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KAREN MENDEZ
The United States intends to use a historic territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo to promote an armed conflict in Latin America, justify military expansion in the region and thus take control of the continent's immense wealth, as confessed by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson.
LUIS BILBAO
It's not lightning in a clear sky. The collapse of the institutions of capital, the decay of the system and the stench of decomposition from its leadership, comes from afar. And in the last two decades it accelerated to a paroxysm. It is not a turn to the extreme right of society that caused the collapse, but the other way around: it is the collapse of capitalist democracy that caused a social spasm and this circumstantial electoral result.
PASCUAL SERRANO
My personal opinion is that Milei will simply be another neoliberal government, nothing out of the ordinary. Their shouts and radicalisms are just the new method, now dominant, of managing to raise illusions of rupture in outraged populations (we will see this in the analysis of the form, later), but without any ideological definition.
XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.
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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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.
Read moreCECILIA VALDEZ
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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