After a decade of progressive leadership across Latin America, the region has begun tacking rightward. Both Brazil and Argentina put conservative leaders into office in 2016, Chile's Socialist government is deeply unpopular, and Venezuela's political crisis continues to worsen.
But suddenly, in Chile, a new face of the left has emerged: outsider politician Alejandro Guillier, whose unexpected rise in the polls has made him a top contender for the country's November 2017 presidential election. Can this former TV news anchorman revive the Latin American left?
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Senator Alejandro Guillier inside the Chilean congress in Valparaiso, Chile.
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Cristóbal Bellolio, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Outsider Alejandro Guillier's sudden rise in the polls has invigorated Chilean politics and revived the hopes of progressives across the region.
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Politics + Society
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Filippo Furri, Université de Montréal
Alternative models to host asylum seekers have proved their efficiency. Venice has been a sanctuary city for years and with the right policies, it could be reproduced.
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Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study
The growing Arab military, political and religious influence is only the latest example of an external force taking hold in the Horn of Africa.
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Martine Batt, Université de Lorraine; Cédric Andriot, Université de Guyane
Violence is on the rise in French Guiana. To understand this phenomenon, scholars delve into the often tragic history of the region.
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Health + Medicine
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Pia Riggirozzi, University of Southampton
Zika is not gender neutral: women’s rights are at stake.
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John Burkhardt, University of Michigan; Mahshid Abir, University of Michigan
About one in four physicians in graduate medical education is from another country. Here's how a travel ban could harm them, and our health care system.
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Science + Technology
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Alister Graham, Swinburne University of Technology
The discovery of a new black hole adds to our understanding of these celestial objects that fascinate in both fact and fiction.
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