June says goodbye with new shocks for the world economy. On the one hand, the Group of Seven (Germany; Canada, United States, France, England; Italy, Japan) ended their meeting in the idyllic Bavarian landscape indicating to the world that they were indissolubly united behind the cause of Ukraine and that a competition with China begins…
Latin America is going through crucial, dramatic moments for its democratic future, registering an alarming setback in its basic freedoms, attacks on judicial independence, which in many countries no longer exists. Freedom of the press is often cornered by international media and journalists who claim to fight for democracy on the one hand and on…
Inter-American Watch 28/06/2022 Analysis It’s not communism, it’s organized crime The gang of criminals that is orchestrated by the Sao Paulo forum and the Puebla Group must be rejoicing with happiness, because with the support of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, they now take control of Colombia with Gustavo Petro. We can say: “Put on…
In the early 1980s, Wade Davis, a Canadian anthropologist, spent several months investigating alleged cases of the undead in Haiti. His theories about the zombification of people divided the scientific community. But they also gave birth to a whole culture about zombies. From The Serpent and the Rainbow, one of the first films on the…
Former President Álvaro Uribe predicts that “Colombia may have the worst and most dangerous neocommunism in the region, because President Petro is much more intelligent than Chávez, Castillo, Fernández and Ortega,” among other Latin American leaders. We do not doubt that Petro is more talented, shrewd and better structured than those named, but, for that…
Recently, with the proclamation of Gustavo Petro, president-elect of Colombia, a young man from that country wrote on a social page about his frustration with politics and his deep disenchantment with politicians, an opinion that I largely share because most of the problems that the hemisphere suffers and the control exercised over public affairs by…
Everything was very civilized. Very Colombian. Very polite. President Iván Duque, whom history will acquit because he has not put a peso in his pocket, called him, congratulated him and offered to meet with him. Álvaro Uribe said something that honors him. It was his first reaction to Petro’s victory on Sunday, June 19, “To…
Inter-American Watch 23/06/2022 Analysis Nicaragua, Russia’s infiltrated partner in Latin America: What is behind that Alliance? A few days ago, the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, announced that his country and Russia were agreeing to an “exchange exercise” to participate in operations “against illegal activities in the Caribbean Sea.” The Sandinista leader authorized the…
The success of the 9th Summit of the Americas was to make it clear that organized crime’s dictatorships are outside of the InterAmerican system in which “peoples of the Americas have the right to democracy and their governments have the obligation to promote and defend it”. The regimes from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, along…
Capitalism may be defined, as Carl Marx did, by its labor system, where the workers do not own their own means of production. It may also be defined by the metaphorical ‘market’ where the buying and selling takes place, or by private ownership of the means of production rather than government ownership. But my interest…
