05/10/2015. Mira Milosevich es profesora de Relaciones Internacional en IE University. In his speech to the UN General Assembly last September 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to create a large international coalition to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS), although there is already one led by the US. This coalition should include dictator Bashar al-Assad, and resemble the one created during World War II against Hitler. A few hours after the bilateral meeting between Putin and the US President Barack Obama, independent from the UN summit, Russia started bombing the sites of the opponents of Assad's regime: the rebels, the ISIS and the al-Nusra Front (an al-Qaeda branch).

30/09/2015. Ing. Eliecer Ávila es líder del Movimiento Somos+, Cuba. In order to carry out any creative work, be it a company, a sports team, humanitarian work, scientific research or a political struggle, you will absolutely always need people ready to play out the specific roles of the project. Normally there are two ways to access the appropriate human capital. One is to choose the people who have the necessary knowledge. The second is to look for some basic conditions, such as health, talent, youth, and from there, invest in the training of the future leaders of the task. 

14/09/2015. Mira Milosevich es profesora de Relaciones Internacional en IE University. Satellite imagery (published by Stratfor) revealing that Russia is building an operating base in the Bashar al-Assad airport in Latakia, and increased military support to the Syrian regime, are evidence that Russia is ready to defend its interests in the area. Once again, Western politicians have misinterpreted Russia's strategy, as Moscow’s contacts both with the Syrian opposition and with the USA, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Qatar, had led them to infer that Russia would withdraw its support to the weakened dictatorship of al-Assad. President Obama, in speeches delivered on July 6 and 14, said that "Russia may play a positive role in Syria." But the US’ recent request to Greece and Bulgaria –to prohibit the use of their airspace to Russian airplanes carrying military aid to Syria– is a clear sign that Obama does not believe in the peaceful and constructive role of the Russians anymore. 

11/09/2015. Xavier Reyes Matheus. Even though democratic practices have shaped the mentality of our civilized societies, it is not difficult to assume that, by now, anyone is capable of understanding without awe how "revolutionary justice" works in any system proclaiming it. We have seen the same thing in Bolshevik and fascist systems; in those regimes which have raised the banner of anti-colonialism or Islamic orthodoxy; in the France of Fouquier-Tinville, in the Germany of the Nuremberg Laws; and in the seventy executions of senior officials that have taken place in the last three years in the Korea of Kim Jong-un. Behind it all, you can always find the mystifying verbiage on the new order that must be illuminated; on past injustices; on the revitalization of the soul of the people that only the great leader is able to do, determined as he is to uproot with his iron hand the weeds of decay and degeneration. And we all know perfectly well that the end is the justification of despotism in order to retain power by using violence. Nothing else. 

16/07/2015. Alex Ojeda Baute es consultor político. Dirigente del partido Primero Justicia. On Tuesday July 14, the Comptroller General of the Venezuelan Republic —through a brief one-page document— has notified the leader María Corina Machado that she has been sanctioned with a political disqualification for one year, the most obvious consequence of this measure will be Machado's impossibility to run for the elections of the Venezuelan National Assembly the upcoming December 6.

15/07/2015. Javier Zarzalejos es secretario general de la Fundación FAES. On July 3, at headquarters of the Press Association of Madrid, the opening of the international course of the FAES Campus was held. The course has been something of a tour around the battered state of freedom in various parts of the world. The battered freedom of Venezuela; freedom yearned for in Cuba; freedom bloodily denied to Christians in the Middle East and North Africa by the expansive and heinous drive of jihadist terrorism. But also a freedom severely compromised in Europe, as FAES wanted to exemplify in the case of the Danish journalist, threatened and persecuted, Flemming Rose, with regard to freedom of expression. 

09/07/2015. Rafael L. Bardají. Director de Política Internacional de la Fundación. One year after the declaration of the Caliphate of Al Baghdadi and nearly twelve months after the start of the bombings by the US and its allies, understanding what is really happening with the Islamic State (EI) remains an intellectually insoluble problem. And not because of the jihadi leaders, who are perfectly clear in their objectives and messages, but due to Western mental disability: rather than applying ourselves with analytical reliability, we let ourselves be carried away by ticks, desires and projections of our logic, with the result that looking to the Islamic State is the closest thing to getting on an intellectual roller coaster.

16/06/2015. Javier Zarzalejos es secretario general de la Fundación FAES. Lacking any other means except a post office box and a couple of ads in newspapers, more than 35 years ago, three women founded the Association of Victims of Terrorism. One of them was Ana María Vidal Abarca who, along with Sonsoles Álvarez de Toledo and Isabel O'Shea, managed to sow and reap in the Basque Country a testimony of solidarity and decency in what was then a wilderness of fear and complicit silence which parched the most elementary civic values and even the compassion with those who fell victims of the terrorist barbarity.