Geopolitics

A spectrum is cycling the globe. Neo fascism has taken over several governments and the imagination of many as well. The last to fall into this state was Brazil. It …

Sigmund Freud best articulated the idea that at a profound level the past does not pass, but rather in favorable circumstances it reemerges –especially if, for convenience, we repress its …

From a generational and biological point of view, he could have been my father. From an intellectual point of view, he was. Helio Jaguaribe was a great Latin American patriot, …

Under Trump’s chaotic administration United States are heading towards an authoritarian, non-representative, and sloppy regime that will end up in a categorical division between states and regions. The dysfunctionalities of a constitutional model designed for another time and currently exploited by just one bi-cephalous party (plutocrats together with low reactionary sectors), have made a dictator apprentice climb up and perch onto power.

This note is an announcement.  In the current month of July a book of mine will become available.  Its title is Strategic Impasse and it offers my own views of the present state of geopolitics, some of which I have presented in Opinion Sur.  Here is a brief description and ten theses, which I hope will prompt critical thought.