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Ruben Blades: Panama’s Elections & Martinelli’s Replacement

“The Supreme Court has chosen to endorse the aspirations of a man guilty of corruption, a fugitive cloistered in the Nicaraguan Embassy.”

Today’s featured band is Monsieur Periné from Colombia with the song “Mi Libertad” from their disc “Caja de Música” (2015).

“I’ve come here to denounce that in my community we drink water with heavy metals and breath polluted air from the mining activity.”

Rogelio Mendoza from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “The CLAP Food Rations”, in Lara, Venezuela.

Hundreds of families endured conditions imposed by Furukawa Plantations of minimal wages, exploitation, lack of access to basic services…

Martinelli led all polls for years. But after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering he was relieved by Jose Raul Mulino.

During his first 100 days in office, a freedom organization found that 4 out of every 10 attacks on the press involved Milei or his ministers

Will Maduro allow a competitive election, in which he could lose power, or will he subvert it like Ortega did in 2021 in Nicaragua?

Those who have opted for gradual changes were more successful, while those who chose abrupt radical projects failed.

The UN Security Council has given the go-ahead to a multinational armed mission for Haiti to support the National Police to combat the gangs.