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The Pope, Marxism and a Murder

I want a Cuba without discrimination or exclusionary vetoes; one without monopolies of posttraumatic accompaniments, because the country belongs to everyone and should be for the good of all.

Listening to My Police

Since I come from a Catholic family, as a child I remember my mother telling me to always have my guardian angel accompanying me. Later I realized that, thanks to the revolution, my guardian angel had been transformed into a repressive police presence that wouldn’t let me express myself.

Cuba: What Do We Mean By Revolution?

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard and read the word revolution throughout my life. I don’t know how many slogans with the word “revolution” are batted around in school. But never until now have I wondered what exactly the revolution really is.

The Two Souls of Socialism

The justified popular rejection of the “socialist” model that existed in the USSR and Eastern Europe and its versions in China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba, is a reflection and cause of the loss of credit that the ideas of socialism as such have undergone.

He Who Could Speak of Love in Revolution Square

On Wednesday I watched the Mass officiated by his Holiness Benedict XVI on television. I confess that despite all the political tensions that the event caused (implicitly and explicitly), despite the rapidly deployed machinery of improvised tolerance and ecumenism, I felt a huge relief with respect to the tone of the speech.

The Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba

Many aspects caught my attention during the recent visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba. I was impressed by the warm welcome given to him by the people, who spontaneously came out to greet him along the route from Antonio Maceo Airport to his destination in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and two days later in his farewell in Havana en route to Jose Marti Airport.

Wrap Up on Pope’s Cuba Trip

The second papal visit to Cuba ended with no surprises. Benedict left no doubt about what the Catholic Church is betting on: For “lack of time” he didn’t meet with the Ladies in White or other dissidents, yet he found space on his agenda to see Fidel Castro. Benedict’s homilies in Cuba were so general that they could have applied to anywhere in the world. If something was emphasized, it was the need to promote spirituality and for the Catholic Church to expand into new social settings.

The Losers of a Havana Shanty

For many years, the issue of poverty and marginalization was taboo in Cuban social sciences. It was a theme that was incompatible with the triumphant political line of a revolution that had supposedly eliminated — forever — the scourge of social exclusion.

Pope’s Visit Could Promote Positive Trends

Everything done for reconciliation, respect for differences, love for one’s neighbor, protecting the helpless, fairness and social justice in Cuba is positive.

Drooling Over the Pope in Cuba

It’s no secret that many people’s mouths around the world are watering over the visit of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Cuba. But not all this is the result of delighted anticipation. And frankly, some of it is poisonous and violent slobber, though few mouth’s will cease to water.