With a week until election day, the polls show the closest race in a long time. To understand how we find ourselves here, we need to take a step back and look at the national, international and historical backdrop to the 2024 election.
The same scene is playing out in more than 70 university campuses across Argentina: students fill gymnasiums, outdoor spaces, lecture theatres and streets.
Whatever criticisms leftists can make of it, Hezbollah is not a terrorist organisation. It is a mass Shia political party which holds thirteen seats in the Lebanese parliament, and was founded to resist the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina. Carlos Barros, a student activist at the University of Buenos Aires, spoke to Red Flag about how things look on the ground.
