Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
Bristolatino’s Politics editor Kwame Lowe discusses the next steps Latin America should take to maintain, or in some cases achieve democratic stability. Virtually all Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, as well as Brazil, the only Portuguese-speaking country on the continent, have a presidential (or semi-presidential) system of government as opposed to a parliamentary one. The Latin […]
Bristolatino’s Politics editor Kwame Lowe discusses the political legacies of a generation of world leaders, including Cuba’s communist revolutionary Fidel Castro It has been almost impossible to ignore the recent news of Margaret Thatcher’s death, and given that she could reasonably be called the most controversial politician in modern British history, reactions have been expectedly mixed. […]
Bristolatino joint editor-in-chief Rosanna West discusses whether the election of the first Latin American Pope marks any real change for the Catholic Church The man who cardinals chose to take over from ‘exhausted’ Pope Benedict XVI marks a number of firsts: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first Pope from Latin America; he is the first Jesuit Pope; […]