In December 1989 (22 years ago!), the United States militarily attacked Panama. The purpose of the “mission” was the capture of Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian general involved in a major international drug trafficking operations.
Read MoreIn the vast majority of cases they’ve been raised in dirty, narrow pens with inappropriate feeding, suffering terrible temperatures and having been unable to play or socialize*, something they would really love.
Read MoreAfter several years of Cuba’s great “energy revolution,” the debts shouldered by the Cuban people to the government for the purchase the energy-efficient appliances are beginning to take their toll.
Read MoreWhen I’m out on the street, in the corner store, at the bus stop, standing in the line at the ice cream parlor, at the farmers markets, relaxing in any park, visiting f friends, sitting at a table sipping coffee at a cafe, in any of these places people speak in one voice using one recurrent phase: “This isn’t working anymore.”
Read MoreIt’s now a proven fact that all power has the property of growing like a snowball. But for a long time there have also existed ways to restrict this. Through the liberal approach, the solution lies in the separation of powers into the legislative, executive and judicial branches.
Read MoreI’ve been trying to end the year alternating between inevitable walks through the narrow streets of my city and reading a good book. In the latter case, the candidate I selected is From Germany to Germany, a book by Gunther Grass.
Read MoreA few days ago I was taken aback when a Spanish friend asked me: “How is it possible that the Cuban government — which for more than five decades has loudly proclaimed itself to be a defender of just causes around the world — allows a multinational like Nestlé onto the island?”
Read MoreI was going through adolescence when I became interested in the job of people who would read to workers in cigar factories as they rolled tobacco.
I had fallen into the net of passion for books and became convinced that it would be the best job anyone could have: spending the whole day reading…and getting paid for it.
On December 10, tens of thousands of Russian citizens flooded a Moscow square demanding transparency and fairness in the processing of the results of the last parliamentary elections.
Read MoreOn December 19, the oficial Granma newspaper published an anonymously written article with the sensational title “Crime Increasing Among US Youth.” This article stated that a third of the young people in that country had been arrested at some time.
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