Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly in a decree on Wednesday, bringing forward legislative and presidential elections, a day after he presented his defense in an impeachment process. Lasso will now remain in office for up to six months, ruling by decree, while national electoral authorities set the date for the elections. Those voted into power in the early elections would only serve until the regularly-scheduled 2025 elections take place. The impeachment process was the first against an Ecuadorian president in decades. Ninety-two votes from the 137-member legislature would have been needed to remove Lasso from office.

It was a chilly early morning in the Marcos Paz penitentiary when Jorge Rafael Videla, the infamous dictator, was found dead in his cell at age 87. The human rights organizations and survivors of the dictatorship era fought long and hard for the dictators to be tried and sentenced to jail. Originally from Mercedes, a town in Buenos Aires province, Jorge Rafael Videla was a military man who built a long career between 1944 and 1975. “We Argentines should not be ashamed, because what happened was a defense of human rights, threatened by terrorism,” he said. “This incident,” wrote Cox, “calls for just the kind of action that President Videla has been promising in Washington.

The connection between Latin America and the Cannes Film Festival, which started today, has been rather weak in the past decades. An Argentine favorite in Cannes has also made his return to the Palais de Festivals: Lisandro Alonso will present his latest film Eureka in the non-competitive Cannes Première. An Argentine-Spain co-production, the short film None of That (Argentina/España), directed by Patricio Martínez and Francisco Cantón, will compete for the Palme d’Or in that category. This was an admirable film, a lot better than the weak story that inspired it,” Borges once said to Radio de España. The Cannes Film Festival will run until Sunday May 27.

was announced even before the series premiered, and Marvel has already dropped details about what’s to come. Season 2 Potential Release DateWe don’t know when What If…? season 2 will be released as of May 2023. The series’s release date has been changed from early 2023 to “coming soon.” A 2nd season of What If…? was affirmed at the same time as the 1st, although its premiere date has been pushed back by Disney Plus.

Welcome to Cruel Summer, the latest Freeform blockbuster that follows the strange disappearance of the most famous girl in town and the least famous girl’s climbs to the top of the social pyramid. Like many other Freeform series, you’ll be interested from the start and eagerly await the return of Cruel Summer for another season. Here’s everything we know so far about Cruel Summer season 2. Cruel Summer Season 2 Potential Release DateWe won’t have to wait long for Cruel Summer Season 2 to premiere. Cruel Summer Season 2 Expected Cast• The Goldbergs star Sadie Stanley as Megan• Little Fires Everywhere star Lexi Underwood (reported by Hollywood Reporter to have replaced newcomer Eloise Payet) as Isabella• Locke & Key‘s Griffin Gluck as Luke• KaDee Strickland (Private Practice)• Lisa Yamada (All American)• Sean Blakemore (Greenleaf)• Paul Adelstein (True Story)

In a ruling published today, the Supreme Court lifted last week’s precautionary measure suspending elections in Tucumán province. However, the Court cited Manzur’s withdrawal as a candidate as reason enough to lift the suspension. Tucumán then requested that the precautionary measure be lifted. According to today’s ruling, Alfaro refused to drop the amparo, but the Court stated that it would nevertheless lift the suspension. This is not the only re-election bid put on hold by the Supreme Court — last week San Juan’s Governor Sergio Uñac was declared ineligible to run for a third consecutive term.

Ecuadorean authorities have detained a former energy minister amid an investigation into alleged bribery linked to state oil firm Petroecuador, the attorney general’s office said on Monday. An investigation of Xavier Vera, Ecuador’s former minister of mines and energy, began last October following several corruption allegations, including that he arranged jobs at Petroecuador in exchange for bribes. “The attorney general’s office, with the support from (Ecuadorean police) executed an arrest warrant against Xavier V., within an investigation for alleged bribery,” the attorney general’s office wrote in a message via Twitter, referring to Vera. “The former minister has left the country more than once since these processes began. He isn’t running away from the investigation, he isn’t running away from the process,” Vera’s lawyer, Carlos Sanchez, told local television channel Ecuavisa.

The Polo Obrero social movement today launched a week of protests demanding work and rejecting poverty and hunger. The protesters are expected to join other movements, culminating in camp-outs and marches in central Buenos Aires on Wednesday and Thursday. Social movements have organized frequent protests against poverty, welfare cuts, and lack of employment recently. On April 5, Polo Obrero organized 128 roadblocks across the country after national statistics showed that poverty was rising despite Argentina’s economy growing. Social leaders say new requirements for beneficiaries to verify their identity are not accessible to some of society’s most vulnerable.

National Deputy Fernando Carbajal filed a petition today to the Supreme Court to ban the potential reelection of incumbent Governor Gildo Insfrán. The move comes in the aftermath of the Court’s recent decision to suspend elections for governor in Tucumán and San Juan last week. He also served twice as vice governor, meaning that he has been in the Formosa government since 1987. On Sunday 21, the Formosa Justicialista Party is scheduled to announce the candidates that will run in the June 25 elections for governor and deputies. It claims that Insfrán’s candidacy causes “serious institutional damage,” and referred to the precedent set in San Juan and Tucumán.

Independent lawmaker Virgilio Saquicela was re-elected president of Ecuador’s National Assembly on Sunday, supported by politicians who want an impeachment process against President Guillermo Lasso to advance to a vote for his possible removal. Saquicela, who took over as president of the National Assembly in May last year, has become a principal figure in the process against Lasso, who is accused of embezzlement in an oil transportation contract. The assembly voted to continue with the impeachment process on Tuesday in a session convened by Saquicela with 88 votes in favor out of 116 legislators present. A majority of 96 lawmakers of the 136 present voted to re-elect Saquicela. 92 votes from the 137-member assembly are needed to remove Lasso.

The yearly nominal rate for 28-day Liquidity Bills —the rate at which the Central Bank lends money to financial entities— is now 97%. The monthly effective interest rate is 8% — under April’s inflation rate — and 154% annually. The last time the Central Bank raised interest rates was on April 27, when it did so by 1000 basis points following a run against the peso. Friday’s inflation rates surpassed all prior predictions by consulting firms, prompting the economy ministry to respond with a series of working meetings over the course of yesterday. Other measuresYesterday’s meetings also resulted in a packet of measures that the economy ministry announced via a series of press releases.

A businessman, he detected the benefits of introducing a pedigree Shorthorn bull, also known as Durham. It is characterized by its short horns, blocky conformation, and color, which ranges from red, red with white markings and white, to roan – a mixture of red and white hairs. As the fifth generation of cattle producers, today the Dawneys run a family farming business, proudly and passionately upholding a 120-year tradition as Shorthorn cattle herders. Nearby is a monument to John Miller and his bull Tarquino. Cheers, then, to this most famous bull!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Pope Francis on Saturday to back Kyiv’s peace plan, and the pope indicated the Vatican would help in the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken by Russians. Earlier on Saturday, Zelenskiy met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who promised full military and financial backing for Ukraine and reiterated support for its EU membership bid. “We must make every effort to return them home,” Zelenskiy said in a Tweet afterwards, saying he had discussed it with the pope. Zelenskiy also said he asked the pope to “join” Kyiv’s 10-point peace plan. Zelenskiy flew to Rome on an Italian government plane that was escorted over Italian airspace by fighter jets.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 68% in April from the previous year, preliminary government data showed today, a positive reading for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as it represents the first major drop under his watch. Lula won last year’s election pledging to end deforestation after years of surging destruction under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, but has faced continued challenges since taking office as environmental agency Ibama grapples with lack of staff. Official data from space research agency Inpe showed that 328.71 square kilometers (126.92 square miles) were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon last month, below the historical average of 455.75 square kilometers for the month. That interrupted two consecutive months of higher deforestation, with land clearing so far this year now down 40.4% to 1,173 square kilometers. “There are several factors, and the change in government might indeed be one of them,” said Daniel Silva, a conservation specialist at WWF-Brasil.

The Economy Ministry led by Sergio Massa views this meeting as a US “nod” to improving trade relations with Argentina. However, subsidies will go to vehicle manufacturing that uses resources from the US, or any country they have free trade agreements with. While Argentina currently has only 2 operational lithium production projects, there are 6 others under construction. The last critical minerals report by the Wilson Center, a top US think tank, projected that in five years Argentina could top Chile in lithium production. After the presentation, Ávila was asked about Argentina’s mining legal framework, tax incentives, and community liaisons.