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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.
