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Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in Panama after a ~7.7 magnitude earthquake, with tsunami alerts being issued for several countries on the southern Pacific coast

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake has struck Panama

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues tsunami alert for Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake just struck Panama, 9 miles southwest of Pitaloza Arriba

Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 17 km S of Nandaime, Nicaragua

Unionized IMSS workers protest in front of the Secretariat of Government in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 18 km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua

Thousands of students occupy the center of Rio de Janeiro in a protest against Flávio Bolsonaro and in favor of the continuity of the Lula da Silva government in Brazil

Venezuela's Cardón Oil Refinery, the country's second-largest, exploded and caught fire today. The facility has reportedly halted operations, per Reuters

Brazil's presidential election is headed to a runoff on October 25. Flávio Bolsonaro (son of jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro) led the first round with 47% versus incumbent Lula's 45%, a roughly 2.2 million vote gap that beat most polling projections. Bolsonaro's PL party also won the largest congressional bloc. In São Paulo, Bolsonaro ally Tarcísio de Freitas was reelected governor with about 63%

SOUTHCOM: On October 4, under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in

Brazil's presidential election is heading to a runoff after a surprise first-round victory for right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro who will face leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after neither secured more than 50% of the vote, the threshold required to win outright

Brazil election heads for run-off as Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round over President Lula

Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro make final appeals to voters as Brazil chooses its next president; a runoff is likely if no candidate wins over 50% of valid votes

Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 26 km SSW of Güiria, Venezuela

Argentina's President Javier Milei has given the UK two weeks to halt the Sea Lion oil project near the Falkland Islands or face international legal action. Milei accused Britain of the "illegal plundering" of Argentine resources and said the dispute could be taken to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

President of the Republic of Colombia: In Cúcuta, we seized 1,120 kilos of cocaine and a laboratory from the ELN. In the last 24 hours, the Public Force destroyed eight other laboratories and made 19 arrests

President of the Republic of Colombia: My order has been clear: combat without respite the illegal mining. In the Río Viejo sector, along the Nechí River, in El Bagre (Antioquia), the National Police, the Army, and the Navy carried out Operation Achilles. They rendered inoperative 3 Brazilian draglines, 2 excavators, 4 diver-type dredges, and 13 industrial engines used to extract gold illicitly. In that mine, approximately 26.5 kilos of gold were extracted per month, valued at $11.130 million in the informal market. The Uldar Cardona Rueda substructure of the Clan del Golfo charged extortion equivalent to 15% of that production: around $1.669 million monthly

Claudia Macero, María Corina's spokesperson, returns to Venezuela after two years of forced exile: "It's time to return home"

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 19 km SW of Sipí, Colombia

Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 11 km W of Guaymate, Dominican Republic

Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 - 8 km SE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 25 km W of Roncesvalles, Colombia

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella led an operation against micro-drug trafficking in Cali and participated in the arrest of a suspected criminal during the raids. At the time of the arrest, he said to him: "Welcome to the Fatherland, Miracle"

Opponents protested in Plaza Venezuela to demand the return of María Corina Machado and free presidential elections

Colombia's Vice President, José Manuel Restrepo, questions before the UN General Assembly whether this organization is responding to the problems for which it was created with "the effectiveness required by the current world"

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 21 km NNW of Rioblanco, Colombia

Venezuela: protesters are rallying in the capital Caracas, demanding for Maria Corina Machado to be allowed to return to the country

Trump on Mexico: It's unacceptable for the United States to share a 2,000-mile border with a territory controlled by cartels. So, Mexico must reclaim control of its soil from the enemies of humanity

Trump: Cuba is a failed state, and freedom will come to it