Pride is the satisfaction and self-indulgence derived from contemplating one’s own virtues while holding others in contempt. Pre-1959 Cuba was a country of profound contrasts. It was a nation with macroeconomic indicators and levels of urban modernity that much of the world envied, yet marked by deep social inequality and strong external dependency, which generated […]

How to read the EU–Mercosur agreement, Argentina’s emerging leadership, and the opportunities Uruguay should not ignore We are living through a peculiar moment in the international system. Never before has so much information been available, and at the same time, it has never been so difficult to identify which events are truly strategic and which

The slow release of Venezuelan political prisoners Several days ago, the Venezuelan government, “presided over” by Delcy Rodríguez, announced the release of political prisoners in the country, a group that was said to number around eight hundred at least. However, as hours and days passed, the hopes of many families fell into a kind of

Victim and executioner of its own people and of an entire region The first Spaniard to set foot on Cuban soil was Christopher Columbus, on October 28, 1492, landing in the eastern part of the island, in a place he called Bariay, and naming the island “Juana” in honor of the Catholic Monarchs, although he

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

Valcorba, or the sentence the left passes on itself Paradoxically, those who pompously preach about the exploitation of man by man are the very ones who created the most perfect system of human exploitation: totalitarianism. And they exported it with remarkable success. It is a package of measures that never fails. It carries the perfect

Valcorba, or the sentence the Left pronounces When the State spends what it doesn’t have and pays without restraint, it ends up competing with the private sector for credit (the crowding-out effect), which stalls private investment, jobs, and reproduces the conditions of poverty. But then, why do voters mostly lean toward these left-wing proposals? And

Valcorba, or the sentence the Left pronounces The “Program” is a degradation of the human condition. It leads to the construction of people who come to reject the life they were given. Frustrated beings, alienated from themselves, who turn their backs on the warnings of those who take responsibility for their own lives, twisting in

The daily newspaper El País reports that the National Human Rights Institution, an agency of questionable constitutional status, is requesting a seventy five percent increase in its budget. Retirees will receive at the beginning of February an adjustment that does not even reach six percent, no comment needed. The purpose of this increase is, yes,

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