migration

The Honduran Caravan and Lost Opportunities

October 25, 2018 // La Cronica - Mexico - Spanish

Today, the principal problem that afflicts the American continent, from Brazil to the United States, is migration, the closure of borders and human rights.

Fleeing the Storm

October 19, 2018 // El Universal - Mexico - Spanish

The asylum system in the United States is completely broken, and Mexico’s is already showing signs of being overrun.

The Northern Triangle

July 4, 2018 // El Caribe - Dominican Republic - Spanish

According to the Pew Research Center ... illegal Mexican immigration to the U.S. has decreased in the last few years, while it has increased for people migrating from the Northern Triangle.

Globalization, Terrorism and Migration

November 29, 2017 // La Jornada - Mexico - Spanish

Clearly, there is still the possibility that this is not the end of multilateralism but simply a statement from one country, no matter how important it is, and that the other countries will carry on with globalization as the dominant system.

Venezuela – The Elephant in the Room

August 7, 2017 // El País - Spain - Spanish

Two dozen Amazon tribes people – men, women and children – camp under the open sky on the side of a freeway. The voiceover tells us that we are in Boa Vista, capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima, on the Venezuelan border. Poverty, begging and neglect; nothing new there, apart from the origin of these people, [Read more]

Obama Dixit*, Or the Indispensable Nation and European Powerlessness

May 30, 2016 // Público - Portugal - Portuguese

The feeling of exceptionalism and mission rooted in the North American leader elite gives them self-confidence as well as arrogance. What is good for the USA is good for Europe and is good for the world.

Obama’s Plan Deserves Sensible Reply

December 1, 2014 // The New Zealand Herald - New Zealand - English