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Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 09:17 UTC
Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil despite a court ban and the US will grant him a visa

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated on Sunday by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential runoff, left Brazil with his wife and two daughters despite a Supreme Federal Court order barring him from leaving the country, and the US State Department confirmed it will grant them visas. According to the newspaper O Globo, he arrived in Miami on Tuesday night.
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Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 03:36 UTC
Trump suggests Venezuela become the 51st US state and elect a governor

US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Venezuela become the 51st US state and that its citizens elect a governor instead of a president, at a rally at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he announced the arrival of the first shipment of one million barrels of Venezuelan oil obtained under an agreement between Washington and Caracas.
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Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 03:30 UTC
Latin America’s energy inflation reaches its highest level in a year

Annual energy inflation in Latin America and the Caribbean accelerated to 8.33% in August, its highest level in twelve months, and pressure on fuel prices continued in September and October, when diesel prices matched petrol for the first time, according to a report by the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) published by the Energy Report website.
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Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 03:20 UTC
Argentina: opposition asks Milei to clarify whether Bolsonaro left Brazil through the country

Argentine opposition lawmakers on Tuesday demanded that Javier Milei’s government report whether Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who left Brazil despite a court ban and travelled to the United States after his election defeat, crossed through Argentine territory. The National Migration Directorate said it has no record of the senator entering the country.
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Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 00:31 UTC
Dubai's luxury tourism boom is changing how visitors get around

Dubai has just had its third record year in a row. According to the Department of Economy and Tourism, it took 19.59 million international overnight visitors in 2025, against 18.72 million the year before, and around 1.4 million of them, about 7%, were from the Americas. South America's share of that should grow, because getting there is a lot easier now.
Tuesday, October 27th 2026 - 16:32 UTC
Brazil investigates whether Flávio Bolsonaro left the country via Argentina after his defeat

Brazil’s Federal Police are checking with Argentine authorities whether Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential runoff, left the country across the Argentine border, after he failed to hand over his passports within the deadline set by the Supreme Federal Court. His campaign and the Argentine government deny that he has left Brazil.
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Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:39 UTC
A judge appointed by Jair Bolsonaro rejects his son’s case for annulling the election

The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Kassio Nunes Marques, who was appointed to the Supreme Federal Court by former president Jair Bolsonaro in 2020, said on Monday that the extension of voting hours did not change the result of the runoff won by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, had cited the extension in refusing to recognise his defeat and calling for the election to be annulled.
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Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:29 UTC
Debt, inflation and a hostile Congress: the economic challenges of Lula’s fourth term

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will begin his fourth term as Brazil’s president on January 1 with an economy that has grown more than expected and record-low unemployment, but with fiscal imbalances that markets punished heavily on Monday, the first trading day after his re-election. The dollar rose more than 12% at one point to 5.60 reais, the Ibovespa index triggered an automatic trading halt at the open and long-term interest rates jumped almost two points.
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Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:24 UTC
Trump insults Norway and rejects its immigrants for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize

US President Donald Trump lashed out at Norway at a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel Committee did not award him the Peace Prize. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide replied that the committee is independent.
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Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:16 UTC
Trump questions Lula’s victory as most of the region, including the right, congratulates him

US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election in Brazil and compared it with the 2020 US election, while most Latin American governments, including several right-wing allies of Washington, congratulated the Brazilian president. In Argentina, President Javier Milei remained silent.
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