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Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
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The race was tight, but Brazilian President Lula da Silva emerged victorious to secure another term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro. The result bucks a regional trend of a rightward political shift. Plenty of challenges remain though, the first being Bolsonaro rejecting the result.
Ecuadorian left-wing former presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez has been arrested, although police did not specify whether the arrest is linked to the investigation for alleged illegal financing of her 2023 election campaign.
Costa Rica has opened a new mega-prison which is modeled after El Salvador's maximum-security CECOT facility. It is part of the central American country's efforts to strengthen its response to organized crime.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife face new criminal charges, alleging that they were responsible for the torture of U.S. citizens detained in the South American country.
Brazil’s presidential race is heading into a runoff that could pull Latin America’s biggest democracy closer to Washington—or toward China. Right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly leads Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with his father’s legacy and Brazil’s future on the ballot.
A report on US funding for critics of the Brazilian Supreme Court is causing a stir in the run-up to the presidential election. The government’s Attorney General has warned against foreign interference.
Demonstrators with Venezuelan flags rode in motercycle convoys to rally behind opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado. They want her return, free elections and the release of all political prisoners.
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez promised to hold elections and institute political reform in her address to the UN. She did fail to provide a clear timeline however, saying that the people will decide the "right moment".
In just over a week Brazil will hold elections, and President Lula has warned of foreign interference, taking a swipe at US President Trump. “We will not allow the enemies of democracy, whether domestic or foreign, to undermine popular will", Lula said.
At least 8 political prisoners have died in Nicaruaga since 2018, with the fate 29 others currently unknown, UN experts say. The widespread use of enforced disappearance, with or without deadly outcome, is a tool to crush dissent.
A public squabble between two Supreme Court judges that was livestreamed this week is shaking up Brazil's October 4 elections, with the two candidates - incumbent leftist Lula and right-wing Bolsonaro - roughly tied in pre-election polling.
Venezuelan interim president Rodríguez has met human rights representatives in a move away from the country's repressive past. The meeting comes as UN investigators insist that repressive measures remain in place.
Venezuela unblocks some news websites censored for years Venezuelan President Rodríguez has lifted a block on news websites long under restriction in a step welcomed by the opposition. But opposition leader Figuera described the move as only a first step.
Abuses of power, creeping authoritarianism and a worsening rights situation: the state of democracy in Nicaragua is steadily worsening, the UN rights chief decries. "There is almost nothing left to shut down," Volker Turk says.
