Santiago de Chile, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) Expertos de varios países latinoamericanos participaron hoy en Chile en el Coloquio Internacional Fidel 100 años, con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre la vigencia del pensamiento del líder de la Revolución Cubana ante los desafíos actuales.
Brasilia, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) La deuda bruta de Brasil se mantuvo en septiembre pasado en 82,9 por ciento del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), equivalente a 11,1 billones de reales (dos billones 70 mil millones de dólares), divulgó hoy el Banco Central.
Quito, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) El presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, denunció hoy presuntas irregularidades en contratos vinculados a un candidato opositor, mientras otras acusaciones involucran a figuras cercanas al oficialismo a un mes de las elecciones seccionales.
Varios aliados de Flávio Bolsonaro se distancian de su desconocimiento de las elecciones en Brasil y le llaman a "respetar el resultado y seguir adelante".
La Paz, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) La Feria Internacional de La Paz (Fipaz) prosigue hoy en el capitalino recinto expositivo Chuquiago Marka, con varios países invitados y una variada programación cultural y comercial.
La Habana, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) Las Avispas de Santiago de Cuba defendieron hoy la cima oriental del béisbol cubano con un triunfo de 10-9 sobre los Cachorros de Holguín.
Las medidas cautelares solicitadas para levantar su inhabilitación política continúan sin ser concedidas, por lo que las sanciones penales y administrativas se mantienen plenamente vigentes.
Ciudad de Panamá, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) Los miembros del Componente Latinoamericano de la Asamblea Parlamentaria Euro-Latinoamericana (EuroLat) reafirmaron su compromiso con la integración regional durante la XVII Sesión Plenaria Ordinaria de ese organismo, trascendió hoy.
Engineer Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano died on October 28 in Mexico City at the age of 92. A victim of an oncological illness, he was the first elected head of government of the capital.
Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas inherited that cause and devoted more than six decades to it, along with the defense of the rights of the working classes and the structural transformation of Mexico’s political system.
He became established as a reference point for the country’s progressive, patriotic and transformative struggles.
The engineer was the son of General Lazaro Cardenas del Río, who carried out the 1938 nationalization of Mexico’s oil industry, a decision that placed crude oil under state control and became a milestone of national sovereignty.
His remains are being mourned on October 29 at the French Pantheon in the capital, the mausoleum where his life partner, Celeste Batel, also rests. He is survived by three children: Lázaro, Cuauhtémoc and Camila Cárdenas Batel.
🇬🇧 The Socialist International mourns the passing of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, our Honorary President, a tireless champion of democracy and social justice in Mexico and Latin America. Our heartfelt condolences to his family, his comrades and the people of Mexico.
Cardenas began his political activity in 1954 through the National Liberation Movement (MLN, in Spanish) and served as governor of Michoacán from 1980 to 1986. In 1987 he led the deepest break in contemporary Mexican politics. Together with Ifigenia Martínez, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and César Buenrostro, he founded the Democratic Current within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in Spanish) to fight the imposition of the presidential candidate and the shift toward the neoliberal model.
He left the PRI that year and was nominated by the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution, later building the National Democratic Front with a range of social forces. The July 6, 1988 presidential election was marked by the scandalous fraud of the so-called “system crash,” which imposed Carlos Salinas de Gortari. That day marked a turning point in the struggle for clean elections. Cardenas led the peaceful protest, together with other candidates, to avoid violence and bloodshed in the country.
After the fraud was carried out, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas drove the founding in 1989 of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), a platform oriented toward rejecting privatizations and budget austerity, and defending secularism and state control of strategic industries.
After his presidential bids in 1988 and 1994, on July 6, 1997 he became the first elected head of government of what was then the Federal District. His victory dismantled the direct control of the executive branch over the capital and established an administration with a social emphasis, transparency and priority attention to vulnerable sectors.
At 90, at the tribute paid to him by National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he firmly recalled that winning democracy in Mexico cost the lives of between 600 and 800 activists who fell in various days of struggle. Their killings remained unpunished under the governments of the regime.
🕊️ Un encuentro que quedó para la historia. El 3 de julio de 2018, dos días después de su triunfo electoral, @lopezobrador_ se reunió con Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a quien reconoció como precursor del movimiento democrático que daría paso a la 4T.
Text reads: “A meeting that has gone down in history. On July 3, 2018, two days after his electoral victory, @lopezobrador met with Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, whom he recognized as the precursor of the democratic movement that would lead to the 4T (4th transformation).”
Final Years and Honors
In his last years, Cardenas defended strategic resources against transnational capital. On March 18, 2026, at the ceremony for the 88th anniversary of the oil expropriation in Pueblo Viejo, Veracruz, President Claudia Sheinbaum named him head of the Advisory Commission of the state oil company Pemex.
He received an honorary doctorate from the National Polytechnic Institute in January 2026, and in September 2026 the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) created the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Chair in recognition of his contribution to sovereignty and self-determination.
He ran for president a third time in 2000. The defense of strategic resources was his last great cause, which he upheld uncompromisingly in his final years against the appetites of transnational capital.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum opened her morning press conference in the Treasury Hall of the National Palace with the homage, describing the former governor and presidential candidate as one of the central figures of contemporary Mexican politics. She presented his political life not as a single campaign, but as the foundation of a broader national transformation.
“His legacy is of honesty and democracy, but democracy that comes from below, not the democracy of the elites. Democracy as the people in power,” she asserted.
Members of her cabinet joined the tribute, underscoring the peaceful and sovereign character of Cárdenas’s historic campaign.
Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez highlighted the leader’s composure in channeling popular outrage through democratic means after the electoral manipulation of 1988. “Leading a popular mobilization requires responding to people’s expectations, but also protecting their lives and preserving the possibilities of continuing the struggle,” she said, honoring militants persecuted by the regime of that era.
For his part, Pablo Gómez, head of the Presidential Commission for Electoral Reform, defined Cárdenas as “the leader of the political rupture with national surrenderism, anti-democracy and corruption.” He called him an indispensable precedent for the electoral gains of the present day.
A sus 41 años, el astro portugués firmó tres tantos en apenas quince minutos frente al Al-Kholood Club y queda a solo 15 anotaciones de los mil goles oficiales.
Ciudad de Panamá, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) El presidente panameño, José Raúl Mulino, y el ministro federal de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania, Johann Wadephul, coincidieron hoy en la necesidad de fortalecer la cooperación bilateral en materia de seguridad, combate al narcotráfico, infraestructura y comercio.
Quito, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) Ecuador se ha convertido en un laboratorio de experimentación militar, tecnológica y psicológica con asistencia de Estados Unidos, advirtió hoy el profesor universitario Luis Córdova-Alarcón.
El nuevo canciller es el hasta ahora viceministro de Exteriores para Europa y Norteamérica, Oliver Blanco. La primera misión de Félix Plasencia en su nuevo puesto será la recuperación del oro de Venezuela en Reino Unido.
San Salvador, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) La presidenta de Perú, Keiko Fujimori, recorrió hoy el Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) de El Salvador, como parte de las actividades previstas durante su visita oficial de cuatro días al país.
Luanda, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) Angola y Rusia suscribieron hoy memorandos de entendimiento para la cooperación en los ámbitos del intercambio académico, la investigación científica y la formación universitaria, como parte de las acciones al margen de la tercera Cumbre Rusia-África, en Moscú.
Santiago de Cuba, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), subsidia el 50 por ciento del costo de sistemas fotovoltaicos que hoy son puestos a disposición de campesinos cafetaleros en Santiago de Cuba.
General Hosein Mohebi, de la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní, enfatiza: "La situación se determina en el cielo, la tierra y el mar, no en el ciberespacio ni en las salas de guerra mediáticas de Estados Unidos".
Ciudad de Guatemala, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) El ciclista costarricense Sergio Arias mostró hoy poder en la montaña, conquistó la séptima etapa de la Vuelta Internacional a Guatemala y le dio el primer triunfo a su equipo Arenas Tlax Mex.
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