The annual struggle for the $20 million has been unleashed once again in the United States. The funds allocated by Washington to finance Cuban dissidents are again being fought over, with this year’s confrontation portending to be more virulent than on other occasions.
Read MoreNo one really believes a person can disappear with the snap of a finger or through some illusion by David Copperfield. Yet everybody hopes that with the next snap, the missing person will reappear, even if wearing different clothes and in another place on the stage.
Read MoreFlorida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart claims his fellow Cuban-Americans are enjoying their freedom to visit family on the island way too much and are sending too much money to their relatives.
Read MoreSince the time of the French Revolution, politics has usually been classified in terms of left and right. In the 1990s, when doomsayers began to predict the end of everything — history, borders, geography and politics — they also predicted the end of that political classification.
Read MoreIf Cardenal Ortega expected some gratitude for his actions, he was mistaken. Almost from the beginning he was the target of attacks by the most radical members of the Cuban exile community and now Spanish politicians as well, who are using him for sparring in their domestic fights.
Read MoreSomeone told me that the sinister secret is that the original mixture of butter with water and shortening is whipped up in blenders to greatly increase the volume.
Read MoreEmptying prisons of political opponents who imply no real threat to the government and filling those facilities with corrupt bureaucrats who have been eating away at the nation from the inside seems the most sensible strategy for those attempting to save the system.
Read MoreI received his first drawings at the beginning of 2007. This was precisely in the middle of the “e-mail war” that shook the conscious of a sector of Cuban academia and public opinion, though unfortunately for only a brief time. Lazaro Saavedra (born in Havana in 1964 and graduated from the Superior Institute of Art in 1988) is a faithful exponent of the generation of visual artists of the 1980s.
Read MoreLast week I heard on the news that they are discussing the possibility of eliminating protective head guards for boxers in the 2012 London Olympic Games. The thinking is that this will make the event more exciting.
Read More“I used to stop traffic!” she said with pride, as she drew in the air those voluptuous curves of hers that had disappeared with age, the grief of misery and the tortures of schizophrenia.
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