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, Verioska Velasco, Senior Fellow, MSI² The recent activation of the Chinese operation Justice Mission 2025 marks a new point of military pressure on Taiwan. These are military exercises that include live-fire maneuvers and the designation of five zones around the island, subject to maritime and airspace...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² A few days ago, I was talking with two dear friends, businessman Kemel Jamis and writer José Antonio Albertini, about the lack of leaders in Latin America who possess a democratic vision on a hemispheric scale. We went back to the 19th...
By, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, Senior Fellow, MSI² Dr. Rafael A. Marrero, Founder and Chief Economist, MSI² MSI² Series Context: An Escalating Governance Crisis in Mexico This article is part of an ongoing MSI² analytical series that documents the rapid deterioration of Mexico’s governance environment and the expanding influence...
Por, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, membro sênior, MSI² Dr. Rafael A. Marrero, fundador e economista-chefe, MSI² Contexto da série MSI²: uma crise de governança em escalada no México Este artigo faz parte de uma série analítica contínua do MSI² que documenta a rápida deterioração do ambiente de governança no...
Por, CDR José Adán Gutiérrez, miembro sénior, MSI²Dr. Rafael A. Marrero, fundador y economista jefe, MSI² Contexto de la serie MSI²: una crisis de gobernanza en escalada en México Este artículo forma parte de una serie analítica continua del MSI² que documenta el rápido deterioro del entorno de...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² The abuses and crimes of Castroism do not end; one might say it is a system that outdoes itself in cruelty and in the systematic violation of human rights. It is a system of governance in which insular totalitarianism is not...
Por, Pedro Corzo, membro sênior, MSI² Os abusos e crimes do castrismo não terminam; poderíamos dizer que se trata de um sistema que supera a si mesmo em crueldade e na violação sistemática dos direitos humanos. Uma gestão na qual o totalitarismo insular não está sozinho, pois...