Already reeling from the impact of the pandemic, Latin America will see two elections this weekend — in Peru and Mexico — taking place as anti-establishment sentiment fuels political upheaval across the region.
In Israel, an unlikely alliance of political enemies has come together to oust long-serving leader Benjamin Netanyahu in an attempt to bring an end to the nation’s electoral stalemate that’s resulted in four inconclusive votes since April 2019.
And U.S. President Joe Biden’s revamp of his predecessor’s order to ban investments in certain Chinese companies indicates relations between the world’s biggest economies are starting to stabilize after a year of tit-for-tat sanctions and other restrictions.
These were among the topics of this week’s most compelling political images.
Keiko Fujimori, presidential candidate of the Popular Force party, speaks during a campaign event in Lima, Peru, on Thursday. She’s running a pro-business campaign, while her allies have repeatedly warned of a revival of terrorist groups like Shining Path confronted by her father when he was president in the 1990s.
Photographer: Miguel Yovera/Bloomberg
A pedestrian pushing a cart and motorcyclists pass stores in the walled city of Jaipur in India, on Thursday. The Supreme Court asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to adopt a more inclusive vaccination policy and questioned the need for mandatory online registration in a country where many don’t have internet access.
Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
Oliver Kirchner, a candidate for the Alternative for Germany party in Saxony-Anhalt, speaks during a campaign event in Aken on Thursday. The country’s poorest state heads to the polls on Sunday, when Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party risks being knocked off course by the far-right party.
Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg
Israeli soldiers exit Hashalom train station in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Benjamin Netanyahu, whose record-long grip on Israeli politics has faltered in the face of corruption charges and a polarized society, is on the brink of being unseated by the unlikeliest government in the country’s history.
Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg
Coffee beans dry in the sun on a farm in Guaxupe in Brazil on Wednesday. The nation’s worst water crisis in almost a century is turning Latin America’s biggest economy into a hot spot for liquefied natural gas. Drought conditions are also affecting other countries, with Chile seeking to buy LNG and traders speculating Argentina could be next.
Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg
The National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, seen from the Shibuya Sky observation deck on Tuesday. While debate rages over whether it’s safe to hold the games amid the pandemic, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga led donations totaling $2.4 billion aimed at closing a funding gap that’s hampered the distribution of vaccines to the world’s poorer nations.
Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, left, with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson inside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday. Belarusian state television showed an interview with a jailed dissident Raman Pratasevich confessing again to alleged crimes in what opponents said was a coerced recording. Both Stoltenberg and Johnson condemned his arrest.
Photographer: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA/Bloomberg
Two attendees ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia, on Wednesday. As President Vladimir Putin rolls out the red carpet for foreign investors at his flagship forum, the Kremlin is continuing a sweeping crackdown on political opponents ahead of key parliamentary elections.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
A shopper at a stall at Kebayoran Lama market in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday. Indonesia's government will stick to its pledge of narrowing the budget deficit to less than 3% of gross domestic product by 2023 despite the uncertainty spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
Biden arrives to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The president signed an order Thursday amending a ban on U.S. investment in Chinese companies begun under his predecessor, naming 59 firms with ties to China’s military or in the surveillance industry, including Huawei and the country’s three biggest telecommunications companies.
Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg
People hold candles during a candlelight vigil in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Monday. Biden visited Tulsa the following day to mark the 100th anniversary of a White mob’s destruction of the city’s once-thriving Black business district, where he said Vice President Kamala Harris would lead efforts to pass a new federal expansion of voting rights.
Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg
A memorial for George Floyd as Minneapolis begins to reopen the area to traffic on Thursday. Former President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign was sued for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of an Oklahoma teacher who was arrested at a rally while wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “I can’t breathe,” a reference to Floyd.
Photographer: Nicholas Pfosi/Bloomberg
A man fishes in the Bosporus river in Istanbul on Wednesday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed calls for lower interest rates despite elevated inflation, sending the lira to a fresh low against the dollar and prompting the central bank governor to push back against expectations of an imminent move.
Photographer: Nicole Tung/Bloomberg
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