In his book, Pablo Escobar, what my father never told me, Juan Pablo Escobar transcribed an interview he did with Quijada (the boss’s treasurer in the United States). Part of it reads as follows: “The business became so big in the early eighties that El Patron bought twelve houses in different sectors of Miami, three…
All the nations of the world prostrate themselves before the scarcity and high prices of energy products and their derivatives. Because what Russia has unleashed by invading Ukraine is an energy supply crisis; a logistics crisis for energy products and a financial crisis. Facing this multifaceted crisis requires suspending the regulations that normally weigh on…
Inter-American Watch 21/06/2022 Analysis Russians, Chinese and Iranians make up an occupying force for which the region was not prepared As has not happened for 60 years, now there are Russian troops and weapons in a Latin American country and as has never happened before, Chinese companies control hundreds of rivers in the Amazon…
I heard this phrase in a film from Cuba. A woman’s voice that synthesized the feelings of many others, all of them, fed up with a cocktail that lasts 63 years, in which only repression and misery are mixed. Expression that reflects, in my modest opinion, the probability of very bloody and painful days that…
The erratic – and degrading – course of the foreign policy of Argentina and Mexico, whose governments diplomatically support the dictatorial regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, is surprising, as they once supported Evo Morales after the scandalous electoral fraud that forced him to resign. and go into exile in their countries. Manuel López Obrador…
Inter-American Watch jueves 16/06/2022 Analysis Petro-terrorism In a column published yesterday I referred to the “petro-terrorism” suffered in the past by Colombia at the hands of the National Liberation Army, ELN. For reasons of space, some lines were left out that explain the danger posed to the continent by the “former” M-19 terrorist Gustavo…
With these words, Julius Caesar indicated to his followers that the die was cast and that Rome could do nothing but advance towards the construction of the empire, leaving the republic behind. Today Latin America faces a similar challenge. International change has perforated the feudal structures that, fueled by monopoly capitalism, have existed for five…
In his book, What my father never told me, Juan Pablo Escobar ―the boss’s son― recounts how his father’s political career ended because of a publication in the newspaper El Espectador. In addition, that his confrontation with Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was the beginning of one of the most violent stages in the history of…
The Berlin Wall, built by the Soviet Union to divide Germany into two parts, was 146 kilometers long, of which 45 kilometers were in Berlin. The hulk was made on August 9, 1961 and collapsed on November 9, 1989; an ignominious existence of 28 years. Invited by the Frederich Neuman Foundation, I had the opportunity…
The elections for Colombia’s President for 2022-2026 are a historical milestone that will determine the next twenty years of that country’s and Americas’ history. In an election for the survival of the nation in which the very nature of Colombia and the radical effects in the life of Colombians are at stake, this forthcoming 19th…
