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Montevideo, April 26th 2024 - 01:05 UTC

Tag: Hillary Clinton

  • Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 11:44 UTC

    Where the Democrats go from here

    It is no shock to me that millions of people who voted for Mr. Trump did so because they are sick and tired of the economic, political and media status quo.

    By Bernie Sanders (*) - Millions of Americans registered a protest vote on Tuesday, expressing their fierce opposition to an economic and political system that puts wealthy and corporate interests over their own. I strongly supported Hillary Clinton, campaigned hard on her behalf, and believed she was the right choice on Election Day. But Donald J. Trump won the White House because his campaign rhetoric successfully tapped into a very real and justified anger, an anger that many traditional Democrats feel.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 10:43 UTC

    OAS Electoral mission highlights institutional strength of U.S. system despite polarization

    Ms Chinchilla said that at the end “of a passionate and controversial campaign, citizens were able to express their differences through institutional mechanisms”

    The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) to the general elections in the United States congratulated the winners – especially President-elect Donald Trump – and recognized the civic behavior of the citizens and the officials who participated in the process, in its presentation of the preliminary report on its work, which mentioned the strong points and opportunities for improvement in the process.

  • Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 15:42 UTC

    Preconceptions, misconceptions and experts that fail to see reality

    How could polls be so mistaken?

    Explaining the not so quite unexplainable. Donald Trump's victory by a convincing margin left all those so called analysts who had foreseen his defeat as inevitable trying to find out how they had so spectacularly misread the world. The role of mass media under fire.

  • Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:56 UTC

    Bill Clinton's inconvenient truth about the white working class expectations

    Clinton mentioning that, after inflation, 84% of the American people had not had a raise of 1 cent since the financial crash

    Bill Clinton once said the white working class had been left hopeless after six years of Barack Obama's administration. The former president was quoted in a speech published by Wikileaks as part of the website's release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails.

  • Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:32 UTC

    Stock markets sink, Mexican peso plunges as Trump takes early lead

    Trump's victory causes tremblor all over the world

    The U.S. dollar sank and stock markets slammed into reverse in wild trade as investors faced the real possibility of a shock win by Republican Donald Trump that could upend the global political order. Major indexes in Asia fall by more than 2%.

  • Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

    Republicans retain control of the US House of Representatives

    The TV networks ABC and NBC both projected a Republican majority in the 435-seat chamber, which the party has controlled since 2010.

    The Republican Party has retained its majority in the US House of Representatives, projections suggest early Wednesday. The TV networks ABC and NBC both projected a Republican majority in the 435-seat chamber, which the party has controlled since 2010.

  • Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

    A Trump victory could mean a brake for the Argentina/US dynamic relation, says Malcorra

    If on Tuesday people vote for a closed xenophobe model, this could generate a domino effect on other countries, pointed out Malcorra

    Under the administration of president Mauricio Macri, the relation between Argentina and the US has “entered a new dynamic phase” and somehow those close links could be affected if the Republican candidate wins on Tuesday, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra.

  • Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:04 UTC

    Argentine economists choose Hillary Clinton for president

    Former Argentine Ambassador to Washington DC Jorge Argüello is among those who believe a Clinton win would be better for the economy

    Analysts estimate Clinton would continue the bilateral relationship, while Trump is a mystery that would halt trade and investment worldwide

  • Friday, November 4th 2016 - 11:53 UTC

    Clinton stays ahead in polls, but lead get narrower down by the minute with five days to go

    Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton still ahead but Trump closes in

    Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump, 46%-42% natiowide, with data updated Thursday to include two new national surveys taken after Friday's revelation that the FBI would review new emails to assess The Decmocrate candidate's handling of classified material at the State Department.

  • Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 - 11:30 UTC

    Trump overtakes Clinton for first time since May in ABC poll

    Republican candidate Donald Trump slightly ahead in ABC poll

    The Republican candidate now has a one-point lead in election that is too close to call, according to major survey.Donald Trump has overtaken Hillary Clinton to take a single percentage point lead in a poll by ABC, the first time he has done so since May. Though the result remains within ABC’s margin of error, the broadcaster said the leaders changing places was a noteworthy moment with just a week to go until election day.