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HRW: “New Castro, Same Cuba”

Some hoped that the timid economic reforms announced by the “younger” Castro brother, when he assumed the official leadership of the geriatric regime, would constitute the opening salvos toward a more open and freer Cuba. However, a few of us spotted ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  18 Nov 2009

Have $795 to Spare? Want a Fancy Jacket Celebrating a Communist Murderer?

Update: It looks like J. Crew got some heat for the reference to Che Guevara, and renamed the jacket. However, my colleague Chris Moody found a screen shot of the page when it still mentioned the name of the bloody Latin American revolutionary. ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Che Guevara

Political Prisoners in Venezuela: Where Is the Organization of American States?

Unfortunately, despite stories and numerous reports from international media outlets and human rights groups, the Organization of American States—which has been very active in trying to reinstall Manuel Zelaya to the Honduran presidency—has remained ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Organization of American States,  Manuel Zelaya,  Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Opinion: Get serious about decriminalizing drugs; others are

materialize, Portugal's drug usage rates compare more favorably than many other European states that have kept up a strict "lock 'em up" approach. TIMOTHY LYNCH directs the Cato Institute"s Project on Criminal Justice. JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO is the ...

From TIMOTHY LYNCH AND JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO SPECIAL TO THE MERCURY NEWS, The San Jose Mercury News,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Cato Institute,  Mercury,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Michael Phelps,  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Honduras’ Interim Government Falls Into Zelaya’s Trap

Once again, and as a response to the return of deposed president Manuel Zelaya to Tegucigalpa, the interim government of Honduras has overreacted by decreeing a 45-day suspension of constitutional guarantees such as the freedom to move around the ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya

The Land Is There, the Cubans Are There, but the Incentives Are Not

At stake is an issue of incentives. Collective land doesn’t give farmers an incentive to work hard and be productive, since the benefits of their labor go to the government who distributes them (in theory) evenly among everyone, regardless of who ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  28 Sep 2009

The Return of the Boogie Man, Zelaya

Manuel Zelaya’s return to Honduras is clearly intended to disrupt that country’s presidential election scheduled for late November. The political campaign was taking place in a calm and orderly manner, in full accordance to Honduran law. Panama had ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

An Open and Honest Debate About Drug Policy in El Paso, Texas

Last January, the city council of El Paso, Texas, unanimously approved a resolution urging the federal government to support “an honest, open, national debate on ending the prohibition on narcotics.” Soon afterwards, the mayor of El Paso received a ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Costa Rican President Calls for New Constitution

President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica has joined the trend in Latin America of calling for a new constitution that would expand executive powers and get rid of “unnecessary checks” on the president’s authority. Although Arias has less than 9 months left ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  28 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Rafael Correa,  Manuel Zelaya

Argentina Decriminalizes Personal Drug Consumption

For those who might be concerned with the idea of an “activist judiciary,” the Court’s decision was based on a case brought by a 19 year-old who was arrested in the street for possession of two grams of marijuana. He was convicted and sentenced to a ...

From JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO, Cato@Liberty,  25 Aug 2009

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