I was one of the speakers at a recent forum organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy, Diario Las Américas and the Adam Smith Center at Florida International University. I kept the title since it is fully applicable to allof the Americas, since the struggle between education and indoctrination occurs not only in Latin America…
I first saw the intriguing lotus effect in a lotus flower lily pad in Laos while on a trip throughout Southeast Asia. Scientists refer to the lotus effect as the self-cleaning properties that are the result of ultra hydrophobicity where dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to the nanoscopic architecture of the…
Few days remain for the end of the Duque Administration in Colombia and judging by what we read in the local media, its people have not realized that it is one of the best governments in the history of that South American nation. Indeed, Colombia has been one of the modest growth nations in Latin…
Since the vice president of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, spoke of the need to “share” the lands in the east of the country, the government once again promoted a massive invasion of the department of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, although its threats also extend to Beni and Panda. Why such an obsession with the Bolivian…
Nothing more true than the old saying, “he who dies for his own pleasure, death tastes like glory.” A reality once again reflected in the high number of votes achieved by the candidate Gustavo Petro in the Colombian presidential elections. I am not a deep connoisseur of the Colombian political reality, but I think that…
