The Catalan merchant who tore up his own vineyard, started again, and proved that Uruguay could build a wine industry
Francisco Vidiella, the Man Who Had to Unlearn Europe Read Post »
SAMUEL LAFONE: THE BUSINESSMAN WHO HELPED BUILD URUGUAY AND EXTENDED HIS VENTURES TO THE FALKLANDSHe arrived before independence, industrialized Montevideo, financed governments and expanded his commercial network into the South Atlantic. Lafone embodies the strengths and contradictions of a founding entrepreneur.By Santiago H. Pereira Testa
Most of today’s wars in the region do not arise from ancient rivalries but from the clash between a vanished imperial order and an artificial system of nation-states created after World War I.
The Ottoman Ghost: Why Middle East Conflicts Began After the Empire Collapsed Read Post »
A layered reading of contemporary geopolitics and the challenge of understanding it in the age of artificial intelligence.
Global Reality Versus Inner Reality Read Post »
