April 22, 2026
Confucius vs Laozi: the individual, community, the state and social order
Confucius thought order through moral cultivation and relationships; Laozi, through naturalness, simplicity and minimal coercion.
Analysis
This section applies ideas and principles to real problems, public debate, institutions, history and current questions related to Venezuela, economics and political change.
The aim is not to repeat slogans, but to examine concrete issues, compare interpretations and offer a more ordered reading of events.
April 22, 2026
Cuba, Che Guevara, UMAP, executions and due process
Che Guevara played a real role in early revolutionary violence; the UMAP camps extended a wider logic of forced labour, discipline and revolutionary citizenship.
April 22, 2026
Richard Cobden, the Corn Laws and the free-trade turn between Britain and France
Cobden helped bring down the Corn Laws and later became linked to the treaty that redefined trade between Britain and France.
April 22, 2026
Venezuelan liberalism today: a small, dispersed, but real ecosystem
Venezuelan liberalism exists more as an ecosystem than as a bloc: small, dispersed, but real.