Today has been a strange one. So much so that I’ve ended up thinking that the line between telling the truth and lying is as blurry as mythomaniacs believe. After all is said and done, if you pay attention to those self-help manuals, in which everything depends only on oneself, then why do we complain so much if the world is in our own hands?
Read MoreA few weeks ago I read an article published in Spanish only on several Cuban websites that referred to Havana Times. At first I felt compelled to write something in response, but in the end I thought it wouldn’t be worth the trouble.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke to his nation Thursday from Havana about his health situation after having a cancerous tumor removed in two operations. See the HT translation!
Read MoreThe 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.
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