The dangerous game of red lines in Ukraine

BRANKO MARCETIC
When the United States becomes militarily involved in a conflict, it often finds it difficult to get out, let alone avoid deep entanglements that far exceed the lines it had drawn at the outset of the intervention.
It happened in Vietnam, when American military advisers helping the South Vietnamese fight the Viet Cong eventually became American soldiers fighting an American war. It happened in Afghanistan, when an initial invasion to capture al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban turned into a nearly two-decade nation-building project. And it could be happening right now in Ukraine. 

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The self-summoned

CESAR ROBLES
Lima

A new political actor has emerged as a result of the massive social protests that occurred in southern Peru, and particularly in the Puno region. They are the so-called "autoconvocados", individuals who do not represent political organizations or collectives, trade unions or cultural or neighborhood associations, but who clearly and openly express their political positions and have a significant and gravitating presence in the protest movement against Dina Bolaurte. .

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Coup convulsion at the beginning of Lula's term

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
Brazilian democracy suffered a severe shock on January 8, an attempt or project of a coup that has precedents throughout the two centuries of history of this continental country exclusively when the president in office leans to the left. The vandal assault on the headquarters of Brazilian institutions by coup fanatics has unleashed a whirlwind of political and judicial events whose consequences are still unpredictable.

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Protests in Peru already claim 49 deaths without a way out in sight

CESAR ROBLES
Lima
The Congress of the Republic, with a right-wing and fascist majority, has just given a vote of confidence to the government cabinet led by Alberto Otárola, ignoring the protests and claims of various political and social sectors and making a situation more critical and difficult to solve. way out of the crisis that is shaking the country and that has already been claiming the lives of 49 compatriots.

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Israel: democracy in name, not in essence

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
After the elections on November 1, in which the bloc led by Benjamin Netanyahu registered a clear victory, a harsh debate has been opened about the nature that the Jewish state can acquire with the next government. The victory of the ultra-nationalist right and the ultra-orthodox religious parties is alarming citizens of secular and moderate ideology, who are in a clear minority and from whose ranks an end is predicted for the peculiar democratic system that has existed since the establishment of Israel in 1948 .

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Thousands of Bolsonaro vandals assault and destroy the headquarters of political and judicial power in Brasilia

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
There were no precedents for such an event in Brazil. A week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasilia, the headquarters of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers became the scene of vandalism by several thousand supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded the interior of the Chambers, the Supreme Court building, and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Presidency of the Republic.

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Boluarte opens a dark and violent door to a country that is bleeding to death

CESAR ROBLES
Lima
The convulsion in the country has already left 26 dead, hundreds injured, a deeply fragmented society, a completely incompetent political class and a president who is incapable of understanding the general demand of the population that demands her resignation and the advancement of general elections to get out. of the political crisis into which they have led us.

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The political crisis in Peru cannot be solved with bullets

CESAR ROBLES
Lima
The declaration of emergency for 30 days at the national level approved by the government of Dina Boluarte. that allows the entry of the Armed Forces to "support" the National Police in its task of providing guarantees and security to the population, the only thing that has generated is an escalation of the conflict and a worsening of the political crisis in Peru.

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If the Islamic Republic of Iran fell

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Events taking place in Iran week after week show that the Islamic Republic is probably suffering its worst crisis since it was established in 1979, and it is legitimate to wonder what will happen in the country, in the Middle East and in the West if the regime falls under pressure of a sector of the population, which may not be the majority, but which is not very small in large cities either.

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Happy New Year, Hohhot!

Bai Jinna
Hohhot (China)
I am a student receiving my education in Beijing, whose policy was too strict for people to re-enter. My hometown Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, has been under a wave of Covid-19 for two months. So my mother decided to send me to Inner Mongolia – another region ruled by ethnic minority groups – to get my codes “clear” in order to enter Beijing.

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