European. Ulsterman. Now: @AFP Deputy Latin America Editor based in Bogota. Priors: Australia/White House/Southern Africa/Libya/Fed/Panama/EU.

Joined March 2009
Two states were key for Lula's win. He got more than two million more votes in the state of São Paulo vs the first round and a million more votes in Minas Gerais.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court extended voting hours across Brazil after separate requests from President Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro.
Flávio Bolsonaro: What happened today was not something normal. In fact, it was something unacceptable. At 5:01 PM, Justice Zanin makes a decision extending the election hours by two hours. This has never happened before in the history of Brazil.
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"Kassio diz que decisão de Zanin de prorrogar votação não provocou 'nenhuma alteração' na eleição"
The elections could be annulled according to election lawyers, per @nytimes
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Noboa and now Kast. Even among Latin America's rightwing leaders, Bolsonaro looking a little lonely in his bid to overturn Brazil's election result
Acabo de conversar con el Presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva y lo he felicitado por el resultado de la elección. Chile y Brasil tienen mucho futuro en común y seguiremos trabajando por una agenda que potencie las relaciones entre nuestros países en integración económica y combate al crimen organizado en la región. 🇨🇱🇧🇷
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Felicitaciones @LulaOficial por esta victoria. Nuestra región tiene enemigos comunes, desafíos compartidos y mucho por ganar cuando trabajamos juntos.
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Algunas certezas sobre el regreso de María Corina Machado. -Esto tomó por sorpresa a todos, incluido Miraflores y La Casa Blanca. -Su retorno no es el resultado de las negociaciones, es el resultado de su decision de regresar a Venezuela, que es su lugar del mundo donde su vida tiene propósito. -El Gobierno de Estados Unidos no impidió su retorno, pero tampoco lo facilitó, sino habría regresado por Maiquetia y posiblemente acompañada por un funcionario de la administración Trump. -Su regreso a Venezuela es el hecho político más importante después del 3 de enero, y tendrá consecuencias. -Machado, con su indiscutible liderazgo tiene la legitimidad y, sobretodo, la responsabilidad de liderar el proceso de transición a la democracia en Venezuela. -Machado se convierte en un catalizador de un proceso que el gobierno de Delcy solo podría frenar con represión, para lo cual, como es sabido, necesitaría el aval del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. En lo personal, veo difícil que en medio de la actual coyuntura política de los Estados Unidos, a menos de 15 días de las elecciones de mid-term, y aun después de estas, avalen un proceso de control represivo que se convertiría en la noticia dentro y fuera de Venezuela. La alternativa: Una clara ruta electoral e irreversible que garantice un cambio político en Venezuela, que es lo que todo el país reclama.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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WaPo investigation reveals who gave $333 million for Trump's ballroom: $2.5 million from a banker's daughter before her pops was pardoned; $25 million from a telecom billionaire whose company faced FCC probe; $5 million from a financier pursuing Venezuela's Citgo. There's more...
Exclusive: A list reveals all the major donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member. wapo.st/3UtGh0X
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US lifts sanctions on Delcy’s brother, who heads an illegal legislature that took over from the democratically elected legislature the regime threw out. Washington still technically recognizes the democratically elected legislature — which happened because of US pressure.
El Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense levanta las sanciones económicas contra Jorge Rodríguez, líder de la Asamblea Nacional y hermano de la presidenta interina de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez #AFP
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Colombia’s media has taken a strange turn since the election. People writing to a magazine to praise the president, using his own campaign slogans. And the letters get published.
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Vale recordar que las reservas petroleras de Venezuela están infladas (por orden de Chávez) porque usan un factor de recobro de 20% que nunca se ha logrado comercialmente en la Faja (6-8% es lo tipico) y que los estimados mas razonables las ubican en una tercera parte de las oficiales. Es decir que las reserva en los bloques asignados estarían por el orden de 20-25 mil millones de barriles en vez de 65 mil millones. Si las auditan con estándares internacionales (por ejemplo con las reglas de la SEC) eso es lo que van a poder poner en la contabilidad. ¿Eso importa para este acuerdo? No mucho porque en los 25 años de contrato igual no iban a poder producir más de 25 mil millones... pero si da una idea de lo irrelevante que es decir que EUA adquirió reservas de 65 mil millones. A el que se lo crea le puedo vender un terreno que tengo en la Luna...
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Cuando un ser querido desaparece, sus familiares suelen contactar hospitales, la morgue y la policía. Pero en un rincón de Ecuador, lo habitual es buscarlos en el Canal de la Muerte, donde han sido hallados decenas de cadáveres. @AFP france24.com/es/minuto-a-min…
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Across Latin America the average sits at 5.4, barely off the center it has held for 30 years and below the 1998 peak. Voters keep throwing out whoever governs them. They are not converting to an ideology. The mechanism is simple. When crime rises and the economy stalls, voters punish whoever holds power. They threw out the right in 2018 to 2020 and are throwing out the left now. Same force, opposite direction: Pendulum.
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There is little or no ideological swing to the right in Latin America. There is anti-incumbency and a playing field that the right has been quicker to respond to... in part because they had a blueprint from Nayib Bukele @AFP barrons.com/news/latin-ameri…
Replying to @Latinobarometro
@Latinobarometro data shows #Colombia's average ideological placement on a 0-10 scale (0-left, 10-right) was 6.8 in 2002, fell to 4.7 by 2020, and is back to 5.3 today, near the regional mean. @ABDELAESPRIELLA won with the electorate at the center of its 30-year range.
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Trump-backed candidate wins razor-tight Colombia presidential election @AFP yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…
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Andy Burnham wants this by-election to be a proof of concept election: he will pitch himself as the change candidate, the outsider. Once he has proven he can win in places Labour is losing, he thinks an eventual leadership election poses less jeopardy. From this week's New Statesman politics column (written days ago!)
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Mexican rights activist speaks out after being hit by US sanctions @AFP yahoo.com/news/articles/mexi…
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