An amnesty law in Cuba is not merely a political or legal objective: it is a moral obligation for those who embody courage and resistance against repression.
In Cuba, the official discourse of intolerance is directly intertwined with the dehumanization of those perceived as “others”, thus feeding a climate of political repression. This phenomenon is rooted in historical events that span more than six decades.
Most Latin American governments opt for silence before the atrocities in other regions, such as the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, either because of the 19th-century "self-determination of peoples" or the fear of being judged internationally by the same yardstick.
Coauthor André Bakker da Silveira
Seventy-five years on from the birth of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is astonishing to note that...