The very first day of the twelfth month, Enrique Peña Nieto will give the presidential powers to AMLO, and that will be the end of his presidential career and the beginning of his legacy. Due to his presidency being one filled with scandals of all sorts, becoming the president who defended the interests of Mexicans…
Since the last post, all of my attention was on Turkey and its financial woes. So, this post will be about all those changes that happened but were ignored. Thus, to begin we start with the US and the presidential desire to rollback the Obama-era restriction in coal-burning power plants. For example, only 14% of…
This week we saw how the Turkish lira plummet amid the rash decision by the US to double the existing aluminum and steel tariffs under the guise of American protectionism. The tariffs are currently at twenty and fifty percent respectively. Trump’s decision was not rash beacause of what he did but rather of how he…
Yesterday, during a military speech Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, was targeted by a drone full of explosives. The attack failed, and Maduro blame the ultra-right and Colombia for this attack, which strikes me surprisingly as a possible farce be his government to legitimize his actions following the attack. Under the pretense of security,…
