Zuliano, Economista, Prof @ESEUANDES, former editor @CaracasChron. Vivo en Chile. Eng/Sp
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Juan Nagel retweeted
US$500 millones es casi lo mismo que el presupuesto de la Pensión Garantizada Universal el 2026 o el subsidio DS19 para 22.000 viviendas, pero los vamos a gastar subsidiando a los camioneros
Beautiful.
I am struggling, perhaps more than at any point since joining this platform and becoming a Vaticanista, to find the words for what we lived tonight.
Pope Leo XIV met with more than a million young people in Buenos Aires just now.
He listened to a young man who overcame drug addiction after the Church welcomed him, fed him and gave him somewhere to sleep. He listened to a young woman who resisted, and then freely embraced, her vocation to religious life — discovering that what she had considered arriving too late was really the story of “a God who knows how to wait.”
He kissed babies. He listened as young Argentines sang beloved Catholic songs such as “Maranatha.” Young content creators spoke about Martín Fierro. There was contemporary tango, folkloric dancing and Nahuel Pennisi singing one of the great songs of Argentine culture: “Who says all is lost? I come to offer my heart.”
There were candles, flags, tears, laughter and a sea of young people who had arrived with movements, parishes and families — and many who came alone.
Pope Leo drew from Pope Francis’ unforgettable invitation to a Church for “everyone, everyone, everyone,” saying he wanted to use it as an inspiration for “what it means to live as disciples of Jesus: everyone toward Christ, everyone with Christ, everyone like Christ.”
He spoke to those raised close to the Church and those only now beginning to seek Christ; to those who had stopped praying, walked away or been wounded by people who should have accompanied them.
“There is a place for you in the Church, with your questions, your wounds and your story,” he told them. “This is your home too.”
It will take me some time to articulate just how extraordinary these past few days have been for me. I have always been proud to be Argentine. After these days, I am even more so.
But pride cannot be the only fruit of what we have lived.
When he arrived, Pope Leo reminded us that “no generation builds its homeland from scratch. It inherits it.” He then expressed a hope that now feels like a task entrusted to every Argentine: “May those who come after you inherit a united homeland, worthy of its history and the possibilities it holds.”
Tonight, for a few hours at least, that united homeland felt possible.
Now comes the harder part: carrying home the joy, setting aside the ideological contempt that has wounded us for too long, and daring to build together the nation we say we dream of.
Or, as Pope Leo told the young people tonight: “May your lives become pages of the Gospel, written in the ink of mercy.”
May Argentina write the next page well.
(Photos from Reuters via @OSVNews)
Los últimos acontecimientos en Venezuela nos han dado la razón a los que nos mantuvimos optimistas todos estos meses tan confusos.
La cosa va bien - lenta, pero bien.
Pensar que el mundo está en manos de estos inmorales.
"I Was Unfaithful To My Wife": Jensen Huang Admits Affair As Nvidia Board Launches Chinese Spy Probe zerohedge.com/ai/jensen-huan…
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Juan Nagel retweeted
🇺🇾 IMPRESIONANTE DISCURSO DEL PAPA LEÓN XIV EN URUGUAY
Durante la Vigilia de Oración en el Estadio Centenario de Montevideo, el Papa León XIV pronunció un extraordinario discurso sobre la fe, la secularización, la familia, las vocaciones y la llamada universal a la santidad.
🗣️ «¡No le teman al “para siempre”! Matrimonios, abran su casa a la vida, incluso cuando el mundo les diga que un hijo es una carga».
«Para iluminar mucho no hace falta ser muchos, sino reflejar la luz del Señor».
«¡Sean santos! No se conformen con una vida simplemente correcta ni con una fe de costumbre que se contente con lo indispensable. No le den a Dios solamente una parte de ustedes, ¡dense por completo!».
Y una llamada que resume todo su mensaje:
«Cristo no nos llamó a la mediocridad, nos llamó a una vida nueva y plena como la suya».
Un discurso para escuchar, leer, meditar y compartir. Una auténtica invitación a vivir la fe sin complejos y a poner a Jesucristo en el centro de nuestra vida.
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
#PapaEnUruguay #ViajeApostolico
Juan Nagel retweeted
The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:
- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.
What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.
The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
US intelligence agencies believe @Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy
as.ft.com/r/97c2f9f7-ad2e-44…
Juan Nagel retweeted
Pope Leo XIV denounces abortion in Uruguay:
“The unborn already belong to the human family, and to the future of their people. Their absolute dependence on their mother does not diminish the dignity to which they are entitled, nor to the protection they deserve. Jesus Himself chose to assume this condition.
Welcoming a new life requires that fathers assume their responsibilities alongside mothers, that the family offers their support and that social conditions exist that allow both parents to raise and care for their children.
Protection of the unborn and the support of those who welcome them are inseparable. The family remains the primary setting in which each person is welcomed and learns to life with others.
St. John Paul II, who also had the joy to visit this land, expressed this in a phrase that retains all of its original force; “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.””
Juan Nagel retweeted
Maria Corina Machado just visited Rodeo 1, a prison where dozens of political prisoners remain.
Human rights groups estimate that there are still well over 300 political prisoners who have not been freed following the capture of Maduro.
Juan Nagel retweeted
León XIV en Uruguay
6 de noviembre de 2026 · Montevideo
Abstract del discurso
El Santo Padre desarrolló ocho ejes fundamentales:
Defensa de la vida: afirmó la dignidad del ser humano desde el seno materno hasta su muerte natural.
Familia: reivindicó su función esencial en la sociedad y la responsabilidad de ambos padres.
Libertad religiosa: sostuvo que la laicidad del Estado no debe excluir la religión de la vida pública.
Democracia: recordó el pensamiento de Artigas y la autoridad política como servicio al bien común.
Economía: reconoció la importancia de la inversión, la creación de riqueza y la iniciativa privada.
Inteligencia artificial: advirtió que la tecnología debe estar al servicio del trabajador y de la dignidad humana.
Salud y sufrimiento: reclamó atención sanitaria accesible, acompañamiento de los enfermos y prevención del suicidio.
Identidad nacional: evocó la Redota, la Virgen de los Treinta y Tres y la contribución histórica de la Iglesia al Uruguay.
Tres aspectos especialmente relevantes
La vida humana: el Papa vinculó la protección del niño por nacer con el acompañamiento de la familia y la obligación de cuidar a las personas hasta su muerte natural.
La laicidad uruguaya: defendió expresamente el derecho de los creyentes a manifestar públicamente su fe, sin reducirla al ámbito privado.
La autoridad política: recurrió a Artigas para recordar que el poder procede de los ciudadanos y debe responder ante ellos.
De Chat GPT
Juan Nagel retweeted
🇻🇪 🏦 Why do Venezuelan banks lend so little when borrowers are paying them back? ↓
✍️ @MiguelArmaza & Manuel Yanez
Bank credit to Venezuela’s private sector is just 3.5% of GDP, compared with 75.1% in Brazil. The gap reflects policy choices as well as Venezuela’s economic crisis.
🗞️ explore the regional comparison → latinometrics.com/articles/h…
ALT Bar chart comparing bank credit to private sector as a percentage of GDP in Venezuela (3.5%) versus other Latin American countries.
Juan Nagel retweeted
Es cierto lo que decía Robert Lucas: "una vez que empiezas a pensar acerca del crecimiento (económico), es difícil pensar en cualquier otra cosa."
Debería ser un mantra en toda agencia de desarrollo.
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Juan Nagel retweeted
Según Criteria, presidente Kast ya alcanzó (en su primer año) un nivel de aprobación de 25%. Según la misma encuesta, es más bajo que el peor nivel de aprobación del presidente Boric en todo su mandato.
Juan Nagel retweeted
#PLAZAPÚBLICA @Cadem_cl
71% cree que Chile va por mal camino, su nivel más alto desde marzo, y 68% ve el futuro con pesimismo, el registro más alto desde marzo de 2015. Además, 82% evalúa negativamente la situación económica de los consumidores.
Kast es un desastre. Qué manera de votar el capital político "al tarro," como dicen acá.
#PLAZAPÚBLICA @Cadem_cl
La aprobación del Presidente Kast cae a 26% (-3pts), su nivel más bajo hasta ahora, y acumula una caída de 7 puntos desde el inicio del Caso Rabat.
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Juan Nagel retweeted
One of the best-written and best-acted scenes in sitcom history. Philip Baker Hall is unforgettable as Lt. Bookman, the Library Cop in Seinfeld. Many consider him the greatest one-episode guest star in the show’s history. A masterclass in comedy. Pure perfection.
Buen artículo. Las rasgaduras de vestidura son prematuras.
Trump touted a record Venezuela oil deal. Now reality is setting in reuters.com/legal/litigation…
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Juan Nagel retweeted
Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
open.spotify.com/episode/6KO…
Notable. #optimismo
María Corina Machado se convierte en la primera opositora desde el año 2004, cuya rueda de prensa es transmitida en vivo por las pantallas de Venevisión.
Se trata de un hecho de gran simbolismo para la libertad de expresión en Venezuela youtube.com/live/uNFnHFYXYec…
