Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
…a herd of digital hyenas goes after that person’s throat attempting intellectual murder. For hours a tide of aggressive messages that touch upon the truly barbarian drown digital destinations of those who venture to share their views about a particular event, present a political persuasion, or disseminate scientific findings that might prove wrong about widely held positions on global matters such as climate change.
Ortega’s Sandinista dictatorship never left power in Nicaragua. In 1990, the dictator was removed but not the dictatorship, because it kept its infrastructure, protected the “fat cow” by guaranteeing legal protection to the criminal usurpation of property by members of the dictatorship, it granted impunity to the corruption of the dictator and members of his criminal group, it kept control of his Army -that was never the Country’s Army- and it stayed as part of the political system, simulating democracy -as a guarantee for impunity- until it once more had a chance to regain the helm of power and reinstate the dictator.
Once left-wing administrations were elected those governments would impose the Foro de Sao Paulo agenda. In some cases, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and to some extent Bolivia and Ecuador, democracy was reduced to fiction by means of dismantling checks and balances.
For instance, Nazi Germany was against smoking; so are you, therefore you are a Nazi. Or, Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarianism is bad. Essentially, Reductio ad Hitlerum is a technique for undermining debate by accusing the opponent of being a Nazi.
Unless we understand these 10 critical aspects of education, we will fail our future generations. These are basic truths, perhaps a blessing in disguise, this pandemic brought to mankind.
However it is also truth that China is taking abusive advantage from a worldwide institutional framework created after WWII that has systematically assisted China’s development goals Thus the West needs to come to grips with fact that China is very much like an engine in a hydroelectric dam that needs to be synchronized and tuned with the rest of the engines for power to be generated evenly and smoothly. Lack of synchronization among engines has always spelled explosion.
In all three cases the recipe to tame the threat is: first identify infected people; then isolate them for treatment; then protect those that has not contracted the virus. But in all three we have failed. And in all three cases our first reaction to the outbreaks have been: first denial and then haphazard responses that leave one too many holes in the execution plan allowing the virus to spread.
The internet is no longer perceived as a privilege and became a citizen’s right. Similar to having access to drinking water, sewerage, electricity, and telephony. But not just any internet.
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua’s Armed Forces are not national institutions, they are the dictatorial regime’s instruments to maintain -at any cost- those who hold power. They are devoid of any institutional or legal basis, they are on the fringes of the rule of law, and have been incorporated as active elements of the Transnational Organized Crime that Castrochavism represents.
A confrontational spark has already jumped onto our phone screens. Violent clashes have taken place in Chile and in France.
In both countries, the youth and the Gillet Jaunes revolted against the imposition of austerity measures tilted against their interests while the clerisy continue to enjoy the benefits of financial swindling, to put it in Jeffersonian terms.
