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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.
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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DAVID SOLER CRESPO
Nairobi
Now, Africa is more important than ever. While in the Caribbean countries like Barbados have taken the step of becoming a republic in 2021 and after the death of Elizabeth II others like Jamaica or Australia are considering doing the same and even leaving the organization, on the African continent the opposite is true.
It is no longer just the former British colonies that want to join, but also other French-speaking countries that are turning to this association, tired of their relations with their former colonial power.
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XULIO RIOS
The Australian Prime Minister visits China to seal the normalization of relations between Canberra and Beijing, launched in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, in 2022. Anthony Albanese will be the first Australian head of government to visit China in the last seven years.
EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
So far, Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Yitzhak Brick on two occasions. Until now, Brick was an obscure reserve general already in years, in November he will turn 76, who has suddenly become perhaps the most media personality in Israel, for whom everyone is fighting to interview him. The prime minister's detractors, who are legion, claim that Netanyahu is afraid of entering Gaza and is using Brick to protect himself from those who reproach him for three weeks later having still not sent his ground army to the Gaza Strip.
SAREE MAKDISI
What we are witnessing before our eyes is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of colonial warfare. In no case that I know of has ethnic cleansing been carried out through the use of massive artillery and intense bombing with ultra-modern weapons systems, including the one-ton bombs (and even heavier bunker-busting munitions) used by the Israelis who They fly the latest American jets.
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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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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RICARD GONZALEZ
warsaw
Never before have elections in Poland been followed with so much interest beyond its borders, especially in Brussels, kyiv and Moscow. Two very different, if not antithetical, projects faced each other at the polls, both in foreign and domestic policy. The opposition's victory was received with relief and satisfaction both in the heart of the European Union and in Ukraine, although instead of a solution to its underlying problems, the result represents rather a lifeline of perhaps several months.
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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