If you want to improve your oratory skills, the president of the United States is a great person to learn from. Read on to discover why.

The secret to Barack Obama’s success
Naturalness, humbleness and heart: three basic keys to reaching the public

Corruption in Latin America: getting past the myths
The importance of increasing public and private transparency

Cuba: Raúl Castro tightens his grip
The president wants some economic reforms, but nothing to do with democracy
Raúl Castro does not want discussions and debates, and even less, voices raised against him. He wants his government to be based on results. He needs absolutes.

Turkey’s admittance into the EU: will it ever happen?
What could convince Brussels to accept Ankara as a member of the club?
Learn why Turkey could finally enter the European Union in 2013. What role with the oil coming from the Caspian Sea and Russia play?

The global economy in crisis: four possible scenarios for the future
Searching for new leadership
First scenario: the stimulus plans work quickly and the world economy recovers by the end of 2009. Second scenario: the stimulus plans do not work and the economy falls into a serious depression until the end of 2010. Third scenario: economic nationalism and trade wars return. Fourth scenario: the global recession lasts an entire decade.

Organized crime unleashes a wave of violence in Mexico
5,200 people were murdered in 2008

The conflict in Afghanistan: Obama’s dangerous war
How to avoid making the mistake the Soviet Union did
Understand why the war in Afghanistan could turn into an authentic nightmare for Barack Obama, unless he gets commitments from regional powers like Iran, Pakistan and India, aside from Russia, China and the EU.

The Human Rights situation: a distressing outlook
Without leadership, multilateralism rhetoric goes nowhere
From the latest independent reports regarding human rights emerge the cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a serious failure to ensure them, and Spain (like other liberal democracies) with specific cases of failure to ensure them.