Month: August 2018

Remedy for Stress

I have read that “Stress is the health epidemic of the 21st century,” on more than one occasion. It’s so bad for you that it can trigger many other diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, stomach ulcers, muscular aches and pains and even death.

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Is Cojimar Still a Fishing Town?

I have always heard people say that Cojimar is a fishing town because of its geographical location and how some of its residents used to make a living. But, is this still a valid hypothesis?

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Ortega’s Lie about Nicaragua Returning to “Normal”

In interviews with foreign media, Daniel Ortega has declared that the country is returning to “normal”. His contradictions compete with those of Donald Trump. The only difference being that here, in our case, he is lying about deaths, about the blood spilled of over 300 Nicaraguan citizens and the arrest, persecution and unfair trial of hundreds.

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OAS Permanent Council Meets on Nicaragua (Live)

Today the permanent commission of the OAS meets to discuss the situation in Nicaragua and proposals for action by the organization. At 10:30 ET, the Council announced that at the resquest of the countries presenting a resolution, the meeting time has been changed to 2:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. in Nicaragua).

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Havana, Cuba Weather for August 2-8

The hot days will be a little cloudy in the morning and partly cloudy in the afternoons with some isolated showers towards the south of the capital. The maximum temperatures will be 32 and 33° C (90 and 91 F), while the lows at 23 and 24° C (73 and 75 F). The sea surface temperature will remain at 29° C (84 F).

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Nineteen Reasons Why Ortega Must Go

Daniel Ortega paints his leadership and government as a champion of the Latin America Left standing up to an onslaught of US imperialism and international and local capitalism, just like the situation during the war against the US backed “Contras” in the 1980s.

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People Who Can’t See Past Their Nostalgia

Over time, we have discovered that international defenders of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, who belong to an outdated Left, aren’t analyzing the situation in Nicaragua as Marxists, but through their prism of nostalgia for a revolution which ceased to exist many years ago.

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Same-Sex Marriage: a False Move

The LGBTQI community has insisted on joining an archaic institution which they were never really excluded from. They have preferred to do this instead of being the avant-garde of the struggle for a real freedom to love, thereby falling into a trap…

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