How U.S. Is Turning Iran into China’s Trojan Horse in the Middle East
In recent years, the sanctions regime that the United States and its allies have imposed on Iran and a handful of other countries has...
Trump and the journey to reshape the Asian chessboard: from ASEAN to APEC
President Donald Trump’s Asia tour, which includes the 47th ASEAN Summit, an official visit to Japan, and the APEC Summit in South Korea, is...
Rooting Out Emerging American Authoritarianism
We Americans don't know what it means to live in an authoritarian state unless we are first generation immigrants who came from one or...
The Illusion of Freedom: Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift
Latin America’s political landscape has seen sweeping shifts in recent years. On one hand, a so-called “second Pink Tide” has returned left-of-centre governments to...
Argentine Midterm elections. And the winner is… Donald Trump
No one anticipated last Sunday midterm election result in Argentina. Not even the executive, that faced a dire situation on the way to the...
Trump’s Venezuela Experiment: Regime Change, Not Through Force, But Finance
When the Trump administration turned its gaze toward Caracas, it wasn’t simply reacting to Nicolás Maduro’s fraudulent 2018 re-election. It was staging a modern...
Behind the Handshake: The Real Deal on US-China Trade
U. S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to reduce tensions in their trade war by modifying some tariffs and export...
Milei’s Midterm Gamble: Reform or Ruin
Argentina’s midterm elections have strengthened President Javier Milei’s libertarian alliance, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), transforming it from a small minority force into a significant...
The Dark Fleet: How Cartels Took Hold of North America’s Energy Trade
When a Danish-flagged tanker named Torm Agnes quietly pulled into Mexico’s Port of Ensenada this spring, few took notice. The harbor, better known for...
America’s Shadow War at Sea: The Legal Grey Zone of the U.S. “Drug Boat” Strikes
In recent months, a series of videos surfaced on Donald Trump’s social-media platform, showing what appeared to be drone footage of small vessels exploding...