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Manuel Alcántara

Director of CIEPS - International Center for Political and Social Studies, AIP-Panama. Professor Emeritus at the University of Salamanca and UPB (Medellín). Latest books: "The profession of politician" (Tecnos Madrid, 2020) and "Traces of a tired democracy" (Océano Atlántico Editores, 2024).

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Of institutions and individuals: the unbearable cynicism of authority

In a culture that has as it's predicament the saying that "the habit makes the monk", the institution, as a set of rules, both formal and informal, that protects the actions of its top leaders has a not inconsiderable relevance.

Missing persons: the state’s responsibility

The maximum exponent of human evil was the Nazi terror that kept a meticulous record of its victims. Thirty years later, under the doctrine of national security, a new systematic effort, but without light or stenographers, brought the figure of forced disappearance to institutionalized repression in Latin America.

The gradual militarization of Latin American politics

The dismantling of the State in several countries, the precarious public administration and an underdeveloped civil service have opened up a space for the military who enjoy the greatest trust from presidents with a leadership vocation.

The enmeshed Catalan labyrinth

This is an independence project with policies that project xenophobic expressions against those who, supposedly, are not integrated into the organized community. A community that exclusively extols what is different on the basis of a constant manipulation of history.