TIME Magazine’s Final List of Influencers is chosen exclusively by the editors of that medium, with nominations from the “alumni” of this same list -that is, designated in past years and the international writing of the magazine-.
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Magazine, explaining your selection methodclarifies that the people who come to his list do so because of the influence they have or may have had, even if they do not agree with it or if they are someone very controversial.
The publication typically distributes the nominees into various categories that have changed over the years. On this occasion they were distributed among artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icons and pioneers.
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 Zelenská; the president of brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva; United States Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellenand the German chancellor, Olaf Schölz.
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 been waging a brutal military campaign against pro-democracy rebels ever since.
According to TIME, under Aung, Myanmar has become the second most authoritarian regime in the world (the Taliban in Afghanistan are first). and remember that the UN accused him of massacring the Rohingya minority.
In turn, he lists Samuel Alito, a Supreme Court Justice, to whom he attributes a decades-long campaign to end the right to abortion in the United States; and the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, one of the most conservative leaders in the country with a reputation for being a gambler when it comes to getting his way.
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 results of the 2020 election and promoting the storming of the capitol in 2021.
SERGIO GOMEZ MASERI
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Washington
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