by Maria Teresa Belandria, Fulbright Research Scholar Visiting Professor at William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at National Defense University, and Asymmetrica consultant (this is the English version of the previous blog by Ms. Belandria) On Sunday, 27 May 2018 the first round of elections was held in the Republic Colombia. None of […]
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Today the joint forces of diplomacy, finance and military might closed in on the regime of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, hastening its demise. Here is what happened today: EU issued sanctions on Venezuela. This significantly complicates next week’s renegotiations in Caracas of $160 billion of debt. The negotiations were unsavory enough, under US sanctions and […]
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by Dr. Vanessa Neumann We were right: as we predicted in our previous blog, Lenín Moreno became the new President of Ecuador in last night’s second round elections. Since our electoral forecast was correct, you might do well to read our economic forecast. Last night was not without its excitement though. Right wing candidate Guillermo Lasso called the […]
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In a public announcement on July 11, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said that all government ministries would be subordinated to the Defense Minister Gen. Vladimir Padrino López. Critically, Gen. Padrino would be charged with the Great Mission of Sovereign Supply. (Chavistas seem to follow in the Chinese Communist tradition of ostentation in their naming conventions for government programs). […]
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