Marcus Golding

In the previous entry I had the opportunity to analyze the institutional decay of the Roman Republic in the last century BC, and the emergence of a new order, the Principate. It was a convoluted period that saw the demise of one of the finest generations of Roman statesmen and public servants, and the end of the Free State. Under the transition towards the new regime (31 BC-14 AD), Rome regained political stability, economic prosperity and expanded towards new territories. Pe

The tyrant? The statesman? The warlord? The monarchist? These are the questions that pop up in my mind most of the time when in my readings about Rome I confront his presence. I cannot lie; I am a big admirer of the Roman Republic to the point that sometimes I make the mistake of idealizing it too much. When I think about the Western Civilization I cannot stop thinking about how much it owes to one of its parents: The Greco-Roman Civilization. The roots of our republics lie t

Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez Memory is not simply a way to remember and understand a determined event in the history of a country.  Many times its repercussions don’t know boundaries. For example, understanding the Nazi regime from a national perspective blinds us to many of the atrocities committed beyond Germany.  In the same way the active involvement of Chilean exiled knew no limits when it was about denouncing and confronting the abuses of the dictatorship. As part