Books
Three books, one question: how democracy is exercised and defended at the tables where decisions are made. Diplomatic memoir, recent history and analysis written from the inside.
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 defending the popular vote when institutions begin to crack. More than six hundred pages of diplomatic memoir written from the inside. In Spanish.
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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 mission in Washington. This book is the memoir of that time as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States: the pandemic that emptied the headquarters and forced diplomacy to reinvent itself from a screen; the chairmanships of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism, the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, the Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development; Haiti in free fall, Nicaragua out of the Organization, Venezuela in dispute and Guatemala on edge. It tells how a small country builds a voice of its own in hemispheric multilateralism: with which allies, at what price and with what results. Written from within, with records, speeches and memories, to leave a record of what the Dominican Republic did at the OAS and of what the OAS can still do for the Americas. In Spanish.
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, from the very first month, presided over the body where peace and war are decided. This book narrates that year from the inside, month by month: Syria, Yemen, Libya and Venezuela; the crisis in Haiti, Israel and Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, peace in Colombia and the Sahel, with their votes, their silences and their costs. Written by the person who coordinated the Dominican position, drawing on official records and direct experience, it is an honest account of successes, limits and lessons, so that the next Dominican diplomat who sits down to negotiate will not have to start in the dark. In Spanish.