“Chicago is my kind of town,” sang Frank Sinatra with his unmistakable swagger. You could say that it is for the Democratic Party as well. It was here that in 1896 William Jennings Bryan became the youngest presidential candidate in history, at the age of 36, thanks to a populist speech against the magnates of … Read more
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden leave the White House on Monday to address the Democratic National Convention.SHAWN THEW (EFE) Joe Biden traveled to Chicago on Monday to attend a Democratic National Convention very different from the one he had imagined just a month ago. The flight plan for the Air Force … Read more
The Democratic National Convention, which is being held from Monday to Thursday to seal Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy, emphasizes the idea of unity even in the name of its venue: the United Center in Chicago. But that image of harmony around the vice president was fractured just a few blocks away: more than a hundred … Read more
For US citizens of Latin American origin, there could be another rude awakening after the elections. Photo: Daniel Foster/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) (Washington/New York, 12. August 2024, the day).- In the USA, the number of Latinos and Latinas eligible to vote has risen from 14.3 million in 2000 to more than 36 million. According to … Read more
Caracas. Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia on Wednesday defied a Supreme Court summons as part of a process called to “certify” the disputed presidential election in which President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner. González, representative of the disqualified leader María Corina Machado, denounced fraud and claims to have evidence proving that she won … Read more
Washington. The United States ambassador to the OAS, Francisco Mora, warned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday that he would face international pressure “that he could not imagine” if he arrested opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia. “If Maduro decides to do that, he will activate the international community in ways he … Read more
Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said yesterday that the people linked to violent acts in the anti-government protests, which have resulted in more than twenty deaths and hundreds of arrests, were trained in the United States, Colombia, Peru and Chile, and he ordered take out of circulation or block access to the social network platform … Read more
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s tour has reached the West. Arizona is the penultimate stop in a frenetic week that has taken the candidates to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia. In a stadium with a full capacity, the vice president was forced to go off script when a pro-Palestinian group broke in to … Read more
Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro yesterday offered to hand over 100 percent of the minutes of the disputed elections that resulted in his re-election and assured that the opposition leaders who denounce fraud They should be behind barswhy They have blood on their hands. Opposition leaders María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia … Read more
Kamala Harris will introduce her running mate at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He is Minnesota’s 60-year-old governor, Tim Walz. This is no surprise – his name has been floating around in the US media for weeks. Who is Tim Walz? He was born in rural Nebraska. After high school, he enlisted in … Read more