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Mauricio Herrera Kahn

Mauricio Herrera Kahn, Mechanical Engineer graduated from the Universidad Técnica del Estado (UTE), Chile in 1975, with more than 45 years of experience in the mining engineering and project development sector. He has held positions such as General Manager, Project Manager, and Head of Engineering at national and international companies, where he led studies and project execution under the EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management) model. He is currently General Manager at HyB Ingenieros, developing studies and analyses of new plants and processes with Capex and Opex at the engineering profile level. For several years, he has been writing articles and columns on national and international social, political, and economic analysis.

The Miserables of the 21st Century

Two centuries after Victor Hugo, misery no longer fits within the streets of Paris: it has become a global geography. “The world has never been so rich, so technological, or so powerful; nor has it ever had so many reasons…

The 21st Century Belongs to Them, Not to Those Who Decide Their Wars

From Germany to France, from the United States to the Indo-Pacific, students are taking to the streets to challenge wars, rearmament, and the decisions of those who control a future that does not belong to them. “THE 21ST CENTURY BELONGS…

Those Who Disappeared Have Not Finished Speaking

A Tribute to Maxine Lowy’s Report, the Andrónicos Antequera Brothers, and the Chilean Families Who Transformed the Suffering of Enforced Disappearance into Memory, Truth, and a Demand for Justice. “The 1973 coup d’état did not end with the seizure of…

The Silk Road Has Reached South America

When the Indo-Pacific Met the Continent of Resources “For two centuries, South America searched for the centers of power by looking north and toward the Atlantic. In the twenty-first century, it may discover that a decisive part of its future…

Indo-Pacific — 600 Million Children — the Future That Already Has Owners

They are under ten years old. They live in the Indo-Pacific. The future is already doing business around them “They are 600 million and they are not yet ten years old. While they learn to read, add, and distinguish one…

Chile Under Washington’s Shield of the Americas

Between continental protection, strategic dependence, and that old habit of discovering that shields also have owners “Empires always call protection whatever allows them to decide who may approach the protected. The uncomfortable detail begins when the protected discovers that the…

Kurdistan I, the People the Map Left Out

Between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, more than 30 million people share an identity, language, and history, but still not a State of their own “There are peoples who lost wars. Others lost borders. The Kurds have spent more than…

Rohingya — Myanmar and the Rare Earth

Rohingyas, critical minerals, and a war in which the ground is worth more than those who live on it. “When a land contains strategic minerals, its inhabitants risk becoming the least valuable part of the territory.” I. THE MINERAL There…

Sudan – Shala – Darfur: Nine Thousand Names We Do Not Know

In Sudan, nine thousand dead can fit inside a number. Nine thousand names would force us to look at the country, the war, and the responsibilities differently. That is why statistics are so useful: they turn Sudanese lives into volume,…

Canada IV: The Twenty Who Remained Outside the Shield

“Canada does not need to choose only one table.” “Geography places Canada next to the United States. Economics forces it to trade with it. But neither requires Ottawa to close the other doors of the planet.” I. THE SHIELD HAS…

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