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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.
DANIEL JADUE
When the Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, it chose to call "peace" what, in the South, we know as intervention and tutelage. It awarded it to a person who for years has placed herself at the disposal of a foreign power to promote a coup d'état in her own country. Someone who has even called, even in international forums, for foreign military intervention in the genocidal State of Israel, and who, in the midst of the devastation of Gaza, defends the Zionist entity with the grammar of "self-defense."
CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise results of the first round of Bolivia's presidential elections, in which the Rodrigo Paz/Edman Lara ticket (32,1%) emerged victorious, raises expectations for the runoff on October 19. While the fragmentation of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), which governed the country for nearly 20 years, suggested a right-wing victory, the emergence of the Paz/Lara duo speaks otherwise. Paz will face former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga (26,8%) in a runoff election.
EMMANUEL TODD
Less than two years after the French publication of The Defeat of the West, in January 2024, the book's main predictions have come true. Russia has withstood the military and economic impact. The US military industry is exhausted. European economies and societies are on the verge of implosion. Even before the Ukrainian army collapses, the next stage of the West's disintegration has been reached.
I have always been hostile to the Russophobic policies of the United States and Europe, but as a Westerner committed to liberal democracy, a Frenchman trained in research in England, and the son of a mother who took refuge in the United States during World War II, I am appalled by the consequences for us Westerners of the unintelligent war waged against Russia.
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VIJAY PRASHAD
I've written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report is based on four points:
1. The number of people suffering from hunger is higher now than last year.
2. The amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year.
3. There is enough food to feed the entire world's population, and more.
4. How do we explain why there are people who suffer from hunger?
Juan Enrique Serrano Moreno
During the fourth ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, held on May 13, 2025, in Beijing, Latin American governments articulated a new vision for engagement with China. The future of the BRI in the region will depend not only on Chinese financing and technical expertise, but also on the capacity of Latin American countries to design inclusive development strategies and build effective institutional frameworks. The challenge now is to move from diplomatic declarations to transformative action, and turn the partnership into shared prosperity.
JEFFREY D SACHS
Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in Fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
PASCUAL SERRANO
The international community is bewildered by the seemingly confusing decisions of Donald Trump and his team, but in my opinion, there is a certain consistency in all of them: the recognition of the United States' failure as a dominant global power and the retreat from its leadership.
The issue of tariffs is probably the most telling. Three decades ago, the United States felt like the victorious economic power in a globalized world. It believed its global production, sales, and distribution capacity was superior to that of other countries and that its market dominance was absolute.
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CECILIA VALDEZ
Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero was already a renowned journalist before publishing "La llamada," but this book places her in a more than prominent place in the genre with which she is most identified: narrative journalism.
In “The Call,” Guerriero addresses the life of Silvia Labayru, a former militant of the Montoneros guerrilla group and a survivor of the former ESMA clandestine detention center.
MARIUS THIRION ROSZYK
If Donald Trump began his second term as President of the United States on January 20, he owes it in part to his new friend Elon Musk. With little rancor, the American billionaire has offered the new Ministry of “Government Efficiency” to the man who, in 2022, considered him “too old to be President of anything, let alone the United States of America.”
It is worth remembering that Musk used his considerable influence to help the Republican candidate win, occupying the public space like never before.
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CHRIS HEDGES
For decades, Israel has been playing tricks. It signs an agreement with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants – in this case, the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza – but Israel routinely fails to implement the subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. In the end, it provokes the Palestinians with indiscriminate armed attacks to get them to retaliate, defines a Palestinian response as a provocation, and abrogates the ceasefire agreement to reignite the killing.
If this latest three-phase ceasefire agreement is ratified - and there is no certainty that it will be by Israel - it will, I hope, be little more than a pause in the bombing of the presidential inauguration. Israel has no intention of stopping its merry-go-round of death.
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EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The relationship between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is truly peculiar. One is 78 years old and the other 75. One has amassed a huge fortune while the other is reluctantly content with a more modest fortune. One is beginning his second term as president of the most powerful country in the world and the other is approaching the end of his political career with great power but licking his wounds from the war in Gaza.