When America Was Great: Celebrating the Collective Effort to Defeat Fascism in Europe

When America Was Great: Celebrating the Collective Effort to Defeat Fascism in Europe

Wikimedia Commons (L-R) Franciscan Father Sixtus O’Connor. Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins. Andrew Jackson Higgins. COMMENTARY: All war is a defeat for humanity, but if there ever was a war with a just cause, it was World War II. Three men in particular embodied that cause.

In Chile we are facing those who relativize the crimes of the military regime, defend the fascist dictatorship, promote “the hard hand” and repressive, seek to violate social rights, aspire to deny rights to sexual diversity and women, want to arm civilians, and ultimately promote serious violations of the democratic and civilizing framework. Today the struggle for more democracy, for extension of rights, for social justice and economic equity, …