Those who do not participate in the “First Progressive International”
By Carlos Alberto Montaner
I read on RT (Russia Today) a long report on the creation of a “First Progressive International” to fight liberal ideas in the difficult times of Covid-19. RT is the unofficial voice of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It is a media set that Moscow uses to act as a snake in the grass.
To be clear, the “First Progressive International” is an amalgam of personalities and institutions that follow three fundamental superstitions: that public spending is magnificent, especially what they call “social spending”, that taxes must be raised, and that the State is a good manager of that income. Curiously, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua did not participate in the coven.
Evo Morales, Lula da Silva and Rafael Correa (the three accused or convicted in their countries for corruption) are part of it, along with other former heads of state or government, such as Brazilian Dilma Rousseff, Colombian Ernesto Samper, Paraguayan Fernando Lugo, Uruguayan José Mujica, Argentine Cristina Kirchner or Rodríguez Zapatero from Spain.
Along with those characters, there is the group of squires of that wasteful and dishonest left: former Brazilian chancellor Celso Amorim, the philologist Noam Chomsky, the Canadian writer Naomi Klein, the lawyer Baltasar Garzón, the filmmakers Danny Glover, Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, the three linked to Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, and also, among others, the Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.
They were summoned and chaired by the Chilean Marco Enríquez-Ominami, a former socialist deputy who plans to run again for president. To that purpose, he has created the Puebla Group. For now, he does not object too much to liberal democracy that preaches the separation of powers, civil liberties, electoral alternation and the rest of the features of the States created as a consequence of the Enlightenment from 1776, when the United States became independent.
The “Puebla Group” is a direct descendant of “Socialism of the 21st Century”. According to Dr. Hilda Molina, a Cuban scientist of great relevance, now exiled in Argentina, Fidel Castro fell in love with the name and asked Hugo Chávez to acquire it for his imperial spawn, but not the theories of the German-Mexican Heinz Dieterich. Finally, in 2005 Chávez mentioned “Socialism of the 21st century” in a speech.
Contrary to the ideological evolution of the 19th century, which was gradually radicalized, that of the 20th and 21st centuries is losing stridency as communism loses steam as a consequence of its evident failure. You had to be an idiot or a dogmatic obtuse for failing to notice the contrast between the two Germanies or the two Koreas.
In 1989, the communist regimes of “Eastern Europe” first collapsed. The following year (1990-91) Mikhail Gorbachev threw in the towel and gave way to the Boris Yeltsin decade, a period in which large exporting companies were privatized and sold to the friends of the ones in power. As the Marxist categories were still in force, they described these robberies as the “stage of original accumulation of capital”.
On December 31, 1999, at the beginning of the 21st century, Vladimir Putin inherited the headship of the government. At the beginning of his term, to make it clear that he has left behind his past as a KGB officer, Putin dismantles the “Lourdes” wiretapping base without prior notice to its Cuban hosts and stops paying them the 200 million dollars he paid annually to the former Caribbean satellite.
Fidel Castro swallowed hard. Soviet traitors would learn the price of their felony. At that time, in 2005, a year before becoming seriously ill, and a decade before dying, he had arranged everything: the foolish, rich and unbearable disciple, Hugo Chávez, the conquest, first of Latin America, and then the rest of the planet.
In November 2016, when Fidel chose to die, he felt great bitterness. He knew that everything had been useless. Their dreams of defeating Yankee imperialism and showing the Russians that they were wrong failed. Raúl was a mediocre guy, Maduro was useless. If he comes to know that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua would not be welcome to the “First Progressive International”, he dies of disgust again
revolving in his Stone, his stone grave at Ifigenia cemetery while walking toward Cuban´s people Guide:
José Julián Martí Pérez
we can also take advantage of this crisis and:
(1) vigorous efforts to reduce the escalating costs of health care;
(2) the growing number of managed-care programs, which are intended to reduce costs but in which the patient may have little choice in select-ing a physician;
(3) increasing reliance on technological advances and computerization; and
(4) the need for numerous physicians and other health professionals to be involved in the care of most patients who are seriously ill.
(1) make a vigorous efforts to reduce the escalating costs of health care;
(2) fight to reduce the growing number of managed-care programs, which are intended to reduce costs but in which the patient may have little choice in select-ing a physician;
(3) increasing reliance on technological advances and computerization; and
(4) be aware of the the need for numerous physicians and other health professionals to be involved in the care of most patients who are or may become seriously ill withoug an effective system to promote health, prevent them from getting sick and controling the disease to ameliorate hospitalizations and other more intensive health care services.
IFlytek’s work has come under particular suspicion in regions that pose a threat to the party’s rule. One focus is greater Tibet, the culturally distinct part of western China where people have long fought for sovereignty. In Lhasa, iFlytek cofounded a lab at Tibet University that focuses on speech and information technology. The company says the goal of the lab is “the preservation and greater understanding of minority dialects and to help protect Tibetan culture.” The company also makes a Tibetan input app called Dungkar, which means “conch shell,” an auspicious symbol in Tibetan Buddhism.
According to Human Rights Watch, iFlytek’s technology appears to enable surveillance in Xinjiang, a region in northwest China populated by the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority group. In recent years, the Chinese government has tightened its grip on Uighurs, interning more than a million people in camps and farming out others to factories as forced labor. Residents have been made to install nanny apps on their phones, give biometric data at regular security checkpoints, and host cultural inspectors in their homes. In official materials, these inspectors are called, with no apparent hint of irony, “big sisters and big brothers.”
La pena del autor comenzó en la prisión de Reading, pero el rápido deterioro de su salud debido a las malas condiciones hizo que lo trasladaran a otros centros. Durante su encierro escribió De Profundis, una larguísima carta dedicada a Alfred Douglas en la que volcaba toda su melancolía y dudas acerca de temas como el amor o la soledad. A pesar de las numerosas críticas a la sentencia y demandas de libertad de algunos de los personajes más destacados del panorama literario, Wilde cumplió la totalidad de su condena. Al salir de la cárcel se encontró con que sus bienes y riquezas habían sido embargados, su mujer se había mudado a Suiza y le prohibía ver a sus hijos y muchos de sus amigos y conocidos simplemente le dieron la espalda.
Oscar Wilde murió en París, en noviembre del año 1900, de una meningitis. Quien fue uno de los grandes literatos del siglo XIX acabó sus días solo, pobre, borracho y olvidado. La ley que encarceló a Wilde por su homosexualidad estuvo vigente hasta 1956 y entre las muchas personas a las que encerró se encuentra el matemático Alan Turing.