By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² Introduction When addressing political violence in Argentina in past decades—and especially that which extended throughout the 1970s—it is common to view it as a clear example of messianic, “peopleless” terrorist violence by subversive armed organizations and of the existence of a methodical...
By, Prof. José J. Sanmartín, Senior Fellow | Europe Liaison, MSI² IntroductionIt is generally assumed that what is truly relevant—what is genuinely substantive—lies beneath the surface, whether in a fact or hypothesis, in data or theory. However, there are many occasions when the apparent is, in fact,...
By, Andrés Alburquerque, Senior Fellow, MSI2 In theory, the American presidency is the top job in the world. In practice, its occupant is straitjacketed by a never-ending cycle of elections and by judges who treat the Constitution as clay to be molded to their own ideological tastes,...
By, Octavio Pérez, Co-Founder & Senior Fellow, MSI² To silence Charlie? Or to silence all those who think like him? The left can’t engage in dialogue or sit in an open forum ready to address any political, social, or world issue. He represented the new generation of youth...
By, Isabel Cuervo, Senior Fellow, MSI² The United States awoke under a drowsy sky. It was September 11, a day that not only commemorates the tragic attack on the Twin Towers in the heart of what was once the most cosmopolitan city in the world, New York,...
By, Leonardo Morales, Senior Fellow, MSI² The dark globalist power that buys ideologies with checks finds one of its main exponents in this Hungarian-born man. No one like the ultra-left “philanthropist” George Soros has spent so much money and time sowing chaos, social disorder, and globalist totalitarianism worldwide....
By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² From the Stealthy Rise to the Dragon’s RoarA little over four years ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared at the summit of turbo-capitalism embodied by Davos, presenting himself as the caretaker and guarantor of the liberal capitalist order established by American...
By, Leonardo Morales, Senior Fellow, MSI² These chemicals are shipped from China to Mexico as their final destination and "were allegedly used to manufacture 189,000 kilos of methamphetamine, with a street value of $569 million." In the history of the United States, no government has so vigorously and...
By, CDR J. Adan Gutierrez, USN (Ret.) Senior Fellow, MSI² & Dr. Rafael Marrero, Founder and CEO, MSI² Abstract Recent reports emerged of a tense meeting between U.S. Secretary of State and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on September 3, 2025, in Mexico City. The tone, stripped of diplomatic...
By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² There is a broad academic consensus, from defensive realists like Kenneth Waltz to offensive realists like John Mearsheimer, to neo-conservatives like Charles Krauthammer, to liberals like Gilford and John Ikenberry, that the Soviet collapse between 1989 and 1991 ushered in a...