Tag: Ideas
Judge Edson Fachin of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), considered that the then judge Sergio Moro and the Federal Court of Paraná did not have jurisdiction to try former president Lula. These proceedings will have to be retried. The return to the political scene of former president Lula da Silva completely changes the Brazilian political landscape.
The mood of the continent's citizens reveals irritation with political parties and a general lack of confidence in political institutions. The cocktail includes dissatisfaction with the neoliberal model, resistance to accept governmental adjustment measures and weariness with the corruption of political leaders.
A popular idea in economics holds that poor countries tend to grow faster than rich countries. Therefore, the world's economies eventually converge in their income levels. However, historical experiences of convergence have been bitter.
Latin America has been one of the regions hardest hit by the pandemic, both from a health and socioeconomic point of view. Its impact...
The agreement marks a turning point in the regional environmental agenda and has enormous potential in the process of building fairer, more equitable and sustainable societies. Once it comes into force, our task as citizens will be to work to ensure that it is ratified by all countries and becomes a reality.
The pandemic turned the world upside down, shook institutions, generated new social conflicts and deepened existing ones.
On October 25, Chile will face its most important election since 1988, when a plebiscite began the transition to democracy. After the 2019 crisis, in 2020 the citizens will again be able to decide whether to initiate a process to replace the constitution inherited from the Pinochet regime and the type of convention that will have to draft it.
Co-author Jaime Arredondo
The pandemic has negatively affected substance users particularly in the U.S.-Mexico border region, where traffickers, wholesale buyers, retailers, and consumers converge.
One of the backbones of democracy is conflict. Humans are conflictive by nature, not violent, and democracy, through political parties, institutions and a whole regulatory cast of freedoms, guarantees, rights and duties, channels conflicts and resolves them in an institutionalized manner. However, in Colombia this does not happen.
America is the pandemic’s world epicenter but there is one exception: Uruguay. However, the arguments presented in this and other articles, as well as by the government and the opposition do not explain the reality of the country. The fundamental causes of the miracle may have little to do with Charrúa merit.