In emerging democracies, infrastructure is rarely treated as a means. It becomes a promise, a symbol, sometimes a substitute for progress itself. Metro systems, highways, ports, and monumental public works are announced as proof that the state is moving history forward. Yet years pass, costs multiply, and delivery remains modest. What is lost in the process is not only money, but time, the most irreplaceable of all resources.

Early Saturday morning, after months of military buildup, strikes on boats, and verbal threats, US forces entered Venezuela on President Trump’s orders and captured President Nicolás Maduro.

A few dozen Venezuelan soldiers and civilians were reportedly killed in the bombings carried out to cover the American soldiers who flew in to grab the Venezuelan leader.

The Mises Wire had just barely published my article criticizing the National Security Strategy when hours later the news broke that the Pentagon had escalated Trump’s undeclared war against Venezuela by attacking the Fuerte Tiuna military base and various air defense installations in and around Caracas, killing 40 Venezuelans and abducting President Nicolás Maduro and hi

Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar?

Japan’s 10-year bond yield is now the highest its been since the 1990s. Inflation has run above above the BOJ’s 2% target for 44 straight months.

Israel immediately barred foreign journalists from reporting in Gaza after the start of the war in October 2023. Meanwhile, Israelis now openly call for censorship in the United States also.

As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power – and likely some bribed Venezuelan officials – ensured that the operation was swift and dramatic.

This was not a war, we were told. It was just a surgical operation to remove a criminal dictator and restore democracy to the country. American oil companies would soon get even richer exploiting the country’s vast oil reserves. This time it will be different!