Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
By organized criminal group, it shall be understood to be a structured group of three or more persons that exists during a certain time and deliberately acts for the purpose of committing one or more serious crimes, or those crimes listed under this present convention, with the intent to gain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other benefit or material gain”.
2018 ends with Latin America trapped between hope and despair. Hope is nurtured by the change of guard in Brazil which seems to be biased in favor of freedom. Another source of hope is the fragmentation process that is beginning to affect the Cuban Gerontocratic leadership.
Scientists refer to the lotus effect as the self-cleaning properties that are the result of ultra hydrophobicity where dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due to the nanoscopic architecture of the lotus leaf. Collectivists seem to have developed their own lotus effect that self-cleanses the murderous history of their ideology.
With America’s withdrawal from Syria, the time has come for Israel to reconsider its defensive security policy and turn to a grand pro-active strategy”. Those in the Arab world seeking to alleviate their suffering or enhance their freedoms would welcome any help, including help from Israel”
“Regimes who violate their people’s freedoms and who, due to their ideological affinity with those defeated in the elections, openly act against the future Government of Brazil, will not be present at my swearing in” (Jair M. Bolsonaro)
“As long as Cuba is a dictatorship, persecuting, torturing, and silencing its people and teaching others to persecute, to assassinate, to torture and to silence, we cannot have a hemisphere lacking of bad habits that affect freedom, democracy and peace”.
Today while Russia could not effectively compete in the military and political dimension with either the US or China, it can certainly look at them at the eye in cyber space. Cyber power includes computer network exploitation (CNE) or the ability to use IT ( information technologies) to spy on another nation’s information technologies.
The Cuban model is a stubborn system that conducts brutal repression, and does not care about legitimacy or the well-being of civil society. The regime seeks to stay in power at any price. This model endangers regional democracy as it uses elections to thereafter transform the country into a dictatorship. This has taken place in Venezuela and in Nicaragua and very well could happen again elsewhere in the region. What the Trump Administration is doing has tremendous importance and it would be highly significant and meaningful if the international community were to join these efforts now.
Governments may be overthrown, but systems of ideas of government are never completely replaced resulting in philosophically hybrid regimes. New governments are never completely detached from the past. Such is the organic history of ideas.
The right to “the supreme recourse of rebellion against tyranny and oppression” is a natural and legal right. When a government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is, for the people and for each of its sectors, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties”.
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