The Editorial View

Lima/Paris, 27th February 2025.- In recent weeks, the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID has resonated strongly. While other industrialised countries, such as the UK and Canada, have in the past reconfigured their international cooperation schemes in line with their commercial and foreign policy interests, the current uproar is due not only to the profound humanitarian consequences of this decision, but also to the nature of its protagonists: the Musk-Trump duo. Furthermore, the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose name coincides with a cryptocurrency promoted by Musk, has intensified the debate on the future of US cooperation and its implications at a global level.

In this   context, the question arises: what stance should Peru, and other Latin   American countries in general, take on the demise of such an important   development agency?

     Lima/Paris, Febrero del 2025 -. En las últimas semanas ha resonado con fuerza el desmantelamiento de USAID por parte de la administración Trump. Si bien otros   países industrializados, como el Reino Unido y Canadá, han reconfigurado en el pasado sus esquemas de cooperación internacional en función de sus intereses comerciales y de política exterior, el revuelo actual se debe no solo a las profundas consecuencias humanitarias de esta decisión, sino también a la naturaleza de sus protagonistas: el dúo Musk-Trump. Además, la creación del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE, por sus siglas en inglés), cuyo nombre coincide con una criptomoneda impulsada por Musk, ha intensificado el debate sobre el futuro de la cooperación estadounidense y   sus implicancias a nivel global.

En este contexto, cabe preguntarse: qué postura debería adoptar el Perú y, en   general, otros países de América Latina, a la desaparición de tan importante   agencia de desarrollo?

EDITORIAL - March 12th, 2024 

Latin American Based Solutions: The next 16th Biodiversity COP must carry a Latin American message of hope & action, inspired by our natural and cultural heritage.

"Despite all its atributes, Colombian COP-16 Presidency has a difficult task. Most important of all, is to differenciate itself from the Paris Agreement architecture. With all its attributes, good intentions and ambitious targets, despite being nationally determined, they are never respected. Worse, the money promised to developing countries never flows. It never rains. Plenty of announcements, reclyced in countless new announcements which equals to double/triple/quadruple counting on the same penies, is what we get. I call on the Colombian Presidency to change that, to bring a Latin American message of hope but also action."

EDITORIAL: Reaching a CO2-equilibrated world, having destroyed the beauty of our natural ecosystems, our rainforests, our oceans, our glaciers, and our mountains, won’t be a world where I would like my children to live in. I assume that’s the case for you, too. 

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s an air con world, with trillion trees monocultures, numerous direct air carbon capture facilities in our new very large and very sunny deserts and electric vehicles for all what you really like. And I respect that, but I beg to defer.