EUGENIO GARCÍA GASCÓN The social and political situation that has prevailed in Israel since the beginning of the year is unusual. Although street protests have multiplied since January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on legislating a far-reaching judicial reform that will decisively disrupt the powers of the Supreme Court and that will basically suppress its influence and veto power over the decisions adopted by the government and the Parlament.

PASCUAL SERRANO One of the characteristics of socialist governments has been the obscurantism of information. For this reason, one of the challenges that Cuban legislators faced was to break that tradition, that way of operating. The law had to make it clear that citizens had the right to information, and that journalists should not find obstacles in the institutions to access it.

JUAN MIGUEL MUÑOZ São Paulo The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil adopted on the last day of June a decision that is going to bring a tail. In a vote of its seven members, five of them decided to disqualify former president Jair Bolsonaro, who will not be able to stand in any election until 2030. The magistrates described it as an abuse of power – also due to the use of public resources and public television -- the performance of the leader of the extreme right in a meeting he held on July 18 with dozens of diplomats accredited in Brasilia.