Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Under the pretext that NATO has expanded into former Soviet Satellites and Republics and that such expansion cannot continue, Putin’s Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and annexed Crimea in 2014, and then worked to separate to regions of Eastern Ukraine from the rest of Ukraine by providing para-military concealed soldiers and inciting protests. Now Putin…
A few days ago, Mr. Díaz-Canel, Dimitri Peskov, the Russian spokesman, candidly said, “We think about how to guarantee our own security.” He was referring to statements by Sergei Riabkov, Russian deputy foreign minister, in which he, mumbling, threatened the US with deploying troops and missiles in Cuba and Venezuela if NATO continued to besiege…
The swearing-in of Nicaragua’s dictator with the attendance of Mohsen Rezaee in representation of Iran as his guest, the surge of tension of Russia against Ukraine, the announcement of the Russian Vice Minister not to rule-out the “deployment of military infrastructure to Cuba and Venezuela”, the announcement of China to fund infrastructure construction in Latin…
I am reluctant to discuss nationalism in a short newspaper column. Nationalism is complex, misunderstood, and often abused. Yet, I will give it a try in my allotted 680 words. Let’s begin by clarifying that nationalism is not synonymous with patriotism. Nationalism and patriotism are often found together, but they are not the same. Just…
First things first. Go to the Washington Post and look for a great investigation on black slavery in the United States. You can do it thanks to the Internet, and it’s free. No less than 1,700 members of Congress, over years and decades, owned slaves, that is, they owned people. The last of those congressmen…
After perpetrating all possible crimes to continue holding power in the model of 21st Century Socialism, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo now stage the “swearing-in of Nicaragua’s dictator” on the basis of the fraudulent and macabre events held on 7 November of 2021 that were the so-called “elections”. It is the latest and most recent…
Inter-American Watch Monday, January 10th, 2022 The Americas China Driving Marxist Takeover of Latin America: ‘Aggressive Hostility Towards the United States’ A new wave of Marxist victories at the ballot box has spread throughout Latin America and a former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense says Chinese communists are behind the leftward shift. Frank Gaffney, president…
Calendar year 2022 has started and is vital for the survival of the peoples and the continued existence of democracy to understand what is happening. To understand means “to have a clear idea of things, to perfectly know something, to know”. As we start the third year of the third decade of the 21st century,…
It is worth reviewing what happened in Cuba in the preceding months. Year after year, and we are already on our way to the 63rd anniversary, I said we were near the end. I believed it, but it was not true. I thought that Fidel was interested in the fate of the Cuban people and…
The argument the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua use to coverup the violations of human rights they commit with State-sponsored terrorism, their economic failure, the social oppression, and the misery they have caused to their peoples, are the so-called sanctions or blockades. At the same time, however, for democracy’s banners and democratic leaders…
