In 1964, the U.S. consulate in Stanleyville was taken over by Congolese rebels of “Lumumbist” inspiration (associated with the African nationalist Patrice Lumumba), known as the Simba. For 111 days, they held hostages, only to be rescued in a joint U.S.-Belgian operation called Operation Dragon Rouge, in which the Cubans also participated
“They are the ones who killed RTV Marti. Trump just signed the death certificate”
The movie theater employees turned on the lights when the movie showed an American flag in a Western cowboy scene. And again, they turned them on when a ham came out, yes, a ham, because food was already scarce in 1961
Marxism weighs more on positive liberty and positive law. As such, the communist project, with its dependence on structural repression to achieve its ends, could be welcomed by Lenin, Mao, or Castro, but not by Martí or Lincoln
May God forgive me, the readers too, but doubt assails and invades me. Does Francisco sleep with a Bible under his pillow or with a copy of Capital or The Communist Manifesto?
Salinas has defended her constitutional rights as a mother to direct her children's education and oppose indoctrination, ideologization, Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, and the misrepresentation of the history of the United States and Cuba in public schools.
Trump, who, without a doubt, promoted and united the MAGA movement (Make America Great Again) throughout the country, is today the most popular figure of Republicans at the national level
They are socialists who live on capitalist money. They are activists who put on the clothes of anti-racism to amass fortunes.
Marco Rubio to MLB: Dodgers are not "inclusive and cordial" with Christians
It is not uncommon to find those who, to defend socialism, separate it from communism as if they were poles apart, or at least distant. “It is not the same” is his fragile shield, his childish justification of inevitable Marxist essence.
Bearing witness. Sacred labor of all creators. And even more so if we are concerned, as in the case of Osorio, with an artist of the unexpected. The countenances that captivate and obsess him are inevitable paths in the pursuit of responses to human behavior
Los sucesos del 11J podríamos definirlos como auténticamente contrarrevolucionarios. Y los son porque escapan a esos obligatorios relatos genésicos que suponen la Revolución cubana, a estas alturas un doble espectral que se invoca como consigna
¿Será que la gratitud por dádivas concedidas hace décadas es un cheque en blanco extendido a sus amos, para tener que aguantarles, sin chistar y aplaudiendo, todo lo malo que han hecho después y que es cada vez peor?
Este factor evalúa cuán eficaz es la justicia penal de un país, tomando en cuenta que se trata de un mecanismo para reparar agravios y entablar acciones legales contra las personas por delitos contra la sociedad
El mandato de silencio, justificado bajo la falacia de la intemporalidad política, ha inoculado la sospecha y la autocensura como prerrequisitos de supervivencia intelectual
En enero de 2016, para el rodaje de un documental de History Channel, Ozzy Osbourne estuvo seis días en La Habana
Durante años, el General y el reguetón fueron la encarnación de la música que me resultaba insoportable. Pero eso fue hasta que llegó el llamado reparto
Si hay cese del fuego, su futuro va a estar marcado por la convocatoria a elecciones, y sería importante para él seguir en detalle lo que hoy está pasando en la política interna de EEUU
Cuando ya no hubo peligro de que tiraran botellas, macetas o ladrillos, porque hasta los balcones y las azoteas de media Centro Habana estaban tomados por los represores, el Comandante se paseó orondo por el Malecón, para que sus aduladores crearan otro de sus mitos
A la entrada de aquellos recónditos campamentos, rodeados por alambradas de púas y vigilados por guardias con armas largas, letreros reminiscentes del que hubo en Aushwitz, proclamaban: “El trabajo os hará hombres”
Lo que está pasando en Colombia no es un asunto local, incumbe a las Américas y al mundo libre