By, LTC Octavio Pérez, US Army (Ret.), Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² Much more will be said about the Cubans in Venezuela as we peel back the layers of this onion. Isis Unveiled, the book by H. P. Blavatsky, which I keep in my library and read...
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, 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...