Global Order and Geopolitics

How the Real Uruguay Collides with Its Own Apparatus

Manuel Prestamo’s story, as one of the Cuban children of Operation Peter Pan, is also a story of exile, freedom, and the possibility of building a life of one’s own.

Two episodes involving football supporters and diverted city buses raise a deeper question about rules, coercion and the State’s capacity to respond.

A nostalgia pelo modelo cubano e uma crítica ao estatismo, à escassez administrada e à erosão da liberdade individual no Uruguai.

And the Bureaucratic Mirage

From the 1990 electoral defeat to the co-presidency with Rosario Murillo, Sandinismo turned pacts, reforms, and institutional control into permanent power.

From the port to education, a critique of corporate power, state inaction, and their costs for investment, work, and Uruguay’s development

The exclusion from formal work, the advance of organized crime, and confrontational militancy as expressions of the same fracture in the social fabric.

The technological convergence between both countries shows how different institutional trajectories can drive state efficiency, cybersecurity, and public-sector modernization.

A scene from the 1983 film provides a starting point for examining how Sandinismo went from fighting a dictatorship to building a regime that closes the electoral path.