Me complace compartir con ustedes el siguiente artículo, escrito en coautoria con mi amiga Melanie Sánchez, publicado en el Volumen 99, Número 1 de la Revista Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
La Revista de Relaciones Internacionales se complace en presentarles el nuevo artículo publicado en el número 99.1. Les invitamos a consultarlo en https://t.co/FRESEIycLi
I’ve designated the Ecuadorian gang Chone Killers as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Ecuadorian gangs help Mexican cartels move and export illicit drugs to fund terrorism and criminal activity. The Chone Killers have attacked civilians, law enforcement officers, and government officials, including high profile assassinations of public officials.
Working with President @DanielNoboaOk in Ecuador, we will continue to strengthen our regional security and ensure narcoterrorists have no place in our hemisphere.
🇪🇨 | En la capital de Ecuador, Quito, los curanderos tradicionales están aprovechando un nuevo mercado para remedios herbales: los ansiosos "padres" de mascotas consentidas, reporta AFP.
En el Día del Diplomático Ecuatoriano, saludamos a nuestros funcionarios, quienes con trabajo, compromiso y esfuerzo incansable constituyen el frente de promoción y defensa de los altos intereses nacionales, y de posicionamiento de nuestra política exterior.
Today, the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations 🇪🇨🇺🇳, in accordance with established procedures, formally submitted to the UN Office of Legal Affairs the nomination of Ambassador Marcelo Vázquez-Bermúdez by Ecuador’s National Group as candidate for election to the International Court of Justice for the term 2027–2036 ⚖️🕊️. Elections will be held at UN Headquarters in New York in November 2026 🗳️ @CIJ_ICJ
The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.
In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.
So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.
An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.
The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.
The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.
This is actually true. This article from the Atlantic by the former President of Harvard said 2/3rds of her undergrad history class couldn’t read cursive which hindered their ability to read historical manuscripts.
She even says students chose research subjects that only required published sources and abandoned ones that required reading handwritten documents.
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As 2025 comes to a close, I'm continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the White House: sharing my annual lists of favorite books, movies, and music. I hope you find something new to enjoy—and please send any recommendations for me to check out!
Lo que REALMENTE importa:
-Promover el interés nacional.
-Hasta qué punto se promovió dicho interés.
-Con qué rapidez se logró promover los intereses de la nación.
what you think matters in a career:
- working hard
- showing up early
- keeping a long-term view
what ACTUALLY matters:
- advancing the national interest
- how far you advanced the national interest
- how quickly you were able to advance the interests of the nation
El Canciller (s) Alejandro Dávalos y el Embajador de Azerbaiyán concurrente ante 🇪🇨, Rashad Novruz, firmaron Memorando de Entendimiento entre la Academia Diplomática "Galo Plaza Lasso" y la Universidad ADA de 🇦🇿, para fortalecer la cooperación en materia de formación diplomática.