By handing over the Nobel medal to Trump, Machado sought to speed up the transition, but ended up exposing his greatest dilemma: international influence without effective power.
What is presented as scientific consensus can become an act of power when it is applied without considering the bodies, cultures, and inequalities it seeks to organize.
In 2026, Guatemala will not elect a president, but it will choose those who will hold in their hands the rules, the referees, and the limits of democracy.
Mexico reduced poverty without extraordinary economic growth: it did so by challenging the idea that the market, on its own, guarantees social progress.
U.S. policy toward the island no longer seeks to manage a reality, but rather to close an unfinished history by turning economic suffering and migration into moral proofs.
