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After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, they wanted to convince us that from then on everything would be prosperity and democracy. However, those promises were erased and we live in a world burdened by militarism and the normalization of cruelty and violence.  

The major media outlets of the imperial powers continue to encourage young people to die in the name of the right to intervene in the affairs of other countries.  

The war in Ukraine should have been enough for us to return to the path of diplomacy in resolving differences. Instead, we are facing a new cycle of extermination in Palestine, with thousands of women, children, adolescents and young people massacred and stripped of their right to a State, a territory and the conditions required for the reproduction of a society and a people. . 

At the top of the planet's power, the interests of those who profit from the normalization of violence prevail, and the voices that criticize the abominable fact that young people kill other young people have been silenced, while the gun law violates respect for sovereignties and human dignity. 

To the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus and the assault on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador, is added the militarization of the Argentine southern cone thanks to the servility of a sociopathic president who wants to bring his country into NATO and thereby destroy Latin American integration.  

Through force and the crafty use of the law, neo-fascist conservatism persists in using force to stop discontent in the face of so many atrocities; Despite this, the voice of university youth is raised in many places rejecting war and for a world that respects life on the planet.

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Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Guatemalan-Mexican. PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and master's degree in the same discipline from Stanford University, where he has also been Tinker Professor, visiting researcher and affiliated researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies. He was visiting professor of the Education Abroad Program of the University of California in Mexico and collaborates as a guest lecturer in the Spanish Heritage, Continuing Studies programs and in the department of Spanish teaching at Stanford.
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