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RIGHT-WING candidate Mauricio Macri has won the run-off in Argentina’s presidential election by a narrow margin, ending 12 years of “Kirchnerismo.”
With almost all ballots counted this morning Mr Macri had 51.5 per cent of the vote to ruling Front for Victory (FPV) candidate Daniel Scioli’s 48.5.
Mr Macri thanked supporters of his Republican Proposal (PRO) party, saying: “I am here because you all decided it … We can build trust, something we need here in Argentina,”
Argentina’s World Cup campaign reignited a long-running sovereignty dispute and exposed the contradictions of Javier Milei’s government, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
Football may not solve the working class’s problems, but it does matter — and politicians know it, writes BERT SHOUWENBURG
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG