Inter-American Watch Thursday 7/7/2022 Analysis Criminal gangs adopt guerrilla structures and exhibit corporate identity In Venezuela, violence has evolved in parallel to the crisis that has become a Complex Humanitarian Emergency, which affects the entire society. In the border states, both criminal gangs and guerrillas of Colombian origin, paramilitary groups and hybrid organizations that…
Any visit to the southern region of the Western Hemisphere serves to confirm that Latin America has entered a phase of self-destruction similar to the one that generated waves of hyperinflation that wiped out its middle classes. The image is the same whether it is Buenos Aires, Lima, Caracas, Bogotá, Santiago or Mexico City. Beggars…
On July 4, a formal delivery was made to President Boric of the proposal for the new constitution, which will be submitted to a plebiscite on September 4, 2022, the most important election that Chileans will have, to define the country’s own future. It was quite an achievement, considering that the term was one year…
Inter-American Watch Tuesday 7/5/2022 Analysis INTERVIEW: China is trying to undermine the international system, says US adviser For the first time in more than a decade, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) renewed its strategic concept, a document that sets out the direction that will guide the transatlantic alliance in the future. The renovation,…
Roger Scruton (one of the most important conservative thinkers of the 20th century) explained, very precisely, the difference between politics and electoral babble. The first seeks, essentially, the preservation of order, the preservation of peace and the application of justice. The second is the lie brought to the polls. On the other hand, in his…
I had thought to analyze the difficult situation facing Ecuadorian democracy as a result of the chaos generated by the vigilantes of a false progress that only leads to the end of all citizen rights, when I learned about the sentences in Cuba of two young activists who only freely expressed your ideas. This situation…
The War in Ukraine has eliminated the post-cold war illusion that wars can be avoidable in the future and that the danger of another world war does not exist. Vladimir Putin intends to restore Russia’s ethos as a great world power or even empire. Thus, he dared attack Ukraine because he could. He saw in…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 30/06/2022 Analysis The Sao Paulo Forum takes over America without opposition Finally, XXI Century Socialism has returned “openly” to power in Latin America. The “openly” is very necessary because both in form and substance, the elements that make up this particular mode of socialism have never gone away since it appeared…
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua’s magistrates and tribunals hand down sentences that are based on falsehood, violate human rights, willfully suppress the legal due-process, order undue detentions and condemn innocent people to many years of incarceration in order to generate fear in the population and subject it to the holders of power. These “crimes against…
Every time we put the “pos” or “post” before a word, it is an acknowledgment that we are dealing with a phenomenon or concept for which we do not yet have the elements to define it precisely or it is simply too new. To begin with, it occurs with postmodernity and with another concept with…
