Analysis of domestic and international political developments, party dynamics, elections, and policy decisions through a conservative, America First lens.
Democrats took the House and the Senate on November 3, but Trump keeps the veto, the military and the trade weapons. Chomcho reviews what the new Democratic Congress can and cannot do to U.S. foreign policy on the Iran war, Israel, Ukraine, Europe and China, and why a divided Washington is heard in Tehran, Moscow and Beijing.
The 2026 Brazil election ended with Lula reelected, Brazil's stocks down 14 percent in a day, and the runner-up's passports seized within hours. Chomcho examines the two-hour extension ordered by Lula's former lawyer after the polls closed, the 19 percent vote jump nobody explains, and what Washington should learn from it.
Peruvian senator Mirtha Vásquez will fly to China on the Chinese Embassy's dime, right when senators should be meeting their voters. Beijing courts Peru with free trips, a megaport and more than 30,000 million dollars in investment, while a 2023 paid junket went unpunished and a president lost his office over a dinner with a Chinese businessman. Nobody flies you to Beijing for nothing.
Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in the Brazil elections, 47 percent to Lula's 45, after every major poll had Lula ahead. The runoff is October 25. Behind the numbers: a father serving 27 years, a judge who shut down X, a Congress that moved right, and a candidate offering Washington rare earths and a seat in the Shield of the Americas.
Trump met Delcy Rodríguez for fifteen minutes in New York and told her elections must come "at the end of the day." Rubio explained the order: debt restructuring, institutions and a durable republic before the vote. Lula calls it lost sovereignty. Chomcho.com looks at the Venezuela transition, the diaspora, Colombia, oil and China.
The leftist Chamber of Deputies voted to interpellate Foreign Minister Pérez Mackenna over the Strait of Magellan, the exit from the Non-Aligned Movement, and the friendship with Trump and Milei. Chile foreign policy under Kast answers the political theater with six months of results, borders controlled and inflation tamed.
The AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt is the biggest in the party's history: a projected 44 percent, more than double its 2021 result, while Merz's CDU lost more than half its voters. Yet the establishment may still lock the winners out with its firewall. Behind the revolt: a shrinking economy, the Volkswagen cuts, and the Magdeburg attack.
Colombia has a new president, and the change is historic. Abelardo de la Espriella took his oath in Cali while police defused a bus loaded with explosives and Petro refused to attend. Security, energy, Israel, and a full alliance with Washington now lead the agenda. The conservative wave in Latin America has found its next leader.
The France wildfires of 2026 now have a police file: 375 people arrested, 142 of them minors, while the media kept blaming climate change. Nine of ten fires are caused by humans, and about 30 percent are set on purpose. From Spain to Greece, the pattern repeats, and the climate change narrative burns faster than the forests it blames.
The Brazil Argentina crisis reached a historic point when Brazil withdrew its ambassador after Milei called Lula a convict and a thief in Sao Paulo. Behind the anger stands Judge de Moraes, his censorship, and the persecution of Bolsonaro. The October election will decide what comes next for Brazil, Argentina and America itself.
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in on July 28 as the first woman elected president of Peru. The Fujimori first 100 days will be judged on a historic wave of crime and a super El Niño. Her plan includes a mega-prison, faceless judges, a military crackdown and closer security ties with the Trump administration. Can she finish a full term?
Nicaragua without elections sounds like breaking news, but the pretense is what finally died. Ortega, 80, announced there will never be another vote, his wife rules as co-president, and his congress will write it into the constitution. Discover the fear behind the wall of laws and why China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela stay silent.
