Obama announced that Harriet Tubman would replace President Jackson on the 20-euro bills. But Trump has delayed that change. What are the merits of the faces that appear on the US banknotes?}
We open our section of Hemerotics with our eyes on a woman: Harriet Tubman. A woman who managed to escape from slavery and helped many others to do so. She was known as the Moses of the Negroes, because just as Moses led the Jewish slaves from Egypt to the promised land, she led the slaves to freedom.
Obama announced that she would appear on $ 20 bills, beginning in 2020. She was to replace President Andrew Jackson, a slave-owning businessman, whom Trump reveres. So he has decided that the decision is delayed until 2028.
All this history has made us notice the characters that appear on the US banknotes. All that appear, minus 3, were presidents of the country. What merits did they do to become present in the American banknotes? Do they really deserve it ... or should it be revised?
We are answered by Professor Felipe González, an expert in International Relations.