Author name: Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano

Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano
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Strategic Latin America

The Collapse of Populist Leadership in Latin America

Ideological governance, corruption, and institutional breakdown in the Southern Cone Useless leaders who marked the inexorable fate of their voters Alberto Fernández (Argentina) He left Argentina with inflation exceeding 211 percent, a poverty rate that surpassed 50 percent, and an economic and political paralysis that foreshadowed a social and economic catastrophe. His internal conflict with […]

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A deteriorated empty presidential chair in a dark institutional room, symbolizing the collapse and erosion of modern political leadership.
Global Order and Geopolitics

THE RANKING OF USELESS PRESIDENTS

A global ranking of presidents defined by incompetence, corruption, and structural damage The worst in class Historical turning points have always thrown rulers off balance, with only rare and honorable exceptions, who proved genuine wisdom by getting ahead of their time or by choosing a dignified exit. The demands placed on exceptional leaders and technically

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A fragile, transparent political leader seated at an oversized command table, symbolizing weak leadership in a complex global era.
Ideas and the Transformation of Liberalism

The Collapse of Political Leadership in the New Global Era

Why weak executives are failing in a world shaped by technology and geopolitical competition The end of ineffective presidents In this new global era, societies can no longer afford ineffective leadership. Review. The anatomy of inaction Contemporary politics is experiencing a silent crisis. Not through dramatic institutional collapses, but through a persistent aesthetic of failure.

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A silent institutional building casting a long shadow over waiting citizens, symbolizing democratic decay without collapse
Global Order and Geopolitics

The Silent Collapse of Democratic Checks and Balances

How low-intensity institutional failure turns modern democracies into hollow states. Uruguay as a regional case study The final outcome is not always social explosion. Sometimes it is systemic languishing. The country simply stops functioning. Basic services deteriorate to the point of disappearance, infrastructure decays, and the rule of law becomes optional and selective. In this

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A symbolic illustration of an unbalanced institutional scale showing executive power overwhelming a weakened parliament in a decaying democratic system.
Global Order and Geopolitics

The Silent Collapse of Checks and Balances in Modern Democracies

How political incompetence and permanent debt hollow out parliaments and suffocate productive economies When taxation is no longer sufficient, Parliament authorizes permanent increases in debt or monetary issuance, which function as deferred or hidden taxes, deepening long-term damage without any serious cost-benefit analysis. What may once have been, millennia ago, a mechanism to overcome critical

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Global Order and Geopolitics

The Collapse of Fiscal Oversight in Modern Democracies

How legislatures surrender their role, enabling fiscal abuse and the erosion of the productive citizen Abuse Against the Taxpayer Parliament should act as the citizen’s shield against the fiscal appetite of the State. Instead, a phenomenon of technical or political blindness has taken hold. New taxes and regulatory burdens are enacted for revenue purposes without

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An unbalanced institutional scale where the executive branch outweighs the legislative and judicial branches in a dark, abstract setting.
Ideas and the Transformation of Liberalism

The Failure of Checks and Balances in Modern Democracies

How executive power, party discipline, and judicial dependence are turning representative democracies into elective autocracies The constitutional system of checks and balances is a utopian fallacy of democratic mechanics in which executive, legislative, and judicial powers are supposed to limit one another to prevent abuses arising from power concentration. The very definition provokes irony in

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A middle-class citizen standing before a large institutional building symbolizing bureaucratic and fiscal pressure in modern democratic systems.
Ideas and the Transformation of Liberalism

OUR DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP – Part 3

Approaching the hollowing out of effort and intelligence The Exile of Intelligence: When Democracy Becomes Confiscatory In our countries, where we supposedly enjoy popular sovereignty, we suffer from the prisoner’s syndrome: when someone is locked up and does nothing. Because nothing is done, submission deepens, and the desire to rebel against an unjust situation fades.

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