Josué Fiallo
Twenty years in Dominican diplomacy, from the Security Council to the House of the Americas. I write about what I saw, what I learned and what is still at stake for the Dominican Republic and the hemisphere.
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Who Is Thinking About This?
The future has arrived and we are looking the other way by Josué Fiallo 28 February 2026 I On February 24, I had a long conversation with…
The Year Institutions Choose Their Owners
Guatemala 2026: Second-Degree Elections, Nominating Commissions, and the Future of Constitutional Democracy By Josué Fiallo February 7,…
What Do We Have? Facts, Not Smoke (II)
Lima, 2022. Viral videos called for my head. I was accused of negotiating what was never on the table. There was a conversation. An…
What Do We Have? Facts, Not Smoke (I)
By Josué Fiallo 31 January 2026 Washington, October 30, 2013 When the official vehicle pulled away from the State Department heading to the…
When ‘Realism’ Becomes an Excuse
The Case for Ethical Pragmatism in Dominican Foreign Policy In Dominican debates on international affairs, a notion as comfortable as it is…
The Race for the UN Secretary-Generalship
How the next UN Chief is chosen, what has changed in the process, and why Latin America — and the Dominican Republic — have much to say. In…
Series
All seriesThe Shield
The new hemispheric security architecture, what gets signed and what it costs to sustain it.
Washington and the Dominican Republic
Tariffs, lobbying, remittances and the two doors of the American capital.
The Tenth Summit of the Americas
A chronicle of Dominican diplomacy as host of the Tenth Summit in Punta Cana.
Guatemala
From the democratic crisis of 2023 to the second-degree elections of 2026.
Topics
The United States and the Hemisphere
Washington, tariffs, regional security and the Dominican Republic’s place on the American board.
OAS, UN and Multilateralism
The Organization of American States, the United Nations, the Summits and the history of Pan-Americanism.
Democracy in the Americas
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile and the Inter-American Democratic Charter as a compass.
Haiti
The neighbor’s crisis, the international missions and what the island shares without wanting to.
Dominican Republic
Public management, justice, tourism, reform and the facts behind the smoke.
The Diplomatic Craft
What it means to be a diplomat: training, family, hierarchy, social media and vocation.
Ideas and Readings
Essays, chronicles and books: the thinking that fits no single category.
Books
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Diplomacia de crisis
Guatemala, the OAS and Democratic Hope in 2023
Testimony and analysis of Guatemala’s 2023 democratic crisis as seen from the Organization of American States: the sessions, the negotiations, the missions and the price of…
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The Dominican Republic at the OAS (2019–2024)
One thousand five hundred and twenty-seven days: those that passed between the presentation of credentials at the House of the Americas, on November 15, 2019, and the end of the…
En la mesa del poder
Memoirs of the Dominican Republic on the UN Security Council (2019)
In June 2018, with 184 of 190 possible votes, the Dominican Republic was elected for the first time to the United Nations Security Council. In January 2019 it took its seat and,…
Publications
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The Order That Breaks and the Diplomacy of the Future
The liberal international order designed after 1945 promised rules, prosperity and the containment of force, but it was born with asymmetries that are now…
The OAS’s Existential Challenge
Written with Frank O. Mora, former United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the article argues that the OAS is not a ceremonial forum…
Looking at power without makeup
This space is born of a conviction: to look at power without makeup. I write about foreign policy, governance, democracy and the rule of law, trying to put the facts in order, examine decisions and tell propaganda from reality.
I favor documentary sources, legal analysis, historical memory and an understanding of the interests that move the actors. I do not seek easy applause, but to contribute to a better informed, more critical and more responsible public conversation. Most texts are written in Spanish; those in English are marked and shown first on this page.
Editorial transparency. I use artificial intelligence as an assistance tool for documentary research, organizing sources and editorial review, always under my direction and critical supervision. The analysis, the opinions and the final wording are my sole responsibility.