/14.04.14/.- On the 150th anniversary of the end of the end of the American Civil War and of the assassination of Lincoln, the analyst Martín Alonso recalls that the challenge of the South threatened the very existence of the nation and the president, aware of this, went to war to preserve democracy and the Constitution. In this analysis published by FAES he states that giving in to the Confederacy’s blackmail would have entailed, in the long run, the destruction of the country, as the demands of the South would have continued.
14.04.15.- Former presidents of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa; Brazil, Fernando H. Cardoso; Chile, Ricardo Lagos; Ecuador, Sixto Durán Ballén; Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, and Dominican Republic, Hipólito Mejía, have joined the Declaration of Panama after its release last April 9. With these new signings, 31 Ibero-American former heads of State and Government have signed the document denouncing the situation suffered by Venezuela.
14.04.15.- Los expresidentes de Argentina, Fernando de la Rúa; de Brasil, Fernando H. Cardoso; de Chile, Ricardo Lagos; de Ecuador, Sixto Durán Ballén; de Panamá, Ricardo Martinelli, y de República Dominicana, Hipólito Mejía, se han sumado a la Declaración de Panamá tras su presentación el pasado 9 de abril. Con estas nuevas firmas, ya son 31 los exjefes de Estado y de Gobierno iberoamericanos que han rubricado el documento en el que denuncian la situación que sufre Venezuela.
This April marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War and of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (by a twist of fate, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday of that year). Lincoln, the first president of the Republican Party, created four years earlier to oppose the expansion of slavery, came into office on March 4, 1861, after the secession, a few months before, of seven southern states from the Union. Four more would do the same in the following weeks. Lincoln was a classical liberal who understood that the moral values stated in the Declaration of Independence (life, liberty and property) are eternal and inviolable and precede the establishment of governments among men and make them possible, not the other way round. The denial of these rights to slaves in the South...
/09.04.15/.- The former Prime Minister of Spain and President of FAES Foundation, José María Aznar, has launched the Declaration of Panama, along with the former presidents of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana; of Mexico, Felipe Calderón; of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, and of Ecuador, Osvaldo Hurtado. During his address, Aznar said that it made him “very proud to think that 25 former presidents have agreed to defend freedom” and that “silence and inaction are complicit in the untenable situation in Venezuela”. In this regard, he stated that “neither my voice nor my will ever fail to support those who struggle for freedom and for the defence of their rights.” At the event, which took place in Panama City on the eve of the celebration of the VII Summit of the...
Cuba hoy: la lenta muerte del castrismo. Con un preámbulo para españoles
04.14.2015. On the 150th anniversary of the end of the end of the American Civil War and of the assassination of Lincoln, the analyst Martín Alonso recalls that the challenge of the South threatened the very existence of the nation and the president, aware of this, went to war to preserve democracy and the Constitution. In this analysis published by FAES he states that giving in to the Confederacy’s blackmail would have entailed, in the long run, the destruction of the country, as the demands of the South would have continued.
04.14.2015. 14.04.15.- Former presidents of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa; Brazil, Fernando H. Cardoso; Chile, Ricardo Lagos; Ecuador, Sixto Durán Ballén; Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, and Dominican Republic, Hipólito Mejía, have joined the Declaration of Panama after its release last April 9. With these new signings, 31 Ibero-American former heads of State and Government have signed the document denouncing the situation suffered by Venezuela.
04.14.2015. 14.04.15.- Los expresidentes de Argentina, Fernando de la Rúa; de Brasil, Fernando H. Cardoso; de Chile, Ricardo Lagos; de Ecuador, Sixto Durán Ballén; de Panamá, Ricardo Martinelli, y de República Dominicana, Hipólito Mejía, se han sumado a la Declaración de Panamá tras su presentación el pasado 9 de abril. Con estas nuevas firmas, ya son 31 los exjefes de Estado y de Gobierno iberoamericanos que han rubricado el documento en el que denuncian la situación que sufre Venezuela.
04.14.2015. This April marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War and of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (by a twist of fate, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday of that year). Lincoln, the first president of the Republican Party, created four years earlier to oppose the expansion of slavery, came into office on March 4, 1861, after the secession, a few months before, of seven southern states from the Union. Four more would do the same in the following weeks. Lincoln was a classical liberal who understood that the moral values stated in the Declaration of Independence (life, liberty and property) are eternal and inviolable and precede the establishment of governments among men and make them possible, not the other way round. The denial of these rights to slaves in the South...
04.09.2015. The former Prime Minister of Spain and President of FAES Foundation, José María Aznar, has launched the Declaration of Panama, along with the former presidents of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana; of Mexico, Felipe Calderón; of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, and of Ecuador, Osvaldo Hurtado. During his address, Aznar said that it made him “very proud to think that 25 former presidents have agreed to defend freedom” and that “silence and inaction are complicit in the untenable situation in Venezuela”. In this regard, he stated that “neither my voice nor my will ever fail to support those who struggle for freedom and for the defence of their rights.” At the event, which took place in Panama City on the eve of the celebration of the VII Summit of the...
01.01.1995. Cuba hoy: la lenta muerte del castrismo. Con un preámbulo para españoles
