Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
The post pandemic world is becoming one of strong competition for political support, access to capital and investments. Chinese power is obvious and its push against United States does not significantly differ from a similar drive against Great Britain in the past.
An interesting thesis, specific to our politics, blames our political uncivility on partisan gerrymandering where the end result is that politicians choose their voters rather than voters choosing their representatives. Ultimately, the gerrymandering political mapping of demographic data contributes to an electoral situation where members of the other political party are viewed as enemies with whom it is unnecessary to work with to pass bipartisan legislation.
Some of the important actions of Mexico’s Lopez Obrador and Argentina’s Fernandez/Kirchner’s foreign policy shift are; the open support to Cuba’s dictatorship, recognition of dictator Nicolas Maduro and disavowal of Juan Guaido, the systematic paralization of the Group from Lima, the covering up of Rafael Correa sought by Ecuadorean justice with a sentence of 8 years in jail and an order for his arrest, the protection given to Evo Morales after he resigned and the open support for him to regain power in Bolivia and install a false narrative distorting the facts.
The lessons to be drawn from the outcome of these elections is that it is essential to break this the fateful and suicidal behavior of the non-modern sectors of Latin America’s population . This demands restoring hope in those citizens . They need to believe that everyone can achieve better levels of well-being. To do this, it is necessary to engage in wealth creation so as to grow their middle classes. Businessmen must stop extracting income and begin to create wealth.
The Group of 7 has played a stabilizing roles since its inception through coordination of economic policies to tame economic cycles and/or confront economic calamities such as the financial meltdown of 2008.
An annual report, country by country, which can show the different degrees of compliance and breach or violation of legal norms which are an international obligation in relation to democratic principles, would be an advance, a real progress which can help not only the people who suffer dictatorships but also could assist the cause of freedom where and when it is threatened.
“Peoples from the Americas have the right to democracy and their governments the obligation to promote and defend it” is mandated by the first article of the “constitutive treatise” of the Interamerican Democratic Charter. That same law, national and international in its scope, establishes the fundamental components of democracy which puts to rest any ambiguity or manipulation over what democracy is in the Americas.
As worldwide concerns over climate change mount their bands are equated with environmental disasters such as the Exxon-Valdez catastrophe in Alaska and BP’s Gulf of Mexico’s oil spill, the largest in history. And as photovoltaic; waste to energy and hydrogen continue to make inroads into the energy market the now Four Sisters continue to march towards oblivion. Courts all over the world are telling us that.
…socialism is advancing with a Fabian strategy of a slow, unnoticeable transition to socialism within a democratic framework; just as designed by the Fabian Society’s coat of arms of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
WEIRD and non-WEIRD peoples think differently and see the world differently. Most people around the world- the non-WEIRDs- think holistically focusing on groups and institutions, and are more likely to see relationships and contexts. Non-WEIRDs peoples are not dedicated to protecting individuals, and place the needs of groups and institutions ahead of the needs of individuals. Thus, their preferred political systems will be communitarian and oriented to groups and institutions.
