The Political and Electoral Myth of ‘If the Opposition was United’
One way to brush off disappointments or defeats is to imagine alternate hypothetical situations—”if such and such had happened, so and so result would have followed.” It is a comfort zone which only...
National Strike in Colombia: A Labyrinth for Uribism
Twenty years of Uribism in power “We woke up in the night of terror amidst the bullets and the helicopter…”: so begins one of the many terrible stories of the people who lived in the Comuna 13 of...
El Conuco: Against the Global Environmental Crisis
The notion of “conuquera” is based on an ecosystemic vision in which everyone and everything is interrelated, and a culture that seeks to bring together what capital fragments. Not only is it...
Guyana, Inc.: Subsidiary of ExxonMobil
The Ministry of Natural Resources of Guyana announced last week the extension of its deadline to July 15, 2023, for the submission of bids for the licensing of 14 oil blocks, the original deadline...
Nicaragua 2021: A New Imperial Aggression
Nicaragua is a small country in Central America that has a population 50 times and an area 75 times smaller than that of the United States. The U.S. GDP (in 2019) was 1,772 times that of Nicaragua...
Where is Latin America on the De-Dollarization Map?
In recent weeks, the information trend in economic matters has been led by multiple geopolitical endeavors that point towards de-dollarization or the diversification of finance and the world economy...
Duque, Bolsonaro and Piñera: Between Guardianship and Crimes Against Humanity
A few days ago some news portals reported that Colombian President Iván Duque was denounced before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. This denunciation was made by...
Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. On Friday, after a videoconference meeting, the Eurasian Economic Union (...
Cancel Culture: Consequences of Western Russophobia
It is a bit strange to come across a news headline that states there has been some kind of controversy between Russian President Vladimir Putin and British author JK Rowling. Even more so...
The Venezuelan Conuquera Seed Signifies a Struggle for Identity and Resistance
The conuco as a system and concept brings with it the care and multiplication of seeds of traditional and new items. Life, culture, knowledge, health, traditional agricultural systems and even the...