CECILIA VALDEZ Ecuador elects today, in the second electoral round, a new president between the Correista candidate, Luisa González, and the businessman Daniel Noboa. The call for early elections occurred on May 18, when Guillermo Lasso, the current president, decided to dissolve the National Assembly using a constitutional mechanism called “crossed death,” to avoid his impeachment. Although González, the Citizen Revolution (RC) candidate, was emerging as the favorite heading into the first round, the latest polls indicate a slight increase in her voting intention that would not be enough to surpass Noboa.

JAVIER GARCIA As a European, in recent months I have repeatedly felt indignation and shame at the behavior of Europe and its leaders. The servile attitude towards the US designs in Ukraine - against its own interests -, the cancellation of Russian culture, the position towards China, the calls to restrict asylum to refugees, the rise of the extreme right, the imposition of the single discourse and the censorship of any different opinion were devastating symptoms. But the position of the European Union (EU) in the face of the enormous tragedy that it is suffering and will suffer even more, if no one remedies it, the Palestinian people has exceeded all limits of what is imaginable.

EUGENIO GARCÍA GASCON Many wonder what exactly Israel is after in this war and how far it is willing to go. There may be no single definitive answer, and Benjamin Netanyahu may seek several things at the same time, including the expulsion of a considerable part of the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip, which until now numbered 2,3 million. . The confusion is general and does not exclude the Hebrew media, where these days everything has been read when it comes to interpreting Netanyahu's threat to change today's Middle East for a different one, a threat he launched on the second day of the war, that is, October 8, without being more explicit, although other politicians around him have reiterated it in the same vague terms.