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Freedom to Choose: What We Really Know About School Vouchers

September 14, 2026

Whenever school vouchers enter the public debate, the discussion tends to fall into a false choice. Supporters often present them as the answer to everything that is wrong with education, while critics portray them as a threat to …

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Nicaragua: When Power Stops Persecuting the Opposition and Begins to Occupy Society

September 13, 2026

The announcement that there would be no more elections, the subsequent reversal to reintroduce them without opposition, and the reform that now strips nationality from those who hold another citizenship reveal a government that is…

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What Hannah Arendt Teaches Us About Revolution

September 8, 2026

In a recent discussion of On Revolution by Hannah Arendt, I found myself reflecting on how lessons from the Cold War era about the American Revolution can remain entirely relevant today, in the midst of the technological revolutio…

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Democracy in Panama: Between Institutional Formality and Pending Challenges

July 13, 2026

Democracy in Panama is often presented as one of the most significant achievements of its recent political history. Since the restoration of constitutional order in 1989, the country has built an institutional system that, at leas…

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The Democratic Struggle in Nicaragua: From Civic Protest to Structural Repression

July 6, 2026

The present article analyzes the evolution of the Nicaraguan democratic movement from the civic uprising of April 2018 to the consolidation of a regime of structural repression. It argues that a plural citizen mobilization, rooted…

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China and Its Ambition Toward Taiwan

June 11, 2026

Although China’s fixation with Taiwan dates back to 1949, after the Chinese Civil War between the communists led by Mao Zedong and the nationalists of the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek—when the communists were victorious a…

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Exceptionalism in Youth and a Magnanimous Local Spirit

May 27, 2026

At the beginning of the month, at an event in Xela, in western Guatemala, I was surprised as I listened to several young people talk about their projects. It wasn’t arrogance—it was something else. I paused to reflect on somet…

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Venezuela, between dawn and dusk

May 25, 2026

A good part of the epic episodes in the Chavista narrative have a common trigger: daybreak—perhaps because of the element of surprise, or perhaps because of the romanticism woven into the discourse. It was at dawn on February 4,…

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Migration, sovereignty, and human rights

February 17, 2026

How are human rights violations against Nicaraguan migrants manifested in the context of anti‑immigration policies, and to what extent are these actions compatible with the standards established by the jurisprudence of the Inter…

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Organized Crime in Latin America: When Illegality Replaces the State

January 19, 2026

Latin America has become one of the global epicenters of organized crime. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the region has the highest homicide rate on the planet, and nearly 30% of these are directly link…

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