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By Carlos Alberto Montaner The newspaper El País (Madrid) told it. Mario Vargas Llosa publicly expressed his opinion that Fidel Castro would not have been radicalized if the CIA, in collusion with United Fruit, had not overthrown Colonel Jacobo Árbenz through a coup d’état. Vargas Llosa reminds us that back then, Fidel Castro endorsed a social democratic […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner It seemed that Peru had been saved and marched steadily towards development. That was what the World Bank predicted. Having Chile as its neighbor was its secret. Peruvians had seen how the market, economic freedom, the mass of savings produced by the system of individual retirement accounts, and the seriousness in […]
Por Manuel Castro Rodríguez Dear Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, First of all, please accept my respectful greeting to you. I sent you several emails, but you didn’t answer me. Why? Thank you for taking the time to read me. I have 70 years old. I was born on February 7, 1949, in Havana, Cuba. Until less than a year ago […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner Democracies are upside down, but they move. With ups and downs, with marches and countermarches, but they move in the right direction. The scandals that have arisen around Odebrecht, FIFA or Siemens are a sample. We must not fear these scandals. The world is shedding skin. The United Kingdom does not […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner American foreign policy is upside down. It has a zoological identity problem. No one knows if the president is a sheep or a wolf, a dove or a hawk. Apart from his scuffles with the FBI and his collision with the judges, Donald Trump has already had three advisers to the […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner I think the Spanish word “volvedera” (the urge to return) was coined by novelist Alfredo Bryce Echenique. He was asked why he was returning to Peru after so many years in Europe. He meditated for a moment and replied, “I don’t know, I felt the ‘volvedera’”. And he stayed happily installed […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner The breaking could be foreseen. In January 2019, from the underground, Iván Márquez had declared that it was a mistake to hand over the weapons to a “cheater state”. Iván Márquez, Jesús Santrich and “El Paisa,” surrounded by some comrades-in-arms, finally resumed the fight. They claimed, naturally, the cause of the […]
by Marion Smith February 26, 2019 (USA TODAY) Maybe you heard: Communist Cuba is on the road to freedom. That’s what Cuba’s rulers want you to think after the Cuban people overwhelmingly approved a new constitution on Sunday. But the opposite is true. Cuba’s rulers have only cemented their control, and the Cuban people are no […]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner* The fate of Venezuela is probably in the hands of Juan Guaidó. He is a 35-year old National Assembly deputy, linked to Voluntad Popular, a party founded by Leopoldo López. He was named president of the National Assembly, which is something like winning a tiger in a raffle. As President of […]
By Manuel Castro-Rodríguez “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” […]
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