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Chile: The far right, District 11 and the romanticisation of October

A couple of days before the parliamentary election, La Tercera published a bigdata analysis ranking each of the 155 current parliamentarians into left, centre and right, according to all their votes in the last four years. According to this ranking,…

Spain’s right wing goes to mass in memory of Franco – coincidentally?

The media and networks in Spain are hyperventilating because Pablo Casado, president of the Spanish Popular Party, has attended a mass with his family in Granada, held in memory of Francisco Franco, the dictator. To objectify it visually, which helps…

Chilean elections: Did the people really win?

Those who went to vote on Sunday did so in the conviction that they would have to return to the polls to decide between the two candidates with the highest number of votes. The polls, and not the popular demonstrations,…

Chile: As the crow flies

In this brief analysis I will refer to the results of the presidential election, which produced several surprises, the biggest of which was the emergence of Parisi in third place despite his absence from the country. Having campaigned virtually, not…

Face 2 Face with Tomás Hirsch

LIVE SHOW on Thursday, November 25th at 8 AM EST On this show, we speak with Tomás Hirsch, Member of Parliament in Chile for Acción Humanista since Nov 2017, who won the just held elections. We discuss beside the campaign,…

Elections in Honduras: The challenge of ending twelve years of neoliberalism

Honduras is at the most important crossroads of its recent history. On November 28, more than 5 million Hondurans will be asked to elect the President of the Republic, 128 deputies to the National Congress, 20 to the Central American…

Why US Pressure on Ukraine and Taiwan Is Driving China and Russia Closer Together

The “feel-good” from Tuesday’s  virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping leaps out of the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June. Biden’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a “stable and predictable” relationship…

Ballot in Chile between Kast and Boric

“Nobody gives up here!”, said one of the militants of the Apruebo Dignidad parties, while listening to their candidate Gabriel Boric raise the hope of winning the government of Chile in the second round of elections, which will take place…

Chileans vote en masse from abroad

We publish here this report by journalist Claudia Aranda, regarding the influx of Chileans to the Consulate in the city of Montreal, Canada, where many people went to vote today, while the polling stations and polling stations in the country…

Five reasons the left won in Venezuela

For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471…

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