[Opinion] Afiuni: The Price of Law Enforcement

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It would be immoral to resign to frustrating determinisms, but it would also be foolish to ignore the reasons why they may have succeeded in the collective imagination, especially as labels that supposedly define a nation. Such is the case of a deplorable verdict that persecutes Cuba since its colonial era: “Here the law is enforced, but it is not enforced.” Often cited with a jockey intention, it does not sweeten it. The post Is the law respect…

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By: Carolina Jaimes Branger The entry #OPINION Afiuni: the price of enforcing the law #10Aug was first published in El Impulso.

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There are stories that end up belonging to an entire country. María Lourdes Afiuni’s is one of them. Years have passed and, however, it is enough to pronounce her surname so that Venezuelans remember one of the most painful - and especially most shameful - episodes of our republican history. Not because a judge has gone to prison, but because we all understood that, from that moment on, Venezuelan justice had died. Afiuni did what a judge is obl…