Political strategist Steve Bannon, a founding member of the far right-wing news website Breitbart News and former chief advisor to United States President Donald Trump, will be an advisor to Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro fo
The Western press did its utmost to portray the recent elections in Venezuela as fraudulent.
Disguised as opinion polls, Mexicans are receiving automated campaign calls against the National Renewal Movement’s (Morena) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the front-runner for the upcoming presidential elections in Mexico.
Citizens started receiving the calls, which claim to be from “Mexican Institute for Democracy,” recently, however, an investigation done by Mexican newspaper El Universal found no records of its existence.
Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term of office in the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday 20 May. The majority of the reactionary opposition, with full support from Washington and Brussels, had called for a boycott, which led to a very low turnout in the middle-and-upper-class areas of the main cities. Their demand that the elections be canceled was echoed by right-wing governments in the region. This meant that many in the working-class and poor areas turned out to vote as a way of rejecting brazen imperialist meddling.
CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Before Venezuelans finished casting their votes Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan announced that the U.S. would not recognize the result of Venezuela’s presidential election. Sullivan was in Buenos Aires on Sunday, leading the U.S. delegation to the G-20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
The upcoming presidential election in Mexico — now just eight weeks away — may well prove to be this year’s most significant worldwide referendum on inequality. Mexico, after all, rates as one of the world’s most unequal major nations, and the party of the presidential candidate currently topping the polls — Andrés Manuel López Obrador — is pledging to confront the privileged Mexican few who are concentrating the nation’s “economic and political power.”
MEXICO CITY — Facing a raft of problems — including organized crime, growing violence, deepening poverty, a healthcare crisis and rampant corruption — voters in Mexico are preparing to abandon the duopoly that has governed the country for nearly a century to elect as president a Bernie Sanders-like populist.
As U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election continues to intensify, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the state-run RIA news agency on Monday that the U.S.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras or TSE has officially declared that lawyer and incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez has won the country’s scandal-plagued presidential elections which resulted in weeks of unrest and accusations of fraud by the country’s broad leftist popular forces who united behind contender Salvador Nasralla.
