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José Manuel Rivas Otero

Political scientist and jurist. Doctor in Political Science. Professor at the University of Salamanca.

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Does Petro have reasons to fear a coup d’état?

There are reasons to believe that the possibility of a presidential interruption or even a soft coup is not merely a “smokescreen” but rather a plausible risk.

Radiography of the far right in Latin American legislatures

More than half of the far-right legislators believe that immigrants take advantage of social benefits and public aid and worsen the country's insecurity problems.

Conspiracy theories in Latin America

A Peruvian criminal court issued an order accusing Bill Gates, George Soros and the Rockefellers of creating COVID-19. The magistrates assumed the theory that global elites planned the pandemic to control the population and establish a "new world order".