On July 4, a formal delivery was made to President Boric of the proposal for the new constitution, which will be submitted to a plebiscite on September 4, 2022, the most important election that Chileans will have, to define the country’s own future. It was quite an achievement, considering that the term was one year…
The War in Ukraine has eliminated the post-cold war illusion that wars can be avoidable in the future and that the danger of another world war does not exist. Vladimir Putin intends to restore Russia’s ethos as a great world power or even empire. Thus, he dared attack Ukraine because he could. He saw in…
Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua’s magistrates and tribunals hand down sentences that are based on falsehood, violate human rights, willfully suppress the legal due-process, order undue detentions and condemn innocent people to many years of incarceration in order to generate fear in the population and subject it to the holders of power. These “crimes against…
Every time we put the “pos” or “post” before a word, it is an acknowledgment that we are dealing with a phenomenon or concept for which we do not yet have the elements to define it precisely or it is simply too new. To begin with, it occurs with postmodernity and with another concept with…
June says goodbye with new shocks for the world economy. On the one hand, the Group of Seven (Germany; Canada, United States, France, England; Italy, Japan) ended their meeting in the idyllic Bavarian landscape indicating to the world that they were indissolubly united behind the cause of Ukraine and that a competition with China begins…
Former President Álvaro Uribe predicts that “Colombia may have the worst and most dangerous neocommunism in the region, because President Petro is much more intelligent than Chávez, Castillo, Fernández and Ortega,” among other Latin American leaders. We do not doubt that Petro is more talented, shrewd and better structured than those named, but, for that…
Everything was very civilized. Very Colombian. Very polite. President Iván Duque, whom history will acquit because he has not put a peso in his pocket, called him, congratulated him and offered to meet with him. Álvaro Uribe said something that honors him. It was his first reaction to Petro’s victory on Sunday, June 19, “To…
The success of the 9th Summit of the Americas was to make it clear that organized crime’s dictatorships are outside of the InterAmerican system in which “peoples of the Americas have the right to democracy and their governments have the obligation to promote and defend it”. The regimes from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, along…
Capitalism may be defined, as Carl Marx did, by its labor system, where the workers do not own their own means of production. It may also be defined by the metaphorical ‘market’ where the buying and selling takes place, or by private ownership of the means of production rather than government ownership. But my interest…
All the nations of the world prostrate themselves before the scarcity and high prices of energy products and their derivatives. Because what Russia has unleashed by invading Ukraine is an energy supply crisis; a logistics crisis for energy products and a financial crisis. Facing this multifaceted crisis requires suspending the regulations that normally weigh on…
