Research on Jesus Christ and the Existence of God for Holy Week Reading
Holy Week calls us to pause, to look beyond the ordinary, and to seek answers to the questions that have shaped human history: who was Jesus Christ? What does reason tell us about God? In Guatemala, where the streets fill with carpets and the air with incense, two books illuminate these mysteries with rigor and […]
The Awakening of Giants: Guatemala Can Conquer the World
The news shook international media and filled millions of Guatemalans with pride: in April 2025, Castillo Hermanos, parent company of Cervecería Centro Americana, acquired Harvest Hill, maker of the well-known American juice brand SunnyD, for $1.5 billion. This transaction is one of the largest recent Latin American investments in the United States, surpassing FEMSA’s purchase […]
The Debt of Failure: Who Will Rescue Guatemala From Its Own Government?
Imagine a country where every family contributes more than 5,000 dollars a year to the government, only to receive broken roads, stagnant schools, and understocked hospitals. That is Guatemala in 2025. With a budget of 148 billion quetzales (around 19.2 billion dollars), the State allocates between 65% and 70% to current expenditures — salaries, contracts, […]
The Ideological Bill: Spain as an Example of How to Return to Candlelight
On April 28, 2025, fifty million people in Spain and Portugal lost electricity. A failure at a solar plant, within a system lacking sufficient technical backup, caused a total collapse that paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula. Eight people died. Hundreds were trapped in elevators. High-speed trains stopped in rural areas, and hospitals resorted to improvised emergency […]
The Disconnected Republic: How to Recover the Path That Unites Us
On any given morning, while traffic in Guatemala City advances as if carrying a cross of concrete, a child dies of malnutrition in Panzós. His mother could not reach the nearest health center because the road, like so many others in the north of the country, is a trail of mud. In Alta Verapaz, Quiché, […]
The Trump 2.5 Moment: Are We Ready to Take the Leap Into the New Global Order?
There are moments in history when the pieces of the geopolitical chessboard shift so quickly that those who are not prepared to leap are condemned to watch the future from the threshold. Today we are living through one of those moments. This is not continuity; it is rupture. And it has a name: Trump 2.5. […]
Argentina’s Boldness: Milei’s Radical Turn and the Path Guatemala Should Not Dismiss
There are moments when a people seem broken. Tired of promises, overwhelmed by frustration, numbed by routine. Argentina has reached that point many times. But this time, something different is happening. In the city that for two decades was the heart of macrismo — the moderate liberal movement promoted by former president Mauricio Macri — […]
Guatemala 2050: A City Trapped Between Smog, Crime, and Traffic Chaos
Guatemala has one of the best climates on the planet. Visitors repeat it, studies confirm it, and we feel it every morning when the sun rises over the volcanoes. But the fresh air does not disguise the harsh reality. Guatemala City has been ranked 239th out of 263 in the 2025 global quality of life […]
The Model Matters: Aznar’s Spain and Ayuso’s Madrid Versus Sánchez’s Socialism and Barcelona’s Socialist Implosion
Spain has become the stage for a silent but decisive struggle: the one between two models of country, government, and society. One believes in individual freedom, private property, personal responsibility, and merit as the path to progress. The other believes in state control, forced redistribution, dependency as a tool of power, and privilege disguised as […]
One Year of Virtue: Why Freedom Needs Character
A year ago, I began writing this column with a question that still accompanies me: can a society be free without virtuous citizens? Today, as I celebrate this first anniversary at República, I return to the subject with renewed conviction and gratitude, inspired by a great thinker and friend, Sebastián Landoni, whose essay on virtue […]