I have always appreciated the ability of American politicians to insult each other vigorously during a political campaign and then, when the campaign is over, work together in apparent friendship. Such civility does not come naturally to my Latin American tribe. For us an insult can be the topic of discord generations later as in:…
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua’s dictatorships, who are in total control of their justice systems, hand-down “atrocious sentences” based on narratives and facts that have been counterfeited against innocent people in order to instill fear and terror on the civilian population and subject it. The sentences handed-down for the cases fabricated as a result of…
Volodymyr Zelensky has made the rounds of NATO parliaments. One of the first virtual visits was, of course, to the “American friend”. He used a video and talked about Pearl Harbor, that vile surprise attack against an American naval base. All people in the US know that the “day of infamy” happened when Japan tried…
Trying to understand Vladimir Putin, historians of the future will be faced with choosing which tsar should be compared to in the millenary Russian history, whether with the European orientation of Peter the Great or the Asian orientation of Ivan the Terrible. Probably, they will have less doubts about what his greater geopolitical influence was.…
There are many speculations that abound in blogs and podcasts about an alleged and imminent replacement of the dollar as the world reserve currency. These hecatombic pieces of advice, however, seem to be contradicted by the world’s main currency markets, where the US currency continues to gain ground against the euro and the pound sterling.…
Journalist and narrator Juan Manuel Cao asks himself this question. He doesn’t believe it, and neither do I. He is a bit crazy, like all dictators, but that does not prevent him from having a certain distorted idea of reality. Was Adolf Hitler crazy or was he a manipulator causing panic attacks in everyone around…
Does our society owe anything to the poor or the unfortunate? If so, at what cost to others should help be provided? Philosophers who struggle with these questions often refer to a thought experiment in ethics and psychology called the trolley problem. The trolley problem illustrates the ethical dilemma of whether to sacrifice one person…
The terminal situation that 21st Century Socialism dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua find themselves in is so notorious that they can only hang-on to power through State terrorism and the violation of human rights. As part of the unavoidable demise of dictatorships, the resistance and those in exile have begun planning the transition…
Usually, constitutions are the national issue of each country, and only exceptionally other countries should worry. However, it is this second scenario that must summon the Argentine Republic, since what is emerging from the Chilean Constitutional Convention will have an internal impact. It is the indigenous issue, and specifically, with the repercussions that it could…
Madeleine Albright was prophetic when in an article written for the New York Times on February 23 of this year (24 hours before Vladimir Putin had that idea) she stated that if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be “a bloody and catastrophic war that would drain Russia of resources and would cost many lives while…
