By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² I received with great satisfaction the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his complicit wife, Cilia Flores, and deeply regretted that many of his associates, including Diosdado Cabello and General Vladimir Padrino López, were not arrested, although it is to be expected...
By, Julio Shiling, contributor For more than six decades, U.S. policy toward Cuba has generally oscillated between containment, engagement, sanctions, and rhetorical support for democratic aspirations. What has remained virtually unchanged is the assumption, shared by many well-intentioned observers, that peaceful civic resistance, international pressure, and gradual...
By, Dr. Rafael Marrero, President, Founder, and Chief Economist, MSI²Dr. Luis O. Noguerol, Co-Founder and Senior Analyst, MSI² At the end of 2025, the White House published a new National Security Strategy that repositioned the Western Hemisphere as a strategic priority, with an explicit emphasis on readjusting...
By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² What we are seeing in Venezuela is the beginning of a transition. It will not be brief. It may last one year, a year and a half, or even two. But it marks a clear break from what the regime has...
By, Andrés Alburquerque, Senior Fellow, MSI² What is otherness beyond the ornamental grammatical label of a noun? Where are we, truly, vis-à-vis the other? Is otherness suddenly perceived as a threat, or has it always been so, at least for those who position themselves on the left...
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...