Photo: Dom Fou on UnsplashLuis RubioIn memory of Luis Alberto VargasGovernments come, and governments go, but one thing always stays: corruption. The actors change, but the phenomenon is perennial. And Mexico is not the exception to this: in his...
Image: on visualcapitalist.comWhat Powered the World in 2022?This was originally posted on Elements.In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from the previous year.In this visualization, we look at data from...
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...
Screenshot: on nationalgeographic.comAntonio NavalónAfter reading and analyzing Henry Kissinger's latest book, "Leadership", which he has just published at the age of 100, I have discovered something important and worth noting. At this point in civilization, there is almost nothing...
Image: on plumasatomicas.comRicardo Pascoe PierceExtremes touch, some say. And it is always surprising when it happens. The similarity between the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the presidential candidate of Argentina, Javier Milei, is undoubtedly surprising.Photo: Pixabay...
Image: Elnur on ShutterstockLuis RubioIndia advances uncontainably but in an exceedingly peculiar manner, deftly skirting the obstacles imposed upon it inexorably by its extraordinary linguistic, religious, and ethnic diversity. An extraordinarily complex and stratified society coming up against enormous...