Daniel Noboa, the 37 year old current president of Ecuador, failed to get a plurality of the votes in last Sunday's elections. Therefore, he will have to, once again, face Luisa Gonzalez, a left of center candidate closely allied with former President Rafael Correa, in a runoff election on April 13 th.

On March 19, 2025, at 4:00 PM, Temple University Beasley School of Law will host the Annual Judge Nelson A. Díaz Professorship Series, focusing on Latino Civil Rights: Contributions and Challenges.

DECISION POINT FOR VENEZUELA SANCTIONS

By P. Michael McKinley and Patrick Duddy - November 17, 2023

Venezuela is at a crossroads. The carefully choreographed announcement on October 17 of an agreement between the Maduro government and the opposition Unitary Platform on a roadmap for democratic presidential elections in 2024, accompanied the next day by an easing of US sanctions, unraveled in less than two weeks.

The United States last Wednesday offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of the assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

So says it’s current President, Gustavo Petro, the first left-of-center politician ever elected to the office.

Cuba will not do the Wagner waltz:

The Cuban Ambassador to Russia stated two weeks ago that Cuba would not oppose the participation of its citizens in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Keeping the promise that he made, that he would return to Brazil in March 2023, former President Jairo Bolsonaro arrived in Brasilia on March 30th, after a three-month, self-imposed exile.