Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil for a fourth time on 25 October, winning 51.8 percent of the vote against 48.2 percent for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the runoff. Bolsonaro, like his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison and banned from running until 2030, refused to recognize the result and announced that he would ask the courts to annul the vote. Three weeks ago, in the first round on 4 October, no one predicted this outcome. Tw

Early in the morning on 16th October, a fire broke out at Unit 1 of the Ernesto Guevara Power Plant in Santa Cruz del Norte, approximately 50 kilometers east of Havana. Investigators found the cause to be a lubricating oil leak in the unit's rotor. Firefighters put out the fire and no one was injured; however, by the end of the day, 75.5 percent of Cuba was expected to be without electricity at the same time, the highest percentage since the Cuban government started releasing

María Corina Machado, leader of Venezuela's opposition and winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her work advocating democracy in Venezuela, returned to Venezuela on October 25th after more than ten months in exile. Upon her return, Machado appeared at a church in Barquisimeto, in Lara state, and announced on social media that she had returned home. According to The New York Times, Machado crossed into Venezuela from Colombia. Machado's party says she had tried to enter Ve