News of right wing

Left-wing LatAm governments agree joint inflation plan

06-04-2023 16:01 New ‘Alianza de Países de América Latina y el Caribe contra la Inflación’ scheme will see 11 leftist nations adopt common strategies to tackle price hikes.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Eduardo Porter: Why Wall Street should like Latin America’s left

08-02-2023 09:22 The Latin American left does a better job than the right delivering on one of Wall Street’s favourite metrics: stock market returns.

Turmoil in Brazil

Poll: Nearly one in five Brazilians back rioters

12-01-2023 14:55 New survey reveals that 18.4% of Brazilians approve of last Sunday's capital rampage carried out by a diverse group of rioters united in their hatred of "communism." But who exactly are the rioters and what do they want?

BRAZIL ELECTION 2022

Election showed Brazil's far-right was sold short, say analysts

06-10-2022 01:20 Jair Bolsonaro was not the only one to have a surprisingly strong night in Brazil's elections: the far-right incumbent's allies also outperformed expectations in key congressional and governor's races.

EUROPEAN POLITICS

Italy takes step into unknown with far-right win

26-09-2022 09:54 Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, whose party came top in Italy's general elections, said Monday she would seek to lead the next government and would work for all Italians.

PRO-CFK MARCH

‘We need to stand against this’ – huge crowds flood Plaza de Mayo to ‘defend democracy’

02-09-2022 18:26 Crowds gather in front of the presidential palace a day after a failed attack on the life of Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Peronists and those more skeptical of the government were united in condemnation of political violence.

by Isobel McGrigor

Chile New Constitution

Chile to vote on overhauling dictatorship-era constitution

02-09-2022 09:30 Chileans will vote on their country’s future Sunday, for the third time in two years, choosing whether to replace Pinochet-era constitution with new one with aims to enact social change.

Brazil Elections 2022

Lula keeps big lead over Bolsonaro in new Brazil presidential poll

19-08-2022 15:59 Leftist presidential contender, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is shown to be in the lead for Brazil’s presidential election in new poll. Former President Lula will go toe-to-toe with right-wing current leader, Jair Bolsonaro, in October.

Brazil Elections

Brazil's Bolsonaro gets in spat with heckler

19-08-2022 15:49 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got into an altercation Thursday with a social media personality who questioned and insulted him, grabbing the man by the shirt and arm after he called the leader a "bum."

PROTESTS & MARCHES

Protesters at duelling marches bemoan rising inflation

19-08-2022 14:13 Pro- and anti-government demonstrators take to streets in the capital, demanding greater assistance – be it wage improvements or food aid – as price increases surge.

BRAZIL ELECTION 2022

Brazilian pro-gun protesters march 'for freedom' in capital

11-07-2022 16:37 Pro-arms demonstrators took to the streets of Brasilia to demand easier access to guns. Jair Bolsonaro, who is campaigning for reelection, has already loosened regulations.

Chile's New Constitution

Chile President Boric receives draft constitution

04-07-2022 13:22 Chile's constitutional convention on Monday handed its proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric ahead of a planned September referendum on adopting the text.

New era in Colombia

Petro meets his arch-enemy Uribe as Colombia outreach continues

29-06-2022 22:44 Colombia's newly elected leftist leader meets with the nation’s most powerful leader in recent history, Álvaro Uribe.

NEW ERA IN COLOMBIA

Colombian president's challenges: military, rebels, congress and markets

23-06-2022 00:16 Gustavo Petro, who beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernández in last Sunday’s run-off by 50% of the votes against 47%, will take office on August 7.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombia election signals return of Latin America's left

22-06-2022 13:12 After the election of leftist leaders in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and now Colombia – and with Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seemingly on track to return to office – a new political wave is sweeping Latin America.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Brazil congratulates Petro – but Bolsonaro remains silent

21-06-2022 15:37 Foreign Ministry in Brasilia says it looked forward to "the continuity and deepening of bilateral relations" with Colombia under Gustavo Petro.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Latin American leftist leaders hail Petro's victory in Colombia

20-06-2022 14:58 Gustavo Petro's election as the first left-wing president in Colombia's history sparks joy among similarly aligned Latin American leaders.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Here’s how radical Gustavo Petro can be as Colombian president

20-06-2022 14:26 Investors in Colombia are trying to gauge how radical Gustavo Petro's government will be. Here's a look at some of the leftist leader's main proposals for the economy.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombia election front-runner Petro beefs up security over violence threat

12-05-2022 12:53 Colombia is the only major country in Latin America that’s never had a leftist leader, and polls suggest it’s about to get one in Gustavo Petro. That’s raising the campaign temperature in a country with a history of political violence.

Colombia election 2022

Colombian presidential hopeful Petro signs oath against expropriation

19-04-2022 08:36 Gustavo Petro, who leads in opinion polls ahead of Colombian elections next month, signs oath not to expropriate property if he becomes next president.

LATIN AMERICA

Gabriel Boric has the chance to rewire Chile – and Latin America’s left

10-01-2022 10:24 Once the region’s no-frills, free-market poster child, Chile needs more government spending, not less, to sustain its growth trajectory.

ELECTIONS 2021: ANALYSIS

Left’s great election provides support for the battles to come

20-11-2021 12:13 We know that we’re living in hard times for the working-class majorities who expressed their social discontent at the ballot box.

by Nicolás del Caño, via Noticias Argentinas

Elections in Chile

Chile violence a boost to far-right ahead of elections, say experts

22-10-2021 02:49 Violent clashes between protesters and security forces on the streets of Chile this week could be playing into the hands of the far-right with a general election just one month away, experts say.

Chile election 2021

Chilean presidential hopeful Sichel wants to save Chile's model, not scrap it

01-07-2021 10:56 Sebastián Sichel, a former government minister under President Sebastián Piñera, says Chile’s pro-business economic model can be improved from within and doesn’t need radical reform.

News of right wing

Left-wing LatAm governments agree joint inflation plan

Eduardo Porter: Why Wall Street should like Latin America’s left

Poll: Nearly one in five Brazilians back rioters

Election showed Brazil's far-right was sold short, say analysts

Italy takes step into unknown with far-right win

‘We need to stand against this’ – huge crowds flood Plaza de Mayo to ‘defend democracy’

Chile to vote on overhauling dictatorship-era constitution

Lula keeps big lead over Bolsonaro in new Brazil presidential poll

Brazil's Bolsonaro gets in spat with heckler

Protesters at duelling marches bemoan rising inflation

Brazilian pro-gun protesters march 'for freedom' in capital

Chile President Boric receives draft constitution

Petro meets his arch-enemy Uribe as Colombia outreach continues

Colombian president's challenges: military, rebels, congress and markets

Colombia election signals return of Latin America's left

Brazil congratulates Petro – but Bolsonaro remains silent

Latin American leftist leaders hail Petro's victory in Colombia

Here’s how radical Gustavo Petro can be as Colombian president

Colombia election front-runner Petro beefs up security over violence threat

Colombian presidential hopeful Petro signs oath against expropriation

Gabriel Boric has the chance to rewire Chile – and Latin America’s left

Left’s great election provides support for the battles to come

Chile violence a boost to far-right ahead of elections, say experts

Chilean presidential hopeful Sichel wants to save Chile's model, not scrap it

Despite the tales of an Ezeiza exodus, immigrants keep arriving in Argentina

Lula gathers South American peers with integration on agenda

Economy Minister Sergio Massa to fly to China for swap line talks

Vegetables are taking Argentina’s carnivorous capital by storm

48% of Argentina’s children are poor, says new UNICEF report

Massa estrena el ARG-01 rumbo a China, en busca de nuevos negocios y una mano con las reservas

El regreso del superministro Sergio Massa, con una primera escala en China

Lo que sabe Cristina

Milei llevará a Diana Mondino como primera candidata a diputada por la Ciudad

Ha-Joon Chang: “La inflación es una forma perezosa de resolver luchas distributivas”