Apart from looting nations, there is one thing that the militants of 21st Century Socialism are experts at: building stories. For example, they called the inflation of housing prices a boom, or economic growth the simple fattening of the Bolivian state apparatus. However, fables, no matter how well structured they are, cannot hide reality. And…
That was the numerical identification that the prison administration of the Isla de Pinos prison hung on Pedro Luis Boitel, who on May 25 celebrates 50 years since he died on a hunger strike. Giving political prisoners a number was a form of dehumanization, of mediocrity, but they did not achieve their goal, because the…
Chile’s Constitutional Convention has delivered the proposed draft of the new Constitution so that a “harmonization commission” can prepare the final text to be presented to the President of the Republic this coming 5th of July so that he may call for a “mandatory referendum” to be held on 4 September. They propose a new…
I read in a research on Colombia that poverty and lack of opportunities increase Gustavo Petro’s chances among young people. Colombians must be told that there is no possible redemption along the path chosen by Petro, except to emigrate, as six million Venezuelans, two million Cubans and one million Nicaraguans have done. There is no…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 5/26/2022 Bolivia Bolivia: economic difficulties cause new fights in the MAS It was known that, sooner or later, the one that would be in charge of exposing the fraud of the entire political project of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales and now Arce Catacora, would be the economy. The economic…
With his phrase “I am I and my circumstance,” Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) summarized the belief that human beings can not be isolated from their circumstances. For Ortega y Gasset individuals and societies are not detached from their past; to know a society we must know its history. Yet, we often make…
Is the future of the Summit in its past? The ninth Summit of the Americas is due to open on Monday June the 6th, in Los Angeles, California. Today, like many other international meetings, nothing important is expected of it, and even worse, it is trying to avoid a great failure.Not only because of a…
While the State Department furiously tries to convince the Latin American countries to attend the IX Summit of the Americas -despite knowing that the contributions of these countries to the stabilization of the world economy will be zero- there will be three characters who will not be invited but whose presence will be felt at…
What do Fidel Castro, Klaus Altmann Barbie, Gabriel García Márquez and Roberto Suarez Gómez have in common? Apparently nothing. Well, the first was the Cuban dictator, the second a Nazi war criminal, the third won the Nobel Prize for literature, and the fourth was a Bolivian drug trafficker. But in the 1980s, these four men…
Inter-American Watch Tuesday 5/24/2022 Bolivia The “evismo” instructs that even ministers pass an ideological course The national leadership of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), which is chaired by former President Evo Morales, issued an instruction in which even ministers and other authorities enroll in the courses taught by the recently created Plurinational School for Political…
