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Citizen Revolution leader shot to death in Ecuador

Photo: @PaolaCabezasC

August 15|

Leaders and defenders of the Citizen Revolution denounced Monday the murder in the Ecuadorian province of Esmeraldas of the political leader belonging to that group, Pedro Briones, a few days after the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

According to information shared from social networks by his fellow militants, Pedro Briones was a leader of the party of former president Rafael Correa in Esmeraldas, in the northern coast of the country, and was shot to death.

For his part, Rafael Correa also confirmed the news from his Twitter account. “Another of our comrades was murdered in Esmeraldas, enough is enough,” he said, while sharing the message of the former candidate for the Esmeraldas prefecture, Janeth Bustos.

Regarding the political situation in the country, the presidential candidate, Luisa Gonzalez said that “Ecuador is living its bloodiest period. This is due to the total abandonment of an inept government and a State taken over by the mafias. My solidarity embrace to the family of comrade Pedro Briones, fallen in the hands of violence. Change is urgent!”.

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Likewise Rafael Correa in an interview to an Ecuadorian media this August 14 indicated that the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio responds to a plot in which the National Police is involved.

“In the specific case of Villavicencio’s assassination, I have no doubt that it is a plot in which the Police is involved. I know about this, I have had security. It is not possible that they embark a person in a car without a driver. The person, the VIP (Very Important Person), the protected person, boards last, maybe second to last. The person who accompanies him or her as co-pilot boards last. And always the protected person behind the co-pilot. Here he is embarked alone and without a driver. It means that the assassination was prepared and the security knew it, the police knew it”, said Rafael Correa.

International

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.”

International

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.

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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.