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Cuba’s Eternal “Revolutionaries”

It’s characteristic of Cubans to end something & do it all over again differently, rather than be interested in slow and systematic progress.

Cubans have never stopped voting in referendums they aren’t called to, trying to escape poverty however possible.

Who among those who love them doesn’t owe them something: their job, their wealth, the empty epaulettes on their General’s uniform?

The residents of Nuevitas, Camagüey, once again showed civic muscle by chanting “freedom” and “the people united will never be defeated.”

An “open and sincere dialogue” as Pope Francis suggests is only possible without political prisoners and the current repressive police state.

Once again, the lyrics seem well written, but then, as in so many other times, the music is out of tune. What a pity.

We woke this Sunday and the value of the US dollar and MLC (on magnetic cards) has risen to 140 Cuban pesos.

The social contract has collapsed in Nicaragua, replaced by a forcefully imposed “agreement under the boot.”

This new Constitution, if approved, will be a toolbox to undo the patriarchy in Chile, and not only in its many types of violence against women…

There is no victory in Matanzas, just a fiasco. The results speak for themselves. At least 17 people dead and over 120 people injured…