On October 2nd, almost two million Brazilians voted in the first round of the 2022 presidential elections. Tension increased in Brazil as the country increasingly split in half during the voting between the two candidates, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro. With the far-right Bolsonaro and left-wing Lula […]
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Will Foreign Military Intervention Help the Crisis in Haiti?
Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries, has faced a number of recent crises that have led to Prime Minister Ariel Henry requesting international military assistance against the concerns of many people who reject the prospect of foreign intervention. Last year, Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in July. Haiti […]
How to Ruin a Well-Functioning Country
If you looked at Sri Lanka, the island country off the coast of India, a few years ago, you would see a flourishing country ranked as upper middle income status, “relatively well-off by South Asian standards.” But, through measures of political mismanagement and external shocks, this country has plunged into […]
Kenyan Elections 2022
Elections were tense in Kenya as the country was divided in its votes for the two candidates, William Ruto and Raila Odinga. On August 15 the results came out that Ruto won with 50.49% of the votes. For a competitive race with only 1.7% vote difference between them, it was […]
Meet Kenzie Young: Engagement Manager
Meet Kenzie Young, clay’s seventeen-year-old Engagement Manager! She was born in Arkansas, but her family moved to Turkey when she was almost 8, and they have lived there for the last 9 years. When asked what her favorite thing about Turkey was, she said she loves the people there because […]