La visita de Tillerson a América Latina
El objetivo principal de su viaje era llegar a un consenso sobre un posible embargo petrolero contra Venezuela.
Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Will Ecuador exit Castroist-Chavist dictatorships’ group?
Ecuador’s current president Lenin Moreno is stronger but there is doubt whether he wants and is able to remove Ecuador from the Castroist-Chavist dictatorships’ group.
¿Sale Ecuador del grupo de dictaduras castrochavistas?
Ahora que Lenín Moreno ha recargado su capital político y tiene el mandato para restituir la democracia en Ecuador, la cuestión es si quiere y puede hacerlo, si los entornos políticos del régimen post-correista lo permitirá.
Communism and the Haitian fallacy
“They’re inviting us to change to the capitalist system, not to the capitalism of Switzerland but to that of Haiti, the one they dream of imposing on us.”
El comunismo y la falacia haitiana
“Nos invitan a que cambiemos al sistema capitalista, pero no al de Suiza, sino al de Haití, que es el que sueñan con imponernos”.
Tillerson’s Latin America visit positive, but work in progress
The reactions to this idea were good overall. Despite some obstacles, Tillerson’s visit launched an important and unprecedented process.
The Venezuela Petro CryptoCurrency’s Short Life Span
Former Venezuela Presidential Chief of Staff Beatrice Rangel on Venezuela’s latest crackpot idea: the PetroMoneda, a cryptocurrency supposedly backed by oil that is neither crypto, neither currency nor backed by anything except the same government that has brought 2800% inflation and 100,000% devaluation to existing currency the bolivar. How much do you want to buy?
Castroist-Chavist dictatorships make up, divide and manipulate the opposition.
In democracy, the political opposition has the possibility and the right to enter into covenants with or against the government, the opposition can be diverse and plural and can be divided or united by ideological, pragmatic, or even interest issues.
Dictaduras castrochavistas fabrican, dividen y manipulan oposición
Fabrican su oposición escogiendo a quienes la integrarán y les imponen lo que deben hacer, con el claro límite de que quien sea opositor de verdad tendrá persecución, cárcel, exilio o muerte como destino
There’s no worse nostalgia than missing what never ever happened
Probably that obsessive search for a mythical Golden Age that Trump keeps repeating in his speeches has to do with a characteristic of the conservative personality.