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 …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders’ speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common issues: the war in Ukraine, the global financial system, poverty, the …
What 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 the latest Statistical Review of World …
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, …
Antonio Navalón After 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 new under the sun, and generally, the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Extremes 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. Of course, one, the Mexican, claims to be …
Luis Rubio India 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 barriers to progress, it has found innovative ways …
The political race is heating up in the United States, and it is really embarrassing to see the contenders’ lack of quality and credibility. President Biden seems to be deteriorating by the hour and commented while visiting the Maui fire disaster that provoked a general …
