Brazil’s Congress rejected a proposal (DW) backed by President Jair Bolsonaro that would alter the country’s electronic voting system ahead of presidential elections next year. Bolsonaro ordered a military parade to take place in the nation’s capital ahead of Congress’s vote.
Colombia: The country’s transitional justice court, which weighs abuses committed during Colombia’s decades-long internal conflict, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) recruited over eighteen thousand children (Al Jazeera) to serve in its ranks over a twenty-year period