The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.