Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
I discovered Ivan Ilyin years ago and by chance. I was teaching at Wheaton College in Massachusetts as a Fulbright visiting professor, and in the library, I was looking for another book and other author for a Political Science Handbook in preparation. His text on The Essence of the Consciousness of Law was not useful…
Does everyone want democracy? This is a thought-provoking question, and the title of a book by political anthropologist Paula L. W. Sabloff, where professor Sabloff offers her insights on the transition from Soviet-style communism to democracy in Mongolia. Her work advances some well documented answers to one of the most policy relevant questions of our…
Russia’s invasion to Ukraine with crimes of a “war of aggression” and “against humanity” has produced a confrontation in which no one is left on the fringes and not impacted by it. In our capitalist, globalized world in the midst of a 21st century technological revolution, while this war has a front of armed combat…
David Beckham is a great English soccer player. He is 46 years old. He started playing professionally at a very young age for Manchester. He retired at 38. He was in the Real Madrid team and there he learned to speak some Spanish. It was then when I knew his name. He is half businessman…
Outstanding is the case of Gabriel Boric. In a decade he went from being a student leader to president of Chile, from street protest to La Moneda. He competed because he was the only one in that generational group who met the minimum age, a candidacy that had also been rejected by several national figures.…
You may think this is the year 2022. However, according to the Phantom Time hypothesis we are presently living in the year 1724. The Phantom Time hypothesis advanced by German historian Heribert Illig in 1991 argues that Pope Sylvester II, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII all got together and changed…
It’s the “globalization”. The entrails of the planet’s interconnection have been seen again. This time it was the sanctions against Moscow during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Venezuelan consequences of that atrocious military operation. Wars are fought to be won and Russia will lose the one it’s waging now against its peaceful neighbor.…
Israel’s prime minister traveled to Moscow and met for three hours with Vladimir Putin. He then spoke to Zelensky and went to Berlin to brief his German counterpart. Naphtali Bennett traveled on the Jewish Shabbat, despite being perhaps the first fully observant head of government of Israel, and the reason has to do with the…
The international system that has failed to prevent Russia’s “war of aggression” against Ukraine by activating their mechanisms to condemn and sanction the aggressor has found an overwhelming majority response against the Russian regime, except those States who abstain and -once again- prove that the worldwide confrontation is “dictatorship against democracy”. In international politics, abstaining…
College students of philosophy are entranced by the philosophical dictum of “Nothing comes from nothing” (ex nihilo nihil fit) first argued by Parmenides. In its modern connotation, the dictum has profound religious implications. To Parmenides all matter was uncreated and eternal; therefore, the universe had no beginning. In contrast, the writers of the book of…
