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Nicolás Maduro says that the cane will remain in good hands in the years to come
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said this Friday, when there are 23 days left for the presidential elections, that the staff of command of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces will remain in “good hands” in the years to come and, he said, “never” will fall into the hands of an “oligarch.”
“I swear to you soldiers of my homeland, I swear to you people of Venezuela, that this command baton of commander-in-chief of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) (…) will remain in good hands in the years to come,” said the president, who led a civic-military parade in Caracas, about Independence Day in Venezuela.
Maduro maintained that the command baton will “never” fall into the hands of an “oligarch, a puppet, a traitor, I swear, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces will never have that embarrassing act of dishonor.”
The president of Venezuela added that that cane has been carried with “honor, honesty.”
“I have never trembled any imperial threat from the north or anyone, or from oligarchs, or from fascists,” he said.
He added that patriotism is out of love for history, for the right to the future, to be free and independent.
“When we say that we are anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist we do it out of love for the right we have to be free and in our homeland to decide what we have to decide,” he said.
This Friday, the candidate of Venezuela’s largest opposition coalition – Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, Edmundo González Urrutia, promised to modernize the FANB for the “new strategic military scenarios that are glimpsed at the national and global level,” in case of winning the presidential elections on July 28.
“Soldiers of the Venezuelan Armed Forces for that reason the Venezuelan people ask them to respect the results of their electoral decision (…) the Venezuelan people count on their military institution to respect and respect their sovereign will on July 28,” he said in a statement, about the 213 years of Venezuela’s independence.
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Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.
On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.
According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”
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Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’
Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.
“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.
“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.
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Trump administration launches large-scale immigration operation in Chicago
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a large-scale immigration operation in the Chicago area with the arrival of additional Border Patrol agents on Tuesday and the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem during a raid.
Noem posted a video on her X account showing the immigration operation, in which DHS reportedly removed “violent criminals” from the streets. The footage shows Noem observing the arrest of a man taken into custody at his home early Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.
“I was in Chicago today to make it clear that we will not back down,” the secretary wrote. “Our work is just beginning,” she added.
The warning from Noem was echoed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Gregory Bovino, who posted a video on X Tuesday showing multiple Border Patrol vehicles arriving in the city with the caption: “Chicago, we are here!”
Bovino, who led the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles implemented since last June, said the team will remain in Chicago to continue the mission they started in California.
Operation “Midway Blitz” is currently focused on the Chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. Activists and residents have reported sightings of masked agents and unmarked vehicles in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.
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