OPINION: Partisanship vs democracy

The US House of Representatives seeks greater access to White House officials who are aware of Donal Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate rival Joe Biden. In exchange for Ukrainian aid, Trump would deliver military and economic assistance from the United States, which his government had paralyzed above the decisions of Congress and the recommendations of the Pentagon. The complex impeachment process requires that the House of Representatives vote in favor of it, and that two-thirds of the Senate, currently under Republican control, back it up. The latter makes it difficult for the result of this process to be Trump’s departure from the White House. But nevertheless, the struggle for power between the two great political parties in the United States threatens to paralyze the international agenda. The commercial relations of China and the United States will continue to be blocked, just as any cooperation initiative for Latin America could be affected. This is another example of how conflicts of interest and partisanship are undermining democracies.-LA PRENSA, Nov. 5.

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