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by Carlos Alberto Montaner (MIAMI HERALD) Let’s face it: The greatest political problem in Latin America is the ever widening divorce between society and the state. Societies don’t feel that the governments really represent their interests and values. They think that the politicians are gangs of corrupt leaders who achieve power only to enrich themselves [...]
By Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Miami Herald) How’s your wife? It depends — compared to whom? That’s a frequent dialogue among witty Spaniards. I imagine that women could respond the same way. We husbands fare badly when compared with Brad Pitt, much better if contrasted with Eduardo Gómez, the super-ugly doorman’s father in the comedy [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (Miami Herald) In Venezuela, Iris Varela, minister of prisons, a young lawyer with fiery eyes and incendiary speech, has warned that she has already prepared the cell in which Henrique Capriles will be imprisoned. I believe her unreservedly. According to the minister’s threat, the first step is to slap Capriles into [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (FIRMASPRESS. Buenos Aires) The Argentines are furious. They’re raging at their government. They go through this every so often. Now is the time – the day, the week, the month – to pound on pots and pans. And with good reason: in the midst of a long bonanza in the prices [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (FIRMASPRESS) There are three lessons to be learned from what’s happening in the pitiful, totalitarian madhouse known as North Korea. • First, it serves to verify the objective of the logic of Marxist-Leninist collectivism based on a single party, central planning and autarchy or economic nationalism. In 1953, by the end of [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Miami Herald) What does Hugo Chávez leave to the Venezuelan people? Three legacies, all of which are poisoned: a harebrained way to govern, the mindless 21st-Century socialism, and a neopopulist model based on welfare-patronage. • First, he leaves them the memory of a colorful character who was very funny. He governed [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Miami Herald) Panama’s former ambassador to the Organization of American States, Dr. Guillermo Cochez, a person who is usually well informed, affirms that Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, died a few days ago and challenges the government of that country to prove otherwise. How? In the only credible manner: by [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Miami Herald) Sen. Marco Rubio wants to be president of the United States. It is not a harebrained wish. The fact that his party selected him to respond to Obama’s State of the Union speech proves that many influential people join him in that hope. They believe in him. What [...]
by Carlos A. Montaner (The Miami Herald) Raúl Castro gave Yoani Sánchez a passport. I personalize this anecdote because “the Cuban government” is only a reflection of Castro’s will, nothing more. For more than half a century, whatever the Castro brothers wish and decide is done on the island. Nobody clarified anything about the long [...]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Miami Herald) In the Middle Ages, pilgrims would journey to Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, in quest of indulgences to enter the Kingdom of Heaven without going through the unpleasant experience of purgatory or the boring wait of limbo — a theological holding space, of course, that eventually was shut [...]
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