A Mexican-American pandemic year in photos
Caught in the COVID maelstrom but focused on the future
POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY BEFORE COVID
Do you remember the heady days of late 2019 and early 2020 when political upheaval was erupting across the planet, with powerful weekly protests demanding governmental change and often threatening to bring down leaders in France, Chile, Lebanon, Jakarta, Hong Kong and many other global hot spots?
These protests rejecting globalist policies predicated on austerity, inequality, erosion of civil rights and much more were like populist punctuation marks after the votes for Trump and Brexit/Johnson, in which self-styled populists running on anti-globalist platforms took charge of two of the world’s largest economies accounting for nearly 30% of global GDP.
In January 2020, investment risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft published a report characterizing 2019 as a “nadir for political stability worldwide” and forecasting serious political unrest in 40% of the world’s 193 nations in 2020.
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