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Argentina enters electoral ban two days before the presidential election

October 21 |
With two days to go before the elections on Sunday, October 22, Argentina entered this Friday into an electoral ban to elect the president of the nation and legislative and provincial positions.
In this situation, campaign acts are prohibited from 08H00 (local time) (11:00 GMT) this Friday until 21H00 (local time) (00:00 GMT) on Sunday, as well as party advertising or the provision of ballots, within a radius of 80 meters around the polling stations.
The country “is very big and has, fortunately and for the joy of all Argentines, very beautiful and very hidden and difficult to access places, and we have to reach all of them”, underlined the director of Electoral Services of the Argentine Post Office, Mariana Aballay.
Argentina will elect 130 deputies, 24 national senators, in addition to 19 Mercosur parliamentarians per national district and 24 per regional district, as well as the president and vice-president of the Nation.
Likewise, general elections will be held in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Entre Ríos and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which decided not to split their elections from the national elections, as did the rest of the districts.
Polling centers will remain open between 08H00 hours (11:00 GMT) and 18H00 hours (21:00 GMT). Some 35.4 million Argentines are called to vote this Sunday for presidential candidates Sergio Massa, who represents Unión por la Patria; Javier Milei, of La Libertad Avanza and the aspirant of Juntos por el Cambio, Patricia Bullrich; Juan Schiaretti Hacemos por Nuestro País and Myriam Bregman.
Although presidential candidate Javier Milei was the only proposal of his party, he obtained 30 percent of the votes, a percentage much higher than what was estimated in the polls prior to the PASO.
Although he became the most voted individual pre-candidate and the most voted political force, the proposal of the ultra-right wing that he defends will be in charge, in case of coming to power and according to his program, of a “strong cut in public expenditure”, “lowering of taxes” and “labor flexibilization”.
Likewise, Javier Milei would accompany a financial reform with a “free and deregulated banking system together with the free competition of currencies”, while he defends the privatization of the public retirement system, of the health and education systems and of the “loss-making public companies”.

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Erik Prince Backs Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa in Fight Against Crime and “Narcoterrorism”

Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm Blackwater (now called Academi), expressed his support for Daniel Noboa, the president and re-election candidate in Ecuador, and stated that he hopes to continue working together in the fight against crime.
“I hope Ecuador chooses law and order. We are here to help, to combat gangs, and to provide the tools for the government to restore law and order, peace, and prosperity,” said the former U.S. military member, who arrived in Guayaquil to participate in an operation alongside the Ministers of the Interior, John Reimberg, and Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo.
Prince did not hold back in his criticism of left-wing governments, such as Venezuela, which he described as a “narco-state with mass drug processing,” while also linking the party Revolución Ciudadana, of which the Correista Luisa González is a member (and who faces Noboa in the second electoral round), as an “ally of Nicolás Maduro.”
Minister Loffredo had already announced on Tuesday that a team from Prince would arrive in the country in the coming days to provide “advisory and training” to security forces, as part of the “strategic alliance” that President Noboa agreed upon with the Blackwater founder to fight against “narcoterrorism,” details of which have not been disclosed.
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Cuban Supreme Court Confirms Successful Completion of Prisoner Release

The People’s Supreme Court of Cuba announced on Monday that it has successfully completed the release of 553 prisoners, a process first announced on January 14. Among those freed were political prisoners, including opposition figures José Daniel Ferrer and Félix Navarro.
The announcement came shortly after Washington, in the final days of the Biden administration, decided to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
While Havana has insisted that the releases were a unilateral and sovereign decision, the United States maintains that the measure was part of an agreement mediated by the Vatican. According to U.S. sources, many of those released were participants in the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests, the largest demonstrations Cuba has seen in decades.
Cuban authorities have not provided a list of the released prisoners or a timeline for the implementation of the measure, despite multiple requests for information from EFE.
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Russia calls Zelensky’s Washington visit a “complete failure” after altercation with Trump

Russia stated on Saturday that Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington was a “complete failure” following the altercation with Donald Trump, accusing the Ukrainian leader of being “obsessed with continuing the war” with Moscow.
The visit “was a complete political and diplomatic failure of the Kiev regime,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in a statement. Zakharova accused Zelensky of being “incapable of demonstrating a sense of responsibility,” of “rejecting peace,” and of using “lies and manipulations to justify the continuation of hostilities and the reception of military and financial aid from the West.”
Zelensky’s visit to Washington on Friday turned into a verbal brawl before cameras worldwide, when his counterpart, Donald Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of being ungrateful for U.S. aid and rejecting peace talks. Zelensky was prematurely escorted out of the White House without signing the agreement he had gone to Washington for, which involved giving up the exploitation of Ukraine’s mineral resources in exchange for security guarantees.
“With his excessively rude behavior during his visit to Washington, Zelensky confirmed that he is the most dangerous threat to the international community as an irresponsible warmonger,” Zakharova stated.
She also accused European leaders of “political weakness” and “baseness” for backing Zelensky after the “moral lesson” he received in Washington.
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