The protests of July 11, 2021, were a glorious feat for all of us who reject the totalitarian Castro regime. A bravery that to a certain extent neutralizes the criticism that some make about what they describe as the extreme passivity of the Cuban people in the face of an iron dictatorship, an unpleasant saying,…
In the 2001 novel The Constant Gardener, author John le Carré answers the question What is a failed state?: I allow myself to suggest to you that, these days, broadly speaking, the requirements to be a civilized State are equivalent to electoral suffrage, the protection of life and property, justice, health and education for all,…
Petro’s experiment in Colombia will go terribly wrong. Mario Vargas Llosa has said it clearly. Colombians voted wrong. Also the Peruvians, and the Argentines and the Mexicans. Voting for the worst option is within everyone’s reach. Mario is an excellent writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2010, but he is not the Oracle of…
The 11th of July of 2021 (11-J) people peacefully took to the streets of Cuba with the chant of “freedom”, proclaiming the failure of the 62-year-old dictatorship, clamoring “down with communism” and pouring out their desperation due to the lack of food, medicines, and hope with the outcry “we are not afraid”. The regime’s response…
