After reading more than once each article of the proposal to be plebiscitated this September 4, and studying it in relation to other countries and Chile’s own constitutional history, I no longer have any doubts. Furthermore, he had not been so certain since the 1988 plebiscite, when General Pinochet was told no. I make it…
Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the O.A. published an article in the Chronicles of Montevideo newspaper that should be the object of reflection of the continent’s elites in the supposed case that they are interested in rescuing democratic paths and taking advantage of the opportunities opened by international change. In effect, the world economy and…
Whenever 21st Century Socialism -or Castrochavism- takes up a government, it seeks to impose its dictatorial system just as it did in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador under Correa, but when it butts against the democratic institutionalism that prevents changes to the system, it must handover the government and the dictatorial verve is defeated as…
In Latin America, 21st century’s Castrochavist Constituent Assemblies are the instrument used to end democracy and eradicate the nation in every country where these are imposed. Starting in Venezuela, the group birthed by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro has, up to now, imposed its method of de-institutionalization in Bolivia and Ecuador, it is pending in…
Democracy has not been the same for some decades now. And that is how it should be understood. We do not know if it can be updated and which system will be the replacement. That is the scenario for the constituent process of Chile. It is stated that “there are no countries with stable constitutional…
Chile faces its most important election since the 1988 plebiscite. Then as now, Chile does not need to be refounded, and in a Latin America in which the narrative has prevailed in various ways and in many elections over the facts, this needs to be remembered. . That the governing constitution had its origin in…
In the mid-1980s, the Iran-Contra scandal occurred in the United States when the Reagan administration authorized the prohibited sale of arms to Iran under the assumption that this would lead to the release of seven American hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon. When the details of this exchange and the diversion of money from the…
God decides to send Tomas Moro, the saint of politicians, to Venezuela on the occasion of the centenary of Carlos Andres Perez, President twice. I have come to Rubio, where I was born, to refer to “what he wanted to be, what was and what could not be.” Next October she will be 100 years…
It has been 10 years since Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero were assassinated in Cuba. It was July 22, 2012. We’ll get to that later. Ángel Carromero, a Spaniard, and Aron Modig, a Swede, were, more or less, witnesses to the murder. Carromero was a delegate of Nuevas Generaciones (New Generations,) the youth organization of…
To present State-terrorism as revolution, violations of human rights as popular defense, the oppressed as subversives, political prisoners and tortured as criminals, the exiled as fugitives, the main transnational organized crime organization as 21st Century Socialism, the crimes of corruption and narcotics’ trafficking as political acts, and conspiracy as the liberation of the peoples, are…
