The indigenous Venezuela discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498, becomes one of the provinces of Spain a while later, for the empire the way to manage the “mainland”. The management, in charge from Juan Martin de Ampúes, in 1527, to Francisco Dávila Orejón y Gastón, 1674, by an approximate number of 40 governors. In 1811…
In October 2019 there was an explosion of enormous magnitude, a mixture of social demands and violence, where churches, Metro stations, transport buses and shops were destroyed. Not only that, but he had support, appreciation and validation in the media and political groups, with tributes that brought the Congress to the front line of the…
The Cuban director, Lilo Vilaplana, recently announced that he had finished shooting the film “Plantada”, a more than necessary historical document, which will do justice to the thousands of Cuban women who have been and are in prison for their fight for freedom and democracy on the Island. Vilaplana, made a fundamental contribution to the…
On October 17, 2003, Bolivia lost the first – which would ultimately be the last – democratic government of the new millennium. A country that in the 1980s had recovered democracy and controlled hyperinflation, now became a colony of 21st-century Socialism. Castrochavism kidnapped our homeland. That day began the route of national darkness. But the…
It was the consecration of Xi Jinping. On mid-October 2022, during the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 1,500 delegates, all wearing ties and dark suits, in a packed theater, swore to love Mao even though, at this stage of the reforms, they were at the antipodes of Marxism. The great contradiction is that…
Almost 100 years have passed since the publication in 1923 of the book “The Decline of the West” by the German philosopher and historian Osvaldo Spengler. In this work it was raised for the first time that our civilization is approaching a collapse. Years later his colleague Arnold Toynbee agreed with Spengler that our Western…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 10/20/2022 Analysis Rebels and paramilitaries: the Colombian guerrilla in Venezuela Now, the dissident factions of the FARC, known collectively as the ex-FARC Mafia, and the last remaining national insurgency in the country, the National Liberation Army (ELN), are not only stationing their forces and sheltering their leaders in Venezuela, but also…
In Latin America little should be known about the Alex Jones affair. But just as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the pillar on which the international scaffolding for the protection of human rights was built, the Alex Jones case will be remembered in the future as the watershed that put an end to…
Inter-American Watch tuesday 18/10/2022 Analysis The debacle of Arce’s economic model leads Bolivia to chaos A large part of the problems that Arce Catacora faces in exercising power is explained by the difficulty in obtaining financing and thus trying to keep afloat the economic model that he designed and that Evo Morales imposed in…
The world lacks good international governance, and an important part of the problem is due to the great paradox of the 21st century, since the architecture of world organizations is in the hands of institutions that correspond to another historical era. Indeed, we live in the era known as globalization, while most of the organisms…
