Presidential Elections

Opinion: How Brazil’s new man got there

Central & South America

Jair Bolsonaro, a retired Army captain and outspoken conservative, clinched the top job in Latin America’s biggest nation by targeting the electorate’s justifiable fears, his opponents’ weaknesses and Brazil’s real need for economic reforms. The new cabinet puts academics, political luminaries and former military officers in key positions. President Bolsonaro is facing formidable challenges, but his program has more merit than his many critics are willing to admit.

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Central & South America

Briefing: Polls swing towards ousted party as Mexico ramps up for elections

North America

It promises to be a long, rough campaign for the presidency of Mexico. But the main question is - will the people, who turned their back on the Institutional Revolutionary Party which ruled as a one-party state for seven decades until 2000, vote it back into power? asks GIS expert Dr Joseph S. Tulchin. THE presidential el...