Predictions 2026: The Revenge of Common Sense in the West
Just a few years ago, the political map of the Western Hemisphere seemed settled. From Kirchner’s Argentina to Joe Biden’s United States, passing through Nicolás Maduro, Gustavo Petro, Gabriel Boric, Pedro Castillo, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the vast majority of the continent was governed by left-wing movements or regulated democracies, both with a strong […]
When Heroes Die: The Urgency of Recovering Guatemala’s Lost Virtue
In After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre explains that societies are not sustained by institutions, laws, or technical programs, but by shared moral narratives. A people remains united only when it can say who it is, whom it admires, what it considers honorable, and why sacrifice is worthwhile. In heroic societies —those he analyzes in his famous […]
Lost Time Even the Saints Mourn: How the Culture of Slowness Holds Back Guatemala’s Prosperity
“When I hear foreigners complain that here there are no good roads, that here there are no ports, that here there are no gatherings, that here there are no promenades, that here… Well, if all that is true, and neither you nor I are going to fix it, then go gladly to London or Paris, […]
The Digital Economy Won’t Wait: How Guatemalan Entrepreneurs Are Competing for the Future
The world has entered a different phase of the global economy. It is no longer just about producing more, but about understanding better. In this new environment, companies that have managed to turn data into intelligent decisions have gained an advantage over those that remain anchored to analog models based on the knowledge and experience […]
From Decree to Despair: How the Minimum Wage Is Destroying the Future of the Most Vulnerable
Once again, President Arévalo does not cease to surprise us. This time he does so with a decree that reinforces an uncomfortable but necessary assertion: the minimum wage is an economic mistake and a moral destroyer of society. Why? Because it does not protect the most vulnerable; it destroys the hopes of the poorest and […]
More on the Revenge of Common Sense: When Growth Does Not Depend on the State
Following my last column Predictions 2026: The Revenge of Common Sense in the West, a questionable assertion emerged: that the United States grew because public spending increased. This claim requires a more careful evaluation: analyzing what type of spending grew, why, and what truly drove U.S. economic growth in 2025. It is true that federal […]
Matías de Gálvez: The Hero Who Saved Guatemala in the Middle of a World War
This January 2 marked the 250th anniversary of the founding of Guatemala City. But its history has been marked by destruction. On July 29, 1773, as on so many occasions, the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Guatemala awoke startled by the violence of the earth’s movement. At dawn, the first rays of sunlight revealed the […]
56 Years Later: Our Republic Under Siege Again
In November 1970, Guatemala declared a nationwide State of Siege for the last time. General Carlos Arana Osorio was governing, and the country had spent nearly a decade immersed in an internal armed conflict that had evolved from rural insurgency into urban political violence. That year was marked by events that shook the State: the […]
Republican Rome vs. Guatemala: Why the Romans Built an Empire and We Are Still Tendering Roads
Let us imagine for a moment that the Roman censor Marcus Porcius Cato arrives in Guatemala, already at the peak of his public career. Not as a military commander, tribune, or senator, but as what he was in 184 B.C.: the magistrate responsible for overseeing contracts, customs, and the property of the Republic. He brings […]
The Duty Before Fear: The Miraculous Feat of the Thirteen-Year-Old Boy Who Saved His Family
Austin’s strokes broke through the waves in desperation. The sea, rough and covered in foam, made every advance more difficult. He had been in the water far too long with a single mission: to reach solid ground. His mother and his two younger siblings had been left adrift, clinging to two paddle boards off the […]