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 …
There are many ways to measure different economies against one another, but comparing countries by GDP per capita remains one of the most tried-and-true methods. GDP per capita attempts to level the playing field by dividing a country’s economic output by its population, effectively giving the average …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO 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 our national life, the president transformed 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 …
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 …
Mexico faces a political challenge of enormous dimensions. It needs a new system as the one that ruled for over a century has collapsed. The ease with which the President attacks and dismantles institutions proves that Mexican democracy is far too fragile and that the …