Tag: Ideas
What is legitimate and what is not? Should governments negotiate with terrorist and criminal networks to reduce crime and homicide? Both questions, and many others, arise under this theme. In terms of security and negotiations, there is a wide constellation of cases between states, insurgent groups, and guerrillas, but less so with terrorists or drug cartels.
During the 2017-2019 electoral super cycle, South America experienced a "turn to the right". Today, with these governments entering the different periods of administration, we wonder what the balance is. The first impression is that integration is going through one of its worst moments and that a quick exit from Maduro is not in sight.
For the first time in history, a U.S. Secretary of State will set foot on the world's largest river island. Most of the news coverage and analysis of this has focused on Donald Trump's attempt to present a tougher and more effective agenda on Venezuela for the Republican vote hunt in Florida.
The great ideological adversaries of 'nationalism' are today in crisis, as is the idea of 'globalization. This opens the door to the return of national cultural perspectives, in some cases packaged within civilizational dimensions.
We knew it was going to happen, but we didn't know when. The street would once again make itself felt in a country that is not used to doing so: protest has been a verb that is suspected of having affinities with the guerrillas, and Colombians are characterized by resilience, an attitude that is indispensable for surviving Macondo's tragic realism.
Many times in the world of personal and political intrigues we have seen poison appear as a character in history. This deaths populate fantasies of secrets, cunning and cowardly actions, denunciations and seek to repair reputation and dignity through humiliation or injustice.
Sometimes populisms create dynasties. The Bucaram family for years owned the mayor's office in Guayaquil and the Republican party is now in the hands of the Trump family. The Correa Delgado family is Ecuador's new political lineage. Although Rafael was unable to register his candidacy, the family is well represented by his brothers.