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CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise caused by Milei's emergence speaks, without going any further, of tired silent majorities and a profound indifference with a politics that does not challenge them, something that the sociologist Leandro Barttolotta has been mentioning in his studies for some time and that, In his own words, it requires in-depth investigation rather than quick diagnoses.
EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With less than a year left until the November 2024 US elections, President Joe Biden insists on maintaining his unconditional support for Israel in Israel's war against the entire Gaza Strip, and not just against Hamas, an attitude which could cost the Democratic Party a good handful of votes, especially among young people.
An important sector of Biden voters, and not only young people, view with disgust the images that television broadcasts daily with Palestinian women and children injured or killed by the bombs that the United States sends to Israel through an airlift that works with the accuracy of a Swiss watch twenty-four hours a day.
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XULIO RIOS
A Biden-Xi summit taking advantage of the APEC framework can help to somewhat put the antagonism on track, but not dilute it. And less than a year before the next elections in the United States, when it is foreseeable that hawks from all possible sides will turn China into the favorite target of all imaginable diatribes. Both Democrats and Republicans agree on that. Get ready.
Undoubtedly, dialogue is always advisable. Essential to minimally stabilize their ties, something essential in view of the importance of their ties and the global significance of their differences. Another thing is that it contributes to rebuilding a certain level of mutual trust if it is not accompanied by concrete measures to mitigate conflicts.
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PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."
Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."
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José Manuel Martín Medem is a veteran Spanish journalist specialized in Latin American information. He was a correspondent for RTVE in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba for a decade and is now a member of its Board of Directors. In 1982, he was awarded the National Human Rights Journalism Award.
CECILIA VALDEZ
The journalist Juan Luis González has been investigating Milei and, through his figure, the so-called new Argentine right, since 2021. Milei represents and encompasses a phenomenon that came to kick the Argentine political board and question many of its most basic precepts regarding the consensus of democracy.
In a scenario of deep discontent due to a serious economic crisis that only deepens, the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist presents himself as new and different, in relation to what he himself calls the “caste”, in reference to traditional politicians. and its privileges, but, as González's research demonstrates, it is neither new nor different.
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Almost 10 years ago, journalist and political analyst Diego Genoud decided to dedicate hours of his life to investigating and trying to elucidate Sergio Massa, the ruling party's candidate for president in the elections this Sunday, October 22. The result of that work was titled: “Massa, the unauthorized biography” (2015), but as he himself says: “Massa seduces”, and Genoud allowed himself to be tempted again by the figure of the now presidential candidate, and this year he published a second biography: “The careerist of power. The non-advertising story of Sergio Massa” (2023).
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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 candidate of Revolución Ciudadana (RC), was emerging as the favorite for the first round, the latest polls indicate a slight increase in her voting intention that would not be enough to surpass Noboa.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE
What are we doing to train the doctors and scientists needed to find our way in the XNUMXst century? What are we doing to bring the dispossessed into the economy, to address drug addiction and the rest of our social ills? What are we doing (I mean seriously) to repair and build the infrastructure we need?
The Chinese challenge could and should be understood as an opportunity to reinvent the US through a Great Mobilization on the magnitude of the New Deal. Of course, this idea is nothing more than hot air. Instead, we are sacrificing this historic opportunity in favor of military-industrial development.
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XULIO RIOS
The Belt and Road Initiative (IFR) celebrates its first decade of implementation in 2023. The time elapsed supports it as a long-term project. Two attitudes have marked the global reaction to it. On the one hand, developing countries have celebrated being able to have an alternative proposal that focuses on their most pressing needs, especially in terms of infrastructure.
China's plan provides specific support in areas poorly served by traditional available financing, filling a gap of singular importance. On the other hand, developed countries have evolved from initial ambiguity and reservation to a certain competitive hostility.
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EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On other occasions in history, tyrants have violently put an end to democracy, supported by a more or less considerable part of the people. But now the common people support the tyrants from the ballot box. The people seem tired of traditional democracy and lean towards tyranny. The fatigue may come from living in extraordinarily complex societies that are not easy to manage, so that people prefer the simplifications that tyranny promises over the increasing complexity of democracy. The result is booming “majority democracies”—a euphemism for tyranny.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
The more inner work you do and the more awareness you bring to your own internal processes, the more you understand the extent to which human consciousness is dominated by mental narrative. And the more you understand the extent to which it is dominated, the more aware you become of how much power someone could gain over other people by controlling those narratives.
After a while, you start to understand that no one sees reality as it is. Not even you. What we are perceiving are a bunch of mental stories that we have formed about the world, based on information that we have absorbed through prescriptive filters greatly distorted by our conditioning, prejudices and cognitive habits.
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