Open Dialogue Research Journal
Natural disasters rarely become humanitarian catastrophes because of geology alone. Earthquakes strike without warning, but the scale of human suffering that follows is often determined by the strength of institutions, the resilience of infrastructure, and the speed of emergency response. Venezuela’s recent earthquake has become a painful illustration of this […]
Last Sunday, June 21, 2026, Colombia held the second round of presidential elections. The chances between the candidates for the post of head of state were approximately equal, while the candidates’ election programs were radically different. Ivan Cepeda Castro continued the line of succession of the center-left policy of the […]
In 1960, Eisenhower signed the embargo against Cuba. Eleven presidents have come and gone since then. The Soviet Union collapsed. China became a superpower. And the embargo just kept cruising on autopilot—nobody quite remembered why, but nobody had the nerve to switch it off either. By the mid-1960s it was […]
On June 2, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that “we now have in this hemisphere a coalition of friendly countries – over a dozen – who have aligned to work on not just the issues of security that we all have in common, […]
As former Cuban leader Raul Castro marked his 95th birthday on June 3, 2026, the occasion was overshadowed by a dramatic escalation in tensions between Havana and Washington. Once regarded as a key architect of the historic rapprochement between Cuba and the United States during the Obama era, Castro now […]
The sources are presented below, in a sequence of 7 articles from various news-organizations, but first here will be the SUMMARY of the events that those articles describe: Trump’s 3 January 2026 take-over of Venezuela from rule by Marxists, who were (like all Marxists) economic incompetents (since Marx’s philosophy requires that), […]
On May 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed formal charges against 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro. He is accused of “conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals” and murder itself. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche specified: “Castro and other defendants are also charged with additional crimes, including destruction of […]
Bolivia is facing one of the most severe political and social crises in its recent history as widespread protests, road blockades, and violent clashes continue to paralyze the country less than six months after President Rodrigo Paz took office. The unrest has effectively placed the nation’s political capital, La Paz, […]
Revealing a steely yet erratic contempt of the law, the US Department of Justice is showing, again, how it became the spear carrier for kooky ideas and vengeful projects. No leader is seemingly safe from an indictment if the personal interest of President Donald Trump is invested. It need not […]
The United States has dramatically intensified its confrontation with Cuba by filing criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, marking one of the most serious escalations in relations between the two countries in decades. The unprecedented indictment reflects the increasingly aggressive foreign policy approach of President Donald Trump’s administration […]
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