President Biden’s trip reminded me of Henry Kissinger and unlike his traveling diplomacy, nothing substantial came out of the other, so much so that he almost immediately disappeared as news, since there was nothing substantial, beyond the rhetoric of the governments. I was angry with Kissinger for many years for his responsibility in creating the…
The Latin American and Caribbean region represents 33 countries. The Caribbean countries except the Dominican Republic and Haiti base their legal system on the Common Law of England. Therefore, the constitutional texts have much less importance in the domestic legal system than the custom of observing the law. The rest have judicial systems based on…
Petro’s experiment in Colombia will go terribly wrong. Mario Vargas Llosa has said it clearly. Colombians voted wrong. Also the Peruvians, and the Argentines and the Mexicans. Voting for the worst option is within everyone’s reach. Mario is an excellent writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2010, but he is not the Oracle of…
The 11th of July of 2021 (11-J) people peacefully took to the streets of Cuba with the chant of “freedom”, proclaiming the failure of the 62-year-old dictatorship, clamoring “down with communism” and pouring out their desperation due to the lack of food, medicines, and hope with the outcry “we are not afraid”. The regime’s response…
Cesar Vidal states that he has undergone a long interview related to humanity that mutates with unexpected speed, so we will face an unpleasant reality. We do not know if the writer has accentuated the perception of him for residing in the US, today not far from change. The appreciation led us to “The Big…
Perhaps two of Chile’s most important elections have been plebiscites, and both the model of society and democracy have been at stake. In 1988 the Chileans said NO to the continuity of General Pinochet and on September 4 they must approve or reject the proposal for a new constitution. My vote is in favour of…
For many analysts, the polarization in Latin America divides politics between leftists and rightists. This frankly has no basis in reality. Because except in Colombia, where left and right have Gustavo Petro and Alvaro Uribe as referents who, in addition to being politically savvy, are educated and excellent strategists, in the rest of Latin America…
I met the Gessens, a married couple who are both psychologists, as liberals – in the European sense of the term – and I saw them again as ambassadors of Venezuela in Canada, during the second government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. I remember that Vladimir Gessen never ceased to be useful to the Cubans who…
In Ecuador, socialism of the 21st century has just repeated its method to topple democratic governments, a method that has been executed throughout this century and that consists in the aggravation of social and economic grievances through the mobilization of sectors who go beyond protesting, include violence, paralyze the country and seek fatal victims to…
Any visit to the southern region of the Western Hemisphere serves to confirm that Latin America has entered a phase of self-destruction similar to the one that generated waves of hyperinflation that wiped out its middle classes. The image is the same whether it is Buenos Aires, Lima, Caracas, Bogotá, Santiago or Mexico City. Beggars…
