The appreciation with respect to “Chinese civilization”, among other aspects, that it has a history of more than 3,500 years, is concluded to be “the oldest”. It is also read that “the Chinamen” conceived it from very early on, we do not know if because of their enlightenment or because of the vividness that typifies…
The Organization of American States (OAS) decided to initiate the application of the Democratic Charter to Peru, at the request of its government and through articles 17 and 18 of the Charter. It is true that it was requested by the Peruvian government itself and is among the least intrusive applications, but nothing alters the…
It was an excess of discordant voices. I was really alarmed to hear the group of speakers from the International Foundation for Freedom (Fundación Internacional para la Libertad, FIL) that recently brought us together, under the worthy presidency of Mario Vargas Llosa, in Madrid. I think some of my liberal friends exaggerate. At least, my most…
The spread of Cuba’s dictatorship in the Americas, with its system of institutionalized violations of human rights, State terrorism, imprisonments, torture, exile, and the turning of countries into narco-States have in Fidel Castro, Lula da Silva, and Hugo Chavez its three structuring chiefs. They are the creators of 21st Century Socialism, or Castrochavism, the transnational…
With regard to October 27 being the centenary of the birth of Carlos Andrés Pérez, those of us who knew him and accompanied him in his management are reliving the days of folly and political myopia that put an end to his second administration to open the doors to destructive populism. Those were the days…
The indigenous Venezuela discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498, becomes one of the provinces of Spain a while later, for the empire the way to manage the “mainland”. The management, in charge from Juan Martin de Ampúes, in 1527, to Francisco Dávila Orejón y Gastón, 1674, by an approximate number of 40 governors. In 1811…
In October 2019 there was an explosion of enormous magnitude, a mixture of social demands and violence, where churches, Metro stations, transport buses and shops were destroyed. Not only that, but he had support, appreciation and validation in the media and political groups, with tributes that brought the Congress to the front line of the…
It was the consecration of Xi Jinping. On mid-October 2022, during the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 1,500 delegates, all wearing ties and dark suits, in a packed theater, swore to love Mao even though, at this stage of the reforms, they were at the antipodes of Marxism. The great contradiction is that…
In Latin America little should be known about the Alex Jones affair. But just as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the pillar on which the international scaffolding for the protection of human rights was built, the Alex Jones case will be remembered in the future as the watershed that put an end to…
The world lacks good international governance, and an important part of the problem is due to the great paradox of the 21st century, since the architecture of world organizations is in the hands of institutions that correspond to another historical era. Indeed, we live in the era known as globalization, while most of the organisms…
