On 20 July 2026, in the working class district of Ciudad Bolívar, in southern Bogotá, President Gustavo Petro delivered the final public speech of his term, and turned it into something other than an accounting of his record. In ninety minutes he handed over three objects heavy with history, repeated an electoral fraud accusation that … CONTINUE READING →
On 7 July 2026, shortly after half past one in the afternoon, the Paris court of appeal reduced Marine Le Pen’s ban from public office to forty five months, thirty of them suspended, already served since her first conviction. That same evening, on TF1, Le Pen announced she would appeal to the Court of Cassation … CONTINUE READING →
On the seventh of July two thousand and twenty-six, Colombia’s Ministry of Defence had everything ready for the empalme, the orderly handover of information between the outgoing and incoming governments, a mechanism the law requires after every change of president. Printed documents, technical teams convened, a table arranged with two symmetrical sides. On the outgoing … CONTINUE READING →