The United Nations decision to expel Russia from the Human Rights Council has once again highlighted the commitment to active solidarity that autocrats from various parts of the world have forged. These despots are not afraid to support each other in crisis situations, they are fully aware of the evil they are doing, but they…
One of the many biographers of Angela Merkel defined her political style as eminently pragmatic, opportunistic, trying to solve everyday problems in a way that was convenient for her image, and to maintain her power fiercely. She effectively lacked a vision of the future for her country and for Europe, she lacked ideas to formulate…
It was June 16, 1976, in the municipality of Itagüí, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria and his cousin Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero were arrested with 29 kilos of cocaine. Detectives Luis Fernando Vasco Urquijo and Jesús Hernández Patiño, belonging to the DAS, are in charge of carrying out the operation. Almost three months later, with…
In conversations with some friends of firm democratic convictions, I have appreciated a discreet defense of the aggression of the KGB colonel, Vladimir Putin, against Ukraine, something difficult to understand when one has the knowledge that they are people who have invariably repudiated dictators, in particular, those who, like Putin, Xi Jimping and Ayatollah Ali…
Promised is debt is a phrase used to signal the fulfillment of a promise or the payment of an acquired liability. However, it does not exclusively refer to a chrematistic question, but is also used to show a moral obligation contracted with someone. However, I would add another meaning: Everything that politicians promise you ends…
Jeanine Añez, former president of Bolivia, has been a prisoner of the regime for a year. The accusations against Añez have focused on events prior to her assuming power, including terrorism, sedition, conspiracy, breach of duties and resolutions against the Constitution. For the Movement Towards Socialism, the way in which Añez came to the presidency…
Imagine that one morning you have to wake up in the middle of bombs, explosions and gunshots. You, like the majority of the population, have no choice but to escape to preserve your life. Taking a few supplies, he embarks on a journey through several countries. When it seems that you are far from danger,…
The secret, plural and free elections are ideal to achieve a fair government in which the interests of all are safeguarded as much as possible, a very difficult objective to achieve, if the elected officials themselves do not assume that we are equal before the law and they disrespect the division of public powers, as…
We are in the third decade of the 21st century, but – and despite living in a globalized, digital and technological world – humanity continues to suffer from the same old baseness, for example, the excessive ambition for power. The war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine is one more example of this, although within the…
The political, economic and social situation of the American continent, without excluding any country, faces a destabilizing variant in terms of democracy. This demands an urgent review of the commitments and perspectives of citizens and organizations that feel committed to our way of life and the unrestricted respect for human rights. In the hemisphere apart…
