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Argentina’s presidential candidates – libertarian economist Javier Milei and socialist current Economy Minister Sergio Massa – faced off on Sunday night in the third and final debate ahead of November 19’s runoff election.

The arrests in Brazil of two people reportedly tied to Hezbollah has put the spotlight on the growing influence of Iran in Latin America.

The Federal Police of Brazil, cooperating with the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency, announced on Wednesday that it had arrested two people in Sao Paulo with ties to Hezbollah, preventing a terrorist attack on Jewish community centers.

Chile received the finalized text of a draft constitution and will vote for a second time in December on replacing its current constitution.

Hispanic and Latino actors and filmmakers are still being left behind in Hollywood, according to a study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero met with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, seeking to expand cooperation between the two communist dictatorships to “a higher level.”

Colombia is hoping to recover as quickly as possible what has been called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” from the Caribbean Sea.

President Joe Biden “stressed the importance” of supporting Ukraine during a meeting Wednesday with Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who is in Washington to attend a series of economic engagements and to expand Chile’s trade ties to America.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro officially decreed the “start of Christmas” here on Wednesday evening, urging citizens to prepare for the celebrations.

The leftist, Iran-allied government of Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday in response to Israel’s “disproportionate” operation against the jihadist terrorist group Hamas.

It only took the socialist Maduro regime a few days, a crooked “opposition” lawmaker, and a rigged court ruling to remind everyone that as long as it is in power, there will be no such thing as a free and fair election in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal issued a ruling that suspends “all of the effects” of the “opposition” primary election on October 22.

Colombian right-wing and centrist candidates obtained sweeping victories in Sunday’s regional elections, dealing a huge blow to the leftist government coalition led by President Gustavo Petro, the nation’s first leftist president.

El Salvador imposed a $1,000 fee on travelers from India and Africa this week in an effort to curb illegal migration to America.

Defeated Argentine presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, who led the main conservative coalition in the country prior to this weekend, endorsed libertarian opponent Javier Milei on Wednesday ahead of the upcoming runoff.

Socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appeared to accuse Israel of “genocide” against the population of Gaza in remarks on Wednesday.

China announced on Wednesday that it elevated its diplomatic relations with Colombia to a “strategic partnership” after Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro met with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping.

The government of Spain announced on Monday that it is planning to urge the European Union to lift sanctions on socialist Venezuela during the next E.U. ministerial meeting, a response to leftist American President Joe Biden doing the same.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro declared on Monday that the primary election held by the Venezuelan opposition on Sunday was a “fraud” and part of a “coup” plot against him.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Former lawmaker María Corina Machado obtained an overwhelming majority of the votes cast in the opposition’s Sunday primary election as of tallies available on Monday, making her the expected nominee-elect to run against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a 2024 presidential election.

No candidate in Sunday’s presidential election in Argentina passed the 45-percent threshold to become president, triggering a runoff election between the top two candidates, socialist current Economy Minister Sergio Massa and populist libertarian economist Javier Milei.

Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa and anti-establishment outsider Javier Milei will face off in a runoff presidential election, according to partial poll results released Sunday.

Argentines are going to the polls in an election that could see a right-wing populist who upended the political landscape become president and adopt controversial measures to shore up South America’s second-largest economy.

Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said Brazil is worried about a possible victory by conservative Javier Milei in Argentina’s Sunday presidential election.

The five candidates in Sunday’s presidential election in Argentina ended their campaigns on Thursday, observing a mandated period of silence beginning on Friday as polls show a tight race at the top.

The Biden administration temporarily lifted oil and gas sanctions on Iran’s ally Venezuela on Wednesday evening.

Argentina’s inflation reached 138.3% in the past year as of September, creating a precarious situation before the presidential election.

Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, pledging to defend Beijing’s false claims on Taiwan.

Colombian far-left president and former Marxist M19 guerrilla member Gustavo Petro threatened to cut ties with Israel on Sunday after the country suspended security exports to Colombia, a response to Petro comparing the government in Jerusalem to Nazi Germany.

Daniel Noboa, the 35-year-old heir to one of the world’s most lucrative banana companies, will become the next leader of Ecuador after winning Sunday’s presidential election, one marred by widespread political violence and the assassination of a then-frontrunner in the race.

Former Miss World contestant Sherika De Armas, who represented Uruguay in the competition in 2015, has died at the age of 26 after a two-year battle with cervical cancer.

Argentina is gearing up to hold its upcoming October 22 general election, in which five candidates will compete to lead the economically ailing nation for the next four years.

The government of Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called another meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, set for Friday, to address the aftermath of the harrowing jihadist attack on Israeli civilians last weekend by Hamas.

Nicolás Maduro offered a “history lesson” in which he declared Jesus “an anti-imperialist Palestinian man crucified by the ‘Spanish Empire.’”

An estimated 10,000 people answered a call to attend the funeral on Tuesday night of Bruna Valeanu, 24, a Brazilian immigrant to Israel murdered by Hamas terrorists during the ongoing assault on Israel that began on Friday.

The administration of President Joe Biden and the socialist regime of Venezuela are in talks that could lead to Washington lifting more oil sanctions, according to a report published by Reuters on Monday.