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Mauricio Garcia Villegas
Mauricio García Villegas is a Professor of Law at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a regular columnist for El Espectador, Colombia.
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Democracy’s Apostates
The inauguration of Joe Biden can be understood as the Solemn High Mass of democracy’s civil religion after Trump had tried to destroy it. Continue reading »
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Can Biden deal with greatness, or white supremacy?
Biden’s political victory in the Presidential elections is only half the story. He now has the challenge of convincing almost half the American population that nostalgia for some mythical greatness based on white supremacy and religiosity is not in their best interests. The Spanish civil war.. can be understood, as the moral and military confrontation Continue reading »
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MAURICIO GARCÍA VILLEGAS. Levelling the Playing Field
The millions of people protesting in different Latin American countries have a variety of complaints. A main one in Chile and Colombia, is the lack of equality of opportunity which is normally provided by good public education. In those countries, the rich are educated in well-resourced private schools while the poor are sent to second Continue reading »
