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Julio Yao Villalaz

Analyste international et diplomate de carrière. Il fut professeur de relations internationales et de droit international, conseiller auprès du général Omar Torrijos, vice-président du Mouvement d’unité latino-américain et représentant de la République du Panama devant la Cour internationale de La Haye.

27 articles

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Kuczynski, the “Lima Group”, Venezuela and the Eighth Summit of the Americas

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 7 July 2018

“The Venezuelan President will not set foot on our soil or enter the air space of Peru”. This is what the President of Peru, correction, former President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, declared just a little while ago. Trapped in a scheme of international corruption which binds him to the now (...)

A President Serving the CIA

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 28 May 2018

In the hope of obtaining some help in extremis, a hireling in a bind writes to his boss recalling how for years he had served him faithfully. The “hireling” is Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama from 2009 - 2012. From June 2017 he has been detained in the United States at the request of the (...)

Provocation and imperial ultimatum or Kim-Trump Summit?

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 22 May 2018

Yet again, Julio Yao, the international analyst from Panama addresses the events surrounding the announced summit between the President of North Korea, Kim Jong-un and the US President Donald Trump, a meeting that now appears to be in danger owing to unacceptable declarations issued by John (...)

Perspectives of the Kim-Trump Summit

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 13 May 2018

Following an extended interchange of threats and insults between the Presidents of the United States and North Korea, the recent summit between the two Koreas appears to have opened the door to ending the state of war in the Korean Peninsula and even its denuclearization. The international (...)

Brazil and Lula: Between sovereignty, constituent power and might

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 6 April 2018

There is nothing new about what is happening today in Brazil where President Dilma Roussef was impeached by the Senate and “Lula” da Silva, the former president who is aspiring once again to be elected president, is very soon to be put in jail. There is no novelty because other Latin American (...)

A bloody Good Friday in Palestine

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 3 April 2018

The use of snipers against the Palestinian demonstrators at the boundary line of the Gaza Strip: Tel Aviv presents this as a necessary and moderate security measure, that the mainstream press repeats. From Panama City, Julio Yao, an expert in international law reminds us that this is far from (...)

Venezuela, an impossible intervention

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 3 March 2018

After violently criticizing the Venezuelan government and its president Nicolás Maduro, after making a further request for the presidential election to be brought forward, the Lima Group, which consists of 12 states, all of which are members of the Organization of American States (OAS), has now (...)

Perspective from Panama

Mossack-Fonseca, the Iran-Contras Scandal and Noriega

by Julio Yao Villalaz

Panama (Panama) | 27 April 2016

Julio Yao Villalaz, the political analyst from Panama, is outraged at the international mainstream press for presenting the documents of the law firm Mossack-Fonseca as being coterminous with its country, the Republic of Panama. Certainly, given the role played by the US espionage agency in (...)