by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image: Mike Pence from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera March 10, 2021 Republican lawmakers couldn’t please former President Donald Trump by attempting to overturn the election results on January 6, so they decided to change the laws for the next election....
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera February 24, 2021 A few days ago, President Joe Biden announced to western allies that America is back while the images of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol were still fresh in our memories. The ambitious...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
A functioning democracy needs political parties to connect problems with solutions. In the current state of affairs, American democracy has only one effective democratic party. The other one has been drifting toward illiberalism in a trend that started long before...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image: Hugo Chávez from Flicker María Isabel Puerta Riera February 12, 2021 The untold story of the January 6 assault on the United States Capitol is how white supremacists were not out to “stop the steal” of a presidential election in...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
María Isabel Puerta Riera February 05, 2021 Political and economic crisis used to be the main reason migrants left Latin America. But recent changes in migration patterns suggest that something else is going on. It turns out other circumstances (violence,...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image: President Joe Biden by Dreamstime María Isabel Puerta Riera January 27, 2021 The last four years have been a complete departure from the melting pot metaphor that has made Americans so proud. Avoiding any reference to the historical background of a...
