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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi

@peruana.bsky.social
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Peruvian historian between worlds. Chola respondona. History Professor at UC-Santa Barbara & columnist in La República. Academic website: www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mendez. Opinión: larepublica.pe/autor/cecilia-mendez.

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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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...,
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“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...
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fujimori pretende desmarcarse de Dinasesina. Pero es muy tarde. Conocemos el juego
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mañana martes ¡panton frente al Palacio de Justicia!
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I have no words for this. No tengo palabras para esto… No las tengo.
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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…
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Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi @peruana.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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...
Columna 68, Artículo 46, 22 de diciembre, 2024
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