Publisher Fergus Hodgson discusses what this implies for Latin America, and Ecuador in particular, in his June 9 presentation with the CREO Movement classical-liberal political party in Quito, Ecuador. He addresses America-First’s underlying drivers, the foreign-policy outcomes, and recommendations and opportunities for the region. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/06/17/what-america-first-means-for-latin-america/...
Jun 17, 2025•17 min
The Javier Milei administration has brought some stability to the Argentine peso through spending cuts, lower inflation, market liberalization, and improved access to capital flows. However, for Martín Litwak—an international lawyer specializing in wealth management—these measures fall short. He argues Argentina still needs deeper reforms, particularly to reduce the tax burden and dismantle the union-dominated economy, which continue to deter investment. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/...
Jun 11, 2025•27 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4AnPaperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Panama’s road to prosperity began with its separation from Colombia at the turn of the 20th century. While economic motivations fueled the secession, Panamanian business leader Surse Pierpoint emphasizes that cultural differences also played a key role. Panamanians have consistently sought to attract foreign capital and industries.Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com...
May 22, 2025•29 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4AnPaperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Gabriela Calderón, an Ecuadorian classical-liberal advocate, publisher at ElCato.org, and columnist for El Universo, explains that opposing dollarization has become political suicide. For now, she argues, the US dollar remains the most reliable currency, given its relevance in the global economy. However, she notes that Ecuador still has a central bank and a manipulated,...
May 13, 2025•37 min
Joanna Guerra—a classical-liberal lawyer, philosopher, and university professor in Mexico—explains that younger generations lack an entrepreneurial mindset. This tragically stems from the ideological indoctrination they receive through schools, films, music, and more. She believes transmitting the principles of classical liberalism requires translating philosophical ideas into everyday experiences. In her book, Ser libre es cool, Guerra brings market-based innovation to life using real-world exa...
May 06, 2025•29 min
The Impunity Observer gathered three leading Canadian thinkers to analyze the results of the parliamentary elections, where the Liberal Party secured yet another term in office. Our expert guests included:• Meghan Murphy, a journalist in exile known for her outspoken stance against prostitution, pornography, and violence toward women. • Professor Louis Groarke, a philosopher at St. Francis Xavier University engaged in political and ethical discourse. • Marco Navarro-Génie, president of the Hault...
Apr 30, 2025•43 min
On April 13, Ecuadorians reelected President Daniel Noboa for a full four-year term (2025–2029). Joselo Andrade, executive director of the Ecuadorian Institute for Economic Policy (IEEP), argues both candidates represented left-leaning principles. However, he emphasizes that Noboa at least defends democracy and civil liberties, essential pillars for achieving prosperity. Andrade stresses that the private sector and think tanks like IEEP play a critical role in educating citizens. Show notes: htt...
Apr 22, 2025•27 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4AnPaperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, joined the Impunity Observer podcast to discuss his recent major report on the US asylum system. Hankinson contends the prevailing asylum laws, designed during World War II, are outdated. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/04/15/simon-hankinson-asylum-l...
Apr 15, 2025•28 min
Subscribe to Global Analyst by Adrian Day. Receive a 10 percent discount when you subscribe with the FERG coupon code: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/subscribe-nowIn 2021, a public school fired Jim McMurtry, a 40-year teacher in British Columbia, and he subsequently was banned from practicing his profession. McMurtry is raising his voice through the People’s Party of Canada (PPC). His campaign focuses on defending free speech and Canadian pride. He does not want to see top-down sweeping ...
Apr 08, 2025•28 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's book "Financial Sovereignty for Canadians": https://econamericas.com/financial-sovereignty-canadians/ In Canada, especially given the housing crisis, 65 percent of the population want an end to mass immigration. However, neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals have addressed the problem. Maxime Bernier, the PPC leader, contends that discussing the topics that concern Canadians will allow the PPC to expand its political support and get candidates in Parliament. However, fo...
Apr 02, 2025•28 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4An Paperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Olav Dirkmaat, who holds a PhD in economics from Rey Juan Carlos University, joins the Impunity Observer podcast to discuss his latest research on the ideological influence of foreign aid. His study, “Foreign Aid: An Ideological Hobby,” published by Francisco Marroquín University’s Public Policy Analysis Center (CADEP), examines how taxpayer dollars from the United Stat...
Apr 01, 2025•26 min
Francisco Zalles, a professor at Hespérides University and a researcher at the Ecuadorian Institute of Economic Policy ( IEEP ), moved to the Galápagos and quickly identified these pressing challenges. Alongside IEEP, Zalles led the creation of the Galápagos Observatory. This initiative recently published its first investigative report, analyzing the adverse effects of population control, subsidies, and a sprawling bureaucracy. https://impunityobserver.com/2025/03/12/francisco-zalles-misguided-e...
Mar 12, 2025•31 min
Buy the books:- "Time to Leave", Michael Wagner: https://amzn.to/4hiUIv5- "Financial Sovereignty for Canadians" Fergus Hodgson: https://econamericas.com/financial-sovereignty-canadians/Some topics justify more coverage, and Canada's constitutional crisis is one of them. Perhaps because the Canadian media are so bought off, with notable exceptions, Ottawa's critics have received precious little attention. Hence, my recent video, “Three Reasons Why Canada's Days Are Numbered,” proved our most popu...
Mar 11, 2025•8 min
My Yojoa premium options are now live: * the full selection (eight) https://ebay.com/itm/388032482652 * 10 dark (70 percent cacao) https://ebay.com/itm/388032562183 * 10 milk (45 percent cacao) https://ebay.com/itm/388032562183 In this episode, Elmer Pineda shares how they faced a pivotal moment: shut down the business or innovate. They chose innovation, spending two to three years developing a compelling brand with flavors that match Honduras's rich cacao, which has a slightly more fat (cacao b...
Mar 04, 2025•13 min
.Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon!Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4AnPaperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Roberto “Pollo” Contreras, the mayor of San Pedro Sula, argues remittances are blood money. Emigration from Honduras means leaving behind siblings, children, and other family members—many of whom end up joining gangs. San Pedro Sula has been struggling with a serious challenge: its youth are leaving for the United States or Spain. Contreras argues this exodus is primaril...
Feb 25, 2025•23 min
The new US president has done more for provincial separatism than any Albertan or Quebecker in recent years. His tariffs and the retaliatory escalation have revealed an incompetent and disconnected Ottawa political class, but that scratches the surface of the confederation's precariousness. As Michael Wagner notes in Time to Leave (2024), “Canada cannot be fixed.”Watch this video to find out the paths out of confederation!Buy the books:- "Time to Leave", Michael Wagner: https://amzn.to/4hiUIv5- ...
Feb 17, 2025•13 min
In our latest podcast, Gabriella Guerrero, executive director of La Politeka—a political education initiative—shares her insights on the upcoming presidential and congressional elections in Ecuador. Amid a complex landscape, Guerrero explores the potential scenarios should President Daniel Noboa win or lose against Luisa Gonzalez, the Revolución Ciudadana candidate, representing 21st-century socialism. Ecuador is grappling with two pressing challenges: an energy crisis and soaring violence. Whil...
Feb 03, 2025•18 min
Trevor Loudon, one of the most authoritative experts on communist movements, joins the Impunity Observer to discuss US President Donald Trump's recent nominations. A key figure raising concerns is Tulsi Gabbard, who served as a Democratic representative from Hawaii in Congress from 2013 to 2021. After switching to the Republican Party in 2024, Trump nominated her to be director of national intelligence. Loudon explains that Gabbard's former affiliation with the Democratic Party is not necessaril...
Jan 30, 2025•25 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4An Paperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Attorney Jim Ostrowski, based in Buffalo, New York, has for more than a decade been on a mission to convey the true nature of progressivism and retake the liberal tradition for the liberty movement. In "Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America" (226 pages, 2014), Ostrowski explains how the interventionist mindset has swept the United States since 1900 and ...
Jan 22, 2025•8 min
Marxism remains Marxism, even when it goes by different names. This is true for liberation theology, which has evolved into a religious partner to today’s progressivism. Marco Navarro-Génie—founding president of the Haultain Research Institute and author of Augusto "César" Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth (2002)—contends that liberation theology can be as dangerous as any other movement that attempts to "liberate" the oppressed through force. In his analysis, “The Legacy of Gustavo Gutiérrez:...
Jan 22, 2025•27 min
Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4An Paperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd After adopting bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador in June 2021, President Nayib Bukele has agreed to reform the Bitcoin Law to access a US$1.3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Bukele’s government has been negotiating with the IMF for three years. Initially, the IMF firmly rejected any deal so long as El Salvador continued recognizing bitcoin as leg...
Dec 24, 2024•8 min
En nuestra serie de episodios sobre las elecciones primarias del Partido Liberal en Honduras, el Impunity Observer entrevistó al precandidato: Jorge Cálix. El candidato más joven de la contienda, se ubica segundo en las encuestas dentro del Partido Liberal. Cálix comenta sobre los graves desafíos que enfrenta Honduras. En particular, la pobreza afecta a más de la mitad de la población. También menciona la elevada criminalidad, lo cual ahuyenta las oportunidades económicas y a las personas, exace...
Dec 17, 2024•22 min
Subscribe to Global Analyst by Adrian Day. Receive a 10 percent discount when you subscribe with the FERG coupon code: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/subscribe-now Argentine President Javier Milei appears to be implementing as much of his political agenda as possible, with the proviso that he has limited support in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. According to financial advisor Adam Dubove, Milei has effectively leveraged high citizen approval—a rare and compelling mandate—to push for...
Dec 11, 2024•33 min
Russell, host of The Canadian Conservative Podcast, joins our latest episode to discuss his trip to Israel in October 2024. He went in with a little understanding of the country’s history and conflicts, and he sought to be open to different perspectives with a relatively blank slate. However, he found that Western legacy media fail to provide an accurate overview. On the other hand, Russell contends that some independent media are doing a good job with their coverage, insofar as they can from ab...
Dec 02, 2024•36 min
Historian Mark Mazower’s recent essay on the implications of Donald Trump’s electoral victory for global democracy illustrates how academic and political elites continue to misunderstand the greatest political phenomenon of our times: Trump and the MAGA movement. As European society is being degraded due to the massive influx of unassimilable migrants with sociocultural norms unsuited for democracy, it would do the cause of democracy well to see a European version of MAGA. Mazower is right about...
Nov 27, 2024•8 min
Almost 46,000 fires have been reported in the Bolivian Amazon so far this year, accounting for more than 4 million hectares of burned forest. While this has been the largest registered number since 2012, Global Forest Watch has warned wildfires have sharply increased since 2019 due to growing illicit activities in the region. To better understand this development, the Impunity Observer interviewed Juan Pablo Chamon—director of free-market think tank Libera Bolivia. Chamon explains the fastest wa...
Nov 19, 2024•22 min
Claudia Amaya, a Honduran lawyer and politician, is running for a legislative candidacy in the primary election of the Liberal Party. Traditional and founded in 1891, the Liberal Party is now the chief rival to the ruling Libre party. In this podcast episode, Amaya—executive director of the Honduran Palm Oil Industry Association (AIPAH)—shares her political career and her motivation to be a candidate. She analyzes the political and economic challenges that the country is facing under the mandate...
Nov 12, 2024•21 min
Erik Suárez, a Venezuelan expatriate settled in the United States, joins the Impunity Observer podcast to comment on the impact of the US presidential election in Latin America. For Suárez, US foreign policy towards the region will experience a significant change. Republican senators and congressmen with Latino roots, such as Marco Rubio, María Salazar, and Mario Díaz-Balart, have been actively working to increase Latin American prominence in US foreign policy. Moreover, political commentator Su...
Nov 04, 2024•22 min
Our podcast guest, James Simpson, has authored Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America (2024). His goal is to raise awareness of the tactics the left uses to weaken the political system in the United States. According to Simpson, the left—embodied by both the dominant faction of the Democratic Party and woke ideologues—executed the strategy a long time ago, when they tried to collapse the welfare system and foment violence. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton reformed the welfare system by adding req...
Oct 28, 2024•34 min
Failure to react to scandalous government abuse of power will destroy freedom by giving power to corrupt tyrants. There is no greater scandal than the Biden-Harris regime putting children into slavery and covering it up. That means the 2024 election will determine if we still have the capacity to be morally outraged and protect ourselves. More than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents and whom the Health and Human Services Department released to “qualified sponsors” ar...
Oct 22, 2024•9 min
