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Six days after the elections in Brazil, two polls show the current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday, September 28, five points ahead of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round. However, the difference is reduced and remains within the margin of error before a possible second round.
Claudia Macero, the head of communications of opposition leader María Corina Machado, returned to Venezuela after spending two years outside the country, including a period of asylum at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. His return, which he presented as a personal decision to "give confidence to others," occurred as Machado's followers mobilized in several cities to demand the leader's safe return, presidential elections and the release of political prisoners.
A joint operation of the Colombian Anti-Narcotics Police and Air Force in the rural area of the Caribbean city of Santa Marta ended with seven deaths. One of them was Ricardo Andrés Martínez Rodríguez, who was initially introduced as the son of Fredy Castillo Carrillo, alias' Pinocchio ', leader of Self-Defense Conquistadores de la Sierra Nevada (ACSN). The reality is that he was a humble, displaced laborer. Today his father claims that he was killed with a shot of grace and his mother calls for justice.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro chose his eldest son to challenge Lula in the October 4 elections. Its influence has been cross-cutting in the political campaign of Flavio, which also seeks to take advantage of the great moment the extreme right-wing world lives and of Donald Trump's aggressive campaign to align the hemisphere in its sphere. Without a great political capital of its own, it has managed to produce a technical tie in a possible second round with Lula.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva goes for a fourth term after decades of leading Brazil's policy. Born in poverty, cured at work, formed in trade union, his ability to put himself in the elector's shoes has driven him over and over again. Without a significant relief in its in-sight training and with challenges, such as insecurity, Trump's tariff pressure or the economy, it leads one of the last strongholds to resist the advancement of the extreme right in Latin America.
In Brazil, the evangelics make up over 47 million people, about 27% of the population. It is the highest level in the history of Brazil, a country that, at the same time, has the largest number of Catholic faithful in the world. In 2018, the vote of the evangelists was key to the victory of the ultra-rightheist Jair Bolsonaro. But the conservative roots within this religious community seem to have been moderate in some sectors. What role will they play in the October 4 presidential?
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Saturday that he hopes to reach an agreement with Cuba and said that there will be no need for military intervention on the island. The statement comes after CBS News revealed that the Army Reserve analyses the possibility of providing police, medical and other support units to the South Command for the next four months, as part of a military planning linked to Cuba.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the ban on online gambling and digital casinos in Brazil, a decision that reaches just nine days from the presidential and legislative elections and which the Government presents as a measure to protect the finances of families. The decision is a turn for a sector that Lula's own administration had regulated and that in recent years became a multi-million-dollar business.
The United States Army is weighing to provide the South Command with police reinforcements, medical personnel and other support units in the next four months to carry out a military operation against Havana, according to the U.S. media that has had access to an internal communication.
Poverty rates in Argentina increased to 32.3 per cent in the first half of 2026, four more points than the previous measurement, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). This upturn comes after the 21.4% increase in the basic food basket, while household income grew by 11.5%. The figures represent a setback for the Javier Milei government to a little over a year for the general elections.
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.
