The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...
The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...
Chile has elected its new president. Gabriel Boric Font has received 56% of the votes in the second round, while the other candidate, José Antonio Kast ended with 44%, while 99% of the votes have been counted. Voters participation has increased 8% in comparison to the first election round, reaching with 56% the highest level since mandatory vote was abolished ...
By Tony López* The Condor Plan was conceived to maintain the power of Washington, in those countries of the South American cone and when these criminal policies were fought and popularly repudiated and lost their usefulness, the United States changed strategy and tactics. It is from there, that Washington practices the philosophy of “ do what I say, but not ...
Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, candidate of the Free Party (Partido de Libertad y Refundacion – LIBRE) for the presidential elections of November 28, seems to have achieved a landslide victory. Though official results have not been announced yet, Castro, who calls herself a “democratic socialist”, has a lead of 20% over the next competitor with more than 50% of the ...
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is heading towards elections that will be held on November 21. Some 21 million voters will elect 23 state governors, mayors, and municipal councils. Venezuela is a federal republic. The opposition has been boycotting the elections since 4 years, but this time, oppositional parties have decided to take part. A dialogue is established between government ...
The former President is very busy. He is at the same time on the phone, is directing his assistant and pursuing political debates with activists and even waitresses that enter and leave the restaurant in Mexico City. Maybe this is the reason why José Manuel Zelaya Rosales appears always taller and more energetic than you remember from the last time ...
The Mexican Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo) has convened to the international congress “Political Parties and a New Society” in Mexico City on October 21 – 23. This year was the 25th anniversary of the yearly held congress. Over 200 invited personalities from all over Latin America and selected countries outside the continent participated in the congress. United World International ...
Besieged by popular pressure, in the midst of an internal security crisis, the de facto president of Haiti suspended the constitutional referendum. A massive popular insurgency is growing and the new international intervention is looming. Jovenel Moïse is currently the de facto president of Haiti. On February 7, the five-year term of government stipulated by the Constitution expired. Moïse remained ...
Mexico went to elections on June 6th. The electorate determined the 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower part of the bicameral parliamentary system, 15 governors of federal states and a great number of city councils and mayors. The country is governed by a federal presidential system. The current president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, widely known and cited ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In France, regional elections will take place within a month, but all the eyes are directed on the presidential elections occurring in one year. Already today it seems pretty decided that President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally will make it to the second and decisive round, where they will compete ...
On May 15th and 16th, municipal elections were held in Chile together with the election of the delegates who will be tasked with drafting a new Constitution of the State. The electoral process is the institutional canalization of the October 2019 protests. The results exposed a epochal shift in the country’s history. Who are the winners and who are the ...