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 »
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
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,
Ode to Selective Virtue – Part 2 Read Post »
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
Ode to Selective Virtue Read Post »
From Open Ruin to Borrowed Guilt El Impacto en Cuba: “La Singapur del Caribe” EnWhat would have happened to Cuba and Latin America if Fidel Castro, instead of aligning with the Soviet Union, had purged corruption and joined the free nations of the world? How different would the destiny of the Americas have been without
The Freedom That Never Was. Cuba and a Castrated Continent Read Post »
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 »
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
The Caribbean Theater of Marvels – Final chapter Read Post »
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 »
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 »
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
The Revived Skeletons of Pretended Viceroys Read Post »
