Impunity Observer

Fergus Hodgson uncovers the primary reasons as to why therapy is highly important in Argentina. Due to their extensive history of corruption and wrongdoers in economics, Buenos Aires has become the therapy capital of the world. Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/08/06/why-buenos-aires-is-the-worlds-therapy-capital/ Watch the documentary: https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentar...

What happened in Venezuela after the announcement of the faux electoral results, was a major concern for the international left. One of its main allies, the “son of Hugo Chávez,” had committed a monumental fraud in broad daylight and was massacring the people. How could they tackle the crisis, so that the left did not sink along with him? Antonio Peña Esclusa explains the socialist's narrative, im...

Per Bylund's "How to think economics" (2022) compiles all the valuable economics concepts we need to know. In the book review, Fergus Hodgson explains how this book opens the reader's mind and what challenges it does not address. Read the full review: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/07/03/economic-literacy-is-not-enough/ Buy the book: https://a.co/d/iygUBUz

In his latest article for BizPac Review, our Editor-at-Large, Steve Hecht, explains the challenges MAGA faces after Donald Trump's attack. Although Trump seeks to unite the nation, the polarization strategy is a real challenge to consider. Read the article: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/16/there-can-be-no-unity-with-enemies-of-liberty-1472732/ Lea es artículo en español: https://impunityobs...

Los grupos gemelos del Foro de Sao Paulo y el Grupo de Puebla se reunieron a finales de junio en Honduras para planificar su nueva ofensiva autoritaria en la región, todo bajo el auspicio del gobierno socialista de Xiomara Castro. Maribel Espinoza, diputada del Congreso de Honduras, teme que, siguiendo esta línea, el gobierno no apruebe el presupuesto del Consejo Nacional Electoral a tiempo, lo qu...

Many Third-World nations have valuable natural resources within their borders. Converting them into lasting economic development, rather than a one-off shot in the arm, is easier said than done. The first step is to consider the perspectives of investors, and our Publisher Fergus Hodgson argues that the investor’s perspective is found in Investing in Resources (341 pages, 2010) by Adrian Day. Hodg...

El presidente de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, visitó a la presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, antes del Foro de São Paulo en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, del 27 al 29 de junio de 2024. Según Ricardo Méndez, presidente de la Fundación contra el Terrorismo, esta reunión podría impactar negativamente la aprobación de Arévalo entre sus electores. Guatemala es un país predominantemente conservador, y sus...

On May 14, 2024, media outlets Código Vidrio and Vistazo exposed a covert Chinese police station in Quito, Ecuador. Operating under the guise of a travel agency, this station was part of a global network under the CCP's Fox Hunt operation. Discover the details of this investigation, including an exclusive interview with Arturo Torres, director of Código Vidrio, who provides unique insights into th...

In December 2023, the Prosecutor General’s Office in Guatemala announced the 2023 elections were fraudulent. Fergus Hodgson comments on our investigation in the topic, where we explain the irregularities that could invalidate the results and lead to the Guatemalan President's prosecution. Read the investigation here: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/05/07/explained-evidence-of-electoral-fraud-in-...

Yusuf Amdani of Pakistan first visited Honduras in 1990, on the lookout for a textile-factory location. Fast forward 34 years: he is a Honduran citizen and one of the nation’s most prominent, innovative, and successful entrepreneurs with about 10 factories to his name. Read the full review: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/04/22/yusuf-amdani-build-a-nation-within-a-nation/ Buy the book: https://a...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) spared no expense to support the candidacy of Claudia Sheinbaum. She won the presidential election on June 2, 2024, with 59.5 percent of the votes. AMLO’s political party, Morena, also won two-thirds of the seats at Congress. For Rafael Ramirez de Alba, an economics professor at the IPADE Business School, AMLO will stay behind the throne, and Mo...

The Latin American Liberal Network (RELIAL)—which gathers around 50 think tanks and political parties advocating for free markets, the rule of law, and individual rights—has launched a permanent seminar to develop annual in-depth research projects. In 2023, researchers explored the growing influence of China in Latin America. Santiago Carranco holds a doctorate in international studies from the La...

Carlson interviewed former Guatemala Secretary of Intelligence (2016–2020) Mario Duarte about his first-hand experience of the US State Department imposition on Guatemala. Duarte, also a US citizen, said DOS has weaponized the government to force upon allied nations its “ideological projects and socialist narratives.” Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht comments on the recent coverage of US media on the t...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has made an intriguing offer: immediate citizenship for 5,000 intellectuals who wish to make the move. Albeit scant on details and merely an X post, his pitch poses a pertinent and fascinating question: when would this make sense for both the host nation and the new arrivals? Publisher Fergus Hodgson explores the opportunities for foreigners in El Salvador and how...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro made energy transition one of his 2022 presidential campaign’s flagship policies. He pledged to replace fossil fuels with renewables and turn Ecopetrol, the fourth largest oil company in Latin America, into the region’s most influential green-energy firm. In this podcast episode, our Research Director Paz Gómez discusses her investigation on the reliability and st...

The Joe Biden regime's policy priorities coincide with the agendas of US adversaries abroad. A February 20 letter by eight US senators told Biden that his administration's sanctions had attacked US allies and ignored corruption by US enemies. Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht explains how the Biden regime's relaxation of sanctions and enabling of money for Iran has empowered the dictatorship and its ter...

Cuban exiles enjoy nostalgia for the homes and times they once knew. Those days are long gone, and they will never return. Honduras is creeping toward the same fate. Impunity Observer Publisher Fergus Hodgson comments on his article "The Exodus Is Turning Honduras into Cuba" and explains why this exodus will grow exponentially if socialist policies and autocratic trends continue. YouTube: https://...

The Impunity Observer podcast is scaling up to a weekly episode and new formats that allow us to get closer to our audience. Our contributor Mauro Echeverría begins this weekly series with a deeper look at one of his investigations. His latest investigation revealed that a rising number of Chinese citizens are flying to Ecuador, where they begin their journey north. Echeverría discusses how he con...

Rosa María Payá, founder of nonprofit Cuba Decide and daughter of assassinated Cuban political dissident Oswaldo Payá, took the floor on the last day of the examination of Cuba by the UN Human Rights Council. Her petition was simple: expel Cuba from the council. A Cuban official responded by attacking her character, but he said nothing in response to her summary of the regime's activities. The Imp...

Fernando Linares—a Guatemalan lawyer and former congressman—has initiated the legal process to remove the president and 24 congressmen. All belong to President Bernardo Arévalo’s suspended Semilla party. According to Linares, this party has committed numerous illegalities, such as falsely registering more than 8,000 members to qualify for the ballot. He explains that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal...

Luis Espinosa Goded—a Spanish professor of economics at San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador—explains how citizens and private businesses will pay a high price for the government's conflict with narcoterrorists. Curfew impositions, reduced mobility, and narco extortion are already some ways in which individuals—rather than the state or the narcos—are suffering from the escalating conflict th...

Mario Duarte—co-founder and CEO of DH Global Strategy, a global consulting and lobbying firm—predicts 2024 will be a hectic year worldwide for geopolitics. He believes the Democratic Party is promoting the US border crisis: "the Western Hemisphere appears to be being weaponized to influence the US November elections in the United States." For Duarte, many illegal migrants cross the US border to ge...

Martín Litwak—an Argentine tax and wealth structuring expert—explains that the next three months are key to the Javier Milei administration for implementation of liberal reforms. Milei is enjoying a honeymoon period, and Argentines are on their summer vacations. Although Litwak expressed his excitement regarding a liberal government to be in power in Argentina and deregulate the economy, he is con...

Mauro Echeverría—deputy editor of the Impunity Observer—and Sebastián Díaz—policy analyst with the Impunity Observer—explain the internal armed conflict in Ecuador. For them, the violence has been increasing since 2020. Díaz adds that gangs declared war on Ecuador after Adolfo “Fito” Macías, leader of the Los Choneros gang, escaped from prison on January 7. Since then, gangs have occupied many str...

José Luis González Dubón—a Guatemalan lawyer, university professor, and independent journalist—explains the irregularities associated with President-Elect Bernardo Arévalo’s Semilla party. These include more than 8,000 forged signatures used to register the party. He contends that international community members such as the Organization of American States were accomplices to electoral fraud and fa...