Author: Jose Niño
Few leaders have surprised international observers like El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. First elected in 2019, Bukele is an intriguing figure. And that’s putting it lightly. In 2020, Bukele stoked controversy by sending military troops into the Salvadoran parliament as part of strong arm maneuver to ostensibly demand $109 million in security funds to combat gangs. On foreign policy, Bukele started out as a seemingly loyal strategic partner of the United States. For example, in 2019, the millennial president’s administration expelled Venezuelan diplomats in protest of the highly contested 2019 Venezuelan election, in which many Western countries and their allies…
On February 16, 2022 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made a high profile visit to Moscow where he declared that Brazil stood in “solidarity” with Russia. “We are in solidarity with Russia,” Bolsonaro said to Putin. “We very much want to collaborate in many areas — defense, oil and gas, agriculture. The meetings are happening.” Bolsonaro’s move has sparked wide speculation about Brazil drifting outside of the United States’ orbit during a time when the security situation between Russia and Ukraine is rapidly deteriorating. Bolsonaro, who was elected in 2018, initially took a more pro-US line when former President Donald Trump…
Earlier this month Argentina signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) where it agreed to join the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). Argentina signed on to the BRI program following President Alberto Fernández’s bold announcement during a visit to Russia earlier this month. In this visit, Fernández stressed the need for Argentina to become independent of the US and global institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The BRI is China’s most prominent geoeconomic tool where it uses infrastructure investment to forge novel economic and political ties with nations participating in this program. In signing this MOU, Argentina became the 21st…
Will Hungary’s foreign policy get it into trouble with the globalist cabal? Under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary has pursued an unconventional path on both domestic and international fronts. The latter will likely be annoying the gatekeepers in the Anglo-American empire. For one, Hungary is a committed practitioner of a multi-vector foreign policy that balances against great powers like China, Russia, and the United States. In effect, Hungary does not blindly commit itself to one geopolitical pole. For example, Hungary has welcomed Chinese investment without many problems. Furthermore, Hungary was the sole country that blocked the European…