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Brazil - Lula wins
This Monday, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court officially declared Lula the winner of Sunday's presidential election, while Bolsonaro refuses to accept the results and calls for the election to be annulled.
Lula celebrated his victory by more than 4 million votes over the far-right pro-U.S. Bolsonaro, describing it as a defeat for denialism and lies. He said, and I quote, our country will not be anyone's backyard.
United States - early votes
In the United States, more than 28 million ci...
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Brazil
Brazil heads into Sunday's presidential runoff with Lula and Bolsonaro in a statistical tie, according to the latest Quaest polls.
The two candidates will face off again tomorrow, Friday, in a second televised debate, just 48 hours before an election that could shape the political future of Latin America.
El Salvador
El Salvador's president, Najib Bukele, has threatened to violate Haiti's sovereignty by launching a military operation on Haitian soil to rescue four Salvadoran soldiers kidnapped by gangs.
The soldiers ar...
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Brazil
In Brazil, President Lula has asked the Superior Electoral Court to lift the confidentiality of business and family records belonging to his rival, Flavio Bolsonaro and demanded to know how he managed to buy a $2 million home on a monthly salary of $9,000 a month, the same as his own.
Polls continue to show a statistical dead heat between the two candidates, with support for Bolsonaro trending downward ahead of this Sunday's October 25th runoff election.
Ecuador
Ecuador is beginning the third t...
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Venezuela
In Venezuela, the second national popular consultation was held on Sunday.
This is a mechanism through which the population voted on initiatives that had previously been ranked as priorities within their communes and condominium associations.
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez described participation in the consultation as extraordinary and said that the next step is to fulfill and implement the approved projects.
She added that the investment funds needed for this purpose are already available.
Brazil
In Brazil, the f...
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Brazil
In Brazil, following Lula's victory in the Senate, which approved his labor reform, establishing a five-day work week and two days of paid rest, Lula is now promoting a proposal to make public transportation free on weekends with the aim of helping families spend more quality time together.
Meanwhile, a new poll shows a decline in support for far-right pro-U.S. Flavio Bolsonaro with the latest figures showing a statistical tie with Lula.
Cuba-U.S.
The United States Department of the T...
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Venezuela-Italy
Venezuela and Italy have signed an agreement to restore direct flights between Caracas and Rome. Flights are expected to begin next March with three flights per week and an estimated total of more than 90,000 available seats per year.
Brazil
In Brazil, the Senate is to set to vote this Wednesday on a constitutional reform proposed by President Lula. The proposal seeks to end the six-day work week with one day off, reduce working hours from 44 to 40 per week without cutting wages, and establish a f...
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Venezuela
Venezuela's Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, participated today in the World Food Forum in Rome, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
In her address, the Venezuelan leader emphasized that food is an essential human right and noted that Venezuela is seeking to consolidate significant progress toward the goal of eradicating hunger.
Latin America
This Monday, October 12th, demonstrations are taking place in several countries across the Americas to commemorate more than five centuries of...
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France - protests
student protests continue in France this Friday, denouncing the shortage of teachers, overcrowded classrooms, the deterioration of educational facilities and budget cuts, while violent police repression of the protests continue.
Student mobilization has also spread to other European countries, including Belgium, Italy, Greece, Germany, Ireland and Austria.
Chile - heavy rains
In Chile, a red alert has been declared in several areas affected by the heavy rains and flooding that hit Santiago, the capital city. Authorities have had to r...
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Argentina - protests
In Argentina, in rejection of the neoliberal policies of the far-right pro-U.S. Milei, the CGT is holding a mobilization this Thursday in defence of domestic industry and employment.
The Labor Federation is challenging Milei's opening of the country to imports and the negative impact of this policy has been having on industrial employment in Argentina, with 90,000 jobs lost.
Ecuador - protests
In Ecuador, trade unions and social organizations are taking to the streets today in a mobilization against the...
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Israel - Palestine - three years of genocide
Three years after what has been described as a genocide in Gaza amid relentless attacks by the military of Israel on the enclave, the number of Palestinians killed has reached 75,000, the majority of them women and children, while the number of wounded has reached 175,000 since October 7th, 2023.
Today in London, students are holding a march against the genocide in Gaza. In Rabat, a pro-Palestinian group has called for a sit-in, and in Tunis, pro-Palestinian supporters are holding a demonstration.
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Argentina - protest
Argentina's Central Workers Union is holding a demonstration this Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires to protest a ruling by the Supreme Court.
The country's highest court reinstated the article through which the far-right pro-US Javier Milley repealed the land law and eliminated the main restrictions on the purchase of land by foreigners.
Brazil - presidential election runoff
In Brazil, the electoral calendar leading to the second round officially begins on October the 9th, i...
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Brazil - presidential election
In Brazil, the president and progressive candidate for re-election, Lula, and far-right candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, are advancing to the second round of the election after a very narrow difference in votes between them in the first round.
The runoff will take place on October 25th after neither of the two candidates secured an absolute majority in Sunday's election.
Peru - regional and municipal elections
In Peru, the political party of pro-US president Keiko Fujimori suffered a h...
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Bolivia
Bolivia's prosecutor's office is denouncing what it described as the kidnapping of attorney general Roger Mariaca, who was detained at Santa Cruz Airport for no reason by personnel whose institutional affiliation has yet to be clarified. Mariaca was investigating Fernando Serinedo, a campaign adviser to the continental rights and former adviser to Rodrigo Paz for drug trafficking and state corruption. According to experts, the investigation could deliver checkmate to president Paz's pro US neoliberal government. The Washington government revoke prosecutor Mariaca's visa, a coercive measure that analysts and political...
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United States, New York
Today is the last day of the eighty first General Assembly here in New York City. 20 countries are going to be giving their speeches throughout the day, four of them from our region, Latin America and The Caribbean. We are talking El Salvador, Costa Rica, Antigua, Ambarbuda, and Grenade. Most of them are going to be denouncing climate change. The situation regarding Gaza denouncing the Israel genocide against the Palestinian population, supporting and denouncing the blockade against Cuba, denouncing in terms of supporting supporting Cuba that...
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Even though it's not going to be presidents of Latin America speaking in this fourth day, it's going to be many representatives of the Caribbean taking their stage.
Among them, Haiti will be talking about security and elections, St. Vincent and the Grenadines talking about debt, finance regarding climate change and survival.
Also, it's going to be talking St. Cristobal and Neves, and also it's going to be addressing problems of the region like the climate, red resilience, and the vulnerability of the Caribbean with the background of the security i...
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General Assembly of the United Nations
In the morning session, the president of the Authority of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, talked via videoconference to the assembly because the American authorities refused to issue a visa to Abbas, something that he denounced at the beginning of his speech.
He denounced the continuation of what he called the genocide of Israel through the Palestinian population, telling that the final destination, according to he believes that is Israel plan, is to wipe out the Palestinians in Cisjordania and Gaza in order to expand the great Israel.
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In the afternoon, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez will be addressing the General Assembly.
It's going to be the first time in 10 years that she does so. She did it for the last time in 2016, but as a vice president, now she's going to be again representing Venezuela in the evening.
Yesterday, she did meet with President Trump.
And the following schedule for the day here will include: the President of Iran, addressing the Assembly in the morning, and also sever...
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Sweden - Europe - Latin America
The left won the election in Sweden after the final count, holding the growing advance of the far right in Europe and paving the way for an agenda that champions social policies, inclusion and rights.
For Latin America, the left's victory in Sweden takes on particular significance in a context marked by the hardening of security policies and by Washington's renewed attempts to reassert its influence in the hemisphere under the Monroe Doctrine.
United Stats - legislative e...
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United States -Venezuela
The United States government has removed Venezuela from the list of countries that have failed to combat drug trafficking. Trump attributed the change in status to greater cooperation with Acting president Delcy Rodriguez.
Argentina - environmental impact
In Argentina, the judiciary has ordered operations to be halted at two oil companies, Navitas and Rockhopper, following a precautionary measure over the lack of an environmental impact assessment.
The oil project, operated by the two companies, is located in the Malvinas Bas...
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Ecuador
In Ecuador, indigenous labor, anti-mining and student organizations are holding a mobilization against mining and in defense of water in the southern city of Cuenca.
In a statement, they denounce the advance of the extractivist model, territorial dispossession and the expansion of the mining frontier, which threatens water sources, ecosystems and the territories where indigenous communities live.
Bolivia
In Bolivia, Parliament is holding a session to consider a request by the neoliberal pro-U.S. Rodrigo Paz to extend the state of e...
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China
China responded to criticism from US secretary of state Marco during his tour of three South American countries reminding him that the Western Hemisphere is no one's backyard and supporting the economic autonomy of Latin American countries in the face of the White House national security doctrine. Rubio, for his part, ended his express tour in Peru, where he arrived from Ecuador, where he was decorated by Noboa. At the end of his three day visit, he left with agreements signed in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to guarantee US...
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Colombia
During his tour of Colombia as he welcomed US secretary of state Marco Rubio, the far right pro US president Abelardo de la Espriella said, quote, there is not a single Latino in the world who does not feel represented by Marco Rubio, and added, Rubio has been an inspiration in the fight for freedom, democracy, and institutional order in Latin America. Rubio is making this tour of three Andean countries to consolidate in his own words an alignment with The United States and US interests. A political, military, a...
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Cuba
Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez presented on Monday at a press conference the report on the damage caused by The US blockade, which over the past six decades has amounted to a $178,000,000,000. Rodríguez is scheduled to present the document, which will be debated at the United Nations on October 28.
Argentina
In Argentina, the far right pro US president, Javier Millet, has decided to take the Malvinas Islands dispute to court. His government has filed a criminal complaint against five oil companies for...
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United-States
Today, The United States celebrates Labor Day with demonstrations taking place in several cities across the country under the slogan workers over billionaires. Unions and coalitions are calling for workers to be prioritized over billionaires. Higher taxes on the wealthy, protections of health insurance for disadvantaged people, an end to ICE rates and attacks on immigrants, opposition to cuts to social programs, and protection on voting rights as a country's prepares for the November midterm elections.
Colombia
In Colombia, the far right pro U...
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Venezuela
Venezuela is seeking to position itself as the world's largest oil producer. That was a statement made by the President of state-owned PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela) following the strengthening of strategic alliances between the interim government of President Rodríguez with the United States and other Western countries.
Colombia
In Colombia, former President Álvaro Uribe will appear before the prosecutor's office for questioning as part of an investigation into the case against him over the La Granja and El Aro massacres carried out...
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Venezuela
Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright led a ceremony on Wednesday to sign agreements aimed at promoting joint hydrocarbon production projects involving companies from several countries and Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA.
The agreements also seek to finalize details surrounding the energy deal reached by the two governments on August 29th.
Among the companies signing energy agreements were Italy's ENI and U.S.-backed Chevron, as well as Asper Energy, General Electric, and Primavera Infinita. During the cer...
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Honduras
The justices in Honduras have decided to close a criminal case against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was facing charges of fraud and money laundering. The case has been dismissed.
Hernández was convicted in the United States in 2024 of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison for smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine.
He was later pardoned by President Trump, who announced the pardon just days before Honduras' recent presidential election and endorsed in that election far-right candidate Nasry Asfura, a clo...
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SCO Summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit concludes today. It brought together its 10 member states in Kyrgyzstan, including China, Russia, India and Iran, countries with enormous populations and economic weight.
The meeting, which began on Monday in Bishkek, is one of the main forums for political, economic and security cooperation in Eurasia and also at the global level.
It also provided an opportunity for multiple bilateral meetings, including Putin's meetings with Xi Jinping, Modi, Erdogan and Iranian leader Massoud Beheshtian.
Mexico
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Middle East
Iran launched missiles and drones at U.S. bases in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in response to the U.S. attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, which, according to Tehran, left military personnel and civilians dead and injured.
The U.S. attack was the first in a month, and Washington says it bombed two missile launchers belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard on Larak Island, claiming they were preparing to launch naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Nepal - China - Tibet
Near the northern border of Nepal and China's Tibet region, a sudden and devastating torrent of water, ice and rocks resembling a tsunami swept through and buried entire nearby villages.
So far, hundreds of deaths and a large number of missing people have been reported as rescue operations continue, and scientists attribute the disaster to the partial collapse of a glacier.
United Nations - Gaza
The United Nations is warning for a new humanitarian crisis in Gaza a...
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Bolivia
In Bolivia, prosecutors are investigating far-right political strategist Fernando Cerimedo for allegedly protecting drug trafficking operations.
Cerimedo, a former digital strategy advisor to Milley, Paz, Bolsonaro, cast as Fura de la Esprilla, another far-right Latin American president, is accused of having provided his services and his army of trolls and bots to discredit the left and progressive leaders and help win elections, some of which have been challenged over alleged fraud.
Cerimedo is currently being held in pre-trial detention over an alleged attempted femicide. He i...
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Venezuela - administration balance
Venezuela's Acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, presented a balance of her administration two months after the twin earthquakes, detailing progress in providing social assistance to those affected, clearing debris and delivering housing.
On the economic front, Delcy Rodriguez highlighted that oil production surpassed 1.2 million barrels per day, its highest level since 2019, and she also announced that the economy has recorded 32 consecutive quarters of sustained growth and that the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, projects Venezuela's economy will grow by 6.5% b...
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Bolivia
At this hour, Fernando Serimedo remains detained in Bolivia. A former advisor to Milei and a member of President Rodrigo Paz's inner circle, Serimedo has emerged as a key figure in a regional machine of disinformation and electoral manipulation operated by Latin America's far right in coordination with the international right. He operated in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Honduras, and Mexico, with additional connections to Donald Trump's circle through his partner, Brad Parscale, Founder of the outlet La Derecha Diario, Serimedo deployed armies of hundreds of thousands of trolls a...
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Iran
Iran warns that what he described as Trump's economic terrorism will bring more defeats for The United States. Teheran responded harshly to Trump's announcement of what he described as the most devastating economic operation and d day, as he put it, an unprecedented isolation campaign against Iran for refusing to accept the negotiating terms that Washington seeks to impose on it to end the war. Trump also threatened the rest of the world with sanctions if they trade with the Persian nation.
Argentina
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Bolivia
In Bolivia, it was revealed that a secret command led by a former adviser to Milei and current adviser to president Rodrigo Paz, was planning to capture Evo Morales in the tropical tropical region of Cochabamba. Evo Morales asked the prosecutor's office for a transparent investigation into Fernando Cenimedo, who is accused of leading an elite police group outside the formal structures.
Chile
In Chile, president Caste declared a constitutional state of emergency due to the catastrophic damage caused by an unprecedented heavy r...
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Colombia
Seven days after the earthquake in Colombia, the department of Risaralda in the central part of the country and its capital, Pereira, continue to face a critical situation. Authorities report that 40% of Pereira suffered serious infrastructure damage, particularly to buildings and homes. And the far right pro US president, de La Hayes Prieja, while visiting visiting Buenaventura amid the tragedy, sparked widespread outrage and criticism when, as a form of aid, he threw soccer balls bearing his personal logo from his armored vehicle to children. The incident adds to...
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Venezuela
The United Nations Development Program program projects 6.5% GDP growth, that is gross domestic product for Venezuela by the end of twenty twenty six. And Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, reported that the Venezuelan economy has achieved 21 consecutive quarters of growth. She called for maintaining national productive unity among all sectors of the country and promoting an export oriented economy.
Brazil
Electoral campaigns have begun in Brazil. There are 13 parties with 13 candidates. The favorite, according to the polls, Lula, appeared in Sao Bernardo Do...
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Colombia
In Colombia, citizens are organizing themselves to distribute aid in areas affected by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake at the El Campín Stadium in Bogotá, while denouncing the lack of assistance from the government of the far-right pro-US President de la Espriella.
The death toll from the earthquake has now risen to more than 281, with 308,000 injured and 379 people still missing.
In the department of El Chocó, more than 13,000 people have been affected, a figure surpassed only by the 36,000 affected in El Valle del Cauca.
Ven...
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Colombia
More than 48 hours after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck western Colombia, residents of the Department of Chocó are denouncing the absence of the far-right pro-U.S. government of Abelardo de la Espriella, as well as the lack of international aid, apart from assistance from the United States.
This has led to accusations that foreign aid is being given an ideological character.
The death toll has already surpassed 200, while more than 3,000 people have been injured and thousands are reported missing, according to the latest reports from the...
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Colombia
At this hour in Colombia, rescue teams and volunteers continue searching for survivors trapped under the rubble following the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the country on Monday, the strongest earthquake felt there in the past decade.
The earthquake has left at least 132 people dead in western and southwestern Colombia, affecting nine departments, while five capital cities remain under a red alert.
Iran-U.S.
Iran continues to denounce the United States' failure to comply with the Memorandum of Understanding, accusing Washington of co...
