Ricardo Abud in English
The perfect storm that defines the political future of the United States
By: Ricardo Abud The November midterm elections are shaping up to be much more than a simple dispute over seats in the United States Congress, transforming into a political trial about the direct…
Ricardo Abud in English
Solidarity with an expiration date
By: Ricardo Abud It seems the tragedy has begun to fade from collective memory. Just a few weeks ago, the entire country united in gestures of solidarity, shared messages of support, and promised n…
Ricardo Abud in English
Technofeudalism and emotional intelligence
By: Ricardo Abud Technological revolutions have always transformed how people work, communicate, and organize their societies. The digital revolution is no exception. However, some economists argu…
Ricardo Abud in English
Devastated. Venezuela and the crime of leading a country to ruin
By: Ricardo Abud To devastate is not to neglect. It is not to mismanage. It is not to make wrong decisions with good intentions. To devastate is to raze. It is to leave in ruins what once existed. …
Ricardo Abud in English
The unvarnished truth: Venezuela has no way out in the short term, and no one who says otherwise deserves to be believed.
By: Ricardo Abud Any discourse that promises the recovery of Venezuela in the near future is, at best, ignorance and at worst, another form of manipulation.
Tecnofeudalismo
From Factory to Platform: Evolution of Power Relations
By: Ricardo Abud Introduction Marxism and its historical context Marxism emerged in 19th-century Europe as an intellectual and political response to the radical transformations brought about by th…
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A people who choose peace over misery
By: Ricardo Abud Tragedy should never be a stage for political ambition. When a people mourns its dead, searches for its missing, or tries to rebuild itself amidst uncertainty, what it expects from…
Ricardo Abud in English
The Lost Opportunity: Geopolitics, Power and the Strategic Failure of the Bolivarian Revolution (III)
By: Ricardo Abud History is often unforgiving to those who confuse rhetoric with power. For years, the leadership of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution spoke of independence, sovereignty, multipol…
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The Monroe Doctrine, the neighbor who never left, and the naiveté of forgetting (II)
By: Ricardo Abud The Monroe Doctrine is not a museum document, nor a dusty relic of 1823 that we can simply file away and consign to oblivion. It is, unfortunately, the grammatical and existential …
Ricardo Abud in English
The mirage of words and the end of sovereign illusion (I)
By: Ricardo Abud Introduction: The autopsy of an illusion History rarely forgives those who confuse their desires with reality, and even less so those who substitute rhetoric for strategy. For a qua…
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The Great Shield: How Trump Bent the US Tax Authority
By: Ricardo Abud An analysis of the biggest tax scandal in US presidential history The leak that revealed everything It all began with an unprecedented information leak. Between 2019 and 2020, Char…
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Marxism and Technofeudalism: A Comparative Analysis
By: Ricardo Abud The contemporary debate on the digital economy pits two key interpretive frameworks against each other: Marxism, which analyzes history through the class struggle and ownership of …
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The goat and the machine
By: Ricardo Abud "I confess that few technology stories have left me as perplexed as that of Truth Terminal. I was sent a link about this case and, as I began to investigate, I had the feeling…
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What have we Venezuelans done to our political class to make them hate us so much?
By: Ricardo Abud The question hurts because it's fair, it arises from the ruins, and it has no easy answer. It's not a phrase uttered from academic comfort or ideological detachment: it'…
Ricardo Abud in English
Generation Z and Technofeudalism
By Ricardo Abud Yanis Varoufakis doesn't use the metaphor of feudalism for rhetorical whim. He uses it because it accurately describes something that the vocabulary of classical capitalism can …
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Homeland, oil and dignity
By: Ricardo Abud When Simón Bolívar warned that the United States seemed destined to plague America with misery in the name of freedom, he did not imagine that one day it would be precisely a gover…
Guerra EEUU-Israel vs Iran
