Arsenio de Otañes (born Arsenio III de Otañes y Lafont on November 24, 1990) is a Mexican autodidactic historian, geostrategic intelligence analyst, and investigative journalist based out of his native city of Tijuana, Baja California, and is also supervising the reforestation and sustainable development of a permacultural settlement, Villa Cascabel, in the Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s foremost wine region and gastronomical hotspot. Arsenio de Otañes grew up just across the Unitedstatsian border in San Diego, where, from a very early age, he began his ongoing self-directed education in history and geopolitics.