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Brazil Senate Fast-Tracks Rural Insurance Overhaul as El Niño Threatens Crops

Brazil's Senate is set to vote a rural insurance overhaul as El Niño threatens the 2026/27 crop, with subsidy funds...

September 1, 2026

Kenya Gives Investigators 60 Days on Fuel Case

Kenya fuel import probe: the Senate gave investigators 60 days to report on the contested Mombasa petrol shipment bought at...

August 24, 2026

Benin Senate President: Patrice Talon Takes the Top Seat in the New Upper House

Benin Senate president: former head of state Patrice Talon won 24 of 25 votes on 6 August 2026, a week...

August 7, 2026

West African Nation Benin Installs New Senate, Completing Reform

The Benin new Senate, a 25-member upper house, was installed on 30 July 2026, completing a constitutional reform that lengthens...

July 30, 2026

Chile’s Senate Advances Kast’s Tax Reform by a Single Vote

Chile Senate approved Kast's economic reform 26-23, cutting corporate tax from 27% to 23%. A 25-year stability clause faces constitutional...

June 26, 2026

Opinion: Hispanics embrace the Republican Party in the face of Democrats’ leftward drift

By Raúl Tortolero* (Opinion) Too many people in the United States are upset about the economic disaster that the country...

November 8, 2022

Brazil elections 2022: Armed forces inspect ballot box source code at Electoral Court TSE

The Armed Forces are at the headquarters of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to inspect the source code of...

August 3, 2022

Brazil: Presidents of Chamber and Senate expose isolated Supreme Court between government and legislature

The presidents of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), declared that the impeachment

April 27, 2022

Opinion: Brazil’s Centrão – Slouching towards Bedlam?

In Brazil’s legislature, however, the “centre” is far from falling apart. The “Centrão” bloc, “its hour come round at last”

November 25, 2021