Businessman Daniel Noboa This Sunday he became the youngest elected president in the history of Ecuador and at 35 years old he will lead the Andean country for about 15 months, from next December to May 2025, when the mandate of conservative Guillermo Lasso was due to end. The electronic voting record indicated that Noboa […]
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Businessman Daniel Noboa, in the lead in the runoff for the presidency in Ecuador
Businessman Daniel Noboa advances at the head of the runoff in Ecuador, with more than 60% of the preliminary count. The electronic voting record indicated that Noboa had a lead of 52.42% in front of 47.58% of the leftist lawyer Luisa González, with the 62.98% of the minutes counted. If the trend continues, Noboa would […]
Ecuador elects president in close runoff under drug violence
Ecuador began voting this Sunday to elect its first female president or the youngest president in history in a runoff that is expected to be close and tense after the murder of a candidate in the midst of the drug onslaught. The day started calmly and will last until 5:00 pm to choose under mandatory […]
Argentine election attracts risk investors to bet on long term
The presidential race of Argentina is prompting some risk-taking investors to place bets despite the slim chance that a new government will manage to lift the second-largest economy out of South America of its deep crisis. While most traders wait to make decisions, anxious about the election and unsure about the candidate who won the […]
Javier Milei, the caustic-tongued economist who aspires to be Argentina’s leader
To the Pope Francisco He called him a demon incarnated on Earth. To the economists and journalists from “donkeys” and “mogolics”. And the socialist leaders, an ideology for which he feels a special aversion, of course “human excrement”. If there is one thing that characterizes Javier Milei, the best positioned candidate for the Argentine presidential […]
Political doubts hit Argentine markets weeks before elections
Public and private securities Argentina fell on Wednesday affected by the growing uncertainty about the political and economic future of the country in the face of the next elections to president that will be held in October. An even result in the primary elections held in August deepens short-term doubts in a recessionary stage, with […]
Milei’s dollarization, a waste of time for Argentina?
Argentina debate the dollarization of its economy after decades of failure to tame the inflationabove three digits in 2023, given the proposal of the far-right candidate Javier Mileiwell placed to achieve the Presidency, which permeates a society tired of the loss of its purchasing power. For experts it is a waste of time. “It is […]
“We live day to day”: Argentina registers its highest monthly inflation in three decades
The Argentine inflation closed August at 12.4%, the highest since 1991, as people juggle to make ends meet. The national statistics institute Indec reported this Wednesday the data of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which accumulates 124.4% in 12 months and 80.2% so far this year. It is among the highest in the world. Monthly […]
A female president? Two Mexican women are torn between hope and skepticism
A female president in Mexico for the first time? A plumber and a carpenter are torn between hope and skepticism after the appointment of Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez as female candidates of the ruling party and the opposition. Berenice, 32, and Victoria, 30, do not know each other but they have a lot in […]
Despite loving the dollar, Argentina is tormented by divorcing the peso
María Barro, a 65-year-old domestic worker in Buenos Airesbuys a few dollars each month with his salary in pesos to protect himself from Argentina’s persistent inflation, which exceeds 100% per year, and the constant devaluation of the local currency. The peso is now in the crosshairs of the polling-favorite presidential candidate, libertarian Javier Milei, who […]