Andrés Manuel López Obrador, forerunner in the election race. Photo by Eneas de Troya via commons.wikimedia.org, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Ahead of the Mexican election in July, a leftwing populist is the clear frontrunner amid exasperation with political corruption and snail-paced social reform. The Mexican presidential race was probably over the minute it began. Recent polls consistently put leftist populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador ahead, with a lead of at least 10 points versus the […]
Mexican Presidential Candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his campaign in 2012. Photo by Eneas De Troya via wikimedia.org, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Latin America’s bumper election year got into gear with a centre-left candidate sweeping to the top in Costa Rica. And with a slew of elections set to follow, experts are asking where the continent is headed. A spate of elections will make 2018 decisive for Latin America. As the world marches towards a more conservative […]
July 17, 2019 RT @FAZ_Politik: Seit Monaten fordern Demonstranten einen politischen Umbruch und eine neue Verfassung in #Algerien. Doch das Zeitfenster f…
