7 Quotes & Sayings By Fernando A Torres

Fernando A. Torres is a Latin American Analyst, human rights activist, author, and lecturer. He is the founder of Axis Mundi Organization, an international non-profit organization focused on the understanding and development of the Central American culture, which was founded in Guatemala in 2011. Torres has published several books on contemporary Latin American issues including The Crisis of Democracy in Guatemala (Hurst & Co., 2010), The Struggle for Democracy in Central America (Hurst & Co., 2015) and The Silence of Violence (2011) Read more

He also co-authored two books with his brother, Rafael Torres: The Cholera Scourge (2001) and The Privatization of Guatemalan Water (2002). Torres has served as an advisor to the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) and IACHR's Special Rapporteur for Honduras. Torres is also a columnist for numerous publications including International Viewpoint (UK), El Diario (Guatemala), La Jornada (Mexico), Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina), Agencia Alemana de Noticias (Spain), Voz del Pueblo (Chile), Radio Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), La Verdad de Bolivia, Novedades de Bolivia y Bolivia Ahora! He is currently working on other books on the subject of human rights violations in Guatemala, economic development in Central America, US foreign policy towards Latin America, and US-Latin American relations.

One just voice is greater than an army.
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One just voice is greater than an army. Fernando A. Torres
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Ian looked skyward to see the firedrake soaring overhead. Its mass was a black deluge, an eclipse of aberrant origins, and its wings were tautly wound, like a spider’s web. Scales that shown like bejeweled armor glistened upon its body. Its tail crashed against the air; the storm surge of an impetuous sea. The shadow it cast was an aperture of dementia that ripped asunder the sanity of those who watched. Astride the beast’s spine, rode a figure that resembled a man, but with such grandeur at his disposal, appeared a living god. Fernando A. Torres
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To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming. Fernando A. Torres
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Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are. Fernando A. Torres
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Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed. Fernando A. Torres
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Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate. Fernando A. Torres