News of election 2024

Venezuela opposition claims Machado briefly detained in Caracas protest

09-01-2025 16:44 Venezuela pro-democracy figurehead María Corina Machado emerged from months of hiding to lead a mass protest in Caracas Thursday, before conflicting claims that she was briefly detained by state security agents.

As I see it

Post-electoral Democrat blues

09-11-2024 07:36 If Democrats were wise, they would understand that it was due to their incompetence, combined with highhandedness, that Trump came roaring back.

by James Neilson

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Move over Javi, the Big Boss is back

09-11-2024 06:24 The return of Donald Trump, the undisputed 'top dog' of the new right, will consolidate a global movement that, up until now, appeared to be somewhat disjointed.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

US ELECTION 2024 – ANALYSIS

MAGAlomaniac – no Camelot for Kamala

09-11-2024 06:13 Milei does not seem to care a hoot about Trump being politically incorrect but he should worry more about his being fiscally incorrect.

by Michael Soltys

United States Elections 2024

Shock ‘n awe

09-11-2024 06:07 The question now becomes how Trump will use the clear mandate he has won. The fears are obvious.

by David Smith

Editorial

Trump card, or joker?

09-11-2024 06:06 Milei is entitled to celebrate the convincing Republican win as a supreme booster for a global trend towards the far right but would be rather less accurate if he hailed it as an advance of his libertarian crusade against the deep state.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

Welcome to the New Political Order

09-11-2024 06:01 Trump’s victory and the Brexit referendum in 2016 marked the first significant political manifestations of a change of order. Trump’s impressive comeback this week appears to solidify it further. The next question is where President Javier Milei fits into this puzzle.

by Marcelo J. García

ANALYSIS

Trump rides global wave of anti-incumbency

08-11-2024 00:24 Anti-incumbency fervour has swept not just the United States but other major democracies, battering both the left and the right.

LOCAL REACTION

Macri, Scioli send congratulations to victorious Trump

06-11-2024 12:47 Former president Mauricio Macri and ex-Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli send good wishes to US president-elect Donald Trump.

UNITED STATES

Trump takes early electoral lead as race with Harris takes shape

05-11-2024 23:10 With polls closed in more than two-thirds of states, Trump had taken preliminary leads in Georgia and North Carolina, two key swing states, while vote counting in others was in its early stages.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Harris or Trump: United States decides in knife-edge election

05-11-2024 12:13 More than 82 million people have already taken advantage of early voting to cast their ballots for Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

US election: five key moments in an extraordinary campaign

04-11-2024 00:33 Courts, bullets and verbal stumbles have made their mark on this year's US election campaign – one of the most extraordinary in the nation's history.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Rumours, lies and disinformation: ‘A lot of crazy’ in US election

03-11-2024 09:09 Elon Musk, Donald Trump helping amplify falsehoods about integrity of US election; Foreign actors also blamed by officials in Washington for sowing chaos.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Why Trump is already victorious

31-10-2024 21:54 Virtually everything talked about has been from Trump’s agenda… on one level, he’s already victorious.

by David Smith

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Harris brands Trump a ‘fascist’ ahead as US election nears

25-10-2024 01:21 Vice-president tells undecided voters that Donald Trump is unfit to serve a second term as POTUS, describing her opponent as a “fascist”; Republican hits back as campaign nears final stretch.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Adorni: Relations with US do not depend on who wins election

19-09-2024 16:53 Milei administration takes foreign policy precautions as Adorni is quizzed over Milei’s support for Trump.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Trump rules out another round with Harris after debate loss

12-09-2024 17:48 Former president says will not participate in another televised debate with his Democratic rival ahead of November's presidential election; Snap polls give victory to US Vice-President Harris.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Harris and Trump meet in high-stakes US presidential debate

10-09-2024 22:46 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met Tuesday for their first – and possibly only – televised debate, a potential game-changer in a presidential race that has already cast the United States into upheaval.

ANALYSIS – US ELECTION 2024

The joy ride

05-09-2024 21:00 Will this US election be one of vibes, energy, passion, joy, or can policy fights erupt come debate time, and so have this historic campaign turn yet again?

by David Smith

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Harris, Trump gear up for crunch US presidential debate

05-09-2024 15:46 White House hopeful Kamala Harris travels reportedly planning to spend five days preparing for next week's presidential debate against Donald Trump.

VENEZUELA IN CRISIS

Venezuela high court confirms Maduro's re-election after fraud claims

22-08-2024 14:06 Venezuela's Supreme Court, loyal to the government, declares Nicolás Maduro has won re-election despite widespread claims of voting fraud.

PROTESTS IN BUENOS AIRES

Thousands of exiled Venezuelans demonstrate in Buenos Aires against Maduro

18-08-2024 09:10 Rallies at 13 cities across Argentina as Venezuelans heed call from opposition María Coriina Machado to stage mass gatherings to intensify pressure on Nicolás Maduro after his disputed election win.

UNITED STATES

Bullet and the ballot box: violent US rhetoric comes 'home to roost'

14-07-2024 10:12 Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally Saturday in a chaotic and shocking incident set to supercharge political tensions ahead of the US presidential election.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Bloodied Donald Trump survives assassination attempt

14-07-2024 10:04 Donald Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at a political rally Saturday, leaving the FBI hunting for information about how a gunman could attack a former US president.

SHOCK IN UNITED STATES

Milei blames 'international left' for 'cowardly' Trump assassination attempt

14-07-2024 09:35 Argentina's President Javier Milei blames "international left" for assassination attempt Saturday targeting former former US president Donald Trump.

UK ELECTION 2024

Labour hoping for historic win as UK voters go to the polls

04-07-2024 14:49 Polls show centre-left Labour party set for its first general election win since 2005 – making Keir Starmer the party's first prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010.

UK ELECTION 2024

Keir Starmer: Britain's next prime minister

04-07-2024 14:38 Keir Starmer, named after Labour's founding father, is the centre-left opposition party's most working-class leader in decades, despite his knighthood.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Paul Singer is pitching Wall Street's own brand of MAGA

25-06-2024 12:06 Over the past decade, business figures led by hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer have poured nearly US$200 million into a New York think tank that’s now projecting its own vision for Trump’s America.

LATIN AMERICA

Sheinbaum's Mexico election win bolsters Latin American left

06-06-2024 11:31 Claudia Sheinbaum's victory means that both Brazil and Mexico – Latin America's two biggest nations in terms of population and economic output – remain firmly on the left side of the political spectrum.

venezuelan election 2024

Banned Venezuela opposition leader Machado insists she is 'Plan A'

19-04-2024 12:32 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she will keep on campaigning and insists she is a 'Plan A,' despite authorities banning her from participating in the upcoming election.

US ELECTIONS 2024

Trump, Biden clinch enough delegates for US presidential nomination

13-03-2024 11:58 Results in four statewide elections, the latest in the months-long march to determine Democratic and Republican candidates, ensure that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have enough delegates to clinch their party nominations and set up a rematch later this year.