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EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Carlos Alberto Montaner was born in Havana in 1943 and has lived in Madrid since 1970. A former university professor, he is an acclaimed writer and journalist. His syndicated column appears in dozens of newspapers in the United States, Latin America and Spain.
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HIGHER LEARNING
The case against a ‘free’ education
What a hornet’s nest. I wrote that it seemed cynical for Chilean university students, adults who presumably are responsible, to insist that others pay for their education and, on top of that, to demand the shutdown of any profit-driven universities. A lot of people did not agree with me.
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BRAZIL PROTESTS
Brazil’s protesters sick of corruption
It’s an odd spectacle. Traditionally, Brazilians take to the streets only during Carnival. Now they do it to protest. What has happened?
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NATO
Colombia good fit for NATO
President Juan Manuel Santos proposes to bring Colombia into NATO, even if it is through the back door. I think it’s a responsible initiative.
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GOVERNANCE
Carlos Alberto Montaner: What’s a president good for?
Let’s face it: The greatest political problem in Latin America is the ever widening divorce between society and the state.
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VENEZUELA
In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s government hanging by a thread
In Venezuela, Iris Varela, minister of prisons, a young lawyer with fiery eyes and incendiary speech, has warned that she has already prepared the cell in which Henrique Capriles will be imprisoned. I believe her unreservedly.
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Lessons from the North Korea crisis
There are three lessons to be learned from what’s happening in the pitiful, totalitarian madhouse known as North Korea.
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