Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Theseus was the mythical king and founder of Athens. Many myths surrounding Theseus and his journeys are recounted by the Greek historian Plutarch. Among them is the legend of Theseus slaying the half-man half-bull Minotaur, and the thought experiment we now know as the ship of Theseus According to Plutarch’s Life of Theseus the ship…
Amnesty International prepared a report where it delivers a series of accusations against Israel’s government policies and the nature of the state. According to the report, Israel deliberately denies Palestinians their basic rights and freedoms; discriminates against Israeli Arabs; denies Palestinians the right to return; and resorts to torture and unlawful killings in both Israel…
The non-democratic regimes from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua -whose political self-imposed denomination is “21st Century Socialism”- hold power by wielding state-sponsored terrorism with political prisoners, persecuted and exiled and the peculiar characteristic of being narco-states. In order for them to have impunity for their crimes, they seek to indefinitely retain power, and to do…
Eighty-three years ago World War II began. Hitler fabricated an excuse to attack Poland. It was not acceptable for the Germans to invoke a mercurial reason to invade their neighbors. It is always advisable to show yourself as the victim. An SS unit pretended to be attacked by Polish rebels in the border town of…
The dictatorship from Cuba always used anti-imperialism to justify the violation of human rights, state-sponsored terrorism, and the misery that it produces. The past century presented narcotics’ trafficking as an antiimperialist weapon to attack the United States with the intent to destroy its youth. In the 21st century, with the expansion of dictatorships in Venezuela,…
What are some lessons? Was it a unique event or could it be repeated? We know that he bequeathed us the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as that Judeophobia and anti-Semitism remain in force. We would like to think that it will not happen again, but denialism makes us doubt. Hence the preference…
In his 1995 aptly titled book, “Private Truth, Public Lies,” social scientist Timur Kuran introduces his theory of “preference falsification.” This is a phenomenon akin to what Cubans on the Island have long experienced as their dual morality of holding private truths and expressing public lies. Professor Kuran defines preference falsification as the act of…
The dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua yield power by practicing state-sponsored terrorism that has, as one of its important methods, the manipulation of judicial prosecutions to persecute, imprison and sentence the innocent. Through the judicialization of political repression, these dictatorships turn political leaders and human rights’ defenders into criminals and instill fear. This…
On July 7, 2021, President Juvenal Moise was assassinated in his home. The participation of Haitians and Colombian hitmen in the assassination is known, but months later, little progress has been made in identifying the intellectual authors, except for the suspicion that it may have been ordered by drug trafficking. The news has disappeared from…
In 2016, post-truth was selected by Oxford Dictionaries as its word of the year due to a 2,000 percent increase in usage compared to 2015. So, what exactly is post-truth, and what are its implications for democratic politics? ` The Oxford benign definition is that post-truth “describes circumstances in which objective facts are less influential…
