THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS AND DONALD TRUMP

                                 Published by El Nuevo Herald on June 20, 2016

After the criminal terrorist attack in the city of Orlando by an lunatic extremist on the morning of June 12, 2016, the candidate Donald Trump said that both, President Obama and the candidate Hillary Clinton, should resign because they did not use in their speeches the term " radical Islam ".

 After the worst terrorist attack in US history, known as 9/11, President Bush neither used such a term and no one dared to ask for his resignation to such a dramatic situation.

By contrast, President Bush declared: "All of America was touched on the night of the tragedy when they saw Democrats and Republicans united in the Capitol steps singing God Bless America".

Apparently, Donald Trump did not mind the suffering of the families of 50 dead and many wounded, and decided to make dirty politics instead of uniting American sentiment to this tragedy. That's what a president should do rather just the opposite, that is, seek to divide the population, something that apparently is usual in Trump.

Indeed, Trump says that every year 100,000 people come to the United States from the Middle East. With this he pretends to terrorize the population, because if we estimate that only 1% of them are terrorists, then we have every year 1000 new criminals capable of committing mass attacks.

Omar Mateen, self-proclaimed fighter of the Islamic State, entered into a gay club that day, armed with an AR-15 rifle and a pistol, killed 49 people and wounded 53. Hence it follows, once again, that tight control in arms sales it is essential because the same type of rifle, incredibly, was previously used in five multiple killings.

Sometimes it happens that one man can unleash a world war, as happened on June 28, 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, 19 years old, murdered in Sarajevo the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This caused the Empire, along with Germany, declared war on Serbia and its allies in what was later renamed as the First World War.

Currently Trump proposes to ban entry of Muslims to the United States as the great solution to domestic terrorism. Of course, this has its problems:

▪ Christians and Jews could suffer the consequences; that is, retaliation could limit or restrict entry or transit through the Muslim world.

▪ In those extremist Muslim civilizations, Christians and Jews would be persecuted and decimated more than they are today.

▪ This treatment may be rejected by the US allies Muslim countries that could become hostile.We are talking about 1,620 million Muslims.

In this century where we live in, with so much technology and nuclear weapons, conventional war could be the end of humanity as we know it.

Everything previously written, and even the accurate predictions of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), who predicted that the Third World War would originate in the Middle East, leads to the following conclusion: the proposal by Trump is not only meaningless, but it is also irresponsibly dangerous.

Benjamin F. DeYurre

Economist and journalist.

SEVEN SUCCESSFUL PREMONITIONS, MISSING ONE: DONALD TRUMP

                                    Published by El Nuevo Herald on May 22, 2016

Sometimes the human being has the vision to anticipate the future, imagining a priori facts that actually happened later. Thus we talk about seven visions that really happened then, and a bad omen that has not yet happened: Trump.

▪ On April 3, 1993 we published a letter in the Herald where we asked: "What will do Clinton with the wave of immigrants keep coming?" Today we see the settlement of comprehensive immigration reform is considered a priority in the world policy.

▪ On August 18, 2000 I wrote to the publisher of the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal: "We have tireless repeated to the Venezuelan people that Chavez in Venezuela intends to establish an equal or worse regime that exists in Cuba". Elapsed time, we see that is exactly what has happened in Venezuela.

▪ On July 2, 2003, we wrote in the Herald: "All economic processes are decreasing to the minimum allowable before falling into a crisis with unforeseeable consequences."Later, in 2009 we really suffered a severe economic crisis, the biggest since World War II.

▪ On January 27, 2012, I wrote to the Herald: "The trend in previous elections will continue. Let aimed toward a reelection of President Obama. " Indeed, the President was reelected in November 2012.

▪ In the September 2013 edition of The Times Newspaper I predicted: "President Maduro usurps power with a firm purpose. It aims to plunder what little remains of the National Treasury ".

Today it is known the disastrous economic situation in Venezuela.

▪ On November 12, 2014, during a forum held in The Miami Herald, I asked the CEO of Carnival Cruise Line, Arnold Donald: "If things were to change in Cuba, Carnival will sail to Cuban ports? His cheerful affirmative answer seemed a preamble of what soon happened.

On December 17 of that year, and when neither knew nor suspected anything,  relations with Cuba was restored and Carnival was the first company that received permission to sail to the island.

▪ On November 13, 2014, during a conference at the Miami Dade College, I asked the adviser to the White House for the Western Hemisphere, Dan Restrepo: "If something were to happen in Cuba, this administration is willing to meet with opponents? We know what happened. President Obama actually met with opposition during his recent visit to Cuba.

As we see these seven premonitions, among others, they have really accomplished. It is missing a very important one for the future of the United States and it is related to Donald Trump.

In my Trump, China and Cuba column published in El Nuevo Herald on March 23, 2016, specific: "The US presidential elections are usually defined by a narrow margin of two to three million votes. If only 57% of Hispanics who are against Trump actually vote,  Trump already lost to Hillary "

If for any reason this prediction would end up failing and Trump were to become president, political violence could increase as a direct result of the now famous Trump fact, as I emphasize in an interview with the Herald on May 16, 2016: "Things not only  will be worsen, but can be dangerous. "

Actually, if there is a premonition that we would not guess it is this. On the contrary, we wish all the good to the great American nation, the birthplace of our ancestors.

Far from divisions, rancor or discrimination of any kind.

Benjamin F. DeYurre

Economist and journalist.