CARTAGENA THINKS: Enrique Yeves Valero talks about 'The New Geopolitics in the Trump Era: Humanity in its Labyrinth'. El Luzzy

Enrique Yeves Valero

THE NEW GEOPOLITICS IN THE TRUMP ERA: HUMANITY IN ITS LABYRINTH

Presented by: Joaquín Nieto, president of the Federation of Human Rights Associations and former director of the ILO for Spain

Gaza is now the symbol of the absolute moral failure of the principles of the post-World War II international system. There is a before and after the Gaza crisis in a complex equation tangled with the election of Donald Trump as the new President of the United States. The rules-based order of 1948 is being dismantled.

And all this has happened after the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the rise of the far right worldwide and the subsequent retreat from the agreements set out in the UN Agenda 2030.
What awaits us in this new geopolitical framework of the 21st century? Who wins and who loses? For now, humanity as a whole loses. If no action is taken, this could be the first generation in history to destroy the planet we have inhabited for millions of years.

Enrique Yeves Valero has an extensive professional career at the United Nations, where he has held, among other positions, Director of Communications for FAO at its headquarters in Rome, Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly in New York and Director of the FAO office in Spain.

He is currently Director of the United Nations Institute for Studies (UNES). He is also the author of several books, including: La Contra: una guerra sucio (Ediciones B, 1989), which was a finalist for the 1990 Reporter Prize, and El Año que Vivimos Atrevidamente (The Year We Lived Daringly), the fruit of his experience as a spokesman at the UN.

He has directed and coordinated 11 books in the State of the Planet collection, published jointly in 2018 by the newspaper El País and the FAO. He has also received numerous international awards such as the prestigious CNN World Report Award and the UN's Stories from the Field.
He writes for Le Monde diplomatique and the newspaper El País.