Brazil is particularly important in Latin America despite the fact that the two entities live back-to-back separated by language and idiosyncrasy. It remains to be seen who will win on October 30, Lula or Bolsonaro. The left or the right? The disparity in the polls has already been pointed out. Lula thought the first round…
In the sixties on buses and trains in Rome we used to witness discussions between passengers regarding the past, present and future of Italy, in which it was common to hear a question or statement ¿Fascisti erano tutti? or ¡Tutti erano fascisti! They were also pronounced at the “Universita degli Studi di Roma”, with the…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 10/6/2022 Analysis How Pablo Iglesias seeks to remake himself with Chile: from his twitter obsession to his support for Boric “Chile represents a political paradigm for the left around the world,” the founder of Podemos said on Friday during his visit to the country. His interventions on internal politics are constant,…
The inhabitants of Aomori were preparing for rest when the authorities sounded the alarm signal that should be collected in solid concrete buildings in case they were affected by a nuclear missile from North Korea. And even when the missile sank in the Pacific, the terrified population only regained calm a day later. The investigations…
Inter-American Watch Tuesday 10/4/2022 Analysis Sippenhaft, the German pattern with which they torture political prisoners in Venezuela Venezuelan security forces detain brothers, parents, children or relatives of political prisoners, as a measure of pressure so that they surrender from exile or confess responsibilities. This method of pressure used in the Third Reich by the…
Although the leadership of the Revolution tried to give the insurrectionary triumph a certain religious and humanistic aspect, very soon the belief in another superior being became the most feared enemy of the triumphant insurrection, along with the proclaimed humanism as green as palms. Fidel Castro attacked religions in Cuba with ferocity, just as he…
Third-generation gangs are the social phenomenon that mark the history of Ibero-America in the last decade of the 20th century and the first two of the 21st. These new actors of transnational crime, using some variant of populist discourse, took power in Venezuela, Ecuador , Argentina, Nicaragua and Bolivia, although Fidel Castro had already managed…
Every two years, on the second Tuesday of November, the 435 members of the United States House of Representatives are elected or re-elected, which is the one that delivers (and not the other way around) the resources for the functioning of the federal government and that can accuse constitutionally to the president. Also, and in…
It is heard that languages are language mechanisms that help us to know ourselves as biological and symbolic beings, which means that it is a methodology fueled by dynamism and inventiveness. In the permanent struggle between one and the other, imagery feeds the “vocabulary”, with commendable ease and speed. In “politicking”, defined as a “source…
In 1959, 1960 and 1961, someone who was green on the outside and red on the inside was known in Cuba as a “political melon.” I don’t believe that Giorgia Meloni, who has just won the elections in Italy, is a fascist deep inside, nor even green on the outside, although many of her positions…
