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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.

Cubans live their day-to-day lives swayed by authoritarian rhetoric: they seek it out and find it in Kendall, Lavapies or Calimete.

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

Cuba’s state power company restored electricity to some lucky consumers in the different provinces, it said on Wednesday.

“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.

The Government verbally notified the diplomat of her non grata status, for alleged “interference with national sovereignty”.