Interviews with Rodrigo Diamanti

“A World Without Censorship” was inspired by international protests that “One Million Voices Against FARC” made two years ago. And when we saw that in one month, you can organize people around the world so easily, we did the same, and we make it. So, we got inspiration in that. We also get inspired by other older movements like [Mohandas] Gandhi´s movement in India and Martin Luther King here in the U.S.

Also, Lech Walesa in Poland, because all of them were nonviolent movements, and we believe in that. We believe in nonviolent methods because it’s the only way to respect the other side that you are fighting against. Because we are against a system but not against the people that are in the system.

Rodrigo Diamanti of Venezuela is president of “Un Mundo Sin Mordaza” (A World Without Censorship), a network that promotes freedom of speech in the Americas and around the world.

In 2007, Diamanti obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Andres Bello Catholic University of Caracas. Two years later he received a master’s degree in political studies from Complutense University in Madrid. He is a founding member of the Venezuela Student Movement of 2007, which works for free and fair elections, transparent governance, freedom of expression and association, and reconciliation in Venezuela.

Diamanti is a senior fellow of the Alliance of Youth Movements (Movements.org) and has lectured in Turkey, Spain, Mexico and the United States.