☀ Domingo Brief — Euthanasia in Uruguay

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October 19, 2025 • Reading time: 3 minutes

Welcome back to the Domingo Brief! This week, we’re following Bolivia’s run-off election, Mexican green hydrogen, and more.

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Just over a third (36%) of you correctly guessed Nicaragua as the most recent country to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS). The small Central American dictatorship withdrew following OAS condemnation of its 2021 sham election in which President Daniel Ortega was reelected to a fourth term. With the withdrawal process taking two years, Nicaragua officially joined Cuba outside of the Organization in 2023. Venezuela’s status, meanwhile, is disputed following the electoral crisis of 2019.

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🇦🇷 Argentina’s relationship with the United States has gotten slightly more complicated, following comments from US President Donald Trump and members of his administration that the now-$40B proposed bailout and currency swap are conditional upon the victory of Javier Milei’s party in next week’s midterms. While it was already assumed that the Trump administration was more interested in helping an ideological ally than helping Argentina at large, the more explicit delivery of this message may well hurt Milei, as many Argentines have rallied against what’s been seen as yet another case of US interference in a Latin American country’s democratic elections.

🇧🇴 Bolivians head to the polls today for the second-round run-off to their presidential election. Centrist lawmaker Rodrigo Paz, the son of a former president, takes on Jorge Quiroga, a conservative who briefly served as president between 2001 and 2002. While Paz won the first round in an electoral surprise two months ago, Quiroga—long a leading opposition figure and the ‘standard-bearer’ of sorts for the right—has led in most recent polls. Voting tallies will be photographed and counted under the supervision of both the European Union and Organization of American States, following recent voting irregularities such as in late 2019.

Latinometrics: Whoever wins today, this election is expected to mark a monumental shift in Bolivia away from the nearly uninterrupted 19-year rule of the left-wing MAS party, of which incumbent president Luis Arce forms part. With the party’s dominant figure, ex-president Evo Morales, protesting this election due to being ruled ineligible to run, the MAS is transitioning back to an opposition role.

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