On `Independence`: Catalonia, Kurdistan, North Korea and Latin America
(WorldNews Argentina)

Alessandro Biancchi: Self-determination of peoples and respect for the borders and sovereignty of a country. This is of the most complicated issue for international law. How can it be articulated for the case of Catalonia? Andre Vltchek: Personally, I´m not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining `independence´, remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. Clearly, the breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West, and particularly of Germany and Austria. The dissolution of...