TIME magazine’s final list of influencers is chosen exclusively by the editors of this media, with nominations among the “alumni” of this same list -that is to say, designated in the past years and the international writing of the magazine-.
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The magazine, explaining your method of selectionclarifies that people who come on his list do so because of the influence they have or may have had, even if they do not agree with it or if it is someone very controversial.
The publication generally divides the nominees into various categories that have changed over the years. On this occasion, they were divided between artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icons and pioneers.
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President Petro appears on the list of “leaders” along with 20 other characters, including the President of the United States, Joe Biden; the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska; the president of brazil Luis Inacio Lula da Silva; United States Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellenand the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.
But along with Petro, other controversial personalities also appear, like General Min Aung Hlaing who led a coup in February 2021 against the Myanmar government and has since waged a brutal military campaign against pro-democracy rebels.
According to TIME, under Aung, Myanmar has become the second most authoritarian regime in the world (the Taliban in Afghanistan are the first). and remember the UN accused him of massacring the Rohingya minority.
In turn, he lists Samuel Alito, a Supreme Court justice, to whom he credits a decades-long campaign to end abortion rights in the United States; and the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, one of the country’s most conservative leaders, renowned for being a gamer when it comes to getting what he wants.
In the past, Time’s list has included the likes of Vladimir Putin, after his invasion of Ukraine, and Donald Trump, despite not knowing the 2020 election results and encouraging the taking of the capital in 2021.
SERGIO GOMEZ MASERI
Correspondent EL TIEMPO
Washington
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