The Mexican opposition, which in recent years has continued to lose political weight and was without a clear head, is back and its face is that of Xochitl Galvez. “Today there is opposition”affirmed the 60-year-old engineer and senator when staging that return on Sunday, when she received the certificate as presidential candidate of the great […]
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Dollarizing, Milei’s controversial miracle cure for Argentina
Overwhelmed by the umpteenth inflationary crisis, many Argentines are tempted to try the extreme and unexplored formula of the ultra-liberal presidential candidate javier milei to solve their economic problems: abandon the weight and adopt the dollar. In a country with more than 100% annual inflation that destroys the purchasing power of wages, the dollar is […]
I vote for Milei: rich and poor, young and old fed up with politics
What do a butcher, a bicycle delivery man, a medical student from a wealthy family, and a young man born in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires? The fed up And I support him Javier Miley. The eccentric far-right economist, who promises to turn Argentina around with dollarization, a strong hand against crime […]
Who are Trump’s future Georgia benchmates?
Former US President donald trump (2017-2021) is accused in Georgia as the leader of a criminal association created to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in that state and this Thursday he travels to that state to be booked on the charges against him. The Prosecutor’s Office used to accuse him a law that […]
Arévalo, the president who promises to eliminate corruption in Guatemala
In 1954, a military coup overthrew the then president of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz truncating the “democratic spring”, one of the most flourishing periods of the Central American country. The maneuver, supported by the CIA, forced his predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, to go into exile in Uruguay along with his family. Even before he was born, […]
Five keys to understanding the second electoral round in Guatemala
Guatemala will carry out this Sunday the second round of its electoral process to decide who will be its next president, the former first lady Sandra Torres Casanova or the academic Bernardo Arévalo de León. Here are five keys to fully understand the controversial electoral process in Guatemala and its different protagonists. The surprise candidate: […]
Ecuador: next president will have to face security crisis
Until a few years ago Ecuador It was considered by its inhabitants a country of peace. Now Ecuadorians have a shared slogan for the president who wins the elections next sunday: security. Delinquency and organized crime have turned the territory of the Andean country into a space without tranquility in the last three years, with […]
The ten keys to the Ecuadorian elections
Ecuador will hold its extraordinary presidential and legislative elections this Sunday, immersed in a deep and complex security crisis that had one of its most tragic episodes with the recent assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians are summoned to the polls to elect the new members of the Presidency, […]
Yaku Pérez, the “ecosocial” indigenous man who wants his revenge in the Ecuadorian elections
Yaku Pérez, the indigenous politician of the Kichwa Kañari people who two years ago disrupted the presidential elections in Ecuador By staying at the gates of the second round, he seeks revenge with his proposal “ecosocial”which he presents as an alternative to the right and the correísmo. At the age of 54, Yaku Pérez (Cachipucara, […]
Keys to understanding the Milei phenomenon in Argentina
Javier Milei, the libertarian who burst onto the Argentine political scene as the most voted presidential candidate (30.04%) in the primaries, he is an ultra-liberal anti-establishment who capitalized on the frustration of some seven million voters and shocked the traditional parties for the October elections. These are some keys to know it: the provocateur Nicknamed […]