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North America, the possibilities of integration Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero We are faced with an extraordinary geopolitical scenario. The way the events in Afghanistan have been unfolding leave the waters rough and complicated. Reflection on the events in Afghanistan shows us the importance that US imperialism still has. The apparent abandonment of this regional pivot constitutes a risk for what Brzezinski called the Eurasian Balkans. Leaving the zone implies unbalancing the fragile balance and observing if other regional powers are capable of fixing it or initiating new conflicts that demand the presence of the United States. Meanwhile, the regional concentration on the American continent of American power is a fundamental consequence. Brzezinski appears to be giving way to Huntington. The Afghan question is not minor, taking into account that the Taliban are an American creation. In other words, while it is true that they are withdrawing from military control in that region, bot...

Popular Consultation and Transitional Justice Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero Although the results of the survey regarding the trial of former Mexican presidents did not have the necessary results for the binding establishment that Morena's supporters - and some victims of authoritarian periods - considered, it is important to reflect on the demand for justice and memory of the past that a part of society claims. At the end of the last century, the historical trial was considered as a point of debate in the theory of transitions to democracy, legally it was called "Transitional Justice" to the legal processes necessary to judge the representatives of the authoritarian regime and jump to the period necessary for democratic consolidation. This process did not imply summary trials but rather the legal conscience, even in the absence, of the authoritarian perpetrators. The promoters of the agreed transition generated a current of opinion different from the historical judgme...