Paola Pabón Caranqui recently made official her pre-candidacy for the presidency of Ecuador for the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC), with a view to the elections scheduled for next year. She did so because she is convinced that this revolution must be a female one. Santiago Masetti The prefect […]
Latin America
The pulse between the left and the right in Peru
In Peru, 43 organisations have registered to compete in the upcoming elections. Twenty-nine of them have registered in the Registry of Political Organisations (ROP) and 14 have pending complementary procedures. Others have announced that they will seek alliances. The deadline was 12 July and the Jurado National Electoral Board […]
Bolsonaro, his freedom hangs in the balance
With a pile of evidence collated, the Federal Police (FP) has accused the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in an investigation into an alleged network illegally trading the jewellery given by foreign authorities during his time in government (2019-2022). He could go to prison. Osvaldo Cardosa In […]
When the press is no guardian of democracy
Media observatories and analysts will be able to record in their studies that the coming to power of Colombia’s first leftist president and the private concentration of ownership of media companies ended up leading the media and several of its most renowned journalists to an undeniable crisis of social legitimacy […]
Bolivia: foreign hands in coup plot
After the failed military attempt on 26 June and the intention of the traditional right and radical sectors of the left to position the narrative of a “self-coup”, a new threat emerged last week from Washington. “We continue to monitor the situation in Bolivia. We understand and note the […]