Had a conversation with La República today about what the most recent round of the LAPOP Lab poll is telling us about #Peru and its politics

🇦🇷🇪🇸I guess Milei is returning the favor to Sanchez after he endorsed Massa in the election.

Just another example of how Argentina is at the forefront of global polarization.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇹🇼'We see China and Russia, for the first time, exercising together in relation to Taiwan and recognizing that this is a place where China definitely wants Russia to be working with them, and we see no reason why they wouldn’t' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇦🇷Milei will be meeting with Elon Musk on the 6th.

Lula continues to have trouble drawing crowds. The question is: Does it matter? Campaign was a struggle, too. Some parallels with Biden here - aging figure who needs a villain to mobilize his base. Without it…

🇨🇱Chile's fragmented party system demonstrates that 'too many parties cause problems of coordination among the elite, a disconnection between the political class & citizens as well, paradoxically, problems of representation' - kenneth bunker
ex-ante.cl/reforma-politi…

🇦🇷Why does Milei retain so much popular support? One important ingredient is that expectations of future state the economy has improved signfiicantly under his watch, in part as inflation expectations fall amid an accelerated disinflation process. 👇

The city of Buenos Aires plans to meet with global investors next week as it explores selling overseas dollar bonds for the first time in eight years, Ignacio Olivera Doll reports bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇨🇱Chile has seen the steepest decline in births globally so far in 2024.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia retweeted a post from a parody account thinking it was the real President of Palestine.

In that post, the pseudo Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Petro for ending relations with Israel and ended with 'Long Live Shakira'.

Perceptions about crime aren't limited to homicides: 'Other indicators like street robbery, open drug use, and even homelessness may have a stronger impact on people’s day-to-day perceptions than murder.' In essence, people don't like the feeling of chaos
americasquarterly.org/article/despit…

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Inflation in Argentina continues to fall. According to PriceStats, the monthly inflation rate is now close to 5%.

La inflación de Argentina sigue cayendo. La tasa mensual medida por PriceStats esta cerca del 5%, con tendencia decreciente.

Looking at Argentina's daily price index from PriceStats, we can detect another structural change on March 14th. The slope is now annualized to 78%, roughly half of the previous trend.

Usando el índice de precios diario de Argentina, detectamos un nuevo cambio estructural el 14…

Nuevo RÉCORD del SALARIO REAL. Principalmente por baja de la inflación, el Índice Medio de Salarios en términos reales en marzo es el mayor en casi 50 años. Subió 4,5% interanual y 2,4% respecto a 2019. Aquí la evolución, según datos del INE Uruguay:

A war in Taiwan could cost the world economy 10% of its GDP, writes Nicolás Saldías. Mexico’s economy could contract by 13% and Brazil’s by 5.9%.
americasquarterly.org/article/china-…

En marzo, el gasto en prestaciones sociales disminuyó 21,1% interanual (i.a.) en términos reales. En el primer trimestre acumuló una caída de 26,8% i.a. y explicó un 45% del recorte en el gasto total (-30,4% i.a.). (1/2)

El índice de salario real continúa incrementándose incidido por la caída de la inflación (+4,5% interanual).

Controlando por factores estacionales e irregulares, se ubica cerca de 3% por encima de Feb.20 (pre-pandemia) y 2,5% por encima del máximo alcanzado a mediados de 2019.

🇦🇷The lower house voted to pass Milei's omnibus reform bill in general. This was actually the easy part, the hard part now comes with the vote per article. The last time, the government's reforms were gutted at this stage and led it to withdraw the bill from consideration.