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On today's podcast Peru Pope Leo XIV is in Peru, the final stop on his South American tour where he was welcomed by president Keiko Fujimori, who will travel to a summit before the pontiff's departure. The pope is scheduled to spend six days in the country and will travel on Friday to Chiclayo, the city where he lived, served as bishop, and spent part of his twenty years of passerelled m...

On today's podcast. Argentina Pope Leo fourteen is spending the final day of his four day visit to Argentina, a trip considered historic as it marks the first visit by a pontiff in thirty nine years. His predecessor, Argentine born Pope Francis, chose not to visit his home country during his twelve year papacy to avoid becoming entangled in domestic politics. On his final day in Buenos Aires,...

On today's podcast Argentina In Argentina, on the second day of his apostolic visit, Pope Leo fourteen visited the Argentine Catholic University where he listened to testimonies from workers and trade unionists. The pope reaffirmed the social doctrine of the church, which defends the leading role of communities and civil society organizations in the face of concentrated state power.  Bolivia...

On today's podcast. United States The midterm selection has been described as the first Record-breaking wins for women, black LGBTQ, Muslims, Latino, and indigenous candidates in the midterms. For example, Abdul Al-Sayed, the first Muslim senator, papas, the first openly gay senator, Inojosa, the first Latina governor of Texas, and they're among the candidates breaking various glass ceil...

On today's podcast.  United States At this hour, the American people are already voting in the midterms elections that are going to be defining the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. And the polls show that Democrats have a big chance to recover the majority in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. We are talking that the issues about cost of living, the rights...

On today's podcast United States - midterm elections Four days before the United States midterm elections, The Cook Political Report, a publication specializing in election and political trend analysis, has revised its projections in 12 congressional districts now favouring Democrats.  Meanwhile, more than 44 million Americans have already cast their ballots through early in-person voting or...

On today's podcast Brazil - Lula  In Brazil, Bolsonaro's Liberal Party officially recognized Lula's victory on the presidential election, as Lula defeated the far-right candidate by more than 4 million votes.  Meanwhile, Lula and his team are now working on the transition and building political support to advance their social and economic agenda in a Congress with a strong Bolsonaro...

On today's podcast.  Brazil - Lula wins This Monday, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court officially declared Lula the winner of Sunday's presidential election, while Bolsonaro refuses to accept the results and calls for the election to be annulled. Lula celebrated his victory by more than 4 million votes over the far-right pro-U.S. Bolsonaro, describing it as a defeat for denialism an...

On today's podcast... Brazil Brazil heads into Sunday's presidential runoff with Lula and Bolsonaro in a statistical tie, according to the latest Quaest polls.  The two candidates will face off again tomorrow, Friday, in a second televised debate, just 48 hours before an election that could shape the political future of Latin America. El Salvador El Salvador's president, Najib Bukel...

On today's podcast... Brazil In Brazil, President Lula has asked the Superior Electoral Court to lift the confidentiality of business and family records belonging to his rival, Flavio Bolsonaro and demanded to know how he managed to buy a $2 million home on a monthly salary of $9,000 a month, the same as his own.  Polls continue to show a statistical dead heat between the two candidates, with...

On today's podcast... Venezuela In Venezuela, the second national popular consultation was held on Sunday.  This is a mechanism through which the population voted on initiatives that had previously been ranked as priorities within their communes and condominium associations. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez described participation in the consultation as extraordinary and said that the next st...

On today's podcast... Brazil In Brazil, following Lula's victory in the Senate, which approved his labor reform, establishing a five-day work week and two days of paid rest, Lula is now promoting a proposal to make public transportation free on weekends with the aim of helping families spend more quality time together.  Meanwhile, a new poll shows a decline in support for far-right pro-U...

 On today's podcast...  Venezuela-Italy  Venezuela and Italy have signed an agreement to restore direct flights between Caracas and Rome. Flights are expected to begin next March with three flights per week and an estimated total of more than 90,000 available seats per year. Brazil In Brazil, the Senate is to set to vote this Wednesday on a constitutional reform proposed by President Lula. Th...

On today's podcast... Venezuela  Venezuela's Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, participated today in the World Food Forum in Rome, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  In her address, the Venezuelan leader emphasized that food is an essential human right and noted that Venezuela is seeking to consolidate significant progress toward t...

On today's podcast France - protests student protests continue in France this Friday, denouncing the shortage of teachers, overcrowded classrooms, the deterioration of educational facilities and budget cuts, while violent police repression of the protests continue.  Student mobilization has also spread to other European countries, including Belgium, Italy, Greece, Germany, Ireland and Austria...

On today's podcast.  Argentina - protests  In Argentina, in rejection of the neoliberal policies of the far-right pro-U.S. Milei, the CGT is holding a mobilization this Thursday in defence of domestic industry and employment.  The Labor Federation is challenging Milei's opening of the country to imports and the negative impact of this policy has been having on industrial employment in Ar...

On today's podcast Israel - Palestine - three years of genocide Three years after what has been described as a genocide in Gaza amid relentless attacks by the military of Israel on the enclave, the number of Palestinians killed has reached 75,000, the majority of them women and children, while the number of wounded has reached 175,000 since October 7th, 2023.  Today in London, students are ho...

On today's podcast Argentina - protest Argentina's Central Workers Union is holding a demonstration this Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires to protest a ruling by the Supreme Court.  The country's highest court reinstated the article through which the far-right pro-US Javier Milley repealed the land law and eliminated the main restrictions on the purchase of l...

On today's podcast Brazil - presidential election In Brazil, the president and progressive candidate for re-election, Lula, and far-right candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, are advancing to the second round of the election after a very narrow difference in votes between them in the first round.  The runoff will take place on October 25th after neither of the two candidates secured an absolute major...

On today's podcast. Bolivia Bolivia's prosecutor's office is denouncing what it described as the kidnapping of attorney general Roger Mariaca, who was detained at Santa Cruz Airport for no reason by personnel whose institutional affiliation has yet to be clarified. Mariaca was investigating Fernando Serinedo, a campaign adviser to the continental rights and former adviser to Rodrigo...

On today's podcast. United States, New York Today is the last day of the eighty first General Assembly here in New York City. 20 countries are going to be giving their speeches throughout the day, four of them from our region, Latin America and The Caribbean. We are talking El Salvador, Costa Rica, Antigua, Ambarbuda, and Grenade. Most of them are going to be denouncing climate change. The si...

On today's podcast...  Even though it's not going to be presidents of Latin America speaking in this fourth day, it's going to be many representatives of the Caribbean taking their stage. Among them, Haiti will be talking about security and elections, St. Vincent and the Grenadines talking about debt, finance regarding climate change and survival. Also, it's going to be talking...

General Assembly of the United Nations  In the morning session, the president of the Authority of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, talked via videoconference to the assembly because the American authorities refused to issue a visa to Abbas, something that he denounced at the beginning of his speech. He denounced the continuation of what he called the genocide of Israel through the Palestinian population,...

On today's podcast from the United Nations in New York...  In the afternoon, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez will be addressing the General Assembly.  It's going to be the first time in 10 years that she does so. She did it for the last time in 2016, but as a vice president, now she's going to be again representing Venezuela in the evening.  Yesterday, she did meet with...

On today's podcast Sweden - Europe - Latin America The left won the election in Sweden after the final count, holding the growing advance of the far right in Europe and paving the way for an agenda that champions social policies, inclusion and rights.  For Latin America, the left's victory in Sweden takes on particular significance in a context marked by the hardening of security policie...