2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (519+ words) " Peru's presidential debate entered its second day on March 24 with eleven candidates presenting proposals on security and corruption, two and a half weeks before the April 12 vote " None of the second-day participants registers above single digits in polls, leaving frontrunners…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago  (117+ words) What Matters Today 1 Denmark: Frederiksen Resigns After Worst Social Democrat Result Since 1903 " Cost of Living Trumped Greenland Defiance Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen submitted her government's resignation to the king on Wednesday after her Social Democrats recorded their worst election…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago  (416+ words) The Foreign Ministry said it had concluded that "the context of this election, the fragmentation of Latin American candidacies, and the differences with some of the relevant actors who define this process make this candidacy unviable." Chilean embassies worldwide will…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (314+ words) Acting president Delcy Rodr'guez proposed the appointment after Mu'oz, who held the post since 2015, submitted his resignation. Assembly president Jorge Rodr'guez described Seijo as a graduate of the Universidad Central de Venezuela with two master's degrees and a doctorate from…...

8+ hour, 40+ min ago  (434+ words) The Brazil organized crime law that spent months dividing Congress is now enacted. President Lula signed the Anti-Faction Law on Tuesday, turning one of the most contentious security bills of his presidency into the country's most sweeping legal framework against…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (226+ words) But the scandal has boomeranged. Reporting revealed that Lula met Master's controlling shareholder Daniel Vorcaro in a private meeting in December 2024, with Gal'polo present, raising questions about the government's prior knowledge. Former Lula-allied ministers including Ricardo Lewandowski and Guido Mantega…...

11+ hour, 21+ min ago  (920+ words) The Big Picture: Today's Latin American Pulse is shaped by a cabinet earthquake in Brazil, a 19-day election sprint in Peru, and a fuel price shock in Chile that marks the first real domestic cost of the Iran war for…...

1+ day, 22+ min ago  (556+ words) Two governors executed opposite maneuvers on Monday that reshaped the Brazil 2026 election map in a single afternoon. Paran's Ratinho Junior abandoned his presidential campaign to stay in office, while Rio de Janeiros Cludio Castro resigned his governorship hours before a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (366+ words) The official figures from statistics agency DANE tell a more nuanced story. In 2024, Colombia's monetary poverty rate fell to 31.8% " the lowest since the current methodology was adopted in 2012, and a 2.8 percentage-point drop from 2023. That translates to roughly 1.27 million people exiting…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (954+ words) The Big Picture: Today's Latin American Pulse leads with a military disaster in Colombia, an escalation signal from Havana, and a market reversal that inverted Friday's panic in a single session. This is part of The Rio Times' comprehensive coverage…...