Photo: Zameel HZ on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceSimplifying what is happening in Latin America in political, economic, and social terms leads to a failure to perceive long-term trends. Instead, analyses tend to start from immediate circumstances to extrapolate long-term trends.Photo:...
Ricardo Pascoe PierceArgentina repudiated Peronism, Kirchnerism, leftism, and the populist rhetoric accompanying those governments for over two decades. During that time, it has received political support from Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, Lula Da Silva, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador.Photo:...
Image: Arthouse Studio on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceThe contemporary world has become a highly dangerous place. The bipolar Cold War world of communism and capitalism, inaugurated after World War II in 1945, ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union...
Image: on YouTubeRicardo Pascoe PierceMexico's Foreign Minister assured that 12 leaders are coming to the summit convened by AMLO in Palenque on migration, "and with us we are 13". However, the list ends up being a list of friends:...
Image: Erhej Calka on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceOn 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...
Photo: on presidente.gob.mxRiccardo Pascoe PierceAMLO 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...
Image: EFE/Presidencia on havanatimes.orgRicardo Pascoe PierceFifty 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...