South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is one step closer to proceedings that will lead to his resignation. As in the case of his predecessor (and, perhaps, successor), Jacob Zuma, an independent commission of enquiry has been able to demonstrate serious examples of corruption – a commission manoeuvred
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His name instils respect and awe in at least five generations of politicians, military personnel and entrepreneurs: Henry Kissinger, advisor to presidents, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1973 (for deciding the end of the Vietnam War that he himself had helped to unleash), will be 100 years
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A cold November in 1968, snow and despair, and a song. Singing it, to vindicate democracy, is a charming and proud twenty-something, wearing boots and hair as they are worn in London, and eyes made up in the heavy black of revolt. In the cultural ferment that
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Europe has no friends. On the contrary: as we have seen in the last ten months, it is the fat cow to be slaughtered at the slaughterhouse of a global crisis – ecological, economic and social – for which no one has any solutions, except that, precisely,
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Europe needs 18 million barrels of oil per day. An immense figure, but already significantly less than the almost 22 million barrels consumed daily in 2008, when the great financial crisis threw the entire world economy into panic[1]. Our continental production, which was 3.5 million barrels per
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CH The need to improve the planet’s logistics networks continues to grow, especially with the increasing uncertainty over peace and the availability of energy and mineral resources. Especially on African soil, which offers the greatest possibilities and is the most backward, a real race has broken out
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To say that never before has the national election campaign been as depressing as this year is a platitude. After the 5 Star Movement, in over ten years of fervour, has managed to destroy the credibility of everything – moreover, with the guilty support of all the
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Sweden’s far-right party, Jimmie Åkesson’s Democrats, overwhelmingly won the elections. The Social Democrats still have a relative majority, but the centre-right bloc, if the alliance parties are counted together, has an absolute majority. For the umpteenth time in the last quarter of a century, a populist formation,
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Only 9 months after choosing Gabriel Boric as the country’s new leader[1], Chilean voters overwhelmingly rejected the new constitution proposed by the Assembly[2], which was supposed to replace the one drafted under the military government of General Augusto Pinochet in 1980. Despite the fact that Chileans have
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He was thrown out of a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital: the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian oil giant, Ravil Maganov, died this morning, at the age of 67, following the fate of his colleague Alexander Subbotin, who died (officially a heart
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