Jorge Estrada

📍🇵🇦 | Political Scientist/IR @UBAonline

[Columbia Institute of Global Politics @ColumbiaIGP]

Despite its shortcomings, politicization, institutional biases, and inefficiencies, the work of the UN has been successful on many fronts, often despite having limited resources. It’s important to remember this when discussing the future of the UN, which just turned 80, and whether we need more or less multilateralism.

🌐 In Defense of Multilateralism: The UN We Must Aspire To 🌐

This new @ColumbiaIGP report written by Scott Barrett, @JGuehenno, @danaujoks, @JoseA_Ocampo, @bsorlove, @Jo_Puri, and Dirk Salomons emphasizes 10 clear-cut examples that show the significant impact multilateral cooperation can have.

Read the report here: https://t.co/RduhS8Kgif

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

Read ⁦@volker_turk⁩’s very good piece on US military action in Venezuela👇🏻 https://t.co/Sp4rooKBKl

[Gonzalo Banda @gonza_banda]

Some thoughts on the crisis in Venezuela:

Democratization literature warns that partial decapitation (removing a leader while leaving the ruling coalition intact) does not stabilize transitions. It often destabilizes existing equilibria without creating new ones.

[Annalena Baerbock @UN_PGA]

The UN Charter is not optional—it is our guiding framework, in moments of calm and in times of crisis, like in Venezuela today, culiminating with the United States military action.

Article 2 of the UN Charter clearly stipulates that all Members of the United Nations shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

Respect of the UN Charter and international law is the foundation of the international order.

A peaceful, safe and just world for everyone is only possible if the rule of law prevails instead of might makes right. And if human rights including those of the Venezuelan people prevail over human rights violations.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the law of the jungle is dangerous. what applies to your enemies one day can apply to you the next.

make no mistake where the world is heading here.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Let’s resolve to get our priorities straight in 2026.

Let’s invest more in fighting poverty & less in fighting wars.

Let’s heal the planet & secure a future of peace & justice.

Let’s rise together:

For justice, humanity & peace.

I wish you all a peaceful #NewYear!

[Patsy Lee @patsyleer]

Son 171 años de presencia china en Panamá, desde la construcción del ferrocarril, legado de una comunidad pujante y trabajadora.
Pueden derribar un monumento, pero no la historia, ni la cultura, ni el intercambio comercial.
El arroz frito, el chow mein y el siu mai se quedan.
Con familias, comercios y hermandad,
los panameños de ascendencia china seguimos trabajando para que Panamá avance.

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

“… a crisis of global leadership, of failure of imagination and ambition, and a proliferation of populist rhetoric that is numbing us to the plight of others.”

Read my Christmas Day op-ed on the @nytimes 👇🏻

https://t.co/u0Jd0RmQ1O

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

🚀 Desde su lanzamiento, Amigos en Acción ha ofrecido a jóvenes herramientas y habilidades prácticas para influir positivamente en sus pares, a través de sesiones de prevención del consumo de drogas en cascada.
🌟 Ahora el programa llegó a Centroamérica: https://t.co/dwrMfBKf4b

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

🌍 Amigos en acción llegó a Guatemala 🇬🇹, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 y República Dominicana 🇩🇴.

💡 Esta innovadora iniciativa de prevención del consumo de drogas se implementará en 🏫 escuelas, 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦centros juveniles y 🤝organizaciones comunitarias.

Conoce más 👉https://t.co/dwrMfBJHeD

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

📢Inició el taller para formadores de #AmigosEnAcción en español‼️ 👏
Jóvenes de 🇬🇹🇨🇷 y 🇩🇴 se unieron para practicar técnicas de facilitación y reflexionar sobre el impacto de las dinámicas grupales en el desarrollo juvenil y la prevención del consumo de drogas 🤝.

[United Nations @UN]

Nothing can jusify the terror attacks by Hamas.

Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

All of it must stop.

@antonioguterres calls on world leaders to ensure the two-State solution prevails, for the people of Israel, Palestine and all humanity.

[Annalena Baerbock @UN_PGA]

For 80 years, the United Nations has brought countries together with one purpose: to make the world better. Together, we advance peace and security, promote development, and defend human rights.

By uniting nations, we transform shared goals into collective action.

#BetterTogether #UN80 #UnitedNations

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

8⃣ countries 🇭🇹🇩🇴🇧🇸🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦🇵🇦🇨🇴 united in the Technical Meeting on Financial Crime and Corruption to bolster cooperation with Haiti and enhance the regional fight against organized crime, in coordination with @OEAHaiti.

[Harvard Kennedy School @Kennedy_School]

Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, & students and made him one of the world’s most celebrated political thinkers, has died at the age of 88 https://t.co/ef7vS8eJ1f

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

📢¿Quieres conocer más sobre la labor que hacemos desde la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra las Drogas y el Delito para América Central y el Caribe❓
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Mira el video 📽️⤵️

[UNODC in Central America and the Caribbean @UNODC_ROPAN]

⚖️Recorrido por la construcción🏗️ del edificio de la Unidad Regional de Justicia de Panamá Oeste👩‍⚖️👨‍⚖️, que ya tiene un avance del 8⃣1⃣%.
En #UNODC trabajamos para brindar acceso a la justicia en #Panamá🇵🇦.
@OJudicialPanama

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

In the search for solutions on Gaza, we must not make the problem worse.

It is vital to stay true to the bedrock of international law.

It is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing.

[Lucas Castrellón @lucascas82]

“We will demonstrate that as a large and powerful country, we are able to deal fairly and honorably with a proud but smaller sovereign nation.” - Jimmy Carter, 1978. 🇵🇦🇺🇸 #RIPJimmyCarter