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Elections in Brazil Sunday October 2, What’s at Stake?

If none of the 11 candidates garners 50% of the vote a runoff between the top two vote getters will be held on October 30th.

During the first interruption of the internet on Thursday evening we asked the state service provider, Etecsa, for explanations…

Ortega’s order “disrupts daily life,” says expatriated sociologist Maria Teresa Blandon. HRW: “Nicaragua is not Ortega’s private property.”

There is no water, food spoils, children cry; people on the streets look like zombies, sad, silent, hopeless. This is today’s Cuba.

The Havana Historian’s Office “no longer works for the people, all they want is to make money,” says Raydel a pedicab driver.

“People don’t come to work, they leave the country without quitting, because you never know what could happen to you,” one declares.

This time it is Hurricane Ian, but the people of Pinar del Rio remember Gustav, Ike, Isidore, Lily, among others.

A small number of Cubans are generating their own energy and even sell to the national grid. So far Cuba is barely using its solar potential.

The EU reiterated its “urgent” call to the Nicaraguan authorities to release all the political prisoners “immediately and unconditionally”.

The cyberattack on the Armed Forces delivered by the Guacamaya group of “hacktivists”, has tested Chile’s cybersecurity, yet again.