Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
The invasion of one country to another fully justifies an armed intervention to rid a nation of a foreign occupying force. Today Venezuela is invaded by Cuba, and the international community is excused by false sovereignty and principles of non-interference. There is ample evidence that there is a foreign occupation force in Venezuelan territory. It is time for the end of the impunity in which the Cuban dictators live. ” Can mature and the Cuban occupation Force be overthrown without armed intervention?
Liberal democracy is a political system that is distinguished not only by free and fair elections but also by the rule of law, separation of powers, and the protection of our fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly, religion, and property. Liberal democracy sees the individual as an autonomous agent by constantly making decisions based on sentiment.
Liberal democracy is a political system distinguished not only by free and fair elections, but also by the rule of law, separation of powers, and the safeguard of our fundamental liberties of speech, assembly, religion, and property. Liberal democracy cherishes individual liberty as its primary value. Liberal democracy sees the individual as an autonomous agent constantly making choices based on feelings.
As I watch the unfolding tragedy in the US Southern border, I cannot repress a nostalgic flashback to 1992 when the Peace Treaty for el Salvador was signed in Chapultepec Mexico. As customary, UN mediators and warring parties signed the treaties, shook hands and patted each other on the back . Then everyone went back to their businesses. 27 years thereafter these gangs are part of a very sophisticated network of organized crime that crisscrosses the world and holds politics at ransom. The answer of course is not be found in a wall but in how to retake the Initiative for the Americas to bring prosperity vaccinating the region from the strain of organized crime.
In the Americas, democracy has five compulsory essential elements: “Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; Access to power and exercise subject to the rule of law; The holding of regular, free and fair elections based on universal and secret suffrage as an expression of the sovereignty of the people; The plural regime of political parties and organizations; And the separation and independence of the public authorities. “
The adoption of a universal health system like the one in France or Spain seems inevitable in the United States. The clear majority prefers it according to the last measurements. Americans have to pay up to three times the value of medicines. That’s intolerable.
Change nurtures fear. Once fear sets in people stops functioning normally as it acts a barrier to logical thinking while preferring explanations that clearly identify a culprit. Today fear is clearly thriving in several latitudes of the Americas. In the US the lack of clear project to confront change is spreading fear among its citizens. In Latin America organized crime has taken over politics to inject fear in most democratic leaders and their populations.
In this model, Evo Morales has implemented the “vote-catching dictatorship” in Bolivia. He has conceptualized this electioneering dictatorship as “that political regime that by force or violence concentrates all political power into one person or group, crushes and suppresses human rights and basic freedoms and utilizes elections as a means of simulation and propaganda in order to indefinitely keep itself in power”. It is about controlled and manipulated elections.
The recent announcement by President Donald Trump recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights generated a number of reactions. If the Golan Heights “legally” and actually belongs to Syria, as European nations claim, how exactly does this position serve the European goals and interests in the region? There should be little dispute that, in this chaotic situation, Israel should keep the Golan Heights indefinitely.
Juan Guaido is imprisoned, not physically as of yet, by the Castroist Chavist dictatorship. It is by far more serious than that, Guaido is imprisoned by the greatest act of selfishness that the so-called political class can perpetrate against a nation that is suffering a humanitarian crisis. Freeing Guaido means to immediately allow him to be the President In Charge, to help him to put together a government of national unity, and to truly help him by setting aside the “two-faced politics”.
