Latin America

28.07.2023

Why Washington can't replace Maduro

For almost a quarter of a century, the U.S. government has been waging an undeclared war against Venezuela. “The Department is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information related to Nicolás Maduro Moros. If you have information and are outside the United …

Yuriy Stroev

17.07.2023

Guatemala's first lady leads in elections

At the same time, voters expressed their electoral dissatisfaction and sent two opposite presidential candidates to the second round. Less than a month after the vote, Guatemala's Constitutional Court (the country's highest court) authorized the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (analogous to the Central Electoral Commission) to …

Yuriy Stroev

12.07.2023

MERCOSUR: common market in the grip of discord

South America is ready to enter the "Global Gateway" of the EU only on the terms of mutual respect and equality At the crossroads of the three borders between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the 62nd MERCOSUR Heads of State Summit was held in Puerto Iguazu, …

Yuriy Stroev

28.06.2023

"Tracking Mission" or "Enemy Cyber Center on America's Doorstep."

Pentagon sends first U.S. National Cyber Security Mission Force team "on reconnaissance" to Central and South America U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) experts conducted their first-ever "Tracking Mission" in one of the Central or South American countries in early June. The mission was conducted to identify …

Yuriy Stroev

22.06.2023

President Petro's "lasting peace"

With a truce between the government and rebels in Colombia, the story of Latin American guerrilla ends The third cycle of negotiations between the Colombian government and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) ended in Havana with the signing of the "Cuban Agreement." …

Yuriy Stroev

16.06.2023

Maduro code: hack of US presidents' intervention

After losing the hybrid war in Venezuela, Trump himself became the target of Biden's "hybrid warfare." The former chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and current U.S. President Joe Biden carefully avoids publicly recalling his participation in the 2002 "short-lived coup" in Venezuela. …

Yuriy Stroev

13.06.2023

"Counterattack" by the European Union in the Western Hemisphere

The collective West intends to stop the "expansion" of China and Russia behind the "Global Gate." The visit to Cuba by one of the EU's top officials looked rather strange, given that Brussels traditionally repeats the U.S. hostile rhetoric against the Island of Freedom. But, …

Yuriy Stroev

06.06.2023

The New Geopolitics: "No Country Grows Alone"

The meeting of South American presidents laid the groundwork for renewed regional integration in order to avoid "another 500 years on the periphery." Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, having realized that there is no way to make a feijoada with the "Magnificent Seven" …

Yuriy Stroev

29.05.2023

Putin is opening a "window to America"

As in the distant days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia and Cuba have made an unequivocal choice in their confrontation with the U.S. and the collective West The case is unique in some ways: a small island in the Caribbean Sea, 180 km from …

Yuriy Stroev

25.05.2023

Lithium is the new "Eldorado" in the Andes

The world needs this soft metal more than ever, South America knows it and cautiously welcomes the neo-conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, Europeans traveled deep into South America in search of a gold-rich city. Today's Eldorado is where the Chinese, Europeans and Americans are now …

Yuriy Stroev

23.05.2023

Lasso chose "cross-death" and dissolved parliament

Ecuadorians have shown indifference to the tug-of-war between the country's executives and legislators. "I have decided to apply Article 148 of the Constitution of the Republic, which gives me the right to dissolve the National Assembly due to a serious political crisis and internal unrest," …

Yuriy Stroev

12.05.2023

The "Magna Carta" of Chile

Citizens of the country will have to adopt the fourth version of the basic law. This time, a "constitution of Pinochet" without Pinochet. For the sixth time in three years, Chileans were forced to go to the polls last Sunday to elect members of the …

Yuriy Stroev