Elio Delgado-Legon’s Diary

It’s absurd to question Nicolas Maduro’s leadership as Venezuela’s constitutional president. He was elected into office again after winning over 67% of the vote in general elections held on May 20, 2018. It’s shameful that a group of countries who march to the beat of Washington’s drum are recognizing a member of a National Assembly as the president of Venezuela,

I recently read a comment written by one of those people who try to give the Empire a helping hand in its mission to do away with the Cuban Revolution, and the person said that the Cuban Communist Party was above the Constitution and the Law. Nothing could be more absurd, malicious and further away from the truth.

The Cuban people have just celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Revolution. The road here has been rough and bumpy, and we have had to navigate many obstacles that US Imperialism has placed in our way to make the project fail. We have a free and independent country, which continues to be a reference for every revolutionary in the world…

After 150 years of struggle and great sacrifice, the Cuban Revolution has managed to make our heroes’ dreams come true as of January 1, 1959 and it continues to be present in the vast majority of Cubans’ minds because it is a people’s revolution for the people, which means we can confidently say that Cuba continues to be a country living in revolution.

Every Cuban doctor on their way back from Brazil has been overcome by two extremely antagonistic emotions: joy and sadness. They had worked in the Mais Medicos program started by former president Dilma Rousseff in poor rural and urban areas of the South American country.

In Brazil’s recent elections, the people had the opportunity to choose between a well-known politician, who would follow in the political footsteps of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, and another politician who has become well-known as a supporter of Brazil’s fascist dictatorship of the past and an enemy of the Black population, women, homosexuals, in short anyone belonging to Brazil’s poorer classes.

Cuba is a small archipelago in the Caribbean, which the world hardly spoke of before 1959. It was one of the poorest, most underdeveloped, illiterate and unhealthy countries in the world, which was only any good for foreign agricultural companies (mostly US) for 60 years, who made great profits at the expense of Cuban peasants’ hunger and misery.

The 26th edition of the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival in Havana took place from October 28th until November 6th, a biennial event that gathers a large number of companies and the world’s best principal dancers of this classical dance.

The absence of truth, and going one step further, repeating lies so as to change attitudes of the masses, isn’t only used in warfare. Lies are also used in politics (I’m referring to Capitalism’s dirty politics) as a powerful weapon to morally discredit the adversary and to reap the resulting political returns.

Not too long ago, I went to visit the family of a friend who had passed away recently. From what I saw and was told, I concluded that life in our country’s countryside has changed greatly over the past 60 years, ever since the Revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959. So much so that the difference between countryside and city is now only ever so slight.