The Uruguayan case and the KGB networks revealed through Eastern European Cold War archives Spies With Names and Surnames A secret revealed shakes Uruguayan socialism. The saga of spies operating in Uruguay in the service of the USSR comes to light. Socialists and communists, are they really different? “I got plenty of nothing,” sings a […]
Soviet Espionage in Latin America Read Post »
From Revolutionary Faith to the Justification of Just War. Is it possible to radically change one’s ideology? Or is it an exclusively religious phenomenon, one that occurs through a mysterious revelation? We will examine the case of a famous writer and his journey from professing revolutionary Marxist faith to justifying military interventions when they aim
The Conversion of Varguitas. Read Post »
This reflection seeks to highlight how totalitarianism has transformed history into literature, using fiction as a political weapon to conceal its crimes. A tendency that survives on unredeemed dead. In closed societies, history and fiction often walk hand in hand. The past is constantly rewritten to justify the abuses of the present. In the previous
Katyn: When the Truth Was Buried Twice Read Post »
The massacre of Polish officers and the struggle between Nazis and Soviets to impose a historical narrative amid total war The Orwellian manipulation of History through one of the most macabre wartime discoveries. Twenty-two thousand bodies, executed with a bullet to the back of the head. Nazis and communists entangled in a horror that, eighty-five
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Uruguay in the geopolitics of communist revolutionary exportation. A web woven from Havana to Prague that ensnared an unprotected democracy. OPERATION MANUEL It is widely believed that deep differences existed between the Soviets and the Cubans, particularly because the Soviet Union was supposedly opposed to exporting revolution across Latin America in the manner promoted by
Cuba’s Revolution, Uruguay, the Soviets, and Czechoslovak Intelligence Read Post »
From the Colombian writer García Márquez and other authors such as Rulfo, one tends to associate magical realism with a certain tropical region. Places where rain and sunlight alternate so profusely that they produce exuberant, and sometimes overstated, vegetation and human behavior. Strictly speaking, this 20th-century literary movement is not exclusive to the tropics. Still,
HUGO CHÁVEZ: A CASE OF 20TH-CENTURY MAGICAL REALISM APPLIED TO 21ST-CENTURY SOCIALISM Read Post »
An experience that does not seem to be sufficiently valued, particularly in the Americas. The Uruguayan case. Now it is the turn of another of its former victims: Poland. The Polish Constitution of 1997 establishes in Article 13: “Political parties and other organizations whose programs are based on totalitarian methods and modes of activity characteristic
In our previous article, What Do You Want, Cipriano, we addressed a topic that concerns all human beings: age and ageism, understood as the stigmatization of older people. We also recalled the Pan American Health Organization’s intention to fight this form of discrimination. In ancient times, the elderly were highly valued because they were considered
You’re Not Producing Juice Anymore Read Post »
Age is one of the first traits we notice in other people. “Ageism arises when age is used to categorize and divide people in ways that cause harm, disadvantage or injustice, and undermine intergenerational solidarity,” says the Pan American Health Organization. For that reason, it claims to have decided to wage a frontal battle against
WHAT DO YOU WANT, CIPRIANO? Read Post »
The most relevant event, at least in this part of the planet, has been the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the Americans. The official version from the authorities of the northern country claims it was the result of a military operation carried out with extraordinary precision. They also state that the CIA and the SEALs
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