Michael Rios

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CNN  —  Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia requested asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, the same day she and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, were sentenced to 15 years in prison on money laundering charges. The embassy informed Peru that Heredia had arrived Tuesday morning, according to a statement from the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. It’s unclear if she entered the facility before or after the sentence was announced by the Peruvian Judiciary.

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Ecuadorian President Noboa, right, takes part in an interview with CNN. CNN CNN  —  Ecuador has talked to the United States about receiving support in its battle against criminal gangs, President Daniel Noboa said in an exclusive interview with CNN, his first since winning Sunday’s presidential election. “There are plans … we had conversations, we had a plan, we had options that we would like to follow.

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Ecuador Presidential candidates Daniel Noboa and Luisa González. Getty Images CNN  —  Voters in Ecuador are casting their ballots in a presidential runoff election between conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González – a race overshadowed by drug-fueled violence that has consumed the once-peaceful South American country. Voters who spoke to CNN on Sunday overwhelmingly said that security was their main concern.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 24. Maxim Shemetov/Reuters/File CNN  —  Iran’s president has fired one of his deputies for taking what he described as a “lavish” recreational trip to Antarctica. President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the removal of Shahram Dabiri from his position as vice president of parliamentary affairs in a decree on Saturday, describing the trip as both extravagant and indefensible.

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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias talks during an interview with Reuters, after he said the US revoked his visa. Mayela Lopez/Reuters CNN  —  Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias says he has had his visa to enter the United States revoked. Arias, 84, said he doesn’t know why his visa was canceled but accepts that the US has the right to make such a decision.