Latin America

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 21:54 UTC

  Uruguay Sunday’s general election: To a second ballotage and without parliamentary majority

  

  On Sunday, October 27, in Uruguay, a new president, and Parliament will be elected. According to pollsters, the same parties as in 2014, the official Frente Amplio (FA, Broad Front) and the conservative National Party, will go on second ballotage in November. However, the novelty is that the Legislature will be made up of a minimum of six parties (a historical record) and a maximum of nine.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Rioting in Bolivia to protest Electoral Tribunal “manipulations” which favor a first round win for Evo Morales

  

  Arson attacks, rioting, looting on Tuesday has extended to several Bolivian cities to protest the results of the country's presidential election process on Sunday, particularly since an oddly delayed official quick count showed President Evo Morales near an outright first-round victory — even as a more formal tally tended to show him heading for a risky runoff.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  China attacks Western hypocrisy equaling Hong Kong with Chile and Catalonia situations

  

  China is seizing on violent protests in Europe and South America to bolster its condemnation of demonstrations in Hong Kong and defend its handling of the unrest.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivian president agrees with OAS a full recount of Sunday's presidential votes

  

  Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis Almagro has accepted the Bolivian government’s invitation to carry out an audit of the recent presidential election in the country, amid controversies over the results.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Conservative Catholics disrupt Vatican Amazon synod and dump in the Tiber “pagan” idols

  

  The Vatican on Tuesday accused ultra-conservative Catholic social media of fomenting hate, a day after militants stole statues they considered pagan idols from a church and dumped them in the Tiber river.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Mexican elite forces sent to Culiacan where El Chapo's son cartel forced the army to retreat

  

  Mexico sent in special forces troops to patrol a northern city in the wake of a cartel assault that freed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son in a hail of bullets and also won a U.S. promise to help stop gun-smuggling at their shared border.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Riots and arson in Bolivia to protest election results giving president Morales a fourth consecutive term

  

  Bolivia’s electoral authority announced on Monday night that President Evo Morales was close to avoiding a runoff in his re-election bid, touching off protests by the leader’s opponents already upset by a sudden halt in the release of the vote count.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Climate change, greater threat than nuclear war, says ex Colombian president and Nobel peace laureate

  

  The threat of climate change has overtaken the prospect of nuclear war as the most pressing concern facing humanity, a former Colombian president and Nobel peace laureate warned on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  OAS Observation Mission calls for respect of the Bolivian people's vote

  

  The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bolivia calls for respect for the will of the citizenry:

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Bolivia presidential election: Evo Morales will face a run-off vote next 15 December

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales will face a run-off vote for the first time after failing to secure a fourth consecutive term at an election. Morales had 45% of the vote to 38% of former President Carlos Mesa, partial results from Sunday's presidential vote showed.