The oldest president to occupy the White House in the history of the country arrives at this new anniversary with the weight of the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prensa Latina publishes.
On August 31, Washington concluded the evacuation of the troops from the Central Asian territory, a process that left desperate images at the Kabul airport.
Three months later, dozens of Americans still remain stranded in the country taken in record time by the Taliban Movement, and devastated by 20 years of unjustified war, after the US invasion and NATO allies.
Biden also inherited from his predecessor Donald Trump the country hardest hit in the world by the new coronavirus pandemic.
The New York tycoon?s mishandling of the health crisis meant that the Democratic leader had to catalyze the mass vaccination process among Americans, many of them still skeptical of the efficacy of immunizers due to the disinformation campaigns of the former president.
Since January 2021 the crossings and deportations of migrants, who try to reach the country from Mexico, have skyrocketed. The figures are historic, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities.
The more than 1.7 million encounters ? a term used by the authorities to avoid calling them ?arrests? -, registered between October 2020 and September 2021, made that period the most intense ever seen on the southern border.
In Biden?s consciousness are intact the photos that went around the world last October, of border guards chasing and whipping Haitian migrants on the banks of the Rio Grande, reminiscent of slave patrols from another era.
The Democratic leader reaches 79 shortly after undergoing a ?routine? colonoscopy, as fears grow about his physical ability to bear the responsibilities of a president, and the energies that entail.
According to a Politico / Morning Consult poll, 50 percent of US citizens consider that the Democrat is not in ?good health? overall.
Among the few joys he has to be grateful for on November 20, is the approval of the one trillion dollar infrastructure project, which cost months of partisan brawls and boycotts of former President Trump, who is a permanent shadow in the political life of the country. .
But it still has several spending packages pending on social services and the fight against climate change, among others, approved the day before by the House of Representatives, to which experts predict an uncertain future in the Senate.