Best South American president in 2018

[Velasco]

I can't understand why people in this forum loves Macri so much, when the man has shown no remarkable ability to govern and his administration is mostly incompetent. His presidency will be remembered by an utter failure in dealing with economic turbulence. Admittedly, the context is bad. However, I'm afraid that Macri is making some Argentinians to miss Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This is terrible by itself.

I voted Tabaré Vázquez, even though he doesn't raise my enthusiasm. I'm not following Uruguay's affairs very much, but I think a casual observer could see that this country is one of the most stable and possibly the best managed of the continent. Lenin Moreno would come second.

 Evo Morales leans HP for me because he's hanging on to power and other issues. As for iván Duque, his first steps are unpromising. He was recently in Spain and Colombian media bashed him for sending King Felipe greetings from Uribe. Nobody cared in Spain, but I read for many people in Colombia the behaviour of Duque in the official reception with the Spanish king was unappropiate and servile.

The rest is between awfulness (Maduro, Temer, Benítez) and mediocrity (Piñera)

[Velasco]

I can't understand why people in this forum loves Macri so much, when the man has shown no remarkable ability to govern and his administration is mostly incompetent. His presidency will be remembered by an utter failure in dealing with economic turbulence. Admittedly, the context is bad. However, I'm afraid that Macri is making some Argentinians to miss Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This is terrible by itself.

The fact he's not a Peronist might have something to do with it.

Even though Cristina Fernández was terrible, I don't understand this hatred towards Peronism. I'm not saying that Peronism is something that I would defend, but there are more terrible ideologies around the world. Examples: the xenophobic far-right populism in Europe, Serbian Irredentism, Muslim Fundamentalism, the Israeli ultranationalist and ultra-orthodox folks,etcetera.

I'll always prefer a competent Peronist like former economy minister Roberto Lavagna over an incompetent non-Peronist like former president Fernando De la Rúa.

[Velasco]

Where is Macron? France is a south America country.

I suspect some people is mixing Macron and Macri.

Macri, Piñera, and Vásquez are the only options on this list who are even remotely acceptable. Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay stand out as well-managed on a continent where cartoonish corruption and political extremism are all too common in leaders.

I would challenge the notion that Argentina is well managed and the country is traditionally rated among the most corrupt worldwide. Transparency International is rating Argentina 39/100 (0 means totally corrupt and 100 snow white cleanliness). Maybe that's an improvement with regard to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, but still...