The special advisor to AS/COA explains why the center-right candidate won the tight runoff and how the outcome affects the region.
Democracy & Elections
"Aunque 'AMLO' está intentando centrarse en la política nacional, de vez en cuando el resto del mundo se lo impide", dijo Carin Zissis de AS/COA.
"La cuestión es cuánto tiempo se mantendrá este efecto y si las políticas de López Obrador durante su segundo año de mandato funcionan”, dijo Carin Zissis de AS/COA a Deutsche Welle.
“Si Bolsonaro continúa disfrutando de un grado de éxito, incluso parcial...no dejará mucho oxígeno para Lula”, escribe Brian Winter, vicepresidente de AS/COA, en El Comercio.
“We are still very far away from seeing what the results will be,” says AS/COA Online’s editor-in-chief as Mexico’s president faces security and economic challenges.
Most Brazilians are unhappy with Bolsonaro. But that doesn’t mean Latin America’s protest wave will spread here, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.
"He became too comfortable in power," the AS/COA vice president said of former Bolivian President.