Tara Lee Rodas started working at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) full of enthusiasm for assisting migrant children that arrived in the United States without their parents. However, when she realized some officials were colluding with criminal gangs to have them sponsor the children she reported that and was dismissed. As an HHS whistleblower, Rodas has spread the tragic reality of the US program: Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsors. In April 2023, for instance, she ...
Oct 21, 2024•34 min
Discount code (10 percent) for Edge Designations: FERGhttps://edgedesignations.com/ Like its protagonist, The Apprentice (123 minutes, 2024) will mean different things to different people and enable an odd mix of confirmation biases. Those watching the same enthralling portrayal of the young Donald Trump and his attorney-mentor Roy Cohn (1927–1986) will extract starkly different conclusions. MAGA partisans will likely highlight Trump’s courage, ambition, and productivity. Those infected with Tru...
Oct 16, 2024•7 min
En este episodio, conversamos con la profesora de derecho y filosofía Joanna Guerra y la experta en blockchain Mariana Carmona sobre el nuevo gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum, así como los desafíos críticos que México enfrenta en la actualidad. Tanto Guerra como Carmona son profesionales talentosas en sus ámbitos y, como muchos de la clase media y alta-media en México, están planeando dejar el país pronto. Ellas predicen que Sheinbaum continuará la agenda de AMLO pero con un tinte más autoritario. ...
Oct 14, 2024•46 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 Publisher Fergus Hodgson delves into "Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption," written by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In this video, Hodgson presents the book as an essential guide to modern conservative thought. Harper eloquently argues that conservatism is about “seeing the...
Oct 02, 2024•10 min
Those who now control the Democrat Party intend to turn our country into a dictatorship. Calling Democrats incompetent implicitly conveys they have good intentions. To preserve liberty, we must recognize we face an amoral machine that seeks power at all costs. Watch our Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht discussing how tying the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to a continuing spending resolution provides an opportunity to show Democrats' priority is to win elections through cheating. Re...
Sep 19, 2024•8 min
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Sep 18, 2024•8 min
Discount code (10 percent) for Edge Designations: FERG https://edgedesignations.com/ The ESG framework is a progressive agenda that harms market prospects for both companies and national economies. Yet, it has managed to gain widespread traction. The number of ESG exchange-traded funds (ETFs) went from $12 billion in 2006 to $1,826 billion in 2023, an increase of over 15,000 percent! This result emanates from the perverse incentives of big companies in rich countries to toe the ideological line ...
Sep 17, 2024•8 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 This episode features Ryan Smyth, former treasurer of the Atlantica Party from Nova Scotia, Canada. He explains the challenges and successes of managing a startup political organization focused on free markets and individualism in the classical-liberal tradition. After four years of inactivity, the Atlantic Party re-entered th...
Sep 10, 2024•34 min
Contrary to her acceptance-speech claim that her sole client is the people, Kamala Harris is a handpicked frontman for an amoral, antidemocratic regime. While regime media falsely portray her as caring, regime policies direct people from south of the border straight into the hands of Mexican cartels that enslave children and rape women. In his latest analysis, Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht examines the consequences of Harris's foreign policies and alliances in Central America, particularly Guatema...
Sep 04, 2024•8 min
Mark Moyar joins our show to discuss his latest book, Masters of Corruption. He exposes a deep culture of corruption and partisanship within federal institutions, sadly even among the offices supposedly there to protect whistleblowers. In addition, Moyar shares his insights on the Democratic and Republican parties as the November election approaches. He discusses how Donald Trump and Kamala Harris would likely shape their administrations and US foreign policy toward Latin America. Show notes: ht...
Sep 03, 2024•26 min
Chinese Mining in Nicaragua: A Window into the Sandinista Dictatorship The impact of Chinese mining in Nicaragua goes far beyond the environment. It raises critical questions about governance, sovereignty, and the future of the nation under the Sandinista regime. In our latest video, we explore how these mining activities reflect the deeper issues at play within the Sandinista dictatorship. Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/08/21/chinese-mining-nicaragua-reveals-sandinista-dict...
Aug 27, 2024•6 min
El aumento de la migración hondureña durante el gobierno de Xiomara Castro ha puesto en evidencia la ineficiencia de sus políticas socialistas, así como del oportunismo y clientelismo reinante entre la élite política emergente. Salvador Nasralla, en calidad de primer designado presidencial de Honduras, fue testigo de ello desde que asumió el cargo en 2022. Bajo el argumento de que no tenía capacidad de influencia política, ni autorización para hacer su trabajo, renunció y lanzó su precandidatura...
Aug 20, 2024•25 min
Fergus Hodgson uncovers the primary reasons as to why therapy is highly important in Argentina. Due to their extensive history of corruption and wrongdoers in economics, Buenos Aires has become the therapy capital of the world. Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/08/06/why-buenos-aires-is-the-worlds-therapy-capital/ Watch the documentary: https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/11176/argentina-in-therapy
Aug 13, 2024•8 min
What happened in Venezuela after the announcement of the faux electoral results, was a major concern for the international left. One of its main allies, the “son of Hugo Chávez,” had committed a monumental fraud in broad daylight and was massacring the people. How could they tackle the crisis, so that the left did not sink along with him? Antonio Peña Esclusa explains the socialist's narrative, implemented by Lula da Silva and his allies to address this issue, in his latest article translated by...
Aug 08, 2024•6 min
Per Bylund's "How to think economics" (2022) compiles all the valuable economics concepts we need to know. In the book review, Fergus Hodgson explains how this book opens the reader's mind and what challenges it does not address. Read the full review: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/07/03/economic-literacy-is-not-enough/ Buy the book: https://a.co/d/iygUBUz
Aug 01, 2024•8 min
In his latest article for BizPac Review, our Editor-at-Large, Steve Hecht, explains the challenges MAGA faces after Donald Trump's attack. Although Trump seeks to unite the nation, the polarization strategy is a real challenge to consider. Read the article: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/16/there-can-be-no-unity-with-enemies-of-liberty-1472732/ Lea es artículo en español: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/07/17/no-puede-haber-unidad-con-enemigos-libertad/
Jul 24, 2024•8 min
Los grupos gemelos del Foro de Sao Paulo y el Grupo de Puebla se reunieron a finales de junio en Honduras para planificar su nueva ofensiva autoritaria en la región, todo bajo el auspicio del gobierno socialista de Xiomara Castro. Maribel Espinoza, diputada del Congreso de Honduras, teme que, siguiendo esta línea, el gobierno no apruebe el presupuesto del Consejo Nacional Electoral a tiempo, lo que impediría que se realicen las elecciones primarias de los partidos opositores en marzo de 2025. Es...
Jul 24, 2024•22 min
Many Third-World nations have valuable natural resources within their borders. Converting them into lasting economic development, rather than a one-off shot in the arm, is easier said than done. The first step is to consider the perspectives of investors, and our Publisher Fergus Hodgson argues that the investor’s perspective is found in Investing in Resources (341 pages, 2010) by Adrian Day. Hodgson reviews Day's book, and explains why it offers gems for open-minded policymakers. Read the full ...
Jul 09, 2024•9 min
El presidente de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, visitó a la presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, antes del Foro de São Paulo en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, del 27 al 29 de junio de 2024. Según Ricardo Méndez, presidente de la Fundación contra el Terrorismo, esta reunión podría impactar negativamente la aprobación de Arévalo entre sus electores. Guatemala es un país predominantemente conservador, y sus ciudadanos podrían comprender mejor las asociaciones de Arévalo con los regímenes comunistas y dict...
Jul 02, 2024•24 min
On May 14, 2024, media outlets Código Vidrio and Vistazo exposed a covert Chinese police station in Quito, Ecuador. Operating under the guise of a travel agency, this station was part of a global network under the CCP's Fox Hunt operation. Discover the details of this investigation, including an exclusive interview with Arturo Torres, director of Código Vidrio, who provides unique insights into the implications for Ecuador's sovereignty and security. Read the full investigation at Impunity Obser...
Jun 25, 2024•5 min
In December 2023, the Prosecutor General’s Office in Guatemala announced the 2023 elections were fraudulent. Fergus Hodgson comments on our investigation in the topic, where we explain the irregularities that could invalidate the results and lead to the Guatemalan President's prosecution. Read the investigation here: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/05/07/explained-evidence-of-electoral-fraud-in-guatemala/
Jun 18, 2024•4 min
Yusuf Amdani of Pakistan first visited Honduras in 1990, on the lookout for a textile-factory location. Fast forward 34 years: he is a Honduran citizen and one of the nation’s most prominent, innovative, and successful entrepreneurs with about 10 factories to his name. Read the full review: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/04/22/yusuf-amdani-build-a-nation-within-a-nation/ Buy the book: https://amzn.to/3xMZWxa
Jun 11, 2024•7 min
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) spared no expense to support the candidacy of Claudia Sheinbaum. She won the presidential election on June 2, 2024, with 59.5 percent of the votes. AMLO’s political party, Morena, also won two-thirds of the seats at Congress. For Rafael Ramirez de Alba, an economics professor at the IPADE Business School, AMLO will stay behind the throne, and Morena will seek to apply its agenda through legislative reforms. Priorities include reforming the pen...
Jun 04, 2024•19 min
The Latin American Liberal Network (RELIAL)—which gathers around 50 think tanks and political parties advocating for free markets, the rule of law, and individual rights—has launched a permanent seminar to develop annual in-depth research projects. In 2023, researchers explored the growing influence of China in Latin America. Santiago Carranco holds a doctorate in international studies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. He is an international-relations professor at the Internati...
May 28, 2024•25 min
Carlson interviewed former Guatemala Secretary of Intelligence (2016–2020) Mario Duarte about his first-hand experience of the US State Department imposition on Guatemala. Duarte, also a US citizen, said DOS has weaponized the government to force upon allied nations its “ideological projects and socialist narratives.” Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht comments on the recent coverage of US media on the topic and recommends congressional investigations. Read the article: https://www.bizpacreview.com/202...
May 21, 2024•10 min
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has made an intriguing offer: immediate citizenship for 5,000 intellectuals who wish to make the move. Albeit scant on details and merely an X post, his pitch poses a pertinent and fascinating question: when would this make sense for both the host nation and the new arrivals? Publisher Fergus Hodgson explores the opportunities for foreigners in El Salvador and how the country could benefit from the migration of talented individuals. Read the article: https://imp...
May 15, 2024•9 min
Colombian President Gustavo Petro made energy transition one of his 2022 presidential campaign’s flagship policies. He pledged to replace fossil fuels with renewables and turn Ecopetrol, the fourth largest oil company in Latin America, into the region’s most influential green-energy firm. In this podcast episode, our Research Director Paz Gómez discusses her investigation on the reliability and state of Colombia's energy transition plan. She explains why, in the meantime, the lack of legal certa...
May 08, 2024•21 min
The Joe Biden regime's policy priorities coincide with the agendas of US adversaries abroad. A February 20 letter by eight US senators told Biden that his administration's sanctions had attacked US allies and ignored corruption by US enemies. Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht explains how the Biden regime's relaxation of sanctions and enabling of money for Iran has empowered the dictatorship and its terrorist proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. Read the article here: https://www.bizpacreview.c...
May 01, 2024•8 min
Cuban exiles enjoy nostalgia for the homes and times they once knew. Those days are long gone, and they will never return. Honduras is creeping toward the same fate. Impunity Observer Publisher Fergus Hodgson comments on his article "The Exodus Is Turning Honduras into Cuba" and explains why this exodus will grow exponentially if socialist policies and autocratic trends continue. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1UdKsAWYQ&t=124s Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/0...
Apr 23, 2024•8 min
The Impunity Observer podcast is scaling up to a weekly episode and new formats that allow us to get closer to our audience. Our contributor Mauro Echeverría begins this weekly series with a deeper look at one of his investigations. His latest investigation revealed that a rising number of Chinese citizens are flying to Ecuador, where they begin their journey north. Echeverría discusses how he conducted the research—which included reaching out to three human smugglers and a Google Trends analysi...
Apr 16, 2024•20 min
