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 […]

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

A small country, a global power, and the cost of failing to understand our true place in the world. According to several media reports, particularly from El País and Búsqueda, the Uruguayan government has reportedly described the suspension of visas for compatriots seeking future residence in the United States as an error or even an

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

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

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