Holding the 9th Summit of the Americas, an event the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua cannot attend, prove; the existence of “two Americas” the democratic one and the dictatorial other, and the existing confrontation encouraged and promoted by Bolivia’s dictatorship and by the governments of Mexico and Argentina. The nature of dictatorial regimes is…
The Ninth Summit of the Americas will be in Los Angeles starting on the 6th, but the 8th is when the presidents will arrive. AMLO has become the Patron Saint of dictatorships – Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. He has threatened not to go to the California meeting if the three dictatorships are not invited. (Since…
The electoral result in Colombia is the clearest sign of the end of an era that has lasted 500 years in Latin America. This epoch is that of the medieval order. The people of Colombia have made it very clear that they prefer to be governed by figures other than the elites of the medieval…
In the spring of 2018, I spent several weeks traveling throughout Southeast Asia visiting Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand to study the organic nature of the political ideas governing these regimes. Politically, Laos and Vietnam are Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republics, presumably in some state of undefined transition. Cambodia is a former French protectorate, and is…
The electoral results of last Sunday in Colombia leave many lessons for all the political sectors of the continent, both from the right and from the left. And the political process that has taken place in the last 20 years in my country is an x-ray of the extent to which polarization and hate speech…
If it is stagnant, does the above mean that it is time for a ceasefire? Not really, at least not now. And there are several reasons. The first and most important has to do with what the general and Chinese scholar Sun-Tzu (544-496 A.C.), author of “The Art of Democracy” said about two and a…
Chile’s Constitutional Convention has delivered the proposed draft of the new Constitution so that a “harmonization commission” can prepare the final text to be presented to the President of the Republic this coming 5th of July so that he may call for a “mandatory referendum” to be held on 4 September. They propose a new…
I read in a research on Colombia that poverty and lack of opportunities increase Gustavo Petro’s chances among young people. Colombians must be told that there is no possible redemption along the path chosen by Petro, except to emigrate, as six million Venezuelans, two million Cubans and one million Nicaraguans have done. There is no…
With his phrase “I am I and my circumstance,” Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) summarized the belief that human beings can not be isolated from their circumstances. For Ortega y Gasset individuals and societies are not detached from their past; to know a society we must know its history. Yet, we often make…
Is the future of the Summit in its past? The ninth Summit of the Americas is due to open on Monday June the 6th, in Los Angeles, California. Today, like many other international meetings, nothing important is expected of it, and even worse, it is trying to avoid a great failure.Not only because of a…
