The 51st State
Five volumes, one question per book.
Why Venezuela Could Ask for the Unthinkable — and What It Would Mean for the Future of American Power
The first volume poses the question seriously and maps the ground: the three paths, the yardstick by which each one is judged, and the thresholds that would have to be met. The other four volumes take up what is to be done next.
The three paths (a free and democratic Venezuela, supervised territoriality, the 51st State), the yardstick by which each one is measured, the thresholds that would have to be met, and the design of identity that none of the routes can skip.
The transition as a timeline and as a map of actors: who has to do what, in what order, and what makes it fail.
The fund: which assets go in, who holds them, what safeguards protect it from a government that wants to plunder it, and what CANNOT be promised.
The reasoning behind each piece: what problem it solves, what precedent supports it, and what would make it fail.
The laws of the design of power, developed one by one, plus debt, currency, infrastructure, investment, and jobs.
RuleEvery design is presented in both versions: one for a sovereign republic and one for the 51st State.
How Regimes Manufacture the Misery That Keeps Them in Power
A state does not always decay through incompetence. At a certain point, decay stops being the failure of power and becomes its tool, and a people that cannot recognize it mistakes it for bad luck. This book documents the mechanism piece by piece, with four cases told in full: Nazi Germany, Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela. It is written for those whose country has not yet fallen: the citizens of a country where people say, “That can’t happen here.”