Interview
Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president
- Lee Jae-myung's allies anticipate the appeals process on his criminal charges will extend beyond the timeline required for snap presidential elections, enabling his candidacy.
- Lee Jae-myung projects that voters consider his party the leadership force capable of resolving national turmoil swiftly and expect to assume greater responsibility for this outcome.
- Lee Jae-myung plans to align South Korea firmly with the liberal democratic camp regarding US-China strategic competition, marking a shift from traditional Democratic Party strategies.
- Lee Jae-myung characterizes current relations with North Korea as hostile while indicating Japan is not viewed as a hostile actor.
- Lee Jae-myung's foreign policy approach aims to prevent relations with China from deteriorating to a point of national harm while avoiding a subordinate dynamic with Japan.
- Noah Snyder forecasts that if Lee Jae-myung becomes president, managing superpower competition will render domestic democracy defense comparatively straightforward.
- Local sources in Catatumbo estimate true death tolls in the hundreds, contrasting with official figures of at least 80.
- The ELN likely transported reinforcements through Venezuela, a route where the Maduro regime profits from illicit activities.
- Community leaders assert that resolving the conflict in Catatumbo requires territorial transformation and the establishment of alternative economies.
- A 90-day freeze on US foreign aid is expected to diminish the state's capacity to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
- Community leaders report deep disappointment regarding the 2022 government agreement to build infrastructure and develop an agricultural superpower, which has yielded no payments, roads, or schools to date.
- Claire McHugh states that if the 2016 peace deal remains not fully implemented, the cycle of violence in Catatumbo and across Colombia is likely to persist.
- Marianne Faithfull began heroin use following a summer party in 1967 and was "quite strongly on heroin" by the late 1960s.
- Faithfull lived on the streets as an active drug user for two years, specifically in 1970 and 1971.
- Faithfull estimates her lifetime drug expenses reached 20,000 pounds.
- Faithfull suggests that young people believing the 1960s were the "best time ever" were unaware they were living on the edge of an imminent explosion.