Archive | Otros Idiomas
Maduro Continues to Be a Danger for Everyone
by Carlos Alberto Montaner Maduro changed course. The country’s Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Díaz, facilitated it on a silver platter. Surely it was prearranged. First, Nicolás Maduro eliminated any vestige of democracy in Venezuela. His hitmen in the Supreme Court of Justice took care of it by assuming all the duties of the National Assembly. […]
Open letter to President Donald Trump
By Manuel Castro Rodriguez U. S. President Donald Trump, I am a Cuban exile. The rest of my life I will be grateful to the United States for it has literally saved my life, because I am a human rights activist thatdenounce to the communist regime that continues to deny freedom to the Cuban people.
The Ecuadoreans are gambling with their freedom
By Carlos Alberto Montaner They are five: Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. That’s the main nucleus of the 21st-Century Socialism countries. They have different economic structures and their governments manage the productive apparatus in diverse ways, but their rulers coincide on an essential aspect: they attained power so they could keep it permanently. Alternation […]
Rafael Correa and the populist syndrome
By Carlos Alberto Montaner On May 24, Rafael Correa will leave the presidency of Ecuador. Not long now. Don’t despair. I understand; the wait has been long and painful. He has spent a decade in power. On that day, whoever wins the April 2 runoff will take over government. If the opposition democrats remain united, […]
Palestine and the inevitability of two states
By Carlos Alberto Montaner President Donald Trump does well in backing Israel, but he shouldn’t dismiss the idea of the creation of a Palestinian state. Washington’s support has increased with each administration in the White House. That is morally just and politically convenient. After all, the Jewish state is the only existing democracy in that […]
Europe is terrified
By Carlos Alberto Montaner MADRID — Europe is terrified by Donald Trump’s triumph. She fears the vision of the American friend, the primus inter pares. That fact has just been revealed by a macrosurvey by the French pollster Ipsos, which conducted it in 24 nations through interviews with 18,000 people. Ipsos is the largest European […]
Donald Trump in the White House
By Carlos Alberto Montaner Donald Trump stepped up, and not on the right foot. In the 20th and 21st centuries, no United States chief of state has taken over with less popular support. Only 40 percent of surveyed Americans say that they’re satisfied. The three latest presidents — Clinton, Bush and Obama — each exceeded […]
Seven grave errors in Obama’s policy toward Israel
By Carlos Alberto Montaner President Barack Obama made the mistake of ordering that the United States abstain from the latest U.N. vote on the resolution condemning the building of new Jewish settlements in the West Bank territory controlled by Israel. Not to support the State of Israel is a grave error, because of these seven […]
The Second Cold War
by Carlos Alberto Montaner Exactly one quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union disappeared. The hecatomb occurred on Dec. 25, 1991, the direct consequence of the prior (and failed) coup in August of that year. Vladimir Putin believes that it was the worst disaster that has happened to his country, but at the time […]
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