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Sanctions mostly cause humanitarian crises, not democratisation. The answer lies in biology.

Drivers stand near their vintage cars waiting for clients in Havana December 17, 2014. Stunned Cubans celebrated an apparent end to decades of conflict with the United States on Wednesday after both governments said they would restore diplomatic relations cut off in 1961. Many said they expected a restoration of ties would lead to the end of a U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, which is vilified daily in the official media and which Cubans accept as a key cause of widespread poverty on the island. REUTERS/Stringer (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

The populist right-winger’s ‘anti-corruption’ agenda will not resolve the crisis in Colombia.

Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernandez walks through a crowd of supporters

Imperial hubris leads the US to build towers doomed to fall.

US President Joe Biden meets his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani at the White House in Washington, DC on June 25, 2021 [File: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

Now, it is time for the progressives to take over and put forward a new political alternative.