Amid the election season, Central Bank president Rosanna Costa released a study that directly links minimum-wage increases to unemployment, recasting her long-held orthodox stance against the wage floor, unions, and sector-wide bargaining into a polished econometric case. She has championed these ideas for decades at Libertad y Desarrollo; in 2008 she argued the 'problem with jobs is minimum wage policy' and that 'what is needed is to lower real wages'.

A farmer was critically wounded Tuesday during what rights groups call indiscriminate military repression in Imbabura province, northern Ecuador. After being declared clinically dead for about five minutes, he regained vital signs and remains in a fight for his life.

The former judge, ousted seven months ago from the Second Tax and Customs Tribunal in Santiago for poor performance reviews, is set to be formally charged on Wednesday after his arrest on aggravated bribery allegations.

After uproar over the "Parásitos" column and revelations that Kast's adviser sits on the ADP panel of Chile's Senior Public Management system, Socialist deputy Daniel Manouchehri said he will summon Cristián Valenzuela to the Finance Committee to explain his role and remarks, while FA deputy Gael Yeomans filed a request with the Civil Service seeking details on duties, sessions, selection mechanisms and payments.

Parents demanded that the septic tank be fully emptied and the affected area thoroughly sanitized to ensure minimum hygiene and safety for students and the entire school community.

After the session, committee chair Deputy Alejandra Placencia praised the evidence presented by reporter Paulina Toro, saying investigative journalism has exposed alleged influence peddling and a political favors network that undermines trust in Chiles justice system.

Chile's former president attended the World Leaders' Conference on Women in Beijing on October 13–14 and met with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, as China praised her work and called her a "friend of the Chinese people."

President Noboa's economic agenda — marked by fiscal austerity, subsidy removals and an expansion of extractive industries — has deepened rural poverty, driven up food prices and widened youth unemployment, disproportionately affecting Indigenous and farming communities. In response, CONAIE, the Unitary Workers' Front, the National Students' Coordinator and other social groups launched a nationwide strike on September 22 that has now reached its 23rd day.

As part of its regular BRICS GLOBAL MEDIA TOUR, the TV BRICS network has invited to Moscow the heads of partner media outlets from 16 countries: Brazil, Vietnam, Egypt, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Iran, Cuba, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Thailand, Chile, Ethiopia and South Africa.

In Peru, presidents fall like dominoes while the power structure stays intact. Congress’s removal of Dina Boluarte for "permanent moral incapacity" and the interim swearing-in of José Jerí signal not a new phase but the reaffirmation of unelected power—held by Congress and the economic elites that sustain it.