To humiliate means to make a person of any age, sex, origin or condition feel seriously humiliated as a being with attributes and rights to exist as such.

I’m not asking if it’s justified, which it should never be.

There are those who humiliate their partner and children in a family environment. The humiliated rarely take the attitude of “I won’t do it anymore (…)”, but either accept the abuse, for fear of further punishment, and/or react with violence, trying to harm those who attack them.

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In the collective, in the history of mankind, humiliation is a constant. The concentration camps of Nazism, the ghettos of the colored population, that is, the population with insignificant or minimal incomes are a reality.

It is condemned that in the United States of America, in recent months, cases of police treatment with practices of humiliating alleged perpetrators, which ended in the death of those deprived of their liberty because they suffered a heart attack, have multiplied. when receiving discharges with tasers – electric charge guns – and other humiliations, violence that carries the risks of rebellion of the black population, because it contains the majority of the dead and injured.

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In El Salvador before President Bukele – his government began in June 2019 – crime was rampant. He announced and is leading a government of deep repression against tens of thousands of Salvadorans, without showing that they are always criminals, who with that label are transferred to detention centers, generally incommunicado, where they can receive visits only exceptionally. They are beings who have no formal homes and roam the streets seeing what they do to survive – which is also visible in our cities and rural areas – they have to pay their families sums of money in order to be able to eat, dress and have clothes. otherwise they have no cleanliness as in those centers. There are shocking images in prison yards, beings in shorts and chains. They and their families forever humiliated.

Condemnation of humiliation is far beyond ideological, it is self-respect, let’s not forget that.

In Nicaragua it is a shame. In February 2023, 222 opponents of the Ortega dictatorship and his wife, including politicians, priests, students, activists and other dissidents, were sent to the United States. On February 16, the Court of Appeal in Managua sentenced them: “Order the loss of Nicaraguan citizenship for all accused”, referring to them and others “accused of treason”, such as Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was imprisoned in his home but refused to leave the country and was transferred to prison and sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Many countries have offered their citizenship to so-called stateless persons. Guillermo Lasso offered the Ecuadorian to writer Sergio Ramírez. The governments of Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Chile have made similar calls.

Condemnation of humiliation is far beyond ideological, it is self-respect, let’s not forget that. (OR)