Opinions of Lucas Martín

Lucas Martín
El presidente interino de Siria, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, habla durante una formación ministerial del gobierno de la República Árabe Siria, en Damasco, Siria, el 29 de marzo de 2025 - REUTERS/ KHALLIL ASHAWI 

A look at Syria

On 27 November 2024, the HTS (Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham), led by Ahmed Al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, backed by Turkish-supported…
<p>El presidente de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan - REUTERS/HASNOOR HUSSAIN&nbsp;</p>

Turkey at the crossroads

We bid farewell to the month of March in the same way that it welcomed us, with a new shock. A new focus of destabilisation has appeared on the…
El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro - REUTERS/LEONARDO VILORIA

Venezuela's last chance

Over the past few days, the undisputed protagonist on the international stage has been the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and that fact has caused…
Vladimir Putin y Donald Trump - PHOTO/ARCHIVO

The year we lived through

It is now 2025, and if we look back, there is no one who, just one year ago, could have imagined what the year we have just ended would bring
Miembros de la tribu nómada fulani se sientan en un carro mientras viajan por el bosque Barkedji-Dodji, que forma parte de la Gran Muralla Verde del Sahara y el Sahel en el departamento de Linguere, región de Louga, Senegal, el 14 de julio de 2021 - REUTERS/ZOHRA BENSEMARA

Jihadism and violence in the Sahel (I)

Burkina Faso is currently considered the epicentre of a regional and transnational conflict that began more than ten years ago in Mali and has…
El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, y el líder de Corea del Norte, Kim Jong Un, se reúnen en Pyongyang, Corea del Norte, el 19 de junio de 2024 - SPUTNIK/ GAVRIIL GRIGOROV via REUTERS

North Korea, the common thread

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the US-China rivalry have changed the international landscape, and the Korean peninsula is not immune to the…
El líder supremo de Irán, el ayatolá Alí Jamenei, habla tras depositar su voto durante la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales en Teherán, el 5 de julio de 2024 – PHOTO/ATTA KENARE/AFP

Iran, geopolitics based on religion

Geopolitics aims to study the impact of the political behaviour of a country's decision-makers on its efforts to expand beyond its natural geographic…
Un edificio destruido por el ataque ruso con misiles del 8 de julio aparece en las instalaciones del Hospital Infantil Nacional Especializado Ohmatdyt en Kiev, Ucrania, el 12 de julio de 2024 - PHOTO/Ukrinform/Kaniuka Ruslan/vía AFP

Quo Vadis Europe

When, at the end of the 1980s, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the unstoppable beginning of the decomposition of the so-called ‘Eastern Bloc’, a…
Ataque de Israel en el Líbano - PHOTO/REUTERS/MOHAMED AZAKIR

Scenarios for a crossroads

Lucas Martin  Once again this week, we are assessing events that are all too recent. But while it is true that this is not the norm, it is…
El presidente de Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, acompañado del ministro de Defensa, Hanena Ould Sidi, y el comandante de Estado Mayor, Mokhtar Bolle Chabaane, inspeccionan modelos de nuevo equipo militar <strong>- PHOTO/Ejército Nacional de Mauritania</strong>

Mauritania, the key to stability

As a result of the recent NATO summit in Washington, one of the commitments made related to what the Alliance calls the "Southern Flank". 
El subcomandante en jefe militar de Myanmar, Soe Win (C), saluda durante una ceremonia para conmemorar el 77º aniversario del Día de la Unión del país en Naypyidaw, el 12 de febrero de 2024 – PHOTO/AFP

Myanmar, dissecting a conflict

More than three years have passed since the beginning of the conflict in Myanmar, which has been increasing its level of violence in proportion to…
El jefe del Ejército y autoproclamado presidente del Consejo Soberano de Sudán, el general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - AFP/ASHRAF SHAZLY

Sudan, an ignored tragedy

Following in the footsteps of other works published in recent days, today we focus on a region of the world that we can unequivocally consider to be…
Fotografía de archive de soldados del Ejército de Burkina Faso en la carretera de Gorgadji, en el área del Sahel - Luc Gnago/REUTERS

A look to the south

The dizzying speed of events and the extreme and changing reality in which we have become accustomed to living make us focus our attention on…
La gente conduce por una calle de Jerusalén el 14 de abril de 2024. El ataque sin precedentes de Irán contra Israel ha sido frustrado, anunció el ejército israelí el 14 de abril, con casi todos los más de 200 misiles y drones interceptados con la ayuda de Estados Unidos y sus aliados - AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA

An uncertain scenario

On 1 April, the IDF attacked a building in the heart of Damascus, the Syrian capital, killing General Mohamed Reza Zahedi. This action was part of…