Bauzá’s constitutional defense during the exile of Máximo Santos offers a timeless warning about the dangers of using political power to override constitutional order and popular sovereignty. After the attempt on his life, General Santos eventually resigned from the presidency and left for Europe with his family.After General Tajes was elected, he appointed Dr. Julio […]

A debate born after Latorre’s dictatorship offers enduring lessons about legality, institutional stability and political responsibility. Not many years ago, a former President of the Republic, whose name I do not wish to recall, stated before a press always eager for his controversial remarks that politics prevails over law.His words, as usual, generated the most

How electoral irresponsibility and political demagoguery transfer the costs of failure to those trying to prevent institutional collapse. The Blackmail of the UnaccountableThe kidnapping of common sense: the perverse business of political irresponsibilityBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano There is an anomaly in the functioning of our contemporary democracies that political science often disguises under

The parliamentary interpellation exposes the true cost of an artificially inflated budget and the paradox of an opposition forced to rescue a minister from his own party. The Technocrat’s Labyrinth: The False Fiscal Promise Cornering the Uruguayan Left There is no spectacle more pathetic in politics than that of a cornered technocrat attempting to disguise

A republican defense of data, law and the silent majority against the political business of polarization. THE COALITION OF THE SENSIBLEThe Equal Rule of Law Over IdeologismBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano The challenge facing contemporary democracies is not ideological disagreement.The conflict of ideas is the engine of the republic.The real danger, the one that

When dogma replaces the democratic method, the State is trapped between paralysis, political messianism and the loss of real freedom. The Blockade of Governance Destroys FreedomBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano The corporation of blockade and the symptom of sterile messianismThe contemporary political landscape has become a theater of shadows where public management is no

Human capital, early childhood and the family emerge as the foundations of a freer, more prosperous and socially mobile Uruguay. THE COMMITMENT OF THE FUTUREHuman Capital as the Axis of Social AdvancementBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano If we analyze the most successful development experiences at the global level, we discover that the true wealth

Structural reform, global integration and state modernization as conditions for social cohesion in the twenty-first century. Uruguay and the Commitment to the FutureStructural Reform and Social Cohesion for Twenty-First-Century UruguayBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Introduction: The Challenge of Institutional MaturityUruguay has been, throughout its republican history, an example of civility, institutional stability and unrestricted

From Roman damnatio memoriae to the Ministry of Truth, the battle over the past remains a form of power over the present. Communist totalitarianism should not be confused with what has come to be called the Roman damnatio memoriae, says University of Barcelona professor Edgar Straehle.And he is right.The difference is subtle, but it exists.In

A Tocquevillian reading of power that promises humility, multiplies bureaucracy and ends up protected by its own excuses. When Simplicity Becomes CorruptionWithout complex analytical capacity to abuse powerBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Edgar Morin’s paradigm of complexity, developed by the philosopher and sociologist, is an approach that seeks to understand reality as a whole,