Alfonso Insuasty Rodriguez

Alfonso Insuasty Rodriguez is a researcher and professor, coordinator of the Inter-University Network for Peace, and director of the GIDPAD research group at the University of San Buenaventura, Medellin.

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Does the US assault on Venezuela signal the rise of a new imperial order?

The motive is explicit and brutal: oil, strategic resources and geopolitical control. Everything else functions merely as a pretext.

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Does the US assault on Venezuela signal the rise of a new imperial order?

Trump’s offensive on Latin America is an attempt to redraw global power structure

The ongoing hostility from the United States towards Venezuela—and, to a lesser degree, towards Colombia—must be seen as part of a wider strategy aimed at reshaping global power in a transitional phase towards a new multipolar order.

5 min read

Trump’s offensive on Latin America is an attempt to redraw global power structure

A flawed policy: The US war on drugs in Latin America criminalises people

Washington’s strategy of using force in its war on drug cartels is not working. Because it’s a flawed concept that targets civilians.

8 min read

A flawed policy: The US war on drugs in Latin America criminalises people