In a world in constant perestroika (transformation), but apparently with less glasnost (openness), because of what is different or minority, this world is in permanent and cyclical shock (the English Collins dictionary calls it, and considers it word of the year, ” permacrisis” – prolonged period of instability and insecurity), said goodbye to Mikahil Gorbachev, the father of change in Eastern Europe who still saw Russia trying to return to the empire that it was. He, Gorbachev, who was never a big fan of the idea of Crimea belonging to Ukraine, nor was he a fan of Vladimir Putin’s warmongering efforts.
The funeral of the last Soviet president, on September 3, lacked state honors and did not have the impact of the funeral of Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years.
In addition to natural deaths and deaths in Ukraine, the world has seen many people die crossing the Mediterranean (1200 people this year alone), in addition to the deaths from famine that gallops across borders and breaks records. One person died of starvation in 2022 every four seconds. 193 million people in food insecurity in the world in 2022, the situation being especially serious in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Yemen.
This was the year of the Iranian women’s protests and the brutal repression by the authorities of the Islamic republic, after the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini, who became a symbol of a revolt that has not yet ended.
This was the year of João Lourenço’s electoral victories in Angola, a few weeks after the death of his predecessor José Eduardo dos Santos and with the victory of the opposition, UNITA, in the province of Luanda, the most populous and with the most young people. . vote. Gustavo Petro flipped Colombia to the left and the Republicans did not flip everything in the US midterm elections, as Biden and the Democrats held on in the Senate and narrowly lost their majority in the House of Representatives.
Significant (62%) was the victory of José Ramos Horta in the Timorese presidential elections in March, defeating the incumbent Francisco Lu Olo Guterres. Richi Sunak succeeded Liz Truss in the British Conservative government and Emmanuel Macron renewed his mandate at the Élysée in France, winning over Marine Le Pen, but saw the extreme right consolidate in the national assembly alongside the radical left of Jean Luc-Melenchon which was renamed Insumisa. France, now a broader movement called the New Popular Social and Ecological Union…
In Italy, Hurricane Giorgia Meloni turned the country towards a right wing that was friendly to Mussolini and fascism, in a clear victory with the support of Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia…
A turn to the right in Israel with the return to power of Benjamin Netanyahu, the most religiously conservative and ultra-orthodox executive Israel has ever had…
Turning in the opposite direction in Brazil. Bolsonaro defeated in the presidential elections, Lula returns to the Planalto Palace and takes office this Sunday.
Source: TSF
