RAMÓN LARRAMENDI (reporting from Greenland)
November 28 wasn’t a particularly cold day. In the streets of Nuuk, the country’s capital, there was a buzz of anticipation—an unusual sense of excitement for this part of the world. And for good reason. General elections were being held early, triggered by a corruption scandal involving former Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond. At the last minute, and against all polling predictions, her successor in the social democratic Siumut party, Kim Kielsen, appeared in public to celebrate his victory.