Lopez Obrador was a radical proponent of a zero tolerance approach on drugs during his term as Mexico City mayor. He campaigned for the Mexico presidency in 2006 vowing to use the military to fight cartels. But then, in a striking turnabout, Lopez Obrador began to argue for the complete opposite. Running again in the… Continue reading
Rustam Inoyatov has substantial business interests in Russia. Sharif Inoyatov, the son of the SNB chairman, is the sole shareholder of Uzgardens, a Moscow-based wholesale company. Uzgardens is the largest supplier of Uzbek dried fruits and vegetables to Russia. Inoyatov’s company is the exclusive importer and distributor of Gold Dried Food Export products in Russia…. Continue reading
We are all quite familiar with what has been reported in the news lately regarding the current situation in the Middle East, but we sometimes tend to omit certain political implications that eventually decide the future of a country or a region. Today, we’ll talk about the current ideological battle that goes between the right… Continue reading
Rustam Inoyatov’s has used his position as chairman of Uzbekistan’s national intelligence agency to build a real estate and business empire with properties and companies around the world. Rustam Inoyatov’s family owned a luxury villa in Vienna. The property was bought by Benif Handels a Vienna-based company founded by Sharif Inoyatov and Bakhtiyor Irgashev. After… Continue reading
The US government has a history of interfering in Mexico’s elections, backing center-right politicians with a pro-US agenda. However at the end of 2002, Washington made an unusual decision: the presidential profile of a Mexican leftist populist received an unexpected boost from the Bush administration. Rudolf Giuliani and Bernard Kerik came to Mexico City to… Continue reading
Trump’s war with the „Deep State” As reported by various publications across the United States in the last couple of days, the Trump White House is reportedly considering a proposal for a global, private spy network that would essentially work as a counter to the „deep state enemies” who want to undermine Trump’s Presidency. It… Continue reading
It’s been almost a year since the creation of the Belgian parliamentary commission aiming to investigate the circumstances that led to the adoption of the extended settlement law. Normally, its workings should have been concluded by now. Instead, it lost two experts, it was marred in scandals concerning press leaks, and it failed to come… Continue reading
The Uzbek version of the KGB, the National Security Service (SNB), was modeled after the secret police of the Soviet Union. When Rustam Inoyatov, himself a former KGB agent, was appointed head of the SNB in 1995, the special service was already a fearsome institution. But it was Inoyatov who transformed the SNB into the… Continue reading
Everywhere we look around the globe, we sometimes spot a country that is filled with paradoxes – but none come closer to this situation than the Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Central Africa. The second largest country in Africa (and largest in Sub-Saharan Africa), with a population of over 78 million people, Congo might… Continue reading
