Bolivia’s Chamber of Deputies Descends Into Chaos, Opposition to Block President’s Agenda
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — Bolivia’s Chamber of Deputies declares Roberto Castro of President Rodrigo Paz’s Christian Democratic Party president for 2026–27 on October 30 after a delayed, chaotic session in which no vote count was announced and a scuffle broke out near the speaker’s stand.
Opposition deputies, including a faction of the Libre alliance, say no vote was held and plan legal and parliamentary challenges before the November 5 swearing-in, while a PDC deputy says the slate passed by show of hands with more than two-thirds, though he gave no exact tally.
With no party holding a majority in the 130-seat chamber, the article says the dispute could slow Paz’s economic agenda, and it reports no court filing as of Sunday.
Lula’s Fourth Term: What Brazil’s Contested Election Means For Democracy, The Region & U.S. Ties
Lula won a non-consecutive fourth term in Brazil’s October 25 runoff with about 51.8% of the vote, returning the left to the presidency of Latin America’s largest economy while Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede and points to Justice Cristiano Zanin’s two-hour voting extension.
The piece examines the clash between Bolsonaro and the Supreme Court, where Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered him to surrender his passports in an apparent money-laundering inquiry before he left for the United States, and it sets his allies’ persecution claims beside the court’s account and Lula’s debate remark about investigations.
It then looks at Lula’s position in a right-leaning region, Brazil’s US$2.28 trillion economy, and strained relations with Washington over tariffs, rare earths and Trump’s statement that Bolsonaro can stay in the U.S.
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