In these days adjacent to July 26, the work of Fidel Castro, it is appropriate to reflect on the individual who profoundly influenced a large sector of the Cuban people, to the extreme, who destroyed the Republic and has put the nation at risk. His control over Cuban society can be classified as absolute. He…
On January 1, 1959, cheered by thousands of Cubans who fought to end the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Huber Matos triumphantly entered Havana. Nine months later, Commander Matos was sentenced to twenty years in prison. The fate of Camilo Cienfuegos would not be better, because on October 28, 1959,…
Fidel Castro was a legal opportunist. A fundamentalist of power and obviously an unscrupulous subject. His indisputable talent guided him to the conquest of Power and its conservation, in both projections he had a resounding success. He was the dean of Latin American dictators and the one who has governed the world the longest: 49…
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,…
Ernesto Laclau ―Argentinean philosopher closely linked to the governments of 21st century Socialism― in his book, Populist Reason, affirms that populism is a way of constructing the political. If we focus on Laclau’s definition, populism would be a way of granting identity to a social group, which we will call “people”, a carrier of all…
The late Castroist general Luis Alberto Rodríguez López Calleja was, perhaps, the subject who could have led Cuba in the transition from totalitarianism to post-totalitarianism, the objective of those who defend change so that everything remains the same. His ability to produce money was an attraction for his peers, the children and grandchildren of the…
The lies that Fidel told in his books and that Silvio sang in his songs could not explain or predict how the paradise revolution in the Caribbean had become an earthly hell. The protests of July 11, 2021, showed that Cuba was only perfect for revolutionary tourists from Europe and the United States, but not…
Roger Scruton (one of the most important conservative thinkers of the 20th century) explained, very precisely, the difference between politics and electoral babble. The first seeks, essentially, the preservation of order, the preservation of peace and the application of justice. The second is the lie brought to the polls. On the other hand, in his…
I had thought to analyze the difficult situation facing Ecuadorian democracy as a result of the chaos generated by the vigilantes of a false progress that only leads to the end of all citizen rights, when I learned about the sentences in Cuba of two young activists who only freely expressed your ideas. This situation…
