Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
Orlando Avendaño, author of “Tiempos de Sumisión” was born and raised in Venezuela. Contrary to most of his peers who are scouting the world to find spiritual balance, Avendaño decided to concentrate on unveiling the nature of the current servitude imposed upon his country of origin.
No existe la menor duda de que los servicios de inteligencia y otras ramas militares de Cuba controlan totalmente a Venezuela. La subordinación de Venezuela a Cuba es un acto contra natura.
Within a week distance two murders occurred in two cities that are a world apart. In Istanbul Jamal Khashoggi a US based journalist disappeared inside the premises of the Saudi consulate. In Caracas the body of Fernando Alban was dropped by the elves of the regime’s secret police from the 10th floor of the dreadful force headquarters. Both events fit the logics of totalitarian regimes that resort to fear as a fundamental vehicle to preserve power.
La estrategia dictatorial busca la mayor desestabilización de los gobiernos democráticos de Las Américas mediante el intervencionismo social, político, electoral, publicitario y criminal. Se trata de desestabilizar la democracia donde sea posible y los hechos indican que ahora Perú soporta la aplicación de esa agenda.
Jair Messias Bolsonaro pudiera ser el Presidente de Brasil el próximo 28 de octubre. Según El Nuevo Herald a Cuba le horroriza que Bolsonaro sea seleccionado por los brasileños. El exdiputado ha dicho que no está de acuerdo en continuar pagándole a la dictadura de los Castro.
El caso de Chevron no es simplemente un caso de litigio sobre temas ambientales y de contaminación. Revela el poder de la corrupción en países donde el liderazgo no tiene ningún respeto por el estado de derecho. La corrupción hace que la región sea insegura para la inversión extranjera y perjudica a las empresas estadounidenses que por ley no pueden participar en soborno o actos ilegales.
As the 21st century advances its technology-based wealth creation is wiping away every cultural; managerial or political ties to the industrial society. Politics, of course, could not be spared from this evolutive wave. The leading world powers would create and maintain stability by means of approaching both politics and diplomacy with pragmatism. And as realpolitik falls further in the dustbin of history anarchy will most probably set in.
La ONU al establecer el principio de “prohibición al uso o amenaza de la fuerza”, reconoce tres excepciones que son las “acciones colectivas para mantener o restablecer la paz y seguridad internacionales por medio del Consejo de Seguridad, la “legítima defensa” como un derecho natural, y la “intervención humanitaria”.
Kofi Annan took the trip to immortality in 2018. He was the first UN employee to rise to the helm of the organization. The UN was supposed to act as the peace keeping institution and the standard bearer for the protection of human rights. Needles to count the instances when the UN has failed to fulfill on its promise, he soon realized that barbarism started within nations not between nations
A State´s foreign policy is formulated on the basis of principles and self interests and is an expression of its internal policies. Within this framework, it is expected for Spain´s foreign policy to be based on the principles of its Constitution and its society, It is about the foreign policy of the State and not the party´s or coalition´s in power whose ideology or political position will influence its drafting, but not to the point of violating the fundamental principles of the State.
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