Uruguay in the Face of Global Power Reconfiguration and the Erosion of the United Nations The world born in Yalta and Potsdam, later shaped by the Cold War, has changed. As with any major global transformation, it took time for this shift to unfold and even more time for those of us living far from […]
The Post-Yalta World Order: Strategic Realism and the Crisis of International Law Read Post »
From the Critique of Political Economy to the Construction of New State Ideologies: A Strategic Analysis of Marxism and Its Contemporary Derivations The False Promise of Marx Marx claimed that social science truly begins only when we tear away the veil of ideology. For him, everything related to human society was ideological. While he applied
A philosophical reflection on the concept of God in Judeo-Christian tradition and its possible reading as an expression of Universal Laws What if one of the most influential words in human history has not been mistranslated, but incompletely understood? Elohim. With this word, Genesis begins. With it, civilizations were shaped, institutions justified, moral systems constructed,
The demolisher of ideologies and father of the most perverse one Marx: Critique of Ideology and False Consciousness To understand why Marx was so critical of “ideology,” we must first strip the word of its modern connotation. Today, we use “ideology” as a synonym for a “system of ideas.” For Marx, however, ideology was something
IDEOLOGY: CORRUPTION AND STATE PLUNDER Read Post »
The Latin American experience as a case study within a broader global pattern of crony capitalism and kleptocracy Ideology often functions as a disguise for organized systems of appropriation. Ideology has been defined as a structured set of ideas reflecting a rigid worldview, codified into a doctrinal body designed to establish channels of influence and
Ideology and State Capture: How Political Narratives Conceal Structural Corruption Read Post »
Which leaders are we talking about? The cost of “banality” The worst effect of these leaders is not the money they appropriate (which is considerable), but the opportunity cost. While these societies debated political or criminal responsibility for Cristina’s handbags, Maduro’s birds, Fernández’s parties at the Olivos presidential residence, or the legal proceedings against Sánchez’s
THE RANKING OF USELESS PRESIDENTS Read Post »
The Uruguayan case and declassified intelligence files exposing Cold War operational networks Spies with Names and Surnames: “RIFLE” If a civilian operating as a paid spy for international communism seems reprehensible, what would it mean if he were a military officer? The Uruguayan case as a study of ideological and operational infiltration by the Soviet
Soviet Infiltration and Historical Narrative Manipulation in Latin America Read Post »
A critical examination of contemporary presidents and governments in Europe and Latin America during the first quarter of the 21st century The legacy of the useless doesn’t disappear, it simply blends in. In this new era they ignore, they are doubly dangerous: useless and contagious. A marketing lie elevated Mujica to the status of leader
The Crisis of Western Political Leadership: Demagoguery, Power and Institutional Decay Read Post »
The Uruguayan case as a study of Soviet bloc ideological and operational infiltration in Latin America. In The Art of War, written around 500 B.C., Sun Tzu classifies five types of spies: the native spy, the inside spy, the double agent, the expendable spy, and the living spy. He clarifies, although it hardly seems necessary,
Native Latin American Espionage in the Context of the Cold War Read Post »
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
The Collapse of Populist Leadership in Latin America Read Post »