Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi
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Peruvian historian between worlds. Chola respondona. History Professor at UC-Santa Barbara & columnist in La República. Academic website: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mendez/. Opinión: https://larepublica.pe/autor/cecilia-mendez.
According to Hannah Arendt, to be human is to be part of a political community. We don’t think of it very often, maybe because we associate humanity mostly with charitable sentiments. But the biggest taboo is to recognize someone else's political rights. larepublica.pe/opinion/2025...,
August 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Facebook just suspended my account after I revealed Perú’s Army will manufacture arms for Elbit Systems, Israel’s company profiting from genocide and using Palestine as testing lab even though the news of the contract is on Elbit’s on web site. Please spread widely. Peruvian media is silent.
July 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
No one can be indifferent to the fate of occupied Palestine. Not just because of the horrific ongoing genocide. But because what is at stake is the very survival of international law. Brussels is the perpetuation of impunity for Israel/West. Bogotá, the path for accountability, the same law for all.
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Sobrevivirán sus mejores novelas, que desde mi punto de vista son las anteriores a 1980. Pero sus ideas de la “civilización occidental” y de la “democracia liberal” como faros para la humanidad han sido otra ficción, hoy sepultada bajo las ruinas de Gaza. larepublica.pe/opinion/2025...
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Fujimori pretende desmarcarse de Dinasesina. Pero es muy tarde. Conocemos el juego
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
March 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Mañana martes ¡panton frente al Palacio de Justicia!
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I have no words for this. No tengo palabras para esto… No las tengo.
February 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
What else can two criminals do when they meet to reach an agreement, if not to plot a crime? It is not just ethnic cleansing, as Francesca Albanese just said; it is incitement to force displacement, which is a crime in its own right. On top of genocide. And they will go as far as we let them…
February 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
My last column in La República. The current government of Peru is not a legitimate one. Congress has usurped functions it’s not entitled to. Article 46 of the Constitution grants civilians the right of insurgency. It must be used. larepublica.pe/opinion/2024...
December 22, 2024 at 4:58 PM