On Sunday, Oct. 2, Brazil held its first round of presidential and congressional elections. With 99.98 percent of the votes counted by Sunday evening, the ballots showed that top contenders Lula and Bolsonaro came in first and second place with 48.4 percent of the electorate and 43.2 percent, respectively.

Fights in Haiti have led to at least 20 deaths in the past few days, as rival gangs battle each other for control. Residents of the northern suburbs of Port-au-Prince have been suffering a devastating gang war since Sunday, April 24.

On Monday, Mexico’s House of Deputies rejected an electricity sector reform bill lobbied by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

From the suspicious death of Zuzu Angel, a Brazilian fashion designer, to the alleged suicide of Vladmir Herzog, a Brazilian-Croatian journalist, the repression and violence of the 21 years of Military Dictatorship in Brazil are coming to light.

Chile is on its 13th year of drought, the longest it has seen in a thousand years. Water availability has decreased to 37 percent in the last 30 years, and this could potentially decrease by 50 percent by 2060.

After more than eight hours of debate, Congress rejected the impeachment motion of President Pedro Castillo on the foundations of permanent moral incapacity. President Pedro Castillo and his lawyer showed up to the plenary session to exercise his defense, after which the debate of the congressmen and the vote took place.