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Peru: an artificially polarized country
With days remaining before the runoff election, the growing number of undecided voters reveals that electoral polarization does not reflect Peru’s deep political and social fragmentation.
Politics shaken, it is time to think about a country for everyone
The shockwave produced by the first round of the presidential election was seismic. There was not a single political assumption left unquestioned. The message to the government of Gustavo Petro was clear: its blatant intervention in the campaign came at a high cost to candidate Iván Cepeda. Likewise, the once kingmaker Álvaro Uribe Vélez saw the right abandon his party’s candidate, Paloma Valencia, in order to support a new right-wing movement that has positioned itself as independent. Abelardo de la Espriella, virtually unknown to most Colombians just a few months ago, now has every chance of becoming Colombia’s next president, while Senator Iván Cepeda secured a historic vote tally that nevertheless feels like a defeat for the left. The political center, which placed its hopes on moderation, discovered its irrelevance at the ballot box and is now licking its wounds. Senator Cepeda ran a campaign that even aspired to win outright in the first round. The Pacto Histórico, emboldened by its outstanding results in the congressional elections and the rise in President Gustavo Petro’s popularity, carried out a campaign aimed almost exclusively at its base. Skipping debates, the scarcely concealed intervention of the Casa de Nariño in favor of the...
Rare earths and the eternal supplier trap: the unresolved challenge of the 20th century
Rare earths are reshaping global power. Can resource-rich countries finally turn mineral wealth into genuine economic and technological autonomy?