By Ambra Visentin
The next US presidential election will be a battle between Republicans. According to polls, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is currently the most promising Republican candidate, along with former President Donald Trump. However, the gap between the two...
By Dan Collyns* – Global development
This article appeared on our partner Other-News on May 9th, 2023
The wind sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean buffets makeshift tents made of blankets and scraps of fabric, as sheltering migrants peer out, squinting...
by Ambra Visentin
Known as 'mutual death', it is the mechanism provided for in the Ecuadorian constitution that allows the president to dissolve parliament if he believes it is affecting his ability to govern. The measure stipulates that new...
By Maurizio Sacchi
Former Brazilian Head of State Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) was elected on 24 March as the new President of the NBD (New Development Bank), the economic body of the so-called BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
by Gianni Beretta
While the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis' pontificate is being celebrated in Rome, in Nicaragua the events of recent days have precipitated relations between the country on the Central American isthmus and the Vatican, which had already...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Peru's chief prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet for the violent clashes in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured since the beginning...
Clashes in the province of Chincheros, Apurímac, between members of the community and the national police resulted in the death of a second person. This brings the number of dead in Apurímac to four,' writes El Comercio, 'and there...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Brazil's newly appointed Economy Minister Paulo Guedes predicted on November 22nd that the country's gross debt will fall to 74.3 per cent of GDP in 2022, the lowest level since 2018 (75.3 per cent). At a press...
With the first partial results of the midterm elections in the United States, the feared Republican wave seems not to have come true. While the Republicans won the House (although not by the large margin they had hoped), the...
By Maurizio Sacchi
Brazil held its breath for 48 hours of silence. Then, Jair Bolsonaro admitted his defeat and recognised the legitimacy of Lula Inacio da Silva's claim, two days after the election results were announced. Now begins the transition...
