Image: Francescoch on iStockRicardo Pascoe PierceWhat does the left have to offer Mexico and the rest of Latin America? In Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the question is quickly answered: it offers dictatorship and corruption. In Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Colombia,...
Photo: Felipe Parucker on PexelsJuan VilloroEspionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a...
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:...
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: 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...