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Between January 2025 and August 2026, the Donald Trump Administration sent 25,427 people to so-called "third countries." Almost 20,000 of them arrived in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco, located on the border with Guatemala. "Forbidden Stories' travelled to Villahermosa and Palenque to interview those affected by this migration policy.
The president-in-charge gave an 18-minute address to the UN General Assembly, in which she thanked the US President Donald Trump for "her willingness to take the path of diplomatic and cooperation relations," she did not mention her predecessors in the so-called Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, and promised elections, not without first recalling that "democracy is not measured by the existence of elections."
The Argentine President fused the United Nations on Wednesday, September 23 for not being able to enforce the resolution that recognized a dispute over the archipelago and called on the United Kingdom to "resume negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute." However, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised that his country would remain "firm" around that claim. Milei also sold Argentina as an ideal destination for IA companies.
Closed commercials, suspended classes and empty streets marked the day of this Wednesday September 23 in the tourist city of Santa Marta, in the Colombian Caribbean. The Government of Abelardo de la Espriella deployed more than 1,100 police and military personnel following the threat declared by the Sierra Nevada drug paramilitary group Self-Defense Conquistadora.
The octogenary and historical leader of the Brazilian progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is trying to conquer a new term in front of Flávio, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, convicted and detained for attempted coup. With new discussion themes and up-to-date profiles, polarization is renewed and seems as adjusted as in 2022.
Hurricane Polo, described as an "extremely dangerous" storm by the U.S. Hurricane Center. The United States, slowly advances off the south-west coast of Mexico. While the phenomenon - degraded to category 4 after having previously reached level 5 - is expected to not touch land and to move parallel to the Mexican coastal line, the intense and heavy rains threaten above all the areas of Guerrero and Michoacán. At least six ports have been partially or totally restricted.
Less than two weeks after the presidential elections, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly marked by the election campaign. He denounced "hegemonic temptations" and external interference in Latin America, defended the Brazilian electoral system and warned that "democracy is again in check."
Brazil is going through one of the most serious crises in recent years and the epicenter is paradoxically in the institution that over the last decade has become the bulwark of the defence of democracy: the Supreme Court. The fracture in the maximum cut takes place in the middle of a polarized presidential campaign, in which the ultra-decerechist Flávio Bolsonaro and the left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are also splashed. Who loses and who benefits?
The decision of the Government of the Malvinas Islands, under British administration, to extend for five years the oil exploration permits put energy resources back at the centre of the sovereignty dispute with Argentina, just as the Government of Javier Milei has moved from diplomatic protest to a legal offensive against the companies involved and is preparing a law to extend the sanctions. The development of Sea Lion, which plans to start producing crude oil in 2028, thus turns a long-term territorial dispute into a conflict with business consequences.
The meeting that the US president. The U.S., Donald Trump, and Venezuela's president, Delcy Rodríguez, will continue on Tuesday, September 22, in New York, to condemn one of the most abrupt tours of US policy towards Caracas: only months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military operation, Washington has moved from confrontation with the Latin American country to a cooperation relationship that has in oil one of its main axes, while the Rodríguez administration seeks international recognition.
Pope Leo XIV will travel to 10 cities in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru between 6 and 16 November, as confirmed by the Vatican on Monday at a press conference. The agenda of the high pontiff includes meetings with the political authorities of each country and local communities, including representatives of the Amazon and young university students.
Flavio is not the only one campaigning in the shadow of his father in the Bolsonaro family. The eldest son, currently in a conflict with President Lula da Silva for the Brazilian Presidency, is joined by his brothers Carlos and Renan, candidates for the Senate and the Federal Chamber of Deputies, respectively, for Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. In this territory loyal to the ultra-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, his mere name seems to be enough to win.
Thousands of people went on Saturday, September 19, to 'the march of the bronca', called mainly by left-wing parties and deployed in the centre of Buenos Aires, where the protesters protested against the economic program of the Javier Milei Government.
A failure in the transmission lines caused the total disconnection of the electrical system and left more than nine million people without light. The new collapse comes in a Cuba hit by fuel shortages, the deterioration of its power plants and cuts that in some areas of the country continue for days.
The tilcayo, a small mutated cat living in the cloudy forests of the Yungas, was recognized as a different species after genetic analysis. The finding, published in the scientific journal Current Biology, is the first of this kind since 1923. So far, the presence of the animal has only been confirmed in Bolivia.
The authorities' "lack of response" and a cut of about 60 per cent of the custody assigned to the agricultural community near Port-au-Prince, despite increasing threats, were identified in an independent report as factors that contributed to the gravity of the Viv Ansam gang attacks on 7 July and 23 August, the most deadly this year and the most serious in Haiti's recent violent history.
