Algún día la nación cubana formará un nuevo gobierno para el estado cubano. Sin embargo, el éxito de una república libre depende de las virtudes cívicas de su nación. Mi ilusión para Cuba sigue siendo la de un Estado-nación de tolerancia, amabilidad, respeto, humildad, gratitud, honor, industria, coraje, fidelidad y más. Pero algunos días me parece un espejismo.
Some day the Cuban nation will form a new government for the Cuban state. Yet, the success of a free republic hinges on the civic virtues of its nation. My illusion for Cuba remains one of a nation-state of tolerance, kindness, respect, humility, gratitude, honor, industry, courage, fidelity, and more. But somedays it feels more like a delusion.
We must understand that today the axis of political and social confrontation in Bolivia is neither ideological, nor regional, nor racial, nor generational. The axis of confrontation is “the dictatorship, the narco-state, and Castrochavism” against “democracy, the Republic, and the Bolivian nation”. It boils down to a “an existential confrontation” whose result will be either the consolidation of the dictatorship as a satellite of the Transnational Organized Crime which is Castrochavism, or to give back democratic and republican freedom based on the Bolivian nation as an expression of unity in diversity. It is the dilemma of either turning Bolivia into a Cuba or a Venezuela, or to be free, independent, and sovereign.
