Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Russia has roughly 6,000 nuclear warheads aimed at our venerable necks. Vladimir Putin – the ‘knucklehead’ – has asked his military to put them on alert in case they have to be used. The man was a KGB spy before he was a politician. The US has slightly fewer nuclear weapons, but much more precise…
The invasion of Russia into Ukraine is a “war crime of aggression against peace” determined by international common law, the international tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo, based in the United Nation’s Charter and established in Article 5 of the Rome Statute. This flagrant crime, aggravated by crimes against humanity that is perpetrated by Russia’s holders…
You know the type. They are those people who think they have all the answers and have never encountered a problem they did not know how to solve. They are the know-it-alls. They are dismissive of the opinions of others, they feel superior, and are unwilling to listen to others. They think they have all…
Rusia clearly violated international law with its aggression, both from its own territory and from Belarus. Probably, before it, both had stopped complying with the Minsk Agreements of 2014, signed to find a framework for a solution to the conflict between Ukraine and the separatist provinces, in the virtual civil war that had begun in…
It was the early days of the year 2000. The first major American official who spoke with Vladimir Putin was Madeleine Albright. Mrs. Albright, born in Prague, was then Secretary of State in the second term of the Clinton administration. She recorded her impression of the person who had replaced Boris Yeltsin at the helm…
The governments from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua use the same “illegitimate and criminal methods aimed to generate fear and terror in the civilian population that would not, in any other way, be generated”. This is “Terrorism of State” comprised by crimes against humanity evidenced by detentions, torture, false accusations, sentencing, assassinations, and violations of…
He is not an example of democracy, enough to observe the treatment of dissidents. In The Economist´s 2021 Democracy Index Russia appears in the category of “authoritarian” regime, at number 124 among 167 countries, bad or very bad under Scandinavian standards, but it is also true that, despite everything, today there are more freedoms than…
When I first learned of Svalbard’s unusual laws, one of which is that no one is allowed to die there, my wife and I made plans to visit and learn. Unfortunately, the COVD-19 pandemic put those plans on hold. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Artic Ocean midway between continental Norway and the North…
I write this article on Thursday, February 17, 2022. About 130,000 Russian troops are still on the borders of Ukraine. There are troops in Belarus and the bombs continue exploding in Donbass, in the eastern part of the country, on the Russian border, also accessible from the south, from Crimea. President Joe Biden does not…
The concept that “politics is the art of doing what is possible” is complemented by another that says “survival is the art of doing what is necessary”. These concepts are intertwined when we face dictatorships that wield power with crimes against humanity in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, but also to countries with electoral processes…
