Argentina
Argentina’s Progressive parties are no longer an alternative to the Kirchner government.
The recent support of the self-defined “progressive” sectors of the Argentine legislature for the nationalization of the majority share of YPF shows they are no longer an alternative to the Kirchner government, in political or economic terms.
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
08-05-2012 | Articles
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07-05-2012 | Statements
Request to the OAS to formally recognize the Cuban Civic Movement and reject Correa's proposal to invite Cuba to the Summit of the Americas
“the Cuban regime is excluding itself from the Organization, having failed to bring its internal norms into line with the Inter-American Democratic Charter”
04-04-2012 | Statements
Inscriptions open for 2012 Latin American Program of Academic Extension “José Ignacio García Hamilton”
With a total of 20 classes, the program is intended to students and recent graduates up to 25 years old with the aim of analyzing different aspects of the opening and development of Argentina and Latin America, specially those referred to the quality of democracy, economics and institutions, human rights and economic and sector policies. The program will take place from April 25 till October 3 - with a recess in July - during wednesdays afternoon at CADAL's headquarters, and offers attendants an attractive place for exchange with professors and students from other universities.
13-02-2012 | Statements
Diplomacy and Human Rights in Cuba. From the Black Spring to the liberation of the political prisoners
In the words of George Orwell, “one does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship”. That sentence, from his novel 1984 , published in 1949, was to prove true on a remote Caribbean island – Cuba – a decade later. At that moment, the first day of the year 1959, the world looked kindly on the feat of those bearded, idealistic boys, who had defeated the loathsome regime of Fulgencio Batista. (From the Prologue by Jorge Elías)
Por Gabriel C. Salvia
15-12-2011 | Books
Unjustified delay in the publication of the Detailed Memory of the state of the Nation in Argentina
The Detailed Memory of the state of the Nation of Argentina is a document of 500 pages and the most relevant publication where the ministries and secretaries dependent of the Executive Branch account for their actions. The Memory is sent by the Executive Branch to the Congress on March 1, each year in coincidence witht he opening sessions of both chambers.
10-03-2011 | Statements
Zapata Tamayo remembered in front of Buenos Aires’ Obelisco (read it in Spanish)
23-02-2011 | Statements
Participation in the acknowledgement of the magistrates who judged the military dictatorship Junta (read it in Spanish)
The Federal Senate, by initiative of Senator Norma Morandini, gave on Wednesday, December 22 the honorable mention “Senador Domingo Faustino Sarmiento” and the medal of the Bicentenary to the members of the National Chamber of Crime Appeals of Buenos Aires who were in charge of the judgment of the Military Juntas 25 years ago. Through Hernán Alberro, CADAL and Red Puente Democrático Latinoamericano were present in such an important act.
22-12-2010 | Statements
Declaration in support of political opening in Cuba (read it in Spanish)
The undersigned, members of civil society organizations from Ibero-American, consider that the liberation of political prisoners that is taking place in Cuba is an opportunity for that government to give way to guaranties of a democratic system and for opening the freedom of speech of its people.
03-12-2010 | Statements
The Day Mr. K died
International customs, Buenos Aires airport, Argentina, noon, october 27. I turn on my cell phone and the message "Kirchner dead" appears. It takes me a while to fully grasp it, and when I do, I look around and begin to feel a mixture of tense calm and bewilderment among the customs officials. A lot of things run through my head during these minutes. It had been a long time since I had felt this particular sense of contained crisis that I have experienced so many times in this country.
Por Raúl Ferro
03-11-2010 | Articles
CADAL proposes the Cuban disident Guillermo Fariñas to the International Award of Human Rights Emilio F. Mignone
Emilio Mignone heroically fought together with few people against the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), while the Cuban regime helped dictator Jorge Rafael Videa to block the resolution condemning Argentina in Geneva for human rights violation. This is why, what better way to make a homage to Mignone than to award someone who is currently facing in a peacefull and brave manner a totalitarian regime that is still in power since more than half a century and which government was a known accomplice of the Argentine military dictatorship.
13-08-2010 | Statements
CADAL proposes the Cuban disident Guillermo Fariñas to the International Award of Human Rights Emilio F. Mignone
Emilio Mignone heroically fought together with few people against the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), while the Cuban regime helped dictator Jorge Rafael Videa to block the resolution condemning Argentina in Geneva for human rights violation. This is why, what better way to make a homage to Mignone than to award someone who is currently facing in a peacefull and brave manner a totalitarian regime that is still in power since more than half a century and which government was a known accomplice of the Argentine military dictatorship.
13-08-2010 | Statements
Claim of political opening in Cuba after the announcement of the release of political prisoners
The initiative arosed after the recent announcement of the release of political prisoners in Cuba and for considering this fact as an opportunity to ask again the government of that country "to give way to the guarantees of a democratic system and open the flows of expression of its people". In that sense, the Declaration states that a first step would be "that the Cuban government recognize the right to freedom of association and expression in its country, erasing the legal dispositions that restrict and oppress the excercise of those fundamental rights".
03-08-2010 | Statements
Claim of political opening in Cuba after the announcement of the release of political prisoners
The initiative arosed after the recent announcement of the release of political prisoners in Cuba and for considering this fact as an opportunity to ask again the government of that country "to give way to the guarantees of a democratic system and open the flows of expression of its people". In that sense, the Declaration states that a first step would be "that the Cuban government recognize the right to freedom of association and expression in its country, erasing the legal dispositions that restrict and oppress the excercise of those fundamental rights".
03-08-2010 | Statements
Letter to Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman with recommendations of foreign policy and human rights
CADAL presented Minister Timerman with eight recommendations of foreign policy and human rights, oriented to the fulfillment of the first of the strategic foreign policy objectives of Argentina. On this regard, CADAL stated that the Argentine Minister that these initiatives are absolutely in accordance with the article he published and signed on January 23, 2004 in the magazine Debate where he was the director: "The past of Argentina puts us on the obligation of excercizing a role of leadership that very few countries can try to occupy. For instance, in the struggle agains human rights violations and in the active solidarity with those opressed. Since we have been victims we must not forget the current victims".
29-07-2010 | Statements
Economic-Institutional Alert: Moreno bites his tail
The persistent fall of Argentine exports has its origin in the duality of conception set by the economic model in function: high dollar or protection of "Argentine's table" or, from another point of view, exportation or consumption.
26-07-2010 | Statements
Andres Canizalez of Venezuela Awarded Titus Brandsma Award 2010
More than 1900 entries and candidates were submitted for 8 categories of awards. The jury members highly appreciated the quality of award entries and candidates. The prestigious Titus Brandsma Award will be conferred upon Professor Canzalez at the UCIP World Congress to be held at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 12 to 19 September 2010. Andrés Cañizalez is journalist and university professor in Venezuela. He is member of the Academic Council of CADAL, and participated in different events in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
19-07-2010 | Statements
New addresses of CADAL in Buenos Aires and Montevideo
As of July 1, the new office of CADAL in Buenos Aires is at Reconquista
1056 piso 11 B, two blocks away from train and metro stop Retiro. Also, since June 1, CADAL has a new office in Montevideo, Uruguay. The office is at Yaguarón 1407 piso 4º, in the Edificio de los Profesionales, a block away from the tradition Avenue 18 de Julio.
01-07-2010 | Statements
2010 Award to Democratic Opening in Cuba
In its first edition, Red Puente Democratico Latinoamericano appointed its member institute in Chile, Corporación Justicia y Democracia, to form a jury to give this award. In this sense, the jury formed by Patricio Aylwin, Soledad Alvear, Lourdes Flores and Patricio Walker decided to give the 2010 Award to Democratic Opening in Cuba to "Varela Project".
10-05-2010 | Statements
Red Puente Democrático Latinoamericano awarded Omar Rodríguez Saludes, Ricardo González Alfonso and Guillermo Fariñas with the 2010 Award to Freedom of Expression in Cuba
The Cuban government is a declared enemy of free speech. To exercise it in the island implies being brave and assuming huge risks. To highlight the work to the Cubans that, in spite of the big obstacles, try to express themselves freely and allow their fellow citizens to have access to independent information and opinions, Red Puente Democrático Latinoamericano (Latin American Democratic Bridge Network) has created the Award to Freedom of Expression in Cuba.
03-05-2010 | Statements
CADAL is registered in the OAS
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) aproved approved in its session of April 28, 2010, the request by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) of becoming a registered civil society organization before OAS, following the rules adopted by resolution CP/RES 759 for that purpose.
28-04-2010 | Statements
CADAL on Facebook
In the search of reaching a bigger audience and adding new channels of communication and promotion, the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) launched its Facebook page, the biggest social network in the world. http://www.facebook.com/cadal.org
16-04-2010 | Statements
The exercise of rights is no crime. Claim for the liberation of all the political prisoners in Cuba (read it in Spanish)
Democracy will not be consolidated in Latin America so long as, with the indulgence of governments and entities of the region, there remains in existence in Cuba a one party regime who believes that the exercise of rights can be considered a crime.
18-03-2010 | Statements
Unprecedented claim on human rights in Cuba
At CADAL we are convinced that the permanence of a dictatorship in Cuba, without firm claims of political opening, set a democratic limit to Latin America; and we also consider that this claim has to be led by people with a long history in the defense of democracy and human rights.
18-03-2010 | Statements
SCOs claims to UN High Commissioner
CADAL's head signed with other SCOs managers a request for the UN High Commissioner, to claim the Cuban government to allow human rights activist Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina to travel to attend to the 2nd Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy in Geneva.
03-03-2010 | Statements
Indignation for the death of Cuban prisoner of concience Orlando Zapata Tamayo
23-02-2010 | Statements
2nd annual session of the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy
01-02-2010 | Statements
2nd annual session of the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy
01-02-2010 | Statements
New claim of acknowledgement of the civic movement in Cuba
The claim to the Foreign Departments of different Latin American countries carries the signature of the representatives of the civil societies organizations before the Red Puente Democratico Latino Cuba: Carlos Bascuñán, Corporación Justicia y Democracia – Chile; Héctor Leis, Instituto Millenium – Brazil; Lázaro Ramírez, Unión Colombiana de Jóvenes Demócratas (UCJD) – Colombia; César Ricaurte, Fundación Andina para la Observación y Estudio de Medios (Fundamedios) – Ecuador; Gabriel Salvia, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (CADAL) - Argentina/Uruguay; Heinz Sonntag, Observatorio Hannah Arendt – Venezuela; Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao, Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de Expresión (IPLEX) - Costa Rica; y Jorge Villena, Instituto Peruano de Economía Social de Mercado (IPESM) – Peru.
21-12-2009 | Statements
New claim of acknowledgement of the civic movement in Cuba
The claim to the Foreign Departments of different Latin American countries carries the signature of the representatives of the civil societies organizations before the Red Puente Democratico Latino Cuba: Carlos Bascuñán, Corporación Justicia y Democracia – Chile; Héctor Leis, Instituto Millenium – Brazil; Lázaro Ramírez, Unión Colombiana de Jóvenes Demócratas (UCJD) – Colombia; César Ricaurte, Fundación Andina para la Observación y Estudio de Medios (Fundamedios) – Ecuador; Gabriel Salvia, Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (CADAL) - Argentina/Uruguay; Heinz Sonntag, Observatorio Hannah Arendt – Venezuela; Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao, Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de Expresión (IPLEX) - Costa Rica; y Jorge Villena, Instituto Peruano de Economía Social de Mercado (IPESM) – Peru.
21-12-2009 | Statements
Participation in meeting with Professor Theo van Boven
Invited by the ambassador of Netherland, S.E. Henk J.W. Soeters, the chariman of CADAL, Gabriel C. Salvia, attended to the reception in hommage to Theo van Boven, prestigious international jurist and human rights supporter, decorated by the authorities of Argentine Foreign Department with "Orden del Libertador San Martín" and by the Law College at Universidad de Buenos Aires with the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa”.
24-11-2009 | Statements
CADAL cellebrates 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Representative officer from Poland, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Romania remembered the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall during the Foro Latino Global 2009, in a panel on "Democratic governance, institutional quality and economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe". At his time, Ricardo López Göttig, Director of the Academic Council of CADAL; writer Marcos Aguinis; Congressman and former Prime Minister of Peru, Jorge Del Castillo; and Christopher Sabatini, Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly - Senior Director of Policy Americas Society/Council of the Americas, referred to “Latin America 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall”.
13-11-2009 | Statements
CADAL supports the declaration of Robert Cox as distinguished citizen of Buenos Aires
Undoubtedly, the initiative of Representative Abrevaya is very laudable, since Robert Cox was an emblematic figure denouncing the abuses during the last Argentine military dictatorship and besides he represents a great example of intellectual honesty in the defense of Human Rights. It would be a good thing if Human Rights referrents in Argentina followed Bob Cox's example.
02-11-2009 | Statements
CADAL supports the declaration of Robert Cox as distinguished citizen of Buenos Aires
Undoubtedly, the initiative of Representative Abrevaya is very laudable, since Robert Cox was an emblematic figure denouncing the abuses during the last Argentine military dictatorship and besides he represents a great example of intellectual honesty in the defense of Human Rights. It would be a good thing if Human Rights referrents in Argentina followed Bob Cox's example.
02-11-2009 | Statements
Perspectiva Magazine distributed during International Day of Climate Action
The participants to the conference received a copy of the last number of Perspectiva Magazine, dedicated to “Alternative energies”. This new issue of Perspectiva highlights the importance of hidrocarbons and the development of cleaner energy sources.
23-10-2009 | Statements
Social Latin American personalities claim for opening in Cuba
Fifty social personalities from Latin America have just subscribe the Declaration in Support of Freedom of Association and Speech in Cuba, taking into account that “the recent decision of OAS to leave without effect the suspension of Cuba is a chance to ask the government of that country to give way to the guaranties of a democratic system and open the channels of expression of its people”. The signatures of the Declaration are headed by Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile and Chairman of Corporación Justicia y Democracia.
02-09-2009 | Statements
