Chavez and then later Maduro both had a golden opportunity to unite every socio-economic sector in Venezuela, from the most pro-government to the most opposing, to really grow into a power like Bolivar had dreamed: a power of happiness and progress.
Read MoreI don’t see the solution to all our problems in voting NO, but it is an opportunity for us to practice something healthy and, therefore, necessary: reclaiming our responsibility in the country’s evolution and becoming aware that the Government isn’t who decides the Cuban people’s fate.
Read MoreIt’s worth remembering that Article 68, which if approved would have allowed same-sex marriage in Cuba, sparked the most debate in neighborhood meetings to discuss the draft Constitution before the final draft, to be voted on in a referendum on February 24, was approved by the National Assembly. It’s also worth pointing out the fact that it was written in mumbo jumbo.
Read MoreIn the future, in the new Nicaragua that we so long for, we need to unravel and clearly define the responsibilities of each person who has been an accomplice and perpetrator of the wave of repression, and who has helped to maintain this dictatorship. They need to be tried in court, if necessary, to stop them from regaining power and cynically laughing in our faces, again.
Read MoreFriends and acquaintances have been asking me: “Will you vote NO?”, as if it were a trivial question, because they already assume I will. Even the State Security agent who “deals with us” (without us asking for his attention), paid us a visit to remind us that they wouldn’t allow any kind of protest relating to this clumsy show of a constitutional referendum.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega and Robert Mugabe share a lot of similarities, but also some profound differences. History has now buried Mugabe, while Ortega continues clinging to power, squandering all his political capital and eroding his personal image.
Read MoreIn a little less than 40 days Cubans will be voting on the constitutional referendum that is being debated throughout the country and on social networks — an authentic and silent duel pitting those who will vote Yes and those who favor the No.
Read MoreWithout truth there is a “pact” and a shady deal in a dark room, mutual forgiveness and a convenient oblivion. Without truth there is cynicism, and what there always is, a recycling of all the culprits, who then, when another one appears, can even boast of being noble and integral people, to whom nobody, never, “could prove him anything.”
Read MoreThe crisis that Cuba is suffering today is far too serious to be overcome with superficial changes. “Continuity” is the road that has been traced by Communist leaders, with the basic changes needed to adapt the situation to this historic changing of the guard.
The reaction has been immediate: the population with the means to do so is fleeing en masse…
Morales wants to install a dictatorial power opposing other powers of the State (the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor’s Office), Ortega has a consolidated dictatorship, although tottering. Their modus operandi unite them, above and below their supposed ideological differences.
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