By, Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat (Assembly of the Cuban Resistance), Senior Fellow, MSI² Since the mid-1950s, various countries of the Third World began to speak about non-alignment with the two colossi of the Cold War, namely the United States and the USSR. When one looked closely at the...
By, Jaime (Jim) Gonzalez, Senior Fellow, MSI² Key Takeaways Coalitional realignment, protectionist working-class Republicans versus globalized professional Democrats, makes electoral incentives reward divergence over compromise, rendering reconciliation politically impossible. Biden and Trump embody irreconcilable theories of American power that mutually cannot coexist. Predictable four-to-eight-year strategic oscillation constitutes America's primary competitive...
By, Pedro Corzo, Senior Fellow, MSI² The death of several dozen Castroite enforcers in Caracas bears irrefutable witness to the close alliance between the dictatorial systems of Cuba and Venezuela, a nexus in which the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Ortega-Murillo is directly involved, despots who have decided to...
By, Dr. Luis Noguerol, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² Executive Summary (BLUF) Cyber operations are no longer auxiliary tools of state power. They now function as integrated instruments of coercion, intelligence collection, and strategic signaling, operating alongside diplomacy, sanctions, and military force. Recent developments linked to Venezuela and Iran...
By, Fabián Calle, Senior Fellow, MSI² For any attentive observer, and even for those less attentive to international affairs, it is difficult to find facts in recent years that demonstrate strength, dynamism, and effectiveness on the part of the United Nations in confronting a world marked by...
By, Julio Shiling, contributor What a difference a year makes! In his second term, President Donald J. Trump has wasted no time in steering the United States toward a new era of strength, prosperity, and moral clarity. Marking one year since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, 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, 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...