The 2026 Brazil election ended with Lula reelected, Brazil's stocks down 14 percent in a day, and the runner-up's passports seized within hours. Chomcho examines the two-hour extension ordered by Lula's former lawyer after the polls closed, the 19 percent vote jump nobody explains, and what Washington should learn from it.
One objection from Croatia erased Montenegro's EU deadline at the October summit, only days after Brussels unveiled a plan to weaken the EU veto. Chomcho explains why the EU veto protects small nations from the big capitals and an unelected Commission, who still defends it, and why Washington should want Europe to keep it.
On October 21, Sanae Takaichi completes her first year as Japan's prime minister. Takaichi's first year reached 2 percent of GDP on defense two years early, ended the ban on lethal arms exports and said out loud that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could pull Japan into war. China answered with sanctions. Washington got the ally it wanted.
France blames Musk. At the OECD in Paris, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot listed the MAGA community beside Russia, China and Iran as sources of hostile narratives. Meanwhile, 24 French schools have been burned or ransacked, 715 police officers injured and more than 6,100 people arrested. So who is really destabilizing France?
Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in the Brazil elections, 47 percent to Lula's 45, after every major poll had Lula ahead. The runoff is October 25. Behind the numbers: a father serving 27 years, a judge who shut down X, a Congress that moved right, and a candidate offering Washington rare earths and a seat in the Shield of the Americas.
The Ethiopia civil war is back. Tigray rebels seized three airports and marched toward the road from Djibouti that feeds the capital, while the UN issued a statement. Who fights whom, why Egypt and Eritrea are accused of backing the rebels, and why Washington's signals favor the government. A guide for readers who never had to look.
Colombia's president sent his vice president to the UN with a definition of globalism that names the problem: nations treated as obstacles to a uniformity decided above them. Milei, Fujimori and Kast spoke in the same key, Trump told the ICC's members to resign, and Petro's old speeches show what changed. UN and globalism, on trial.
The Trump-Xi summit in Washington ended with a two-month extension of the trade truce and nothing else: no deal on Iran, Taiwan, chips or rare earths. Xi wanted an end to arms sales to Taiwan; Trump wanted leverage on Tehran and delivery on old promises. Stability beat escalation, but broken promises earn only a shorter leash.
Trump met Delcy Rodríguez for fifteen minutes in New York and told her elections must come "at the end of the day." Rubio explained the order: debt restructuring, institutions and a durable republic before the vote. Lula calls it lost sovereignty. Chomcho.com looks at the Venezuela transition, the diaspora, Colombia, oil and China.
The BRICS summit in New Delhi ended with a 45-page declaration that never names the United States. Modi rebuked China over critical minerals, Russia won silence about Ukraine, Iran left with its existing payment channels endorsed, not defended, and no common currency appeared. Eleven countries, eleven agendas, one photograph.
Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the legacy media compares Trump's Iran strikes to the post-9/11 forever wars. The numbers say otherwise: 20 dead versus 7,000, 42 billion versus 8 trillion dollars, zero occupation. The 9/11 foreign policy of the uniparty reacted to catastrophe; Trump acts to prevent a nuclear 9/11.
The leftist Chamber of Deputies voted to interpellate Foreign Minister Pérez Mackenna over the Strait of Magellan, the exit from the Non-Aligned Movement, and the friendship with Trump and Milei. Chile foreign policy under Kast answers the political theater with six months of results, borders controlled and inflation tamed.
