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...
Photo: Kindle Media on PexelsAntonio NavalónOn 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...
Photo: Yamil Lage AFP via Getty Images on thestkittsneviobserver.comRicardo Pascoe PierceAMLO'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",...
Image: Francescoch on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceThe 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...
Photo: Mike on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceThe 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...
Image: William Potter on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceAMLO'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...