QUITO, (Reuters) – For years, the neighbourhood watch group in the working-class area of Solanda in Ecuadorean capital Quito had patrolled their nighttime streets armed with little more than whistles and sticks, on the lookout for cellphone snatching and other petty crimes.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Senator Flavio Bolsonaro declared himself Brazil’s rightful leader today after arriving in the United States, alleging he was the victim of an electoral coup by the country’s Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won the vote by over 4 million votes.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s surprise win in Brazil’s presidential vote “looked like another rigged election,” although the party of defeated right-winger Flavio Bolsonaro later acknowledged the result.
(Reuters) – US President Donald Trump told reporters today, without citing evidence, that the Brazilian election, which leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won yesterday, looked like it had been rigged.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – World leaders hailed the victory of Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in yesterday’s presidential election runoff, as he defeated right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term yesterday, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term today, the country’s electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America.
CARACAS/BARQUISIMETO, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado returned home today after nearly a year away, and after several failed attempts to return that strained her ties with US President Donald Trump’s administration.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica will deepen cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration to target what the nation’s newly re-elected attorney general calls “invisible drug traffickers,” including business executives and politicians hiding alleged links to the drug trade behind respectable public profiles.
BRASÍLIA, (Reuters) – Foreign diplomats in Brasilia are discussing a rapid recognition of whoever wins Sunday’s presidential runoff, four ambassadors told Reuters, seeking to ward off any attempts from outside the country to call the election prematurely for either candidate.
CARACAS/MARACAY/VALENCIA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets today in the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years, as demonstrators demanded free elections and other political changes with a notably thin presence of security forces.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Oilfield service companies including Weatherford International, Baker Hughes, Halliburton and SLB are advertising dozens of jobs in Venezuela, according to company websites, an early sign that a Washington-backed plan to rebuild the country’s energy industry is gaining traction.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela expects nearly US$76 billion in oil investment over the next five years under recently signed agreements, acting President Delcy Rodriguez said yesterday, adding that a bilateral accord with the US includes plans to drill 250 rigs.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s next Congress is spoiling for a fight with the Supreme Court, including plans for an unprecedented impeachment of one of its justices that could dramatically expand the reach of a right-wing agenda, more than a dozen experts and officials at both the Senate and court told Reuters.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro has secured the new backing of multiple parties ahead of an election runoff later this month, suggesting his campaign is building momentum and offering an early glimpse of what a governing coalition could look like if he wins.
(Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for elections next year and said there was “more than enough time” to prepare for a vote by July, the Financial Times reported yesterday.
PANAMA CITY,(Reuters) – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama today, damaging homes, cutting power, halting flights and sending residents into the streets, while triggering more than a dozen aftershocks.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores both were hit with an additional US criminal charge today stemming from accusations they tortured political opponents and American citizens to retain their grip on power in the South American country.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received today endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in yesterday’s first-round vote, for the runoff against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva later this month.
(BBC) The right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro has won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, beating the incumbent left-wing President Lula da Silva.
