Inter-American Watch Thursday 9/1/2022 Analysis The United States Needs to Get Serious About Latin America The United States needs to get serious about the Western Hemisphere and this means doing more than announcing foreign aid programs which may or may not survive congressional editing. China has replaced the United States as the leading trading…
In his most recent public statement, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, announces a true era of lean cows starting in the winter of 2022. Without saying so, he equates the reality we live in with the one that preceded the Second World War. For him, the social pact on which European democracies are based…
Inter-American Watch Tuesday 8/30/2022 Analysis Latin America needs “other tools” to pressure Daniel Ortega The persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua by the Government of Daniel Ortega reached its peak last Friday (08.19.2022), when Bishop Rolando Álvarez, five priests and three lay people were arrested in the diocese of Matagalpa, in the North…
For Bolivians, especially for those of us who maintain decency, it is very uncomfortable to be associated with Evo Morales and his falsehoods. It is very annoying to listen to any foreigner repeating the myths – among them, the economic “miracle” – of the first Bolivian “indigenous” government. However, the reality is different, Evo is…
Regardless of the winner of the plebiscite on Sunday the 4th, the constitutional issue will remain open. Apparently the error was trying to impose the project of a single sector, of opposite sign, but the same error of Pinochet. I think there is only one solution, the national agreement, that is, the constitution as everyone’s…
On the 23rd the corojo is broken, a mambisa expression that meant the end of the truce between the insurgents and the Spanish hosts, who refused to leave the “always faithful island of Cuba”, a phrase that, over time, became synonymous that there is no possible conciliation when the victims of the abuses assume that…
“It’s in the genes.” Javier Figueroa de Cárdenas is a relative of Miguel Figueroa, a brilliant 19th century autonomist. Autonomism was a way of being patriotic in Cuba, especially since the “Pact of Zanjón,” which in 1878 put an end to the “Ten Years War,” until 1898, when the United States tipped the balance in…
Inter-American Watch Thursday 8/25/2022 Analysis Lawfare, the term that unites the extreme left of Spain and Latin America and that they use to sanctify themselves It is one of the fashionable terms in the political language of the extreme left. And it has no borders. It is used regularly in any part of the…
The Pope has three roles; he is the Spiritual Leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he also is the Supreme Pontiff of that church, and he is the Head of State of the Vatican. The faith of millions of Roman Catholics makes this Spiritual Leader the supreme power over those who were ordained and those…
Latin America is shedding its skin. This is how we perceive it on our TV and computer screens when we see the images of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner parade, responding haughtily to the accusation of prosecutor Luciani of being involved in aggravated corruption. According to her, she is being stoned because she chose to make…
