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 […]

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

The Uruguayan Rajka case and communist influence networks operating from Eastern Europe Communist espionage agents in South America did not resemble the James Bond characters of Fleming’s novels. They neither possessed elegant manners nor a license to kill, nor did they live surrounded by glamorous women. They were ordinary individuals, many of them journalists, like

The Uruguayan case and the role of intelligence services operating under diplomatic cover. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union openly identified the United States as its main enemy. From that premise, it sought to encircle it strategically while reinforcing its own borders through satellite states. Within that framework, Cuba’s attempt to export its revolution

Why the intervention in Caracas is better understood through geopolitics than oil interests Following the U.S. armed operation in Caracas and the transfer of Maduro’s regime to U.S. territory, public reactions split sharply between support and condemnation. Most of the criticism revolved around two claims. First, that the action violated public international law and bypassed

The Uruguayan case and the KGB networks revealed through Eastern European Cold War archives Spies With Names and Surnames A secret revealed shakes Uruguayan socialism. The saga of spies operating in Uruguay in the service of the USSR comes to light. Socialists and communists, are they really different? “I got plenty of nothing,” sings a