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Pundits are discussing traditional issues and succumbing to manipulated polls favoring Democrats regarding the midterms. Treating this election as traditional misses the underlying revolution that will destroy our constitutional system if we let it. Overlooking liberty for short-term concerns plays into Democrat craziness over Republican common sense.The reaction to the October 8 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) incident with Oscar Belgal is a microcosm of the revolution and lunacy versus common sense. Elected Democrats are attacking federal law enforcement as part of their agenda to overthrow our system of government and take dictatorial power.Read more: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/10/07/elect-a-republican-congress-or-forget-prosperity/

▶️ The Impunity Observer now has a trusted precious-metals partner: the American Gold Exchange. Get started at http://amergold.com/io. Please note you heard of them through the Impunity Observer. By late July 2026, Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega announced the abolition of elections in Nicaragua. The end-of-democracy announcement—a departure from the wafer-thin charade—has sparked concern among Nicaraguan civil-society groups in exile in the United States.On August 21 in Miami, Florida, Nicaraguan leaders called on the Donald Trump administration to take stronger action against the regime. Among other measures, they urged the United States to withdraw Nicaragua from the Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).As international scrutiny and pressure grow, the dictatorship is attempting to reduce its dependence on the United States, particularly for oil. Three actions show how the Ortega-Murillo regime has turned to Tehran to achieve this goal.Read more: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/08/26/nicaraguas-three-ploys-to-usher-iran-into-western-hemisphere/

Xi Jinping and Democrats want Republicans to lose control of Congress in the midterms. They come 39 days after Xi meets President Donald Trump on September 24. Liberty and prosperity in the United States require Republican control of Congress.Without the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) support for Iranian regional military actions and missile rebuilding, Iran's tyrannical regime would be more likely to lose control. With even one chamber of Congress under Democrat control, the regime’s chances of survival would increase.Many prominent Democrats and their media and corporate allies have been stoking public fear of AI and attacking data centers in the last few weeks. We should remember Democrat fear mongering over climate change and COVID-19. Democrats will again damage our liberty, economy, and health with their AI hoax, if we let them. A US pause on AI would benefit China and harm the United States.Read more: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/09/21/voting-republican-is-the-only-option-for-liberty-1659879/

The State Department’s (DOS) July 20 report “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” (the Report) will not achieve momentum on its own. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accurately calls Cuba “an espionage superpower” with agents burrowed into “the highest levels of the US government.” However, the Report’s critics have landed serious blows to its credibility that are hampering its practical impact.Read more: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/08/21/what-the-cuba-report-should-have-said/

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on July 16: “The Cuban regime’s sprawling intelligence and ideological network helped to build the far left in our country and our hemisphere.” Rubio must determine who within the State Department (DOS) is helping far-left Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo impede President Donald Trump’s larger agenda in this key country.DOS has portrayed Arévalo as a counterterrorism partner despite evidence that Guatemala is a narco-state. Rubio needs to immediately identify bad actors and clean house. En route to structural reforms, there also needs to be a comprehensive review from the Inspector General.Read more: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/07/31/marco-rubio-must-walk-the-talk/

Receive a 10 percent discount on Adrian Day’s Global Analyst newsletter with the coupon code FERG: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/ Mailyn Salabarria, a Cuban journalist and classical-liberal advocate, fled Cuba and moved to the United States in 2001. As a believer that freedom cannot be taken for granted, she praises the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to restore democracy and fundamental rights across the Americas. Salabarria argues that Cubans on the island need US military support to oust the dictatorship and that Cuba is a US concern, just as Venezuela has been. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/02/11/mailyn-salabarria-no-way-out-of-cubas-nightmare-without-us-tutelage/

The Impunity Observer now has a trusted precious-metals partner: the American Gold Exchange. Get started at http://amergold.com/io. Please note you heard of them through the Impunity Observer.Guillermo Peña, a Honduran free-market advocate and director of strategic alliances at Universidad de la Libertad in Mexico, analyzes Honduras’s election results. For Peña, the victory of the National Party’s presidential candidate, Nasry “Tito” Asfura, was no surprise.He says it was clear that the incumbent socialist Libre party had stalled in third place. In his assessment, the contest was essentially a two-way race between Asfura and Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla.Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2026/01/21/guillermo-pena-time-for-honduras-to-lay-2009-to-rest/

Receive a 10 percent discount on Adrian Day’s Global Analyst newsletter with the coupon code FERG: https://www.adriandayglobalanalyst.com/ At the macroeconomic level, Honduras projects a façade of stability. Our podcast guest, Humberto Macías—a US attorney who moved to Honduras in pursuit of the ZEDE vision—argues that this stability rests largely on a surge in remittances, fiscal-policy tweaks, and rising coffee exports. On the ground, he warns that many Hondurans are struggling day to day. That is one reason why he believes Libre will not win the November 30 election. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/11/12/humberto-macias-the-libre-party-will-fall/

Buy "The Latin America Red Pill" by Fergus Hodgson: https://a.co/d/6mbUodaAn enthusiastic Impunity Observer follower, Daniel Cruz, joins our podcast to discuss Honduras’s sociopolitical challenges. A Canadian-Honduran, Cruz lays out how electoral fraud, corruption, and clientelism have become everyday features of Honduran politics. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/10/22/daniel-cruz-how-to-avert-feudalism-in-honduras/

Tackling the Soles Cartel and the Venezuelan dictatorship is not just another foreign affair for the United States. Ralph Pezzullo—author of Stolen Elections: The Plot to Destroy Democracy—and whistleblower and former CIA officer Gary Berntsen contend the United States is facing a hybrid war against an exceptionally dangerous actor.Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/10/06/the-soles-cartels-role-in-us-electoral-fraud/

Venezuelan journalist Orlando Avendaño joined the Impunity Observer podcast to discuss the US confrontation with Venezuela. For him, the recent strike on a boat signals that President Donald Trump is walking the talk and escalating with consequences.

Morazán City, a Honduran special economic and development zone (ZEDE) designed for Hondurans, has been quietly reshaping what governance can look like. The construction started in 2020, and now a few hundred residents have chosen to move to this partially autonomous city. In this location, innovative institutions promise a more secure, prosperous, and business-friendly locale than elsewhere in Honduras.In 2024, President Xiomara Castro repealed the ZEDE Law, giving existing ZEDEs a 10-year deadline to operate under special rules. Despite political uncertainty Joyce Brand, author of Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities (2024), contends autonomous cities like Morazán are the future of governance and economic freedom. Brand emphasizes: “Honduran workers, not libertarians, are happy to reside in Morazán City.”Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/08/05/the-dream-why-a-true-believer-defends-zedes-in-honduras/Buy "Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities" by Joyce Brand: https://amzn.to/455hJfY

In 2001, El Salvador dollarized its economy, but the promised benefits never fully arrived. In 2021, President Bukele repeated the pattern by adopting bitcoin as legal tender overnight, with little public input. In this episode, Ishi—a pseudonymous Salvadoran bitcoin developer and founder of Torogoz.dev—explains why both transitions fell short and what lessons can still be learned.Watch now to find out: - Why do most Salvadorans still avoid bitcoin?- What went wrong with Chivo Wallet?- What benefits has bitcoin actually brought to El Salvador?- Plus: how IMF negotiations may now open the door for organic bitcoin adoption without state mandates.Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/07/21/what-became-of-dollarization-bitcoin-in-el-salvador-spanish/

Publisher Fergus Hodgson discusses what this implies for Latin America, and Ecuador in particular, in his June 9 presentation with the CREO Movement classical-liberal political party in Quito, Ecuador. He addresses America-First’s underlying drivers, the foreign-policy outcomes, and recommendations and opportunities for the region. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/06/17/what-america-first-means-for-latin-america/

The Javier Milei administration has brought some stability to the Argentine peso through spending cuts, lower inflation, market liberalization, and improved access to capital flows. However, for Martín Litwak—an international lawyer specializing in wealth management—these measures fall short. He argues Argentina still needs deeper reforms, particularly to reduce the tax burden and dismantle the union-dominated economy, which continue to deter investment. Show notes: https://impunityobserver.com/2025/06/11/martin-litwak-no-argentine-renaissance-without-tax-cuts-labor-reform/