Inicio de Dictadura “Porfiriato”
Un día como hoy, 26 de Noviembre de 1876 en México, hace 142 años, el general José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz asume la presidencia de la nación de forma interina y por primera vez, a raíz del triunfo de…
Leopoldo Martínez
FOUNDER | A Venezuelan-American, Leopoldo is an international lawyer, writer, social entrepreneur, and a former Congressman in Venezuela. He is the Founder of the Center for Democracy and Development in the Americas, IQLatino and the Principal of LMN Consulting, LLC.
Leopoldo Martínez is a member the Democratic National Committee (DNC), as well as one of the Deputy Finance Chairs; and a founding Board Member of Latino Victory Project , chairing the National Committee. He served on the Board of the Small Business Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia and sits on the Board of Visitors of the University Mary Washington in Virginia, where he Chairs the Administration, Advancement, Finance and Facilities Committee. During the Biden Administration Leopoldo Martinez Nucete served as Presidential Appointee and Senior Counselor at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was the nominated to the U.S. Senate as Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Leopoldo served in the Government Transition Committee for the 73rd Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam.
Leopoldo Martínez is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs.
Golpe de Estado a Rómulo Gallegos
Un día como hoy 24 de Noviembre en 1948 un grupo de militares puso fin al mandato popular del Presidente Rómulo Gallegos en Venezuela. El primero electo por sufragio universal directo y secreto. Un educador cuya visión progresista nos inspira en…
Donald Trump’s Electoral Cost to the Republican Party
Trump’s press conferences, after the results of the midterm elections were disseminated, transformed into a battlefield. The President disqualified and insulted press correspondents, and withdrew the credentials of CNN journalist Jim Acosta. CNN’s lawyers went to federal court to demand…
Arizona Dictates A New Political Tendency in Southwest U.S.
Last Monday, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema was proclaimed the next US Senator for the state of Arizona. This news came almost a week after Election Day (November 6th) when the initial vote count suggested the seat would go to the Republicans.…
Midterm Elections in USA: A First Read of the results
A first glance on the midterm elections confirms that, in the middle of an unproblematic economy and despite the “Gerrymandering,” which favors votes for Republicans, Trump and his party lost control of the Congress. Even though the Senate is still…
Leopoldo Martínez: What Washington thinks about Venezuela and the Boston Group
I was a congressman in the already-polarized and tough Venezuela of 2001-2002, when members of the parliament from opposing political tendencies formed the Boston Group (BG). Back then, and still today, those of us who thought that dialogue should never…
The U.S. and the Iberoamerican triangle of opportunities
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to the members of the Ibero-American Council for Investment and Talent (CiiTA) in Madrid. The issue that brought us together was the relationship between the United States and Ibero-America, in the context…
Tendencias: crece la venta de armas en el mundo
Una de las malas noticias del 2017 -un año, por cierto, cargado de malas noticias-, proviene de un reciente informe del Instituto Internacional de Estocolmo Para la Investigación de la Paz (conocido como SIPRI por sus siglas en Inglés): al…
Tendencias: la economía pospetrolera
La semana pasada se celebró en Abu Dhabi la conferencia internacional “Semana de la Sustentabilidad”. Es quizás uno de los eventos de mayor influencia y prestigio para comprender las tendencias que están definiendo el futuro de los mercados de energía…
Ralph Northam: la opción electoral de los inmigrantes en Virginia
Los ojos de los analistas políticos se han posado sobre el estado de Virginia en los Estados Unidos. Los votantes tomarán una decisión importante el 7 de noviembre, en Virginia se han presentando, tal como en las elecciones presidenciales del 2016, una elección donde de…