Etiqueta: Human rights
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«Promover la democracia»
En agosto de 2004, el Embajador presentó una estrategia de 5 puntos para guiar las actividades de la embajada en Venezuela. La estrategia incluye fortalecer instituciones democráticas, aislar a Chávez y apoyar a organizaciones de derechos humanos. USAID/OTI ha fortalecido más de 300 organizaciones y financiado proyectos sociales y derechos humanos, logrando visibilidad internacional.
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Myth, Morality, and Empire: Jorge Majfud’s Rewriting of the Western Frontier
Jorge Majfud’s «The Wild Frontier» critiques the ideological foundations of Western civilization using historical and philosophical analysis. It explores the concept of the frontier as both a geographic and psychological construct that legitimizes violence and exclusion. By engaging with critical theorists, Majfud reveals systemic moral contradictions in imperialistic narratives throughout history.
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Why is the genocide in Gaza similar to and different from so many others?
The defenders of the genocide in Palestine argue that it is not a genocide and, moreover, that there have been other genocides equal to or worse than this one in the recent past. From dehumanizing the victims massacred under bombs or executed daily with absolute impunity, they move on to threatening and criminalizing their critics.…
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La progresiva abolición de los derechos
Cuando éramos niños y adolescentes, trabajábamos casi todos los días. En mi caso (como en el de mi hermano y de la mayoría de nuesros compañeros de clase), colaborábamos en tareas rurales y citadinas, pero esta tradición siempre fue parte de la educación (y de la ética) familiar, sin que nunca hubiese sido una imposición…
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The Technology of Barbarism
Tecnología de la barbarie (Spanish) The Technology of Barbarism Uncle Caíto was about thirty years old when they took him in 1972. They said that he had collaborated with some Tupamaro guerrillas who were running loose in the countryside where he worked. I remember him as balding and with a big mustache. He still…
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The History of Immigration
The History of Immigration by Jorge Majfud One of the typical – correction: stereotypical – images of a Mexican has been, for more than a century, a short, drunk, trouble-maker of a man who, when not appearing with guitar in hand singing a corrido, was portrayed seated in the street taking a siesta under…
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The Illegitimate Constitution
Honduras IV: La constitución ilegítima The Illegitimate Constitution Jorge Majfud The dialectical dispute over the legality of the violent process of removal from office and expulsion from the country of the president of Honduras has not reached closure. Months ago we explained our point of view, according to which there was no violation of the…
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