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Buy the books:- "Time to Leave", Michael Wagner: https://amzn.to/4hiUIv5- "Financial Sovereignty for Canadians" Fergus Hodgson: https://econamericas.com/financial-sovereignty-canadians/Some topics justify more coverage, and Canada's constitutional crisis is one of them. Perhaps because the Canadian media are so bought off, with notable exceptions, Ottawa's critics have received precious little attention. Hence, my recent video, “Three Reasons Why Canada's Days Are Numbered,” proved our most popular ever. Here I will provide responses to three recurring themes in the more than 600 comments, which I appreciate.Read the full article: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/03/11/responding-to-your-comments-about-canadas-future/

My Yojoa premium options are now live:* the full selection (eight) https://ebay.com/itm/388032482652* 10 dark (70 percent cacao) https://ebay.com/itm/388032562183* 10 milk (45 percent cacao) https://ebay.com/itm/388032562183In this episode, Elmer Pineda shares how they faced a pivotal moment: shut down the business or innovate. They chose innovation, spending two to three years developing a compelling brand with flavors that match Honduras's rich cacao, which has a slightly more fat (cacao butter) content. Pineda's unique approach, pushing the boundaries of taste creativity, allowed them to compete with well-known US and Swiss brands at Honduran supermarkets and garner international prizes. Pineda has also weaned his farm off pesticides and is pursuing organic certification, in an effort to meet the needs of the high-end market.I was able to bring back a small quantity of Pineda's chocolate with me to Colorado. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/03/04/paths-value-added-cacao-harvest-hon

.Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon!Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4AnPaperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zdRoberto “Pollo” Contreras, the mayor of San Pedro Sula, argues remittances are blood money. Emigration from Honduras means leaving behind siblings, children, and other family members—many of whom end up joining gangs.San Pedro Sula has been struggling with a serious challenge: its youth are leaving for the United States or Spain. Contreras argues this exodus is primarily due to the government's failure to enable economic opportunities.Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/02/25/san-pedro-sula-mayor-remittances-are-blood-money/

The new US president has done more for provincial separatism than any Albertan or Quebecker in recent years. His tariffs and the retaliatory escalation have revealed an incompetent and disconnected Ottawa political class, but that scratches the surface of the confederation's precariousness. As Michael Wagner notes in Time to Leave (2024), “Canada cannot be fixed.”Watch this video to find out the paths out of confederation!Buy the books:- "Time to Leave", Michael Wagner: https://amzn.to/4hiUIv5- "Financial Sovereignty for Canadians" Fergus Hodgson: https://econamericas.com/financial-sovereignty-canadians/Read the full article: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/02/03/three-reasons-why-canadas-days-are-numbered/

In our latest podcast, Gabriella Guerrero, executive director of La Politeka—a political education initiative—shares her insights on the upcoming presidential and congressional elections in Ecuador. Amid a complex landscape, Guerrero explores the potential scenarios should President Daniel Noboa win or lose against Luisa Gonzalez, the Revolución Ciudadana candidate, representing 21st-century socialism. Ecuador is grappling with two pressing challenges: an energy crisis and soaring violence. While the energy crisis remains a pressing concern for Ecuadorian voters, Guerrero notes that public opinion has become increasingly desensitized to violence, despite the tragic murder of a presidential candidate just two years ago. January 2025 has set a disturbing record as the most violent month in modern Ecuadorian history, with nearly 700 registered murders nationwide. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/02/03/gabriella-guerrero-foreign-alliances-loom-large-ecuador-election/

Trevor Loudon, one of the most authoritative experts on communist movements, joins the Impunity Observer to discuss US President Donald Trump's recent nominations. A key figure raising concerns is Tulsi Gabbard, who served as a Democratic representative from Hawaii in Congress from 2013 to 2021. After switching to the Republican Party in 2024, Trump nominated her to be director of national intelligence. Loudon explains that Gabbard's former affiliation with the Democratic Party is not necessarily a red flag. What raises alarms for him is her alignment with Russian foreign-policy priorities. For Loudon, Gabbard is a land mine waiting to go off and sully the Trump administration. He believes she could assist Russia's pursuit of an anti-US global agenda, which includes a multipolar international order—favoring China, Iran, and Russia. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/01/30/what-donald-trumps-new-intel-pick-implies-for-foreign-policy/

Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4An Paperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd Attorney Jim Ostrowski, based in Buffalo, New York, has for more than a decade been on a mission to convey the true nature of progressivism and retake the liberal tradition for the liberty movement. In "Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America" (226 pages, 2014), Ostrowski explains how the interventionist mindset has swept the United States since 1900 and is an archenemy of liberalism. He describes the primer as his “best book,” among many he has authored, and he contrasts the United States of today with that found by Alexis de Tocqueville in the early 19th century and described in Democracy in America. Buy the book: https://amzn.to/3Wrl5Xj

Marxism remains Marxism, even when it goes by different names. This is true for liberation theology, which has evolved into a religious partner to today’s progressivism. Marco Navarro-Génie—founding president of the Haultain Research Institute and author of Augusto "César" Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth (2002)—contends that liberation theology can be as dangerous as any other movement that attempts to "liberate" the oppressed through force. In his analysis, “The Legacy of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberation Theology,” Navarro-Génie warns, “One cannot establish a regime of justice based on exploiting divisions among people based on envy and resentment.” In this podcast episode, Navarro-Génie explores Pope Francis’s stance on liberation theology, fragmentation within the Catholic Church, and potential dangers this ideology poses to society. Further, he comments on when and how to combat liberation theology. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/01/14/liberation-theology-outlives-gustavo-gutierrez-po

Buy Fergus Hodgson's "The Latin America Red Pill" on Amazon! Kindle: https://amzn.to/4fAv4An Paperback: https://amzn.to/49Q01zd After adopting bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador in June 2021, President Nayib Bukele has agreed to reform the Bitcoin Law to access a US$1.3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Bukele’s government has been negotiating with the IMF for three years. Initially, the IMF firmly rejected any deal so long as El Salvador continued recognizing bitcoin as legal tender. However, in recent negotiations, Bukele has used the Bitcoin Law as a strategic tool, turning it into an asset in his favor. As a result, El Salvador is set to soon receive IMF funds without losing its Bitcoin Law. Read the article: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/12/18/how-nayib-bukele-imf-with-bitcoin-bargaining-chip/

En nuestra serie de episodios sobre las elecciones primarias del Partido Liberal en Honduras, el Impunity Observer entrevistó al precandidato: Jorge Cálix. El candidato más joven de la contienda, se ubica segundo en las encuestas dentro del Partido Liberal. Cálix comenta sobre los graves desafíos que enfrenta Honduras. En particular, la pobreza afecta a más de la mitad de la población. También menciona la elevada criminalidad, lo cual ahuyenta las oportunidades económicas y a las personas, exacerbando la crisis migratoria. Cálix advierte: “si la actual situación persiste, ningún muro detendrá la emigración”. Diputado desde 2014, primero como suplente (2014–2018) y luego como principal (2018–actualidad), Calix ha presenciado decisiones políticas efectivas y deficientes. Por ello, cree que el país necesita soluciones e ideas frescas para abordar sus desafíos. Sin profundizar, Cálix menciona sus propuestas en asuntos económicos clave, incluyendo la creación de empleo, atracción de inversiones y mejorar la seg

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 Argentine President Javier Milei appears to be implementing as much of his political agenda as possible, with the proviso that he has limited support in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. According to financial advisor Adam Dubove, Milei has effectively leveraged high citizen approval—a rare and compelling mandate—to push forward critical reforms. Milei’s initial strategy focused on reforming or removing regulations that negatively impact Argentineans' daily lives. As Dubove explains, these actions have already begun to show positive results: "We’re seeing a wider variety of products on supermarket shelves, and in some cases, prices are even decreasing due to increased competition … There’s still much to be done, but we’re heading in the right direction." When it comes to Milei's dollarization proposal, Dubove remains optimistic. He bel

Russell, host of The Canadian Conservative Podcast, joins our latest episode to discuss his trip to Israel in October 2024. He went in with a little understanding of the country’s history and conflicts, and he sought to be open to different perspectives with a relatively blank slate. However, he found that Western legacy media fail to provide an accurate overview. On the other hand, Russell contends that some independent media are doing a good job with their coverage, insofar as they can from abroad. Western legacy media, he contends, downplay or ignore the diversity within Israel's proud nationalism. Russel contrasts that with what he sees as a lack of national identity in Canada. Regarding religion, Russell explains that there are divided Jewish communities, such as orthodox and reconstructionist: “There is also a Muslim community that is respectful with Jewish symbols.” However, foreign threats appear to have galvanized the population behind the Zionist cause. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/202

Historian Mark Mazower’s recent essay on the implications of Donald Trump’s electoral victory for global democracy illustrates how academic and political elites continue to misunderstand the greatest political phenomenon of our times: Trump and the MAGA movement. As European society is being degraded due to the massive influx of unassimilable migrants with sociocultural norms unsuited for democracy, it would do the cause of democracy well to see a European version of MAGA. Mazower is right about one thing. Europe is exceptional and worth saving. A democratic effort to Make Europe Great Again might someday gain traction, before it is too late. Read the analysis: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/11/26/maga-won-will-mega-come-next/

Almost 46,000 fires have been reported in the Bolivian Amazon so far this year, accounting for more than 4 million hectares of burned forest. While this has been the largest registered number since 2012, Global Forest Watch has warned wildfires have sharply increased since 2019 due to growing illicit activities in the region. To better understand this development, the Impunity Observer interviewed Juan Pablo Chamon—director of free-market think tank Libera Bolivia. Chamon explains the fastest way for criminal groups to get clandestine roads for trafficking drugs, illegal minerals, and exotic animals is burning the forest. Contrary to mainstream media narratives blaming the private sector, he points to drug traffickers and smugglers working with Chinese or Hezbollah factions operating in the region. Moreover, Chamon highlights that Bolivian officials are colluding with criminal groups. For instance, three drug enforcement chiefs have been found guilty of drug trafficking by the US Drug Enforcement Administ

Claudia Amaya, a Honduran lawyer and politician, is running for a legislative candidacy in the primary election of the Liberal Party. Traditional and founded in 1891, the Liberal Party is now the chief rival to the ruling Libre party.  In this podcast episode, Amaya—executive director of the Honduran Palm Oil Industry Association (AIPAH)—shares her political career and her motivation to be a candidate. She analyzes the political and economic challenges that the country is facing under the mandate of Xiomara Castro and proposes a way forward.  As Honduras struggles with high unemployment, emigration, and crime, Amaya explains that strengthening the rule of law is pivotal. In that way, she contends, Honduras can attract more foreign investors and, maybe, the companies that have left the country during the Castro regime will return.  Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/11/15/claudia-amaya-elections-will-test-honduran-rule-of-law/

Erik Suárez, a Venezuelan expatriate settled in the United States, joins the Impunity Observer podcast to comment on the impact of the US presidential election in Latin America. For Suárez, US foreign policy towards the region will experience a significant change. Republican senators and congressmen with Latino roots, such as Marco Rubio, María Salazar, and Mario Díaz-Balart, have been actively working to increase Latin American prominence in US foreign policy. Moreover, political commentator Suarez argues that a new Donald Trump administration could support Venezuela's return to democracy. Since Republicans will have a majority in the House and Senate, they will have the enough strength to pressure dictatorial regimes in the region. However, creating the conditions to change the regime through US policies is not enough. For Suárez, Venezuelans should lead the transition. Regarding migration, Suarez believes Trump will continue the migration policy he implemented before. He acknowledges that welcoming peo

Our podcast guest, James Simpson, has authored Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America (2024). His goal is to raise awareness of the tactics the left uses to weaken the political system in the United States. According to Simpson, the left—embodied by both the dominant faction of the Democratic Party and woke ideologues—executed the strategy a long time ago, when they tried to collapse the welfare system and foment violence. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton reformed the welfare system by adding requirements to recipients, but Barack Obama reversed that reform in 2010. Simpson notes some Democrat state legislators turning Republican. They understand the radical goals their party now holds. The podcast episode finishes with a brief US election analysis. Simpson explains the challenges and opportunities derived from the election results and how Trump can seize the momentum for change if he wins. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/10/29/jim-simpson-destabilization-is-tactic-to-undermine-us-institutio

Failure to react to scandalous government abuse of power will destroy freedom by giving power to corrupt tyrants. There is no greater scandal than the Biden-Harris regime putting children into slavery and covering it up. That means the 2024 election will determine if we still have the capacity to be morally outraged and protect ourselves. More than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents and whom the Health and Human Services Department released to “qualified sponsors” are missing. This is according to an August 19 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report that says the minors are at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation. Editor-at-Large Steve Hecht discusses why the desensitized voters will lose liberty. Read the full article: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/10/10/child-trafficking-scandal-is-test-of-electorate-engagement-1493818/

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 gave her testimony at a House hearing: “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children.” In this podcast episode, Rodas explains that the HHS has the records with the names of the children and the corresponding sponsors. HHS officials can follow up and identify the endangered children. Nevertheless, she reveals there is a lack of political will. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2024/10/23/tara-rodas-us-taxpayers-are-funding-child-trafficking/

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 Trump derangement syndrome will dwell on his ruthlessness, ego, and, at times, cold demeanor. Both are right and have more than a kernel of truth to their versions of the story. However, given the October 11 US release, less than a month before the presidential election, both sides are amid the battle and likely to miss the point of The Apprentice. As Iranian-born and Denmark-based Director Ali Abbasi explained on the leftist Democracy Now! program, he does not have a partisan ax to grind, and he sought to provide the b