International
Correísmo again nominates Luisa González as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador
The Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, led by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), nominated Luisa González again this Saturday as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador for next February’s elections, in which the current head of State, Daniel Noboa, who beat González in last year’s ballot, will also participate.
At a convention in the coastal city of Guayaquil, González called for internal unity in his political movement and recalled that they have met with leftist groups in search of unity.
He commented that they have invited these political organizations to join “a homeland project, a project that has as its central axis the truth, justice, honesty, transparency, the commitments that are fulfilled and, in that unity, walk towards an Ecuador of change.”
González, who will have former Minister Diego Borja as a candidate for the Vice Presidency, referred to the need to work to combat insecurity in Ecuador, where violence has increased for about two years.
Correa, who participated in the convention through a videoconference by not being able to return to the country for being convicted in cases of corruption, asked the militancy for applause for his former vice president Jorge Glas, who is imprisoned in the highest security prison in the country in the context of a case that investigates alleged corruption and having yet to finish serving the sentence of two other cases, also of corruption.
“Martyr of the Citizen Revolution, an honest man, the great absentee,” Correa said about Glas, who was transferred to prison last April after the Police captured him at the Embassy of Mexico in Quito, the same day that Mexico granted him diplomatic asylum, which Ecuador considers illegal because it does not correspond to people convicted of common crimes.
Correa insisted on Glas’s innocence and his own and asserted that they must “recover the homeland” to which the governments following theirs “have delayed decades for development.”
After making an analysis of the situation, he lamented that “they have destroyed the institutionality of the country,” so he sees necessary “a constituent, because the institutionality is so damaged, the country is so taken by the worst, as long as they hated Correa, that so we win the elections, we will not be able to govern,” he said.
“We have to go to a Constituent Assembly and, of course, they will say that it is to seize justice. No, no, it’s to give justice to the people, power to the people,” he explained.
On security issues, he commented that now “organized crime has infiltrated the State, Armed Forces, National Police, Court of Justice, governments, politicians and politicians and that is why there is no real will to combat organized crime,” in his opinion.
In January, the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared the “internal armed conflict” against criminal gangs, which he has come to call “terrorists,” and is based on the so-called Phoenix plan to combat insecurity, which continues to affect the nation.
International
Chile enters runoff campaign with Kast leading and Jara seeking a last-minute comeback
Chile’s presidential runoff campaign for the December 14 election kicked off this Sunday, with far-right candidate José Antonio Kast entering the race as the clear favorite in the polls, while left-wing contender Jeannette Jara faces an uphill scenario, hoping for a comeback that some experts describe as “a miracle.”
The final polls released in Chile—published before the mandatory blackout on survey dissemination—give Kast, an ultraconservative former lawmaker running for president for the third time, a lead of between 12 and 16 points. His opponent, the communist former minister in Gabriel Boric’s current administration, is weighed down not only by the government’s low approval ratings but also by a fragmented electorate.
Although Jeannette Jara received the most votes in the first round with 26.9%, her lack of alliances beyond the left makes it difficult for her to expand her support. Kast, who secured 23.9%, has already brought key figures on board: ultralibertarian Johannes Kaiser (13.9%) and traditional right-wing leader Evelyn Matthei (12.4%), both now backing his candidacy.
Analysts note that although Kast’s support base consolidates more than 50% of the electorate, it does not guarantee an automatic transfer of votes. Populist economist Franco Parisi, who placed third with 19.7%, emerges as the major wildcard. His party, the People’s Party (PDG), is set to decide this Sunday through an internal consultation whether to endorse one of the two finalists.
International
Trump says asylum decision freeze will remain in place “for a long time”
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that the suspension of decisions on asylum applications—implemented as part of his order to “halt” immigration from third-world countries following Wednesday’s shooting in Washington—will remain in effect “for a long time.”
The president declined to specify how long the freeze, imposed last Friday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), would last. The suspension affects individuals waiting for an asylum ruling from that agency, though it does not apply to cases handled by U.S. immigration courts.
The delay is part of a series of measures enacted by the Trump Administration after a shooting on Wednesday in which an Afghan national allegedly opened fire on the National Guard in Washington, D.C., killing one officer and leaving another in critical condition.
Trump has ordered a permanent halt to immigration from 19 countries classified as “third-world.” He also indicated on Sunday that “possibly” more nations could be added to the list.
“These are countries with high crime rates. They are countries that do not function well… that are not known for success, and frankly, we don’t need people from those places coming into our country and telling us what to do,” Trump said, adding: “We don’t want those people.”
USCIS had already announced on Thursday a “rigorous review” of green cards held by migrants from 19 “countries of concern,” including Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti.
International
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy military as deadly asian floods kill over 1,000
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday to assist victims of the devastating floods that have killed more than a thousand people across Asia in recent days.
A series of weather events last week triggered prolonged torrential rains across Sri Lanka, parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, southern Thailand, and northern Malaysia. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said Monday in North Sumatra that “the priority now is to deliver the necessary aid as quickly as possible.”
“There are several isolated villages that, with God’s help, we will be able to reach,” he added. Subianto also stated that the government had deployed helicopters and aircraft to support relief operations.
Floods and landslides have claimed 502 lives in Indonesia, with a similar number still missing.
This marks the highest death toll from a natural disaster in Indonesia since 2018, when an earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 2,000 people.
The government has sent three military ships carrying aid and two hospital vessels to the hardest-hit regions, where many roads remain impassable.
In the village of Sungai Nyalo, located about 100 kilometers from Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, floodwaters had receded by Sunday, leaving homes, vehicles, and crops coated in thick mud.
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