Political, economic and security dynamics in Latin America examined within broader hemispheric and global frameworks.
A safe and well-paid shelter for the useless and unqualified. A safe and well-paid shelter for useless people without credentials. All political parties assume that, if they win elections, they will place their best people in positions of public responsibility. Then comes the dull reality of political bargaining, which quickly takes precedence over the public […]
Ode to Selective Virtue Read Post »
Uruguay in the geopolitics of communist revolutionary exportation. A web woven from Havana to Prague that ensnared an unprotected democracy. OPERATION MANUEL It is widely believed that deep differences existed between the Soviets and the Cubans, particularly because the Soviet Union was supposedly opposed to exporting revolution across Latin America in the manner promoted by
Cuba’s Revolution, Uruguay, the Soviets, and Czechoslovak Intelligence Read Post »
On the awakening of the sleepers and history’s judgment on collective madness It came to pass, reader, that after decades of staging this bloody farce and delirium for more than sixty years, the curtain began to fray from sheer exhaustion. The nations of the South, once the stage for “Operation Manuel” and the oil courtship
The Caribbean Theater of Marvels – Final chapter Read Post »