Supporters of Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro mocked supporters of socialist rival Fernando Haddad on Sunday evening, urging them to move to Cuba if they prefer a leftist government.
Prominent members of the anti-socialist opposition in Venezuela congratulated Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Monday for his election victory this weekend. Bolsonaro made fighting socialism a pillar of his campaign policy, promising to cut financial ties with the dictatorship in Caracas.
Conservative firebrand Jair Bolsonaro was elected as President of Brazil on Sunday, in a stunning repudiation of the country’s left-wing political establishment. So now, what lies in store for South America’s largest and most populous country?
“Jair Bolsonaro being president was a ridiculous proposition two years ago,” wrote Igor Gielow in Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday about the president-elect.
President Donald Trump was one of many leaders across the Americas to congratulate Jair Bolsonaro on his election victory in Brazil on Sunday, pledging the two nations would “work closely” together.
Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro of the right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) their new president Sunday, granting him a double-digit lead over socialist opponent Fernando Haddad.
Datafolha, a prominent pollster in Brazil, published the last major Brazilian presidential election poll expected before this weekend on Thursday, finding a sizable, though diminished, lead for conservative Jair Bolsonaro over socialist candidate Fernando Haddad.
The anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition party Vente Venezuela posted a video late Wednesday of a violent gang attacking their leader, former legislator María Corina Machado, and supporters with sticks and pipes in broad daylight.
Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad of the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) said in an interview Monday that that “probably, yes” there were political allies of his who illegally used campaign funds while in office, once again forced to discuss allegations of widespread corruption within the PT.
Senior Venezuelan socialist official Diosdado Cabello claimed in an interview Sunday his country is “fully prepared” for a war with the United States.
Multiple Chinese government media outlets used their opinion pages Sunday and Monday to attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for warning Latin American countries to stay away from Beijing’s predatory loan offers, calling American concerns “malicious nonsense.”
Ecuador declared the Venezuelan ambassador to Quito, Carol Delgado, persona non grata on Thursday after Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodríguez called Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno a “liar” and implied he was acting on U.S. orders.
Fernando Haddad, the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for president of Brazil, published an attack ad on social media Wednesday implying that conservative rival Jair Bolsonaro’s victory would result in accidental homicides by children becoming the norm in the country.
Cuban dissident groups confirmed on Tuesday that the communist regime had agreed to liberate Tomás Núñez Magdariaga, a member of the pro-democracy Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), on Monday after 62 days on hunger strike.
Brazil’s right-wing presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro has warned that China is exerting too much influence in the country, an issue he has pledged to tackle should he be elected president later this month.
The Cuban delegation to the United Nations interrupted a meeting on the island’s ongoing imprisonment of political dissidents on Tuesday by shouting insults over the speakers, calling the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) a “puppet” of the United States and refusing to let participants express themselves.
Police loyal to Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega reportedly detained up to 38 people on Sunday in connection to a scheduled march against the ruling government, ultimately forcing activists to shut down the rally.
A report commissioned by Ecuador’s Prosecutor General revealed this weekend the country may have lost up to $2 billion in oil deals under the socialist government of ex-president Rafael Correa. Deals with the state-owned PetroChina gave Correa billions in credit while allegedly hurting the Ecuadorian government’s profits.
Leading Venezuelan socialist Diosdado Cabello has declared that people “must respect” the decision of an opposition lawmaker to commit suicide, amid widespread claims that he was killed by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro accused President Donald Trump of planning to assassinate him on Thursday, an accusation he commonly hurled at the Obama administration in the past.
Peru’s Interior Minister Mauro Medina issued a statement Thursday vowing “appropriate measures” after a selfie of conservative Popular Force party leader Keiko Fujimori in the back of a police car began making the rounds on social media.
A poll published by the Brazilian firm Datafolha on Thursday found conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro holding a 16-point lead over socialist rival Fernando Haddad, a margin wider than between any two presidential candidates in a run-off in that country since 2002.
Concertgoers booed Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters in São Paulo on Tuesday after he declared right-wing presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro a “neo-fascist” and urged the audience to reject a possible “military dictatorship.”
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela is now focused on repressing protests relating to widespread hunger rather than their political opposition to his leadership, as his government seeks to retain a level of credibility on the international stage.
The International Monetary Fund is predicting that inflation in Venezuela will surpass 10 million percent by the end of 2019, the organization said in its World Economic Outlook report on Monday.
Contents: China aids Venezuela as inflation rate exceeds one million percent; Venezuela migration crisis continues to grow
Brazil’s House of Representatives will soon feature over double the number of representatives with military experience than it did before Sunday’s election. According to a tally by Folha de Sao Paulo, 22 members of the lower chamber are either veterans or retired military personnel.
Fernando Albán, a local councilman in Caracas, died in police custody on Monday shortly after returning from New York and taken into custody on Friday. Venezuelan officials claim Albán threw himself from the tenth floor of Secret Police (Sebin) headquarters, a claim opposition leaders aggressively rejected.
Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela arrested nurses and doctors across the country this weekend for repeatedly protesting the lack of medicine and essential resources required for them to treat their patients.
Fernando Haddad, the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for president in Brazil, made his first public act since securing a spot in this month’s run-off election a visit to prison on Monday, where PT leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
A former porn star successfully rode the conservative wave in Brazil’s nationwide elections on Sunday, gaining over 150,000 votes to become a federal representative of his home city of São Paolo.
Conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election Sunday, securing the top spot against socialist Fernando Haddad in a run-off race scheduled for October 28.
Brazil’s conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro reached 39 percent support in a poll released Thursday, a new high placing him 14 points ahead of the second place candidate just three days from the national election.
One child was murdered every eight hours in Venezuela last year, according to a report published the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) on Wednesday.
A monthly report tracking politically motivated arrests in Cuba published this week revealed that over half the victims of these arrests, most members of pro-democracy dissident groups, were women, an indication the communist regime is systematically targeting women for repression.
Cuban dissident Tomás Núñez Magdariaga, imprisoned on false charges of threats against state police, reached day 50 of his hunger strike on Wednesday.
Colombia is preparing to receive around four million Venezuelans over the coming years as the humanitarian crisis under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to worsen.
Nearly two million people have fled Venezuela since 2015 as the economic and humanitarian catastrophe under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime continues to fester international alarm.
Brazilian conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro gained six points among women voters in a poll released Tuesday, less than a week after he was accused of threatening to kill his ex-wife and after a weekend in which leftist feminist protests drew thousands to convene nationwide to reject his candidacy.
Thousands of left-wing protesters took the streets of dozens of cities across the country Saturday to oppose Brazilian presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, triggering similarly populated rallies in support for the candidate nationwide on Sunday.
