Articles and opinion columns by Latin American analysts who take an unwavering stand for freedom, including members and directors of the IID.
When the defeat of communism by capitalism was made patently evident by the dissolution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) beginning in March of 1990, Cuba’s dictatorship created the Forum of Sao Paolo in July of 1990 to “multiply the axis of confrontation” as part of its permanent assault and conspiracy against democracy.…
The Cuban regime turns everything into a ridiculous battle. It’s incapable to look at itself in the mirror. It fears the image of octogenarians defeated by life and takes on a heroic vision of themselves. Right now, it has transformed the 2021 Latin Grammy awards into an epic struggle against Yotuel, Maykel Osorbo, who is…
In his book On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder cites the hero of a novel asserting that, “When you make love for the last time, you do not know that you are making love for the last time.” Liberty is somewhat like that, and when we enjoy liberty for the last time, we seldom realize that we…
Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are three acknowledged dictatorships and Bolivia is the disguised dictatorship that still imposes its counterfeiting of democracy. These four regimes comprise one single system. Because of their violation of human rights, their electoral supplantation, protection to narcotics’ trafficking and other crimes, they are the subject of sanctions that far from eliminating…
Faced with total control of power by the regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, where violation of human rights has been institutionalized, there is no rule of law or check and balances of public powers; neither free nor fair elections, and the political oppositions have been turned into functional or are simply hostages, the…
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla was used by Raúl Castro to try to “scare” the young creators of “Archipelago” and the San Isidro Movement. Bruno summoned the diplomats based in Cuba and said that the excesses announced for November 15 wouldn’t be tolerated. Why? Very simple and very sinister: because the United States is…
The absence of democracy is the best way to create economic misery, as evidenced by humanitarian crises in Cuba and Venezuela, and economic crises in Bolivia and Nicaragua. Concentration of power, absence of control and accountability and impunity enable countries without democracy to falsify economic data, until the misery of the peoples reveals the falsehood.…
Our contempt for liberty was a favorite theme of the brilliant economist and columnist Walter E. Williams. His book “American Contempt for Liberty” compiles nearly 200 of his newspaper columns on topics related to our personal freedoms. Williams was an eloquent and forceful defender of what he called “the moral superiority of personal liberty and…
In three months in office, President of Peru Pedro Castillo has made very clear he belongs and depends on the 21st century socialism, also known as Castro-Chavism. He also has made very clear his decision to repeat the plan -already applied in Bolivia- to destroy the “Peruvian Nation” and supplant it by a “Plurinational state”;…
I have not been able to find out, for sure, why Raúl Castro authorized the appearance of Carlos Lage asking for “deep changes.” Lage is the former Cuban vice president purged a few years ago along with former Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque. I have asked the experts in the Cuban nomenclature. Dr. Pedro Roig…
