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Then-Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during a political rally in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 14. Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff presidential election last month has been widely hailed as historic. Not only did the 77-year-old former union leader and two-term president achieve a comeback for the ages, fighting back from prison on a now-overturned corruption conviction to defeat arguably the most significant global imitator of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of brash nativism and post-truth rhetoric, but Lula’s triumph is also being seen as sealing the second coming of the “pink tide”, the surge of left-wing leaders who first came to dominate Latin America in the early 2000s.…  Seguir leyendo »

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo attends a plenary session of the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 9. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

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When Pedro Castillo, the dark horse candidate representing the self-described Marxist-Leninist Free Peru party, was elected president last June, many Peruvians warned that he would turn the country into another Venezuela. His party manifesto was replete with attacks on the media and calls for nationalizing the mining and energy sectors, while his mentor Vladimir Cerrón, the domineering founder and leader of Free Peru, had been barred from running due to a corruption conviction following his scandal-wracked time as a regional governor. The specter of economic collapse, one-party kleptocracy, and ruthless repression of criticism seemed almost tangible.

But that thesis was always fundamentally flawed.…  Seguir leyendo »

Jimmy Centeno y su hermana Dolores Centeno sostienen una fotografía de su padre, Cerafin Centeno, cuyo cuerpo no han podido encontrar desde que murió hace dos meses por COVID-19, en Guayaquil, Ecuador. La imagen es del 19 de mayo de 2020. (Santiago Arcos)

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Cuando turistas de México, China y Gran Bretaña resultaron ser las primeras víctimas del COVID-19 en Cusco, Perú, parecía que la antigua capital del Imperio Inca estaba condenada a sufrir un brote considerable.

Enclavada en un pintoresco valle andino, la ciudad de gran altitud y 420,000 habitantes, puerta de entrada a la ciudadela de Machu Picchu, recibe a más de tres millones de visitantes internacionales al año, muchos de ellos procedentes de áreas activas de la pandemia como Estados Unidos, Italia y España.

Sin embargo, desde esas tres muertes, acaecidas entre el 23 de marzo y el 3 de abril —al inicio de la estricta cuarentena nacional— hasta el 31 de mayo se había registrado ningún otro fallecimiento por COVID-19 en toda la región de Cusco, incluso cuando la enfermedad se ha cobrado más de 4,000 vidas a nivel nacional.…  Seguir leyendo »