Putting the blame on Spain

The outrage and resistance to the intimidation policies of the Donald Trump regime of mass deportations and the economic reprisals that affect Latin America, although the great hegemonic media try to hide it or make it up Three issues fuel the resistance against Trump in Latin America: tariffs, deportations and the policy of exclusion promoted by Washington, which encompasses the isolation of Cuba and Venezuela, as well as rhetoric and actions a…

Claudio Katz Trump intends to enlarge the capitalists of the United States by means of a hard package of sanctions, tariffs and blackmails. He hopes to revitalize with these demands to a delicate empire. In the distribution of impositions Europe should offer its industry, Russia limit its development, Asia dispense with its financial autonomy and China renounce its expansion. Latin America would have to hand over all its resources to the dominat…

Putting the blame on Spain

The hegemony of the United States in the Americas – part of the “greatness” Donald Trump is so anxious to shore up or retrieve – has been a brief and surprising phenomenon. For observers who consider the long run, and who try to see the hemisphere whole, the normal history of the new world has been of the concentration of power, wealth, innovation and initiative in regions south of the US – especially in Mesoamerica and the Andean world, where a…