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Guillermo Rodríguez is a Venezuelan researcher at the Juan de Maria Center of Political Economy and a professor of political economy at the Institute of Managerial Professions in Caracas.

Opinion

Latin America Keeps Soviet Comintern Alive

Guillermo Rodríguez González Nov 11, 2019 224

A study of the long history of revolutionary socialism leads us to discover that for centuries, the quest for power for socialists was rarely anything other than agitation, terrorism, organized crime, conspiracy, and coups.…
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Opinion

What Are Chileans Complaining About?

Guillermo Rodríguez González Oct 28, 2019 694

Ibero-America observed in awe the ultimate escalation of continental violence, right in the region’s most prosperous economy. The origin is external. The violence was initiated and promoted by the far-left at the service of…
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Opinion

What Makes a Ruler a Tyrant, According to Juan de Mariana

Guillermo Rodríguez González Sep 10, 2019 122

This column will be remotely similar to the incomplete review of a book that has not been written )because I am writing it). Although I find myself far from concluding, I wanted to share a couple of things that might be…
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Opinion

Why China Pushes For A Currency War it Can’t Win

Guillermo Rodríguez González Aug 23, 2019 1,020

China’s weakness was evident right away in the currency war that the Asian country is fighting as a response to commercial and tariff pressures from the Trump administration. A currency functions as a global reserve not…
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Opinion

Socialism Is an Ideology of Death

Guillermo Rodríguez González Aug 15, 2019 642

Spanish - Understanding the true nature of socialism is indispensable so that the majority consciously defends the liberty upon which the spontaneous order of civilization depends. Among many essential books on this topic, today, we are…
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Opinion

Why No One Reports That Capitalism Saved The Bees

Guillermo Rodríguez González Jul 5, 2019 659

Not too long ago, environmentalists, backed by big media, and of course, Hollywood, created a scandal about the supposed termination of bees due to evil capitalism. They don’t mention it anymore. Moreover, now there are more…
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Opinion

Venezuela is What Happens by Allowing “Democratic Socialism” to Run its Course

Guillermo Rodríguez González Oct 22, 2018 723

The official chronicler of the destruction of Venezuela at the hands of socialism, now pleases the journalistic and cultural elties by saying that Venezuela is not the ideal context in which to examine the effects of socialism. These minor…
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Uncategorized

Maduro’s Economic “Reform” is Just More of the Same Crippling Socialism

Guillermo Rodríguez González Aug 27, 2018 297

It cost Maduro nothing to announce on Friday, August 17, that he would reactivate the Venezuelan economy, and make it grow again. Francisco de Quevedo said that "nobody offers as much as he will not fulfill." Maduro offered a double lie to…
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Opinion

Socialists Debut New Justifications for Old Hypocrisy with Attacks on Free Speech

Guillermo Rodríguez González Jul 3, 2018 392

These revolutionaries are perfect criminals. Covered with the blood of the innocent, they declare themselves to be, and believe they are, virtuous agents of good. Moderate socialists, installed in times of capitalist prosperity, share this…
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Caribbean

How Socialism Ruined Cuba’s Sugar Industry, and is about to Ruin Venezuela’s Petroleum…

Guillermo Rodríguez González Jun 27, 2018 1,841

The USSR was a military superpower with extensive geographic, natural, and human resources, which propped up a small and unproductive socialist economy, unviable in the long term. The Soviet Union's fall ended the Soviet subsidy to Cuba.…
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Opinion

Why Sweden is not Socialist, and Never Really Was

Guillermo Rodríguez González Apr 12, 2018 5,821

The "cultural" Marxism of the Frankfurt School is the macabre combination of dialectical materialism and psychoanalysis. The most influential branch of neo-Marxism that Gramsci initiated featured theories of hegemony of the "new common…
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Economics

With False Globalist Rhetoric, Obama Left a Ticking Protectionist Time Bomb

Guillermo Rodríguez González Mar 13, 2018 164

If Trump does not dismantle the massive protectionist bomb that Obama left behind, it will explode, destroying his tax and regulatory policies.
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