The Reported CELAC-EU Brouhaha Over Ukraine & Reparations Distracts from a Key Point

The Reported CELAC-EU Brouhaha Over Ukraine & Reparations Distracts from a Key Point

The CELAC states signaled that the EU’s hostility towards Russia wouldn’t affect their bilateral ties by dint of preparing for their first summit in eight years despite that bloc waging a proxy war against the same country with whom some of its own members are strategic partners. Brussels should have appreciated this impressive display of…

Lula’s Recalibrated Multipolar Vision Makes Him Amenable to the US’ Grand Strategic Interests

Lula’s Recalibrated Multipolar Vision Makes Him Amenable to the US’ Grand Strategic Interests

None of the insight shared in this analysis is to suggest that Lula is controlled by the US, but just that his prior imprisonment clearly changed him. He’s no longer the “multipolar revolutionary” that he once was or at least was considered to be, including by the US which deposed his successor and then sought…

Venezuela Essentially Envisages CELAC Playing a Key Role in the Multipolar World Order

Venezuela Essentially Envisages CELAC Playing a Key Role in the Multipolar World Order

Expectations should be tempered with respect to what CELAC will achieve in the coming future, but nobody should think that it won’t achieve anything at all either. Venezuelan President Maduro proposed during his yearly speech to parliament last week “to unite efforts and paths in Latin America and the Caribbean to advance in the formation…