Who Is Alex Saab? The Controversial Figure Behind Hemispheric Trade Scandals Alex Saab emerged as a polarizing figure in global trade and diplomacy, particularly due to his alleged role in circumventing international sanctions against Venezuela. Born in Colombia and later acquiring Venezuelan citizenship, Saab built a reputation as a businessman with deep connections to high-ranking…
A Passport, a Pen, and the Gentle Art of Making Dictators Sweat By Our Correspondent in Self-Imposed Exile™ Somewhere between the duty-free tequila in Mexico City’s Terminal 2 and the fluorescent purgatory of a European layover, Jorge Ruvalcaba—investigative reporter, migration nerd, and occasional migraine to three sitting presidents—boards yet another red-eye. The boarding pass says…
The world’s most reliable barometer of planetary dysfunction is not the Doomsday Clock, nor the Arctic sea-ice index, but the nightly queue outside LIV nightclub on Miami Beach. A thousand passport holders—Russian crypto heirs, Colombian narco-influencers, Saudi art-school dropouts, and at least one confused Norwegian pensioner who thought he’d booked a quiet Caribbean cruise—stand under…
Ozark: A Netflix Parable for the Age of Global Money Laundering By our man in Geneva, where the lake is clean and the numbered accounts cleaner still The Ozark Mountains—once famous for folk music, meth labs, and the kind of poverty that makes EU agricultural subsidies look like a Saudi prince’s pocket money—have become, thanks…
