Category: Democracia

Trade war and economic uncertainty

April 1, 2025

By Ariela Ruiz Caro The measures taken by President Donald Trump during his two months in office do not point to a path of […]

Ayotzinapa: From Presidential Promises to Disappointment

July 30, 2024

On June 27, the mothers and fathers of the 43 students forcibly disappeared from the rural teachers’ school in Ayotzinapa made public their position regarding the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s extreme defense of the army.

Unacceptable blow to diplomatic institutionality

May 1, 2024

A police commando broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito, kidnapped Jorge Glas, former Vice President during the government of Rafael Correa and the first year of Lenin Moreno’s administration, and harassed the head of the Foreign Ministry, Roberto Canseco, the highest representative of the embassy present at the time.

Barbados agreement and U.S. meddling in Venezuela

March 20, 2024

The confirmation by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on January 16 of the disqualification of the candidacy of the media leader of the opposition in Venezuela, María Corina Machado, for the 2024 presidential elections, has been presented by the U.S. government -and the press that echoes it- as the cause of a strong shake-up in the agreement reached at the dialogue table between the government of Nicolás Maduro and part of the opposition, grouped in the Unitary Platform, last October 18 in Barbados. The ruling of the TSJ does not violate the Barbados Agreement at all.