Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, called a meeting of presidents of South American countries to promote a regional integration process. The heads of state of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela attended the …
Image: Valery Sidelnykov on Shutterstock Juan Villoro Humanity is getting dumber and dumber, as evidenced by the international success of the Kardashians and the Mexican success of Acapulco Shore. Photo: Ali Pazani on Pexels This is not speculation but scientific fact. According to the “Flynn effect”, used to measure the collective level of intelligence, the …
Antonio Navalón In 1911, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – who then served as First Lord of the Admiralty – decided to change from coal to oil as fuel for the imperial naval fleet. And from that moment on, the whole world was configured with a …
China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to restore relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering …
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Russia’s war in Ukraine has significantly increased the likelihood of direct confrontation with NATO. Moscow is rattling the nuclear saber, NATO just added 830 miles of territory on the Russian border, and tensions are higher than ever. Russia now sees …
Antonio Navalón It has already begun. The fall of the Berlin Wall, what Francis Fukuyama once called the end of history, was the end of one stage and the beginning of another – as was foreseeable and as experience on the behavior of the human …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Russian invasion of Ukraine has provoked, in addition to death and destruction, the gestation of a new global geopolitical order. Such is the impact of the Russian President’s decision to launch another era of imperial wars. His decision, which contravenes the …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Violence grips the lives of millions of citizens in much of the world. India seems to be reliving the conflicts of hatred between its two predominant religions that came into a dispute at the time of the subcontinent’s independence from British colonialism. …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The 28th Iberoamerican Summit ended with a minimum agreement to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries. Still, it was unable to agree on that criterion in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to political differences between …
