Its time to submit our grades for the last term and thus I was able to look at how 2nd Year MBA students from all over the world look at the current geo-political situation with healthy concern but also with underlying optimism
Lessons from Belfast
Belfast is deeply inspiring in that the city has rebuilt itself since the Good Friday Agreements were signed 19 years ago and the city is also a vivid remainder of the consequences of allowing hate and fear to take the place of understanding and hope as the primary mode of political discourse.
The Russian Connection
It appears that the Trump campaign team worked with Russian spies to win the American election and like Richard Nixon, 40 years ago, Trump should resign before he is impeached.
Venezuela in Free Fall
The situation in Venezuela has gone from bad to worse and its people are paying a high cost for the ineptness and corruption of the Maduro / El Aissami regime.
Trump and Mexico
In an apparently offhand comment about “Bad Hombres” during a telephone call with Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, Donald Trump implicitly threatens another U.S. invasion of its Southern Neighbor.