Diaries

Reflections on Selfishness

Fidel Castro’s return to the Cuban television screen generated almost as much interest as the issue he was raising there: the imminence of war in Iran. The matter had to be very serious for him to interrupt his reclusive and prolonged retirement.

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Paradoxes of the State

Imagine yourself invigorated amid of deafening cheers of hundreds of children reveling in the comedy of a sea lion dancing to reggaeton, when suddenly…poof, at a lift of your head, there you spot the all-seeing eyeball of our “Lord of the rings”!

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The Benign State

Suddenly, the same State —that has imprisoned people for writing what they think, that doesn’t recognize its political prisoners, that shows itself irreversible in its policy against dissidents— has shown signs of extreme “kindness” and has left everyone speechless.

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My Luck of the Draw

Fortunately, my cement-block house was —like the third pig in the fairy tale— able to stand up to the huffing and puffing of our own big bad wolf. My uncle’s wooden place, however, almost fell down on him.

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Should Kids Be Told the Truth?

I never realized —until today— that the whole thing was a plot cooked up by my grandfather. It was all far from my understanding as a young, innocent and basically good kid that this was a war against the story of “Papa at night.”

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The Mind Counterattacks

I also start from the point that that we can only perceive something from its counterpart, from its difference. Being identical to something, we cannot distinguish it by ourselves as observers, and consequently we can never “see” it.

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Down Syndrome Project Awarded

The father commented with pain to the public that “the initiative is in a difficult situation” because the center’s locale “is in total disrepair and for months they haven’t been able to do anything.”

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