Almost 46,000 fires have been reported in the Bolivian Amazon so far this year, accounting for more than 4 million hectares of burned forest. While this has been the largest registered number since 2012, Global Forest Watch has warned wildfires have sharply increased since 2019 due to growing illicit activities in the region. To better understand t…

Claudia Amaya, a Honduran lawyer and politician, is running for a legislative candidacy in the primary election of the Liberal Party. Traditional and founded in 1891, the Liberal Party is now the chief rival to the ruling Libre party. In this podcast episode, Amaya—executive director of the Honduran Palm Oil Industry Association (AIPAH)—shares her …

Erik Suárez, a Venezuelan expatriate settled in the United States, joins the Impunity Observer podcast to comment on the impact of the US presidential election in Latin America. For Suárez, US foreign policy towards the region will experience a significant change. Republican senators and congressmen with Latino roots, such as Marco Rubio, María Sal…

Our podcast guest, James Simpson, has authored Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America (2024). His goal is to raise awareness of the tactics the left uses to weaken the political system in the United States. According to Simpson, the left—embodied by both the dominant faction of the Democratic Party and woke ideologues—executed the strategy a l…

Failure to react to scandalous government abuse of power will destroy freedom by giving power to corrupt tyrants. There is no greater scandal than the Biden-Harris regime putting children into slavery and covering it up. That means the 2024 election will determine if we still have the capacity to be morally outraged and protect ourselves.More than …

Tara Lee Rodas started working at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) full of enthusiasm for assisting migrant children that arrived in the United States without their parents. However, when she realized some officials were colluding with criminal gangs to have them sponsor the children she reported that and was dismissed. As an HH…

Discount code (10 percent) for Edge Designations: FERGhttps://edgedesignations.com/Like its protagonist, The Apprentice (123 minutes, 2024) will mean different things to different people and enable an odd mix of confirmation biases. Those watching the same enthralling portrayal of the young Donald Trump and his attorney-mentor Roy Cohn (1927–1986) …

En este episodio, conversamos con la profesora de derecho y filosofía Joanna Guerra y la experta en blockchain Mariana Carmona sobre el nuevo gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum, así como los desafíos críticos que México enfrenta en la actualidad. Tanto Guerra como Carmona son profesionales talentosas en sus ámbitos y, como muchos de la clase media y alt…

Subscribe to Global Analyst by Adrian Day. Receive a 10 percent discount when you subscribe with the FERG coupon code: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/subscribe-nowPublisher Fergus Hodgson delves into "Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption," written by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In this v…

Those who now control the Democrat Party intend to turn our country into a dictatorship. Calling Democrats incompetent implicitly conveys they have good intentions. To preserve liberty, we must recognize we face an amoral machine that seeks power at all costs.Watch our Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht discussing how tying the Safeguard American Voter El…

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Discount code (10 percent) for Edge Designations: FERG https://edgedesignations.com/The ESG framework is a progressive agenda that harms market prospects for both companies and national economies. Yet, it has managed to gain widespread traction. The number of ESG exchange-traded funds (ETFs) went from $12 billion in 2006 to $1,826 billion in 2023, …

Subscribe to Global Analyst by Adrian Day. Receive a 10 percent discount when you subscribe with the FERG coupon code: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/subscribe-nowThis episode features Ryan Smyth, former treasurer of the Atlantica Party from Nova Scotia, Canada. He explains the challenges and successes of managing a startup political organi…

Contrary to her acceptance-speech claim that her sole client is the people, Kamala Harris is a handpicked frontman for an amoral, antidemocratic regime. While regime media falsely portray her as caring, regime policies direct people from south of the border straight into the hands of Mexican cartels that enslave children and rape women.In his lates…

Mark Moyar joins our show to discuss his latest book, Masters of Corruption. He exposes a deep culture of corruption and partisanship within federal institutions, sadly even among the offices supposedly there to protect whistleblowers.In addition, Moyar shares his insights on the Democratic and Republican parties as the November election approaches…

Chinese Mining in Nicaragua: A Window into the Sandinista DictatorshipThe impact of Chinese mining in Nicaragua goes far beyond the environment. It raises critical questions about governance, sovereignty, and the future of the nation under the Sandinista regime.In our latest video, we explore how these mining activities reflect the deeper issues at…

El aumento de la migración hondureña durante el gobierno de Xiomara Castro ha puesto en evidencia la ineficiencia de sus políticas socialistas, así como del oportunismo y clientelismo reinante entre la élite política emergente. Salvador Nasralla, en calidad de primer designado presidencial de Honduras, fue testigo de ello desde que asumió el cargo …

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 document…

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 Pe…

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/…

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…

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 presupue…

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 i…

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. Guatema…

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 Có…

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/202…

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-…

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 Busines…

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 hold…

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 com…

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 op…

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 disc…

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 fo…

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 …

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 th…

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 …

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 ballo…

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 na…

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…

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 i…

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 J…

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…

Carlos Torrebiarte—a director with the Association for the Defense of Private Property and a Nuestro Diario weekly columnist—explains how the US Embassy in Guatemala revoked his and his wife’s US travel visa. He contends that the embassy did this to spite him for speaking up against “the policies that the United States wants to impose in Guatemala.…

Adam Dubove, cofounder and director of financial-intelligence service Ichimoku Fibonacci, and Eduardo Marty, founder and president of the Foundation for Intellectual Responsibility in Argentina, contend that Argentine President-Elect Javier Milei has a historic opportunity to succeed in his incoming administration.Milei, however, needs to work his …

Maribel Espinoza—a Honduran congresswoman of the Salvador Party—contends that Xiomara Castro’s socialist Libre Party is on a mission to control every branch of the state. She explains that Libre congressmen have violated the Honduran Constitution and the Public Ministry Law with their appointment of a new attorney general. The decision has been in …

Adam Dubove—cofounder and director of financial consulting firm Ichimoku Fibonacci—explains that Javier Milei can still beat Peronista Sergio Massa in the runoff. However, he predicts the results will be tight. Further, he contends that the incumbent Peronista government made an elaborate effort to undermine Milei’s candidacy through negative propa…

Sebastián Díaz—an Impunity Observer policy analyst—and Mauro Echeverría—Impunity Observer deputy editor—explain how Ecuadorian President-Elect Daniel Noboa won the election against Correísmo. Further, they analyze the main challenges that Noboa will face in his term, which will last one year and a half, given that Guillermo Lasso dissolved Congress…

Jair Viana—economist and research director at the Colombian Libertank policy institute—explains the importance of a free-market economy for development. He contends that the freest cities in Colombia, such as Montería, have been economically growing at a rapid clip relative to larger cities. Viana also explains how Bogotá, despite having the highes…

Arturo Damm Arnal—economics and philosophy professor at Panamerican University in Mexico—explains how a coalition of three traditional parties will challenge Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. The National Action Party (PAN), the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have named Xóchitl Gálvez, a…

Join our Deputy Editor Mauro Echeverría, who will discuss his latest insights regarding Ecuador's insecurity crisis.Recommended links:https://impunityobserver.com/2023/06/01/why-ecuador-law-enforcement-is-no-match-for-narcos/https://impunityobserver.com/2022/10/31/the-origins-of-escalating-violence-in-ecuador/…