Paradoxically, as president, he advocated among his Latin American colleagues for the establishment of hemispheric caucus that would promote growth and act as crises muffler. The presence of the Group 20 in Latin America in a way was a tribute to the most strategic mind to live at the White House since president Jefferson.
La celebración de “elecciones periódicas, libres, justas y basadas en el sufragio universal y secreto como expresión de la soberanía del Pueblo” es elemento esencial de la Democracia, que solo es posible si concurre con el “respeto a los derechos humanos y libertades fundamentales”, el “estado de derecho”, un “régimen plural de partidos y organizaciones políticas”, y la “separación e independencia de los poderes públicos”.
Venezuelans are today slaves in a country of servitude and misery. And the misery is now spreading to neighboring Colombia. The Venezuelan tragedy is also bringing Latin America back to the 1950s in terms of the health landscape. Vanquished diseases are staging a dreadful home coming. And as the region is inoculated with these diseases development efforts are destroyed by a regime that seems to have taken looting to perfection.
Oposición política es la “expresión de contradicción imprescindible en el proceso democrático de formación de la voluntad política y es consustancial a la libertad, los derechos humanos, el pluralismo y la alternancia en el poder”.
Lo extraño de nuestra cultura es que, en lugar de corregir lo que anda mal, renunciamos a nuestros aciertos e insistimos, periódicamente, en nuestros errores. En América Latina “cada uno cultiva su singularidad, no aprende nada del vecino y los intercambios son prácticamente inexistentes”. ¿Por qué no corregimos los inconvenientes y ajustamos lo que vale la pena salvar en lugar de deshacerlo todo y movernos en la otra dirección del péndulo,
Under the spurious appearance of being “cooperators or internationalists”, Cuba’s dictatorship runs a system involved in lending physicians and other personnel in “conditions of slavery” to Latin American governments and others. Details, threats, and the coercion with which the regime is forcing the return of these physicians to Cuba, make the United Nations’ protocol on Transnational Organized Crime’s “Human Trafficking” applicable.
The lesson to be drawn from the Armistice celebrations is that we need to prioritize the revaluation of our public policy assumptions lest we want to be in the sad position of picking the ashes of an international order that is signaling exhaustion. .
Currently, the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan crisis are occupying the U.S. and the Organization of American States’ (OAS) attention, but It is clear that Bolivia is next to erupt and that this country needs to be closely monitored. Now is the time for the international community to speak up before it is too late.
Bolivia is living today a growing social and political crisis generated by Evo Morales’ persistence to remain indefinitely in power. The constitution of his “Plurinational State” allows Morales a one-time consecutive reelection. With the use of every trick in the book, massacres, corruption, and other crimes, Evo Morales called for a Bolivian people’s referendum to allow for his indefinite reelection.
Organized crime has prospered every time the world economy shifts its production methods geographically or technologically, Bags of unregulated territories serve as theater to illicit activities. And those perpetrating and enriching themselves from those activities take hold of the uncontrolled territory (ies).
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