By, LTC Octavio Pérez, U.S. Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² As we said, after the September 3rd parade, the cat is out of the bag. Sightings, full media coverage, and in-your-face maneuvers are now taking place openly for the world to observe. As we mentioned in...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² Forgive the personal tone of this column, but my country, the homeland of José Martí, has just completed 67 years under a system of opprobrium that has brought nothing but misfortune and sorrow to Cubans and to peoples such as those...
By, Andrés Alburquerque, Senior Fellow, MSI² I will offer a dispassionate analysis of the current situation in Venezuela, not as an expert in any particular field, but as an American citizen concerned about the future of his country, a future that is tied by the hip to...
By, Luis Noguerol, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² America's profound reliance on China for rare earth elements (REEs) exposes a critical vulnerability in U.S. semiconductor production, as unambiguously outlined in the U.S. Geological Survey's 2025 Mineral Commodity Summaries (U.S. Geological Survey, 2025). The data reveals that the...
By, Leonardo Quijarro Santibáñez, RAdm, Chilean Navy (Ret.), Guest Senior Analyst, MSI² The end of 2025 presents itself before history as what may be the epilogue of the era of undisputed hegemony and the preface to a fragmented global order. What we have witnessed in the final...
By, LTC Octavio Pérez, US Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² Much can be said about Ernest Hemingway, his life, his travels, and his novels, but his titles are also remarkably useful as metaphors and quotations: Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A...
By, Julio M. Shiling, contributor In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the world awoke to stunning news: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been captured in a bold operation led by the United States. While the details of the raid, reportedly...
By, Pelegrín Castillo Semán, contributor The Trump administration, responding to the powerful mandate it received from the majority of the American people, is reviewing and dismantling the international order of globalization that was conceived and promoted by the U.S. and Western establishment after the fall of the...
By, MSI² The Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute (MSI²) assesses the high-impact strategic developments unfolding in Venezuela following a United States military operation that, according to information released by the U.S. government, resulted in the capture of dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro, as well as the neutralization of...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² Castroist totalitarianism has committed numerous crimes throughout its history, one of the greatest being perpetrated in the health sector, although it is not the only one. The Cuban dictatorship has used health professionals as an instrument of political influence and as human...