Martin Guevara

I remember how the children of those who had requested to leave Cuba for the United States, were treated. They were happy children, classmates, friends, who became sad and introverted overnight. Teachers used to call them by the semi-epithet “kid of a worm”.

Well, one era has come to an end, the US people have spoken and chosen Trump as their new president and he has now taken office. Anything else is just nostalgia. It may not be a reason to rejoice but it’s not a reason to fall into a deep depression either.

The things you can read and hear these days overstep absolute craziness and border on the edge of a story that no human mind could have conjured, even if it were losing all of its screws.

Under the “socialist” or “communist” euphemism, the only thing that has grown is weeds. There aren’t any countries more violent, more materialistic, less caring, where Utopia has less of a place than in these medieval lands with poetic virtue.

Every time peace is sullied for some reason it normally means humanitarian and universal failure. However, in the case of the people of Colombia, there are several factors that have led them to not want to be manipulated.

With a skillful juggling act, Raul Castro, president of Cuba and the Cuban Army’s Chief for decades, surprises us with a new facet of his, presenting himself as a leader and guardian of peace in Colombia.

Today we celebrate or suffer, according to how you want to look at it, the 63rd anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks of July 26, 1953.

Just like that, as if they weren’t telling us something historic, the President, brother of our former President and the father or uncle of our future Presidents, kings and princes, steps up to any old podium and announces…

Sometimes, in order to give some kind of idea as to why there are so few uprisings in leftist dictatorships, I refer to the parallels that exist between Church power in medieval times and political systems that are mistakingly called “socialist”.