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 The result of the Constitutional referendum in Chile, with 88% of the ballot boxes counted: 38% Approve, 62% Reject. Early in the morning and, therefore, when the voting continued, I received this testimonial from Patricia Morales, founder and former President of Chile’s …
Antonio Navalón We live in an era in which the deluge of changes has provoked a flood and disruption of everything we thought we knew and understood. When a century from now, what has happened during this era is analyzed, it will surely come to …
Antonio Navalón The newly elected President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has once again demonstrated an undeniable fact about the reality of the American continent. Colombia is the country in America where not only – in my opinion – the clearest and most fluent Spanish is …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce López Obrador has been caught in the maze of his bravado in favor of three dictatorships and against the United States. Whatever he decides to do about the Summit of the Americas-attend or not-he is going to look bad to everyone. And …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Eduardo Galeano published his classic book The Open Veins of Latin America in 1971. The text was immediately taken as a sacred reference for the Latin American left. It is a rebuke of foreign powers’ constant plundering of the region’s natural resources. …