Ricardo Pascoe Pierce On September 26 this year, Bloomberg reported that Mexico is sending free oil to Cuba. It noted that 350,000 barrels of crude oil were sent in June, while in July, twice as much was sent: 700,000 barrels. Mexico gave Cuba oil with …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO invited the countries closest to his heart to the September 16, 2023, military parade. All are ruled by dictatorships: Russia, China, Cuba and Nicaragua. Instead of being a parade commemorating a heroic deed in our national life, the president transformed the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Fifty years ago tomorrow, General Pinochet and almost the entire Chilean military broke their constitutional oath and staged a coup d’état against the legally elected government of Salvador Allende. The few military commanders who opposed the coup were eliminated. Thus, Chile aligned …
Antonio Navalón On a day like today, 50 years ago, the great Chilean dream came to an end. On the morning of September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende – a doctor by profession, winner of the leftist and Marxist candidacy of the Popular Unity party, …
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 …