Politics

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Free transportation can be arranged for Brazilian voters

  

  Brazilian voters may have access to free public transportation for the Oct. 30 presidential runoff pitting incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against the former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso ruled Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Nicaraguan gov't outlaws another 58 NGOs

  

  The Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega has canceled the registrations of 58 other NGOs “for being in abandonment and having between 2 and 27 years of non-compliance in accordance with the laws that regulate them,” it was reported in Managua.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Chile commemorates 3rd anniversary of social uprising

  

  Chile celebrated Tuesday the third anniversary of the social uprising that catapulted Gabriel Boric Font to the national center stage and eventually become president. The movement also had its martyrs from brutal police repression.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Mapuche rebels launch warning video in Argentine Patagonia

  

  The Mapuche rebel group Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu Tuesday released a new video urging members of the native community to carry out “more actions” to protect the rewe (space) the native community holds sacred.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Bolsonaro narrows gap with Lula

  

  Brazil's incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed the gap between him and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva to seven percentage points less than two weeks ahead of the Oct. 30 runoffs, according to a survey released earlier this week.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Update on Falklands commercial air-link with Brazil

  

  Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that commercial air links with Brazil will continue to remain suspended until 2023.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 08:49 UTC

  Corruption rampant in Chinese party cadres, Global Times Editorial

  

  General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping stressed in a report to the 20th CPC National Congress that the CPC must meet the overall requirements for Party building in the new era and improve the system for exercising full and rigorous self-governance.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Paraguay is a haven for international crime, Congressional report finds

  

  According to a report from Paraguay's Congressional Bicameral Investigative Committee (CBI) released Tuesday, the country has become “a logistic corridor for international crime,” CBI Chairman Senator Jorge Querey told reporters in Asunción.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Argentine prosecutor wants Iran's VP arrested in Qatar

  

  Argentine Prosecutor Sebastián Basso asked the Foreign Ministry to take the necessary steps for Iranian Vice President Mohsen Rezai to be arrested in Qatar and extradited to Buenos Aires in connection with the 1994 bombing of the Jewish welfare AMIA association.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Argentine President highlights what a future Macrist gov't would entail

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández said he had started reading his predecessor Mauricio Macri's book Para qué? (What for?) and found profound differences between each other's views of things.