Election of the Day I: Suriname
A few days before Christmas, in a hideout deep somewhere in the jungles of the Copi Nature Reserve in Northeaster Suriname, a fugitive of justice and Suriname’s most wanted man, Desi Bouterse, died of...
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Two countries to the West of Suriname, a second election is taking place today. Venezuela is holding an election for their national assembly. Unlike Suriname’s messy democracy, there’s nothing...
View ArticleElection of the Weekend I: Poland
Two weeks ago, we got unexpectedly good news out of Romania. Against expectations largely created by the ugly first round results, the candidate of Europe, Ukraine, and general sanity defeated the...
View ArticleElection of the Weekend II: Mexico
It seems pretty clear at this point that Mexico is the major country in the world today where the “left populist” electoral formula has been highly successful. To say that Sheinbaum and Morena managed...
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