“The popis don’t vote, they only want their ‘likes’ for participating in the protests.”
Bolívar Valera, a congressional candidate for the ruling PLD, posts a tweet (rapidly deleted but already captured and since gone viral) dismissing growing protests by young Dominicans he referred to as ‘popis’, a derogatory term meaning ‘stuck up’.
“I won’t accept any more excuses we either produce or we produce.”
Venezuela’s de facto president Nicolás Maduro on ever-declining oil production.
“[Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador] should take action instead of regurgitating fallacious and ideological arguments to justify [his government’s] incompetence, such as blaming the past or neoliberalism for the violence against women.”
The president of Mexico’s main opposition right-of-centre Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Marko Cortés.
