By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² Anyone who has been able to attend his classes and lectures remembers Guillermo O’Donnell with respect and admiration. Undoubtedly, he is one of the most important social scientists ever produced by Argentina and the region. His works are prolific and incisive,...
By, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow, MSI² Dr. Rafael Marrero, Chief Economist & Founder, MSI² Policy Series No. 2025-11 Thesis This case study shows how a corrupt leader willing to auction national sovereignty for personal and political gain can place his country on an existential spiral of...
By, Maibort Petit, Senior Fellow, MSI² The concept of infinite war holds that contemporary conflicts do not seek a decisive victory, but rather the constant projection of power and the long-term management of multiple threats. This article analyzes the escalation of tensions between the United States and...
By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² In recent months, we have written—and it has been written and spoken—a great number of times about the strong political alliance that has been established between the administrations of President Milei and President Trump, for both political and ideological reasons, and...
By, MSI² In the first edition of Overwatch: The Hughes Review of Strategic Intelligence, published by the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute (MSI²), retired Rear Admiral Mike Studeman, former Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, delivers a powerful essay titled “American Checkers in the Americas.” As one...
By, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow, MSI² LTC Octavio Pérez, US Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² Dr Rafael Marrero, Chief Economist & Founder, MSI² This is the first article in a three-part series by the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute (MSI²). The series examines Ecuador’s...
By, LTC Octavio Pérez, US Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² Another run-to-the-press moment, selective listening, and overreaction. Are we really going to restart nuclear testing? A five-day trip, an impromptu press meeting aboard Air Force One—and off we go to the races. If you don’t know...
By, Andrés Alburquerque, Senior Fellow, MSI² It was born not in glory but in exile — in a cold Paris suburb in 1938 — under the double shadow of Stalin’s terror and Hitler’s march. There, Leon Trotsky, hunted by the very revolution he had midwifed, proclaimed a...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² It is said that Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Fidel Castro agreed in the spring of 1961 that the best way to destroy the United States was by turning its youth into drug addicts. The criminal actions that have taken place in Cuba...
By, Leonardo Morales, Senior Fellow, MSI² The travels of President Donald J. Trump fulfill precise strategic objectives as part of his America First platform, a transformation in the direction of the U.S. and its leading role in the world. President Donald J. Trump’s tours through the Middle East,...