Buenos Aires heads to provincial elections on September 7.