According to the front page of New York Timesthe atmosphere is not festive: Fear and suspicion spread as voters go to vote “. If the Los Angeles Times gives his voting advice today, as others did yesterday, today the press is already concentrating on counting the votes: “ Republican activists and candidates are pulling out all the stops so they can claim the ballots they lose were stolen “says Politico : by asking their voters to vote today and not in advance, they will cause these delays in the counts which they qualify as suspect. ” Counting votes can take time, it’s a good thing, and not a sign of fraud », attempts to reassure the washington post. For his part, the Miami Herald is concerned about a participation which is announced abysmal in the county, while the advance vote is over: “ Make sure that doesn’t happen ! »
More broadly, the dailies indicate the elections that should be followed in particular: Democrats are pinning their hopes on keeping the Senate majority in the two ultra-competitive races of Pennsylvania and Georgia “, writing The Hill. For the Boston Globe“ Latinos are the new “swing voters” “, voters who can change their vote from one ballot to another: suddenly, for the newspaper, it is particularly necessary to follow the races in the Senate in Nevada and Arizona.
On the rest of the continent, Donald Trump in the headlines
In Argentina, Clarin title on ” elections with Joe Biden and Donald Trump taking center stage “. But the continental press is mainly interested in the former president, whose ” the negationist obsession (confers the 2020 elections) would represent the unbalancing and irrational factor of this election “, valued El Tiempo in Colombia. Especially since, title in Canada The duty, ” the republicans (are) in close ranks behind the candidates of trumpism “.
In Peru, El Comercio fears that ” a new generation of politicians arrives in business, republicans who, in many cases, do not intend to play by respecting the rules of democracy “. ” United States: democracy under threat “, abstract Universal in Mexico. And in these elections presented as major, we are talking again about the Latino vote which “ will be decisive », estimates, still in Mexico, Excelsior, since it represents 14% of the electorate. The newspaper cites a study that found 58% of Latino voters support the Democrats.
Haiti: gang leaders in the crosshairs of the United States
The entire Haitian press echoes this: the United States are offering $3 million for any information leading to the arrest of 3 gang leaders “, title Gazette Haiti. The three men are suspected responsible for the kidnapping for ransom of 16 American citizens in Haiti in October 2021 » ; two of them are currently leaders of the 400 Mawozo gang which operates in the Croix-de-Bouquet region and which, the newspaper recalls, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
These reward offers, specifies the American State Department taken over by Alterpressare made within the framework of our efforts to continue to impose consequences and hold accountable those who foment violence in Haiti “. In fact, this Monday, American justice also ” made public charges against four other gang leaders (…) involved in acts of kidnapping of five American nationals in Haiti “, writing Alterpress.
Still in Haiti, Le Nouvelliste wonders: ” Varreux released, when will the fuel be at service stations? » « The government has a plan to make fuel available at service stations by Friday, Saturday at the latest “, assures the newspaper. Police took over the terminal from the gangs late last week, but this moment “ Varreux undergoes an inventory. There are also technical and safety inspections “.
Maduro and Macron at COP27
” Maduro and Macron shake hands “, headlines the Venezuelan daily Ultimas Noticias, close to power. But it is all the Venezuelan press which resumes the meeting of the two men in Unes. The two met yesterday in the halls of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. ” Macron invites Maduro to start useful bilateral work “, abstract El Periodiquitowhich recalls that France does not officially recognize Nicolas Maduro as President of Venezuela.
So, write El Luchadorhe was delighted with the meeting on Twitter: “ Excellent handshake with French President Emmanuel Macron (…). The doors of Venezuela are open for the French people “. Diary 2001 points out that ” Maduro’s negotiator and that of opposition leader Juan Guaido are due to meet next week at the Paris Peace Forum, in a meeting sponsored by Macron, and which may also be associated with the Colombian Gustavo Petro “.