Analyzing the meaning of the day, Reinier Duardo pointed to the re-election of Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Marco Rubio and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, as signs that a deepening of hate speech and tightening of the blockade is coming.

There, Trump’s legacy remains particularly alive, while a woman like Nancy Pelosi – who welcomed Juan Guaidó and enthusiastically applauded him in Congress – is accused of being a leftist and they try to kill her. This confirms what has been said more than once from Cuba: it is up to us to break the blockade, because the newly elected officials and their lobbyists will do everything to make it worse. The neighbor’s policy continues to steer the extreme right, at least in its area closest to Cuba.

Bárbara Betancourt agrees with this criterion, who points to the signs of the show prior to the moment of the vote, feverish by the euphoria of the haters, the threatening speech against those who dissent and the call to support DeSantis, one of the most ineffective politicians in the United States. States, governor of a failed state, as proven during the pandemic and more recently before, during and after Hurricane Ian. Worse yet: DeSantis is a presidential candidate, as Trump was before he became president, and many believed that it would be impossible. It is dramatically true and it is not good for anyone, except for his followers who already know what size of hate they wear.

In the midst of this republican euphoria, AméricaTV broadcasts a piece of news that the presenters describe as unusual: a Cuban steals a fishing boat from his work to go to Cuba, because “he is tired of living in the United States…”. Stranded in North American waters, he asks for help and they have arrested him.

Although emigration in the opposite direction is common, there are not so few who, after having emigrated, cannot bear to live in the United States and try to return as best they can. The detail of interest is that he steals the boat. Why? Suppose he didn’t have the money to pay for a ticket, or perhaps he thought that if the Miami media praises those who steal ships in Cuba, they will get equal treatment for their journey.

What is really known about the last person who stole a small plane to leave Cuba is that he must be repatriated and that the plane will be returned. Cuba has denounced many times over the years what happens when emigration is stimulated with economic suffocation measures and legal roads become more expensive or closed. Just another reason to thoroughly reassess the immigration issue and the policies that have fueled these practices for so long.
In conclusion, it is very important that the agreements are resumed and the United States does its part. Like Cuba.

(By: Arleen Rodríguez Derivet/Cubadebate)

Some allies are calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement for next week, saying the party’s focus should be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker’s effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is headed. to a second round that could determine control of the Senate.

“I will advise you to hold off on him until after the Georgia runoff,” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

“Georgia should be the focus of every Republican in the country right now,” he said.

Trump tried to use the midterm elections as an opportunity to demonstrate his political influence after losing the White House in 2020. He endorsed more than 330 candidates in electoral contests, some inexperienced. He reveled in his major victories. But many of his positions, including echoing fraud in 2020 and his hardline views on abortion, were out of step with the political mainstream.

Although he scored some big victories on Tuesday, particularly in Ohio, where his election to the Senate, Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance sailed to an easy victory after Trump’s endorsement catapulted him. In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd, one of Trump’s first picks, held a vacant Senate seat held by the GOP.

But Trump lost some bigger spots overnight, particularly in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz, who narrowly won the Senate primary with Trump’s endorsement, lost to Democrat John Fetterman. Trump-backed candidates also lost gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and a Senate race in New Hampshire, though Trump seemed to celebrate the latter and criticized Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his positions by backing down. in his acceptance of the alleged electoral fraud invented by Trump in 2020.

The biggest Republican win of the night came in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis won re-election, cementing his status as a national Republican rising star while contemplating his own potential 2024 run. Ex leader.

Trump’s setbacks
While Republicans still appear well-positioned to flip the House and ultimately could take the Senate as well, those who had believed that frustrations with record inflation, combined with President Joe Biden, would produce quick victories for the Republicans, they were wrong. The “red tide” was not.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime Trump friend and adviser turned critic who is considering his own run for president in 2024, said Republicans “have a fundamental choice to make.”

“We lost in the 18th. We lost in the 20th. We lost in the 21st in Georgia. And now, on the 22nd, we are going to lose net governorships, we are not going to get the number of seats in the House that we thought and it is possible that we will not win the Senate despite a president who has a 40% labor approval”, he affirmed. .

According to Christie, “there is only one person to blame for that and that is Donald Trump.”

Meanwhile, Trump publicly insisted that he was happy with the results.

“While in a way yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal point of view it was a great victory: 219 wins and 16 losses overall. Who has done better than that?” he wrote on his Truth Social network on Wednesday afternoon.

But Republican strategist David Urban, a former Trump adviser, said the Trump brand is hurt no matter what the former president says.

Some now worry that if Trump goes ahead with his planned announcement next week, it could pave the way for a repeat of the Republican defeats in Georgia in 2021.

Trump’s former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who now works for Fox News, advised on air that Trump should postpone announcing him until after the Georgia Senate runoff.

DeSantis, the future candidate
DeSantis emerged as the obvious winner of the night. In addition to his wide margin of victory, he won the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade, and he did so without Trump’s endorsement. (Although Trump told reporters that he had voted for the governor days after calling him “Ron DeSantis.”)

“DeSantis is coming out of the election with a lot of momentum,” said Republican strategist Alex Conant. “Trump has been weak for a long time, but it was not clear who the alternative was… For the first time, Trump really has a formidable rival within the party.”

Even some Democrats admitted DeSantis’ strength.

Miami-based Democratic strategist Jose Parra said Trump’s rival enters the 2024 conversation with “a lot of wind in his sails” after a stronger-than-expected performance across the state, especially in the Miami-Dade County, in South Florida.

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said his “intent” is to run again. But pointing to the emerging competition between Trump and DeSantis, he said it would be “fun to see them square off.”

Trump futures
Trumpism as an expression of a right-wing “populism” is here to stay, although it was not expansive beyond its hard core. But this hard core of the extreme right is an intense political-social force, not an occasional phenomenon, arising from the deep political and social polarization that has been installed as a sign of the times, and that is expressed in a distorted way in the so-called “wars”. cultural”. Among Republican voters, a portion close to 70% considers that Trump was the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and therefore that the Biden administration is illegitimate. The most extreme sector of this electoral base was the one that starred in the attempted takeover of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 under the political leadership of the president himself, who was trying to prevent Congress from validating the electoral result.

DeSantis is something of a mild-mannered Trumpist. He won with a tough “law and order” speech. He promises to defeat the “woke”, that is, the “progresses”. He defines himself as “pro-life” but unlike other Republican states, Florida has not completely liquidated the right to abortion, but has limited it to 15 weeks. Several analysts highlight the high percentage of the Latino vote for DeSantis as a symptom. However, it does not seem at first a generalized phenomenon. In Florida, the most right-wing Latino electorate is largely concentrated, made up mainly of Cuban and Venezuelan exiles. Although it is a warning sign.

The result leaves DeSantis well placed as an alternative to Trump in the Republican presidential primary. This was received with some relief in the US imperialist establishment, which was already concerned about the possible return of Trump to the White House in 2024. Especially at a time when the White House, with its role in the war in Ukraine, had regained leadership over the European allies for its dispute with China.

(Taken from The Daily Left)

After enduring lawfare, jail and persecution, Lula da Silva was once again elected president in Brazil. He won this Sunday in the ballot, of the presidential elections, by obtaining 50.90% of the votes.

The Cuban president had expressed satisfaction with the electoral victory of the leader of the Workers’ Party, whom he congratulated on behalf of the Cuban government and people.

Venezuela and Brazil agree to resume binational cooperation agenda
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the newly elected Brazilian president agreed to resume the binational cooperation agenda between the two countries.

“I had a good telephone conversation with the president-elect of the Federative Republic of Brazil,” the president said on his Twitter account.

“We agreed to resume the Binational Cooperation Agenda between our countries. We appreciate your willingness!” he stated.

Maduro also revealed that the Brazilian labor leader sent his greetings and commitment to all the people of Venezuela.

“We are willing to work hard to strengthen Latin America and the Caribbean and for the economic and social development of our peoples,” the head of state wrote on the social network.

Lula after speaking with dozens of heads of state: “We are returning to the world”
The Brazilian president said on Tuesday that he has spoken with dozens of heads of state, and “all want to expand alliances and joint work with Brazil on trade, on climate issues and on major global issues.”

“We are returning to the world,” Lula da Silva highlighted on his Twitter account.

(With information from Prensa Latina)

The elected president, the leader of the Workers’ Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, obtained 50.90% of the votes (60,345,999), with an advantage of 1.80 points (+ 2,139,645 votes) over his opponent, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, who until this Sunday was running for re-election, finished with 49.10% of the votes (58,206,354).

The website of the Superior Electoral Court reported an attendance at the polls of 79.41% (124,252,796) of voters and an abstention of 20.59% (32,200,558).

118,552,353 valid votes (95.41%), 3,930,765 invalid votes (3.16%) and 1,769,678 blank votes (1.43%) were counted.

Source: Supreme Electoral Court.

On this day, more than 156 million Brazilians were enabled to go to the polls and elect the candidate of their choice. At 5:00 p.m. (local time) the polling stations closed and the vote count began.

Now in the streets of Brazil it is celebrated. In addition, reactions arrive from different parts of the world. Among them, those of the leaders of Venezuela, Mexico and Bolivia.

Other figures in the region have sent their congratulations through the social network Twitter, such as the vice president of Colombia, Francia Márquez, and former presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa, of Bolivia and Ecuador, respectively.

More than 20.7 million people cast their early vote in the midterm elections in the United States, a news source disclosed today.

Until last Sunday, more than two million 800 voters delivered their ballots in Texas, two million 600 thousand did the same in Florida, and just over two million were counted in California, limited the report of the CNN chain that cites data from Edison Research and Catalyst.

Nearly 1.6 million ballots were also cast in Georgia, and North Carolina became the fifth-highest turnout state with more than 1 million ballots cast.

Although the date of the mid-term elections is set for November 8, 46 states are involved early in the process, according to the source.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, for example, exercised his right to vote last Saturday in the city of Wilmington, Delaware, a region in which, according to analysts, he has solid support for the Democrats.

The midterm elections are estimated to have less turnout than the presidential ones and, according to statistics from the last half century, only about 40% of voters go to the polls in these elections.

On this occasion, the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 36 governors and 35 senators out of a total of 100, are decided.

(Taken from Latin Press)

An extensive security police deployment surrounds the Chigi Palace, headquarters of the Executive, where the change of command will take place at 10:30 local time, after which Meloni will meet with the members of the team that he now heads, according to an official statement .

Italian and world public opinion is closely following the first session of the new Council of Ministers, where the initial course to be taken by the most far-right government in this country since the Second World War should be outlined.

The Bell Ceremony, with which the change of command in the government of this country is formalized, was established in 1996 during the delivery of his position by Prime Minister Lamberto Dini to Romano Prodi.

In the act that will take place this Sunday in the Galleons room of the aforementioned building, the new head of government will receive on a special tray the golden bell delivered by Draghi, with which she will lead the meetings of the Council of Ministers.

The current prime minister, 45, began her political career in 1992 in the Youth Front of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, later known as the National Alliance, and in 1996 she was already leading the student wing of that political formation.

She was elected deputy for that ultra-conservative alliance in 2006, two years later she became Minister of Youth of the then head of government, Silvio Berlusconi, and in 2012 she founded the far-right Brothers of Italy party, which she has chaired since 2014.

As leader of that political force and of the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists, a position he held in 2020, he advocated the renegotiation of the European Union treaties and of Italy’s membership in the euro monetary community, which raises concerns in that regional bloc.

Her motto in the electoral campaign, with a strong ultra-nationalist content, was “Italy and Italians first!” And among the government’s objectives is, according to observers, to put a stop to immigration. She also speaks out against abortion and same-sex marriage.

(Taken from Latin Press)

“But first we have to achieve a historic victory for the Republican Party this November,” he added in relation to the midterm elections that will take place on November 8.
Likewise, he criticized Pelosi and stated that he will end his political career. “And we’re going to end up with crazy Nancy Pelosi, and she’s crazy, she’s crazy. We are going to end his political career,” Trump said.
On the other hand, he assured that, if he had been re-elected in the 2020 presidential elections, the conflict in Ukraine would not have happened “not in a million years.”

The results give the leftist Lula da Silva 48.13% of the vote compared to 43.46% for the far-right Bolsonaro with 98.67% of the vote. The night was bittersweet for the head of state who went from leading the count from the beginning to seeing how his opponent overtook him at the end.

The results leave Lula below what the polls predicted, while Bolsonaro has managed to add more than expected for his re-election.

The count released by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) allows us to foresee that the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) will have to face the far-right leader in a second round, scheduled for October 30, to define the Presidency.

In accordance with Brazilian electoral legislation, the two candidates with the most valid votes in the first round, that is, the blanks and the null votes have been discounted, must be measured in a ballot in the event that no candidate obtains more than half of the votes. .

The senator of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), Simone Tebet, gave another surprise by coming in third position (4.21%), after surpassing the center-left and former Lula minister, Ciro Gomes (3.05%). Both will be decisive in the second round and this Sunday they got fewer points than expected, to the benefit of the two main candidates, which shows the extreme polarization that Brazil is experiencing and predicts a very close second round.

“Some turbulent weeks await Brazil before the second round on October 30. No matter who wins the presidency, Bolsonarism will be very much alive in Congress and the Senate. If Lula wins, he is likely to face fierce resistance,” political analyst Oliver Stuenkel wrote on Twitter.

Brazilians also voted to elect the 513 deputies, a third of the senators, the governors, as well as hundreds of state and Federal District deputies.

In the three most populous states, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio Janeiro, candidates for governor allied with Bolsonaro won. In these last two states, even in the first round.

Lula: “We are going to win the elections. This is just an extension.”
A few minutes after the final result of the vote was known, the candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, celebrated tonight the victory in the first round of the Brazilian elections and affirmed that he has “the certainty” that it can be imposed in the ballot scheduled for October 30.

Lula spoke after 10 p.m. from his bunker set up in a hotel in the center of the city of São Paulo, where he was accompanied by his wife “Janja”, his running mate, Geraldo Alckmin, and former president Dilma Rousseff, and members of his party. .
The candidate to reach the presidency of Brazil for the third time challenged President Jair Bolsonaro to a new debate and highlighted that “all elections were in the second round” throughout history. “We are going to win the elections. This is just an extension,” he noted.

“Excuse me, the journalists, the allied parties, but we are going to have to work harder, we are going to have to convince Brazilian society, and convince the other political forces” ahead of October 30, Lula said.

After the defeat this Sunday in Sao Paulo, the city where he began his political career, the former president said that he hopes to turn the adverse result around. “Sao Paulo will be a confrontation of proposals for society and I am going to make every effort and I am certain that together we are going to win São Paulo and we are going to win Brazil”, he stressed.

Lula also called on his followers to gather on the traditional Avenida Paulista, to celebrate and gain strength for the second stretch of the campaign. “You know that our country is worse, that the economy is worse, that we have to recover that country,” stressed the PJ candidate, who said: “Unfortunately for some, I have thirty more days of campaigning.”

“I like the campaign, I love discussing with Brazilian society and it will be important because for the first time there will be a face-to-face debate with the president of the republic to find out if he is going to continue telling lies or if he is going to tell him the truth to the Brazilian people”, he emphasized when requesting another meeting with Bolsonaro.

In that sense, he pointed out: “It is a second chance because that debate was not worth much, that debate had strange people.”

(With information from the NA news agency)

The former president reached 44% in favor of the total number of respondents, which represents one point below the previous investigation by the institute revealed on August 17.

For his part, Bolsonaro obtained 32%, Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) 8%, Simone Tebet of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) 3%.

Meanwhile, Vera Lucia Pereira Da Silva Salgado of the Unified Socialist Workers Party (PSTU) and Felipe D’Ávila of the Partido Novo reached one percent in the survey where the undecided represented 6%.

Similarly, Quaest revealed that although the possibility of a possible victory for Lula in the first round is not ruled out, the PT leader would win with 51% in a possible second round while Bolsonaro would achieve 37%.

On the other hand, the Ipec research institute carried out a survey in four states and the Federal District where the advantage of the former president in the most populous states of the country is evident.

According to the study, Lula obtained 40% against Bolsonaro’s 31% in São Paulo and 45% in Minas Gerais for an advantage of 15 percentage points.

In Rio de Janeiro, the former president obtained 39% compared to 36% for the current head of state. However, due to the margin of error, the three points are declared a technical draw.

Meanwhile, the PT candidate will visit the capital of the state of Amazonas, Manaus, on Wednesday, where he will meet with 35 entities and social movements as part of his electoral campaign.

(With information from teleSUR)

Díaz-Canel emphasized that “Cuba is overjoyed by Luis Arce’s victory” and celebrates the rebirth of the Bolivarian ideal.

(Taken from Granma)