Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected to Mexico’s presidency in 2018 as the candidate of MORENA (Movement of the National Regeneration), a political party he had founded just 7 years ago. Since the elections MORENA has established itself as the major political force in the country’s political life and succeeded in maintaining its majority in the legislation in midterm elections, ...
By Ana Dagorret / Rio da Janeiro* The October presidential elections in Brazil are one of the most important political events of 2022 in Latin America. What seems to be a traditional dispute between candidates in a representative democracy to determine the next president, in the country governed by Jair Bolsonaro is presented as a tense scenario where democratic continuity ...
The Transitional Prime Minister of Mali Choguel Kokalla Maïga gave recently an interview to the Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansı. Below we present the interview as published by Anadolu Ajansı, subheadings were set by United World International. Interviewed by the Anadolu Agency (AA), the Transitional Prime Minister of Mali Choguel Kokalla Maïga answered a series of questions on the security ...
As the struggle over Ukraine between Russia and the United States continues, we turn our attention to some of the most relevant historical factors influencing the current crisis. An extraordinary exigency: crisis in Ukraine It is impossible to explain what is happening in the world solely through the lens of military strategy, sociology or political science. A new multipolar world ...
Last week, the public agenda in Turkey was busy with three main topics. First was the visit of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Ukraine, at a time when the country is at the brink of a war. Second was an interesting survey, conducted by the Metropoll survey company, regarding the tendencies of Turkish public in foreign policy. Third ...
The Presidents of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin and the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping made a joint statement following their meeing in Beijing on February 4, 2022. The Russian-Chinese joint statement covers a wide area from security to development, from global governance to internet regulation. Below, we present the text as published by the Russian Presidency. Chapter numbers ...
In mid-2018, during Mauricio Macri’s three years in power (2015-2019), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a historical loan for Argentina for 57 billion US dollars (USD), of which some 44 thousand were disbursed. The Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, has reported that at present: “Argentina owes around 44.5 billion dollars to the IMF.” The government of the Frente de ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein* It is almost natural that countries (especially the powers that have more facilities to do so), want to solve their internal problems by unleashing conflicts abroad. For that, attacks on its national security are adduced, false nationalisms are exploited and Manichean calls are made for national unity in defense of the threatened sovereignty and integrity. Who ...
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games have started today in the People’s Republic of China’s capital city. Despite a so-called diplomaic boycott announced by the US and Britain, several world leaders are either participating in the opening ceremony personally or sending greetings messages. In Turkey, Chinese authorities asked Vatan Party Chairman D. Doğu Perinçek to convey a message to the ...
By Oscar Rotundo / Buenos Aires Forty years after the battle for sovereignty in Malvinas and in view of the global offensive of the British colonial policy from the South Atlantic to Ukraine, we interviewed Carlos Raimundi, Argentine representative to the OAS on the current situation of the conflict. The Argentine diplomat classified Britain’s Malvinas policy as “colonialist”, stated that ...