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Un análisis en ruso de la situación cubana por Eugenio Bai, excorresponsal de Izvestia en La Habana y gran conocedor de América Latina (haqqin.az) После Фиделя и Рауля придет Джек Воробей (haqqin.az из Кубы) Куба после долгих лет прозябания на периферии мировых дел вновь вернулась в большую политику. Прежде мои знакомые кубинцы говорили, что для […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner The upcoming January 21st visit to Cuba by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Roberta Jacobson, aimed at officially restarting a dialogue with the Castro dictatorship, will prove to be problematic. The diplomat, who has always showed concern about issues of human rights on the island, will arrive […]
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following speech today on the Senate Floor about U.S.-Cuba relations: “Mr. President, I rise to say that nothing has changed in Cuba since Cuban arms were captured on this North Korean ship going through the Panama Canal a year and […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner The new year was an extremely unstable one in the Mediterranean, but the shockwave will envelop the planet. The shakeup will begin in Greece with the likely election of the Syriza Party. The word is a Greek acronym that can be translated as Coalition of the Radical Left. And it sure […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (The Huffington Post) President Barack Obama wants to “normalize” relations with the Cuban regime. He presumes that it will be part of his legacy. Likely, that risky diplomatic move will backfire, although polls show that most U.S. Americans support the reestablishment of relations with Cuba and the end of the embargo. […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner It should have been a commandment. Article 5 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by all the member states of the United Nations, says so, unequivocally: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Period. All this, of course, I […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner It happened. Engineer María Corina Machado was formally accused of the attempted assassination of a ruling leader and of conspiring against Venezuela by means of a sinister coup d’état. “Proof” of the attempted assassination consisted of false e-mails sent by the Internet. They were fabricated by President Nicolás Maduro’s police. Google […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner Chile is ceasing to be the hope of Latin America. That’s serious for all of us, not just for the Chileans. For decades, especially since the arrival of democracy to that country in 1989 (although the transformation had begun during the Pinochet dictatorship), it was obvious that freedom, the operation of […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner Why do we Latin Americans invent or innovate so little? Journalist Andrés Oppenheimer has reprised forcefully this galling question. He has raised it in an excellent book with an imperative title and a descriptive subtitle: "Create or Die!: Latin America’s hope and the 5 keys to innovation." It seems to me […]
by Carlos Alberto Montaner (Miami Herald) Twenty-five years ago, communism was symbolically buried. A crowd of Germans filled with hope ran to the Berlin Wall and demolished it with hammer blows. It was as if they were pounding on the heads of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Honecker, Ceausescu and the rest of the theoreticians and tyrants […]
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