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For many decades consumers in Latin America were penalized with higher prices for worse products than those that were available in the US and Europe because it was the historical tax that everyone had to pay for the region to enter development. When the debt burden was swept away, the multilaterals, and Private equity funds found that local teams underperformed on almost every count including employment creation, workers compensation; training and innovation. But their environmental record went unnoticed. When the social dimension is affected by poverty hunger and pain those that have the responsibility of administering justice must stand by them so that these conditions do not make them prey of injustice and illegality. The burden of corruption makes in impossible to operate effectively. Taming corruption thus seems to be the unequivocal highest priority in Latin America.
The Asian population is diverse representing over 20 nations in Asia, with China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. From the purely economic perspective Asians are great savers and education achievers. Education is yet another area where the Asian fingerprint is bound to be beneficial. Asians thus have their brains trained in data processing which is the basis of growth in the information era. This gives Asians a competitive edge that other mortals lack. And Asian Americans are depositories of this wealth creating ability. All these dimensions of the Asian American population are at the root of most economic predictions on the greater perspectives the US has to strengthen its economy through exchanges with Asian and to come out primus inter pares in a faceoff with China.
The Secretary Almagro built and sustains an implicit reality that is very different to the objective reality the people, the public opinion, the press, the leaders and any honest observer perceive. It is most evident the General Secretary’s efforts to present Castroist Chavist dictatorships as separate and independent processes, unrelated between each other. It is shameful that for a very same matter in which the subjects, the objectives, the criminal methodologies, the acts of reciprocal cooperation, the cover ups and the common crimes, are all identical the Secretary Almagro to present and impose his distorted reality of separating, giving a different treatment to, and thus applying the strategy of the Castroist Chavist system. The OAS’ 49th General Assembly has failed on the most important matters of democracy and human rights, repeating statements regarding Venezuela and Nicaragua, while ignoring Cuba’s dictatorship, and not dealing with Bolivia’s case.
As China pushes its Belt and Road Initiative to promote infrastructure development and through these means enhance trade flows with emerging markets, the world will enter into a new development phase with two engines: the US and China. While for China this will be a debut into international economic supremacy, for the US is a sequel to the post-world war period. For those that fear that the current Trump induced tantrum with China will lead to a world economic crisis, please relax as physicists have found out the dark matter is indestructible!!!!
The Organization of American States is avoiding to apply the Interamerican Democratic Charter (IDC) to Bolivia’s “vote-catching dictatorship”. I have imagined the “vote-catching dictatorship” as “a political regime that by force or violence; concentrates the whole of political power in one person or in one group, represses human rights and basic freedoms, and uses elections as a means of simulation and propaganda in order to keep itself indefinitely in power”. The OAS’ 49th General Assembly, will be stigmatized by “Almagro’s double standard” in the application of principles and regulations and will be known as the one that covered up Bolivia’s dictatorship.
The Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretary gave his backing to a disqualified Evo Morales endorsing his fourth consecutive candidacy to Bolivia’s presidency as a “human right”, the condemnation to Luis Almagro’s actions and arguments for committing and holding up such a felony is massive. People, journalists, organizations, academicians, parliamentarians, and diplomats, point out perplexed the General Secretary’s opposite position dealing with the same facts elsewhere and ask the OAS for concrete actions. The OAS, however, has not addressed the issue and up to now covers up “Almagro’s double standard”.The OAS is a political entity of 35 States represented by their governments where each government’s interests and ideology define their position and therefore the Organizations’ course. The General Secretary is the OAS’ legal representative, elected by the General Assembly for a 5-year term, and can only be reelected once. If the OAS at its 49th General Assembly does not deal with Almagro’s deplorable conduct to benefit Bolivia’s dictatorship and applies the IDC to Bolivia, just as it did to Venezuela, besides covering it up, the OAS will be enabling the fourth Castroist Chavist dictatorship to have a firm foothold in Bolivia and will add a new violation of its principles and objectives, taking this institution back to the days of Insulza’s Organization.
With his backing to Evo Morales’ fourth consecutive candidacy, The General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), annihilated his credibility, places the Organization in a crisis, and affects the region’s security. The General Secretary violates the Interamerican Democratic Charter and the Interamerican System in Bolivia’s case. The General Secretary stating: “My position remains the same, the reelection is not a human right, but I don’t have any institutional means to oppose a judgement, a ruling from the Bolivian Supreme Court, moreover because the Interamerican System never said anything regarding this”. The Secretary has never mentioned Article 32.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights that mandates “The rights of every individual are limited by the rights of the others, by the security of all, and by the just demands of the common good in a democratic society”.
In April 1986 the dwellers of Chernobyl, Ukraine saw a plume of fire and smoke rise in the clean sky as reactor 4 began melting down after a steam explosion led to a fire. The people of Chernobyl and nearby villages were severely injured by the incident. A chain of denials thus covers the truth every time anything goes wrong. In Colombia another Chernobyl has just happened without being noticed. A silent and invisible radioactive explosion was triggered by the Supreme Court. It let Jesus Santrich free after being caught closing a sale of cocaine to the Gulf Cartel in Mexico. Mr Santrich was thus caught in violation of the Peace Agreements, but The Supreme Court found that Mr. Santrich has to be let free to take his seat in parliament. This was despite a US request for extradition substantiated with evidence. And just like Chernobyl the Santrich decision will affect millions of Colombians who will experience the lethal consequences of impunity. Notably among them, the swift and silent penetration of Colombian political institutions by organized crime.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, points out that the Venezuelan president responds to Cuban dictates. If the U.S. were successful in pressuring Cuba to withdraw troops from Venezuela, the Maduro regime would collapse. If Cuba refuses, Senator Graham suggests mobilizing troops to the region. It is now important to start cutting the weapons supply from Russia, flights from Iran, and any aid coming from China. A naval and aerial blockade, would be a good start. The U.S. is doing the right thing by insisting on regime change in Venezuela; however, it must be done with thoughtful planning and careful analysis of Venezuela’s internal situation.
Mr. Luis Almagro has contravened the OAS’ General Secretariat to benefit Evo Morales. Bolivia; with the referendum election of 21 February of 2016 (21F) rejecting the reelection, with a constitution that was supplanted and had already been defiled so that Morales could reelect himself in 2014, with the guarantees of Article 32.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights that was in effect, with the absence of all of the essential components of democracy listed in Article 3 of the IDC, with political prisoners, and over 1,200 political exiles, a nation turned into a “narco-state” and with the findings of the Venetian Commission . . . has not given Secretary Almagro any institutional instrument to oppose Evo Morales’ dictatorship!!??
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