The Fiscal Pressure Illusion. Why Citizens Pay More Than They Get Back The fiscal pressure illusion: why citizens pay more than they receive This second article examines the direct relationship between state waste and the cost of living in Uruguay. The premise is straightforward. The state has no money of its own. It only manages […]
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The Anatomy of Duplication: A State That Devours Itself The Labyrinth of Inertia This text is born from an observation as simple as it is devastating: in contemporary Uruguay, the State has ceased to be a tool for progress and has become an end in itself. We explore the concepts of insanity and deceit not
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On openly exposed ruin and misplaced blame. What would have happened in Cuba and Latin America if Fidel Castro, instead of aligning with the Soviet Union, had purged corruption from Cuba and aligned himself with the free nations of the world? How different would the destiny of the Americas be without the violent ideological fracture
The freedom that never was, neither on the island nor across the continent. Read Post »
Tensions and contradictions: compliance is more necessary than competence These selective virtuists do not propose anti-corruption laws or clean record requirements for public office, simply because moral and ethical principles rank below political power interests. Yet, candidates who undergo competitive examinations are required to present certificates of good conduct. Not even union leaders are subject
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From Open Ruin and Displaced Guilt There is no better way to assess the real effects of Castro’s Cuba than to project what could have been and never was. Only through this exercise can the full scale of the Cuban people’s tragedy be measured, along with the continental projection of the Soviet holocaust transplanted onto
Uchrony: A Mutilated Continental Freedom That Could Have Been Real Read Post »
Tensions and Contradictions: Compliance Is Valued More Than Competence There are visible tensions and contradictions within the current administration, where the official discourse promoting merit-based recruitment through public examinations clashes with a reality shaped by unsuitable political appointments that have defined the management of positions of trust. The Challenge of Coherence: Merit for the People,
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A safe and well-paid shelter for the useless and unqualified. A safe and well-paid shelter for useless people without credentials. All political parties assume that, if they win elections, they will place their best people in positions of public responsibility. Then comes the dull reality of political bargaining, which quickly takes precedence over the public
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On the awakening of the sleepers and history’s judgment on collective madness It came to pass, reader, that after decades of staging this bloody farce and delirium for more than sixty years, the curtain began to fray from sheer exhaustion. The nations of the South, once the stage for “Operation Manuel” and the oil courtship
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Of the Scribes of the Shadow and the Stripping of the Idols of Clay It came to pass, reader, that while the peoples of the South danced to the flute of the Bearded Knight, other men, more discreet and far less eloquent, devoted themselves to the monastic task of writing everything down. They were the
THE CARIBBEAN CABINET OF WONDERS – Chapter V Read Post »
And all of us, pawed over in the same mud Allow me, readers, a brief digression born of emotional discharge, before returning to Cuba.I am compelled by the detritus expelled from the mental sphincters of absurd and corrupt leaderships, escorting the funeral procession of Western economies in both hemispheres.Fidel’s Marxism proved to have an unexpected
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