Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Mexico’s Foreign Minister assured that 12 leaders are coming to the summit convened by AMLO in Palenque on migration, “and with us we are 13”. However, the list ends up being a list of friends: Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, and Guatemala. Perhaps …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’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”, based on rhetorical, simplistic, and ideological ideas about the origin of inflation, as …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The recently inaugurated Lula Da Silva government in Brazil is facing the effects of the most pernicious and negative policy of Jair Bolsonaro, his predecessor in the Presidency of his country: the militarization of public administration. Bolsonaro pushed thousands of military cadres …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The 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 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The lights and shadows of Latin America’s supposed shift to the left need to be explored. Does it mean being ‘left-wing’ simply because a leader or party proclaims itself as such? To understand a government’s ideology, it is necessary to explore its …