This time the protests began in Spain in mid-May. A group of Spanish and Latin American intellectuals gathered to criticize Spain’s socialist government and the European community’s passivity as dissidents in Cuba died, were jailed, and beaten, simply for demanding freedom and democracy.
By Jose Fuentes.
After 110 years of U.S. sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Congress has before it a comprehensive record, compiled over the last two decades, compellingly supporting legislation for the first ever federally recognized referendum in Puerto Rico, on the question of that U.S. territory’s future.
Iraq held its national voting for the country’s crucial parliamentary election yesterday, amid multiple mortar attacks and bombings mainly in the capital Baghdad which left at least 37 dead. The election is regarded as a test for the country’s national reconciliation and political process.
By Adolfo Franco.
After a year as President, it is amazing how the press has ignored the Obama Administration’s neglect of Latin America as anti-American regimes consolidate their hold on power. President George W. Bush was berated for focusing his attention on battling terrorism and “ignoring” Latin America, despite that fact that he travelled to the [...]
By Manuel Cereijo.
In a free society, each person is recognized as a unique human being. He is free to discover his own potential and pursue his own legitimate interests. The individual has a duty to respect the rights of others and the values, traditions, tested over time and passed from one generation to another. He is responsible for his own well-being and that of his family.
By Manuel Cereijo. Democracies are closely linked in most people’s minds with elections. Surely, no one would consider a country democratic if its government were not elected. However, there are many features associated with modern democratic society-the rule of law, constitutions, independent courts, political parties, a meaningful opposition, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and so on.
By Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is a caricature of a stereotypical Marxist intellectual. He went to Cuba in 1960 to witness firsthand the communist state that Castro’s revolution installed in that island nation. At that time Sartre was a communist, this, of his own admission. However, he was instructed by Castro, [...]
By Manuel Cereijo.
Freedom is the key for democracy. Freedom is the right to dissent, to walk in the town square, in public places and express one’s views without fear to reprisals, punishment, insults. If people can do this, they live in a free society, in a free country. If they can not, people live in [...]
