Africa is growing. In spite of terrible wars, famine, misery, corruption and dictatorships, new generations of politicians and industrialists are coming to the fore, full of enthusiasm and energy. They come up against a very difficult reality, and generally, to get to the top, they have to
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In these hours, the Filipino people are electing a new president. According to all the polls, the winner should be Bongbong Marcos – son of the bloodthirsty dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, who died of old age in 1989, three years after the revolution that restored democracy. He
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In the middle of Central Europe is a small nation of great traditions: even when it was part of the Habsburg empire, Hungary has maintained an ancient language and culture, pride in its military traditions, and a congenital scepticism against all the great powers around it, from
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There is a fragment of Asia that absolutely wants to enter the European Union. It is Georgia, one of the most culturally important countries in the history and prehistory of the world, one of the countries crushed for decades under the heel of the Soviet Union. It
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In 1957 the English novelist Nevil Shute published his masterpiece, “On the beach”. There has been an atomic war, the whole of humanity has been exterminated, one last beach remains – that of eastern Australia, which is nevertheless about to be reached by the radioactive clouds that
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It is one of the oldest stories in the world – so old that it was not believed until archaeologists proved it. For at least 3,200 years, on the shores of the Aegean Sea, two civilisations have been fighting for supremacy over what was then the main
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For ten days in early January 2022, Kazakhstan was on the brink of civil war. Spontaneous demonstrations over rising fuel costs escalated into urban guerrilla warfare and a military invasion by the armies of neighbouring countries allied to Russia. When they left, after 30 years of absolute
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Almost 50 years have passed. Chile, symbol of the freedom of my generation, born with the election of Salvador Allende to the presidency, is crushed by a military coup d’état, desired and organised by the United States, which costs the lives of tens of thousands of decent
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Madiba’s dream is dead. For almost four years now, South Africa’s democratic system has been close to collapse. Poverty, disease, lack of education, lack of prospects, lack of jobs and lack of health care have created on the one hand a generation of cynical, arrogant and corrupt
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It is the arctic night of 2 December 2021, on the gloomy parade ground of the Ministry of Defence in Berlin. The flak-lit breath of the spectators evokes that of the battle-ready horses that in 1596 waited excitedly for the reins to finally be loosened and the
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