Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s foreign policy has failed because it promotes an authoritarian ideology that most countries in Latin America do not accept. Examples abound, including his new “Latin American anti-inflation plan”, based on rhetorical, simplistic, and ideological ideas about the origin of inflation, as …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Brazilian candidate to head the Inter-American Development Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, won the leadership in an election that pitted two Latin American giants, Mexico and Brazil, against each other. Goldfajn won the election with 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The lights and shadows of Latin America’s supposed shift to the left need to be explored. Does it mean being ‘left-wing’ simply because a leader or party proclaims itself as such? To understand a government’s ideology, it is necessary to explore its …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s recent foreign policy decisions reveal unacceptable alliances with dictatorships. These alignments indicate that Mexico is positioning itself to validate an era of anti-liberal and anti-democratic practices. A government’s foreign policy is also a faithful portrait of its domestic policies. Recently, the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Everything is ready for the September 16 show: the National Guard will be presented as part of the Army. In the Chamber of Deputies, Morena approved, fast-track and without discussion, the administrative reform that turns the National Guard, a civilian police force …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The organization Prisoners Defenders revealed that 500 Cuban military personnel recently entered Mexico. This was related to one of them who lived through the process. He said that they entered the country through Mexican military air bases without being registered by immigration …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce In Cuba, the new Criminal Code includes the possibility of the death penalty for crimes such as “disseminating false news”. Human rights organizations and defenders worldwide have denounced this new criminal instrument in Cuba as a reflection of the authorities’ fear of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Cuban government has just sentenced 128 people to a total of 1,916 years in prison for protesting peacefully against the high cost of living, the mismanagement of Covid, and the lack of freedoms, on July 11, 2021. Of this total, two …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Ukraine and Cuba have something in common, defined by their geographic location and internal politics. They are hostage states because of their geographies and national circumstances. In a world of recurring conflicts between superpowers, being the “near neighbor” to either means geopolitical …