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“Eyeball to Eyeball”—Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Nine
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 24. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

President John F. Kennedy’s hopes rise and then fall that the naval quarantine of Cuba will quickly end the missile crisis.

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Do abstaining voters hold the key to Brazil’s 2026 presidential election?
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 24. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Some 21 percent of Brazilian adults did not cast a ballot in the first round of voting. Will they affect the run-off?

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How Brazil's changing working class is reshaping the presidential race
Geopolitika · BBC World · Lat. Amerika · 24. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Calls for change present a challenge to President Lula in the second round of the election on Sunday.

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Argentina identifies dozens of victims killed in its ‘Dirty War’
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 24. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Forensic anthropologists have identified the remains of at least 38 victims of Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

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Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention of leftist presidential candidate
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 23. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Luisa Gonzalez, who lost to right-wing president Daniel Noboa in 2023, has called the arrest political persecution.

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Bolivia and Chile Make Nice
Geopolitika · Foreign Policy · Lat. Amerika · 23. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

The two countries are mending ties after a decades-long territorial dispute.

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Venezuelans demand elections in first national protest in nearly two years
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 23. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

No date has been set to decide on a successor for Nicolas Maduro after the former president was captured by US forces.

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Ecuador opposition leader Luisa Gonzalez arrested in campaign finance probe
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Gonzalez’s Citizen Revolution Movement has denounced the arrest as politically motivated, calling for her release.

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Piasecki cited in Intelligence Report on Venezuela’s debt restructuring efforts
Geopolitika · Atlantic Council · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

Read the full article here The post Piasecki cited in Intelligence Report on Venezuela’s debt restructuring efforts appeared first on Atlantic Council .

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Brazil’s Runoff Election Is a Close Race Between Lula and Bolsonaro
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

This week on The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Shannon O’Neil, senior vice president of studies at CFR, discuss Brazil’s October 25 presidential runoff and whether either leader can deliver what both voters and markets want. Brazil’s runoff presidential election is on October …

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Could Flávio Bolsonaro Deliver on His Fiscal Promises?
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

Investors are betting that the Brazilian presidential candidate will rein in public debt. But structural and political hurdles make austerity easier to promise than to enact.

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El Salvador's president threatens Haitian gangs over military hostages
Geopolitika · BBC World · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Four members of the so-called Gang Suppression Force have been missing since Sunday.

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El Salvador’s Bukele threatens Haitian gangs over abducted soldiers
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 22. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

President Nayib Bukele says he has initiated military operation to rescue four Salvadoran soldiers abducted in Haiti.

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President John F. Kennedy Prepares to Tell the Nation About Soviet Missiles in Cuba—Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Six
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 21. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

JFK and his advisors wordsmithed the speech he would give revealing the escalating Cuban Missile Crisis to the public for the first time.

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What a Lula or Bolsonaro victory would mean for Brazil and the world
Geopolitika · Atlantic Council · Lat. Amerika · 21. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

Brazil’s presidential runoff could open a narrow window for closer US-Brazil cooperation on trade, security, and critical minerals. The post What a Lula or Bolsonaro victory would mean for Brazil and the world appeared first on Atlantic Council .

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The Banking Scandal Upending Brazil’s Election
Geopolitika · Foreign Policy · Lat. Amerika · 21. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

The country’s powerful Supreme Court is caught up in a swirling corruption probe.

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Lula challenges Bolsonaro to release personal records before election
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 20. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Brazil's left-wing president says he will release bank, tax, and phone records if right-wing rival will do the same.

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Brazil's Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro tied ahead of runoff vote
Geopolitika · DW World · Lat. Amerika · 20. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

With just under a week to go before the decisive presidential runoff election, polls show left-wing incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro are virtually tied.

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Florida issues arrest warrant for Cuban leader Raul Castro
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 19. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

The announcement mirrors a federal indictment from May as the US steps up pressure on the Cuban government.

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Search under way for four soldiers missing after gang attack in Haiti
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 19. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

The UN Security Council holds a meeting on Haiti; the attack on UN-backed forces is expected to dominate the discussions.

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Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Lies to President John F. Kennedy—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Three
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 18. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

JFK keeps quiet about the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba as he meets a Soviet diplomat and the secret becomes increasingly harder to keep.

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‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina
Geopolitika · The Guardian · Lat. Amerika · 18. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Facing a slump in the polls, Argentina’s president is making economic attacks on the islands’ oil industry, and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next A dozen local people and a uniformed military police officer (“Do you mind if I sit in?”) took their seats at the ba…

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John F. Kennedy Solicits Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Advice—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Two
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 17. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

President John F. Kennedy works to project a sense of normalcy as his predecessor urges a miliary response.

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Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits lowest level on record
Geopolitika · Al Jazeera · Lat. Amerika · 17. listopada 2026. · Vijesti

Data show a 42 percent drop in forest clearance from a year earlier, giving Lula a boost before the election run-off.

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JFK Learns That Soviet Missiles Are in Cuba—The Cuban Missile Crisis, Day One
Geopolitika · CFR · Lat. Amerika · 16. listopada 2026. · Think-tank

President John F. Kennedy learned that the Soviets were installing nuclear missiles in Cuba and sought to project a sense to the world that nothing was amiss.

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