Reporting from Buenos Aires, Argentina The III Continental Assembly of ALBA-Movements was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from April 27 to 1st. May 2022. It is an articulation of social and popular movements that belong to countries that are not part of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of Our America (ALBA). ALBA was founded in 2004, promoted by Hugo ...
By Jorge Elbaum * In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing. The proximity models deployed in Latin America and the Caribbean offer a wide menu of alternatives that range from ...
The public agenda In Turkey has been busy with three main topics last week. Firstly, an official visit paid by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Saudi Arabia as a part of the normalization of relations between the two countries. In the second place, there was a diplomatic visit paid by the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to Venezuela. ...
With contribution from Douglas Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela “We cannot depend on the US dollar. We will reestablish relations our relations with Latin America. And we will establish a common currency in Latin America.” This statement belongs to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula has been President of Brazil between 2003 and 2011. He is expected to announce his official candidacy ...
Sent from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil During the end of March and April, United World had an incredible opportunity to share the intense political agenda of Joao Pedro Stédile, accompanying him through various locations in, one of the most representative states of the Brazilian northeast, Rio Grande do Norte (RN). The leader and National Coordinator of the Landless Workers ...
On February 27, 2022, three days after the eruption of conflict in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a policy statement in the German Parliament. He said “We are living through a watershed era. And that means that the world afterwards will no longer be the same as the world before”. In the Western world, Germany was considered to be ...
Germany’s positioning in the Ukraine conflict has started to shake the basis of the country’s energy supply and economy. The government reacts with intervening into the market economy, including considering expropriations in a new law. “The security of supply in Germany is currently safeguarded” This is – every day until now – the first sentence in the German Federal Network ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * When a sculptor comes up with the idea of making a statue of political hypocrisy in international matters, without a doubt the model to use is Norway. The Scandinavian country, on the one hand, hosts negotiations and dialogues in which it supposedly acts as a mediator and annually awards the Nobel Peace Prize. At the ...
By Omar Hassaan Fariñas* The Congress of Vienna was undoubtedly one of the most important diplomatic processes in the history of international relations. After the overthrow of the French Emperor in Leipzig in 1813 and finally in Paris in March 1814, the “four great powers” (England, Prussia, Russia and Austria) negotiated with Bourbon France the future of the European continent ...
United World International expert Fabrizio Verde provided an interview to the Iranian daiy newspaper Tehran Times on the global repercussions of the Ukraine conflict. Below we present to our readers the interview as published on Tehran Times. The director of the online newspaper L’antidiplomatico says that the Ukraine war will change the geopolitical order of the world. “What happens in ...
By Prof. Bessam Abu Abdullah, Damascus, Syria The following is an article that Prof. Abdullah has published in the Syrian daily newspaper El Watan. The article explores the ground, need and conditions for a rapproachment between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey. ‘Our path crosses Ankara, although it is a difficult path’ Previously I have written many ...
By Douglas Bolivar / Caracas, additional reporting and edit by Yunus Soner On April 18, Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced his country would “fully reestablish diplomatic relations with Venezuela”. Leading the CELAC within pro tempore presidency, Fernández also called “all Latin American countries to do the same”. The Argentine government thus recognizes the legitimacy of the Maduro government in Venezuela, ...