The Washington Speech (1959). The Day Cuba Chose Development Over Ideology. In April 1959, the world held its breath. A young Fidel Castro landed in Washington, D.C. In our historical timeline, that trip marked the beginning of an irreversible rupture. But in this uchronian reality, Castro took a step no one expected. Instead of defiance, […]
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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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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
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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 »
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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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
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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,
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