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June 3, 2022
Colombia Holds Elections
Last Sunday, Colombians went to the polls to participate in parliamentary and presidential primary elections. Gustavo Petro won the leftwing Pacto Histórico primary with 4.4 million votes, the most in Colombian primary history.
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March 18, 2022
Hemisphere Weekly: Special Election Edition
This November, voters in five countries across Latin America head to the polls. In Chile, Argentina, and Honduras, the electorate will have an opportunity to choose from an array of candidates from different ideological backgrounds. In Nicaragua and Venezuela, free and fair elections are far from guaranteed.
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November 5, 2021
The long and winding road to Colombia’s presidency
There are over sixty—that’s right, 60—candidates competing to become Colombia’s president for the period from 2022 to 2026. Clearly not all of them are going to make it to the final ballot.
Sergio Guzman
October 15, 2021
The Chilean center-left in times of change
On August 21, Yasna Provoste won her country’s center-left primaries. But while Provoste has managed to dominate the Unidad Constituyente (UC) primaries, her prospects in the general election are less promising.
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August 31, 2021
Patricio Navia
June 28, 2021
Duque is a lame duck
A year of lockdowns, high unemployment, and rising poverty rates has provoked social discontent in Colombia. The current wave of protests—while originally triggered by the government’s poorly conceived, strategized, and communicated tax reform proposal—have been further inflamed by police brutality, a tone-deaf government response, and a vacuum of political leadership.
Sergio Guzman
May 5, 2021
Los expresidentes de América Latina tienen demasiado poder
El domingo, los votantes eligieron a Guillermo Lasso como presidente de Ecuador por encima de Andrés Arauz, un populista de izquierda. Algunos analistas están denunciando el fin del progresismo, pero lo que realmente estamos viendo es un retroceso bienvenido para una extraña forma de política de hombres fuertes: el fenómeno de los expresidentes que buscan extender su control e influencia eligiendo y respaldando a sus protegidos en las elecciones nacionales.
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April 23, 2021
Henry Bacha
April 16, 2021
Henry Bacha
April 16, 2021