Journalist and narrator Juan Manuel Cao asks himself this question. He doesn’t believe it, and neither do I. He is a bit crazy, like all dictators, but that does not prevent him from having a certain distorted idea of reality. Was Adolf Hitler crazy or was he a manipulator causing panic attacks in everyone around…
Does our society owe anything to the poor or the unfortunate? If so, at what cost to others should help be provided? Philosophers who struggle with these questions often refer to a thought experiment in ethics and psychology called the trolley problem. The trolley problem illustrates the ethical dilemma of whether to sacrifice one person…
The terminal situation that 21st Century Socialism dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua find themselves in is so notorious that they can only hang-on to power through State terrorism and the violation of human rights. As part of the unavoidable demise of dictatorships, the resistance and those in exile have begun planning the transition…
Inter-American Watch Thursday March 31st, 2022 The Americas The Puebla Group encourages the return to Brazil of Lula’s model of corruption This Tuesday a meeting of the Puebla Group began in Rio de Janeiro in which, among many others, the former presidents José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Ernesto Samper Pizano, the former chief of staff…
Jeanine Añez, former president of Bolivia, has been a prisoner of the regime for a year. The accusations against Añez have focused on events prior to her assuming power, including terrorism, sedition, conspiracy, breach of duties and resolutions against the Constitution. For the Movement Towards Socialism, the way in which Añez came to the presidency…
Usually, constitutions are the national issue of each country, and only exceptionally other countries should worry. However, it is this second scenario that must summon the Argentine Republic, since what is emerging from the Chilean Constitutional Convention will have an internal impact. It is the indigenous issue, and specifically, with the repercussions that it could…
Inter-American Watch Monday, March 28th, 2022 The Americas Why does Latin America dominate the World’s most violent cities list? Much like in recent years, the 2021 ranking of the world’s 50 most violent cities is littered with urban centers in Latin American and the Caribbean. The top eight are all in Mexico, and the region…
Madeleine Albright was prophetic when in an article written for the New York Times on February 23 of this year (24 hours before Vladimir Putin had that idea) she stated that if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be “a bloody and catastrophic war that would drain Russia of resources and would cost many lives while…
The Interamerican Institute for Democracy (IID) and the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom of Florida International University (FIU) have set up a working group for Haiti, with the purpose of delivering a proposal to the international community for that country. The working group is coordinated by Dr. Ricardo Israel and is composed of a group of…
I don’t think that Ukraine can enter NATO. It’s sad but true. The idiot Putin prevents it. Why “idiot”? It’s a very strong word. “Idiot”, because the former KGB agent is chained to a geopolitical perception prior to supersonic aviation and rocketry. His vision belongs to the time when the world was divided into zones…
