Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the veteran army captain who was the victor in the Brazilian presidential elections second round (run on September 28th 2018), has indicated ever more clearly how Brazil’s future government starting in January 1st 2019 will be like. By announcing the names of his cabinet ministers-to-be and through their statements, along with his […]
Mauricio Macri won the Argentinian presidential elections at the end of 2015 promising to change Argentina’s course, which in Cristina Kirchnner’s second mandate did not show the same levels of growth it did on the first time nor in the previous government, her husband’s, Nestor Kirchnner’s, besides the political atrition she faced with corruption charges […]
Recently the president Nicolas Maduro announced an initiative to promote monetary reform and an attempt to overcome the hyperinflationary process (forecasts indicate over 1 million percent inflation in 2018 and 10 million percent in 2019) and make it possible for the economy to recover. Two new currencies were created: the bolivar soberano, that replaces the […]
In Donald Trump’s presidency the United States has taken a turn in its foreign policy, changing the prevailing paradigm after World War II. Having taken the position of one of the winners in the conflict and a position of world power, the US sponsored the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions: the World Bank, the […]
Starting in the 1930s, in the government of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Mexico begins a process of modernization of its economy and society. Cardenas, who in 1913 adhered to the Mexican Revolution, in 1928 became governor in the state of Michoacan, in 1931 moved on to be the president of the National Revolutionary Party (“PRN” in […]