<i>Liberal y libertador</i>

27/05/2010

http://assets.fundacionfaes.org/Home+FAES/REYES_DES.jpg Fernando Garc?a de Cort?zar: "The American and French Revolutions made Creole landowners shudder with fear, it taught that freedom is like water" "For Miranda, the greatest danger were extremist principles which poison freedom at the cradle and destroy it" Jos? Varela Ortega: "our "transitional" parents learnt from very traumatic experiences that democracy is not a victory, it is an agreement of laws to limit the sovereign" "The Constitution arrives to solve a civil conflict. It is not a confrontation system, but a reconciliation system" Xavier Reyes Matheus: "Miranda"s fellow countrymen, so needed of freedom as we are now, should not wish to get it through the acts of somebody who comes to grant it. Conversely, the fight to build a democratic system were people get involved with the conviction that it will grant them their rights and their possibilities of a better life, is very necessary"