Respuesta a una invitacion de la St. Thomas University de viajar a Cuba

Tomado de Nuevo Acción

Por buenos y diligentes amigos me llega la noticia que renueva las esperanzas y eleva el patriotismo y el orgullo de ser cubano genuino a niveles estratoféricos. Una ex, o alumna de la Universidad de St. Thomas, recibió una invitación para que participara en la excursión a Cuba, que con motivo de la visita del Papa, organiza la Archidiócesis de Miami. La joven "cubanita" ha contestado a la invitación con una carta antológica y ejemplar.

 

Nuevo Acción se enorgullece de publicar la traducción de la invitación y la digna respuesta: ¡DISFRÚTENLA!:

 

Carta enviada a los alumnos de la Universidad de St. Thomas:

Estimados alumnos,

La Universidad de St. Thomas (foto) ofrece un viaje religioso y educativo a Cuba del 19 al 26 de mayo.

Podemos aceptar las primeras 40 personas que reserven espacio y envíen su depósito.

Haga clic aquí para ver el itinerario de viaje de Cuba

El precio del tour  es de $ 1.939 USD, por persona (ocupación doble.) Un gasto extra único es $549.00 USD

La tarifa aérea de ida y vuelta Miami-Habana a través de American Airlines es $459.00 USD por persona.

Un depósito $500.00 por persona debe de ser pagado antes del 28 de febrero de 2012.

El pago final deberá ser abonado para el 2 de de abril de 2012 o antes.

Por favor: cheque pagadero a: MK Cuba Travel- Atención José Cachaldora, MK Cuba Travel- 999 Ponce De León Boulevard 40- Coral Gables, Florida 33134- 305 648 7115

También puede pagar mediante tarjeta de crédito y enviar su información a José en jcachaldoramktravel.com.

Si quieres hablar conmigo mi información de contacto es: Beverly S. Bachrach-bbachracstu.edu- 305 623 2355

Para los interesados, esta es una oportunidad maravillosa.

Gracias por su consideración.

Atentamente,

Beverly S. Bachrach-Vicepresidente- Comunicación y Marketing de adelanto de la Universidad.

Universidad St. Thomas

 

 Digna respuesta a la invitación:

Beverly,

Como una alumna, católico y la hija de refugiados del régimen  comunista, ateo y represivo de Cuba, me siento ofendida y consternada de que La Universidad de St. Thomas participe en la misma falsa promoción del turismo a Cuba--turismo que llena las arcas del régimen y le permite continuar con su política de abortos sancionada por el Estado, de la persecución religiosa, de la detención indiscriminada, tortura y de la negación de todos los derechos humanos fundamentales dados por nuestro Creador.

Tras un examen superficial del itinerario, me veo obligada a preguntar si la gira de El Morro cubrirá una visita a las paredes manchadas de sangre, con los orificios de bala por la ejecución por los matones del régimen, de decenas de inocentes cubanos amantes de la libertad cuyo último grito fue: ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Le pregunto, si el tour por la Habana incluye una visita a la notoria prisión de Combinado del Este donde se tortura y se mata de  hambre a los presos de conciencia. ¿Quizás podrá visitar la prisión Kilo 8 en Pinar del Río? ¿En El Cobre, se reunirá con los cubanos que quisieron oír las palabras inspiradoras del entonces obispo Maurice pero fueron rodeados por la seguridad del estado cubano a la salida  de la misa? ¿Se reunirán con las Damas de Blanco que repetidamente son golpeadas y detenidas después de asistir a misa, simplemente por alertar a la conciencia pública sobre la situación de sus seres queridos y la nación cubana? ¿ Se reunirán con disidentes pacíficos de Cuba o ex presos políticos?

Hasta hoy, estaba orgulloso de ser asociado de STU. Ahora me avergüenzo.

Esté segura, sin embargo, que yo haré una prioridad  informar a todos los que se preocupan por la libertad, la democracia y los derechos humanos y que se niegan a dar el régimen cubano un salvavidas económico para perpetuar el sufrimiento del pueblo cubano.

Le pediría a STU que reconsideren este enfoque equivocado.

Sin embargo, si STU continúa con este viaje, por favor no contactarme nunca más y quíteme de todas sus listas.

Con profundo pesar,

Stetson international business students head to Cuba

Daytona Beach News-Journal/

A group of Stetson University students from the international business department left Saturday to go to Cuba over Spring Break.

Bill Andrews, chairman of the management and international business department at the DeLand university, and another professor took nine students for a week from the junior seminar "Business and Culture in Cuba" to experience the country firsthand.

The group plans to spend five days in Havana and two days in the historic Cienfuegos area. They will meet with a number of government and business leaders from Cuba; officials from the U.S. government and students from the University of Havana. Historical and cultural sites are on the agenda, too.

In preparation, the class studied Cuba's history, politics and other areas. Andrews has traveled to Cuba twice before, in 2003 and with Stetson graduate students in 2004. But travel restrictions were tightened shortly thereafter.

Andrews said students will be learning in person the relationship between Cuba and the U.S., the changing economic situation and the concept of social justice.

"It makes for a natural laboratory," he said about the trip.

Students will get "on the ground experience," he said, by talking with Cubans and listening to various government briefings.

The students when they return plan to share what they learned with others on campus.

Alisa Ring, 22, of Lake City, a business management senior, said this is her second trip to Cuba after going with a church group in 2009. But she didn't know as much as she does now and did not get to spend time in the city of Havana.

"It's an awesome opportunity to be able to go as students," she said on Friday before leaving. "I'm excited to get to see all the places we've talked about and be able to connect the stories that we've learned and heard of through our readings."

[Another one] University of New York & Baruch launches Cuban Arts and Cultures Program

Graphic by Jaina Teeluck

The Ticke/ 

By Kimberley Goonie

Baruch, along with CUNY, recently implemented a study abroad program to Cuba.

The City University of New York (CUNY) along with Baruch College recently spearheaded an effort in order to allow students to participate in a study abroad program in Cuba.

Dr. Richard Mitten, the director of Baruch's study abroad program, Katrin Hansing, a professor of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch, who, as an anthropologist, has studied Cuba for more than 15 years, and Dean and Vice Provost for Global Strategies Jeffrey Peck made this program possible.

From this program, students were able to gain three credits and also knowledge about Cuba's lifestyle and culture.

"I think Americans in particular are fascinated by Cuba because it is the only country in the world they are legally not allowed to travel to," said Hansing in an article on Baruch College's website.

However, the U.S. government recently lifted these restrictions, and now students enrolled in a formal course will be able to travel to Cuba.

A senior at Baruch, Maisha Hall, who participated in the study abroad program said, "The program provided for us a unique and intense immersion into Cuban culture. Everyday we attended a topical lecture, which was then complemented by a cultural activity that included everything from visits to houses of worship to observing youth culture through nightlife."

In order to facilitate the best experience possible, they were given the opportunity to live with Cuban families in private homes.

Hall added that, since our account of Cuban history is virtually one-sided, the trip was a great way to actually experience the lifestyle in Cuba.

"We developed strong bonds with the Cuban students at the Ludwig Foundation – a vibrant group of educated and ambitious people who both humbled and humanized our experience," said Hall. "I think we all faced an altered sense of reality while there."

Hansing was very pleased with the outcome of the trip even though it was the first time that they were testing out this new program.

"Personally, I have to say that it was truly a joy to see the students explore and learn about this very different culture and reality and watch them develop and grow as human beings," said Hansing. "This was a pilot program and so much could have gone wrong…but no, it was a real success on all levels: academic, social, cultural and human."

Hall was very pleased with her experience and maintains that it taught her a lot.

"It gave us an opportunity to become acquainted with a country that has such a complex history with the United States and has put issues like race, poverty, immigration and politics at the forefront of our experiences," she said.

Hansing hopes that this program will continue on in the future so more students will be able to participate in it.

"This is why studying abroad is so important; it not only helps students broaden their horizons and sharpen their critical thinking skills but also opens their hearts to new peoples and places," she said.

Hall is grateful to have been a part of this program, which changed her perspective on Cuba.

"This program caused me to think critically about my role and duties as an American citizen and as a human being."

 Dr. Mitten did not respond in time for the publication of this article.

Propaganda & manipulation: Study Abroad in Cuba with Northwestern IPD

The day Fidel Castro passes away, most Cubans will be very sad and we will have a funeral ... but it will not create a major problem."-Carlos Alzugaray

Carlos Alzugaray, who spent 40 years representing the Cuban government around the world, wishes NBC newsman Brian Williams had asked a different question during the recent Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.

Williams asked the GOP hopefuls what they would do if they received a 3 a.m. phone call telling them that Fidel Castro had died and half a million Cubans were making their way to the United States aboard rickety boats.

Among the major candidates, only Ron Paul's response drew applause. Paul said he would immediately work to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and resume trade with the island nation, ending a U.S. embargo that has existed for more than 60 years.

Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum each vowed to continue the hard line against Cuba that has been in place with only slight, temporary let ups since 1961.

During a visit to Indiana State University last week (Jan. 29-31), Alzugaray suggested what he called "a more realistic question" about what the men would do if told Cuba had made a major oil and gas discovery and was offering to sell petroleum to the United States at a good price.

"That is actually a more likely scenario. The day Fidel Castro passes away, most Cubans will be very sad and we will have a funeral ... but it will not create a major problem."

Alzugaray - a professor at the University of Havana's Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies and a former Cuban Foreign Ministry official - provided students a rare opportunity to hear the Cuban perspective of an international dispute that has persisted through 10 U.S. presidential administrations. He visited political science, history and Spanish classes and met with faculty, who are interested in exploring opportunities for educational exchanges, and delivered a public lecture at Cunningham Memorial Library.  More >>

Get it: Thirteen Tufts students will study in Cuba for six weeks

Tufts Daily 

Thirteen Tufts students will have the opportunity to study abroad in Cuba this summer through Norfolk State University's (NSU) six-week program.

The program will award two course credits to Tufts students and is offered in Havana at Casa de las Américas in the Academic Unit of the Schools of Letters and Art History at the University of Havana. Both undergraduate and graduate students can enroll.

"[Casa de las Américas is] one of the biggest intellectual centers historically in Cuba," Nina Gerassi-Navarro, an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture and director of the Latin American studies program, said. 

Professor emeritus Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir, a former associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and coordinator of the trip, suggested that Tufts students be invited on NSU's program after a recent regulation change allowed universities to include students from other universities on their Cuba programs.

Kaiser-Lenoir taught classes in Cuba last summer when NSU first brought students to Cuba in a ten-week program.

Lodging will be in the Casa de las Americas dormitories, and the program will have an estimated twenty-four participants in total, Director of International Programs at NSU William Alexander told the Daily. 

Courses, including Kaiser-Lenoir's "Special Topics in Cuban Culture and Society Since the 1959 Revolution," will give students access to local experts. 

"I taught a similarly organized course at Tufts, but we didn't have any Cuban experts, just experts on Cuba," Kaiser-Lenoir explained. "Cuba attracts people from all over the world that flock there to see how things are put together. It's not that everything works well, but there are some things that work intriguingly effectively, so it's an interesting laboratory… [Cuba has] very impressive records in many key areas that are of central importance to people like health, education, and the environment."

Grado de conocimiento

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El comediante Mark Schiff investiga el grado de conocimiento sobre el Oriente Medio. entre los estudiantes de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles.

La ac[k]ademia: ser y tiempo

 

En el sitio de Ichikawa

Arnaldo M. Fernández

Toda disciplina académica suele generar su gremio, esto es: la comunidad de practicantes con prerrogativa casi absoluta de conceder ingreso y promover o expulsar. La difusión del conocimiento teórico pasa por la «revisión de los pares» antes que por el tamiz de las salidas prácticas. De este modo el gremio preserva su autoridad para certificar conocimientos por la experiencia misma que el tinglado académico propicia en virtud de su propio diseño gremial. Fuera del gremio, nadie estaría calificado para valorar lo que se produce allá adentro y así, la función sistémico-estructural no sería tanto producir conocimientos, sino más bien reproducir el gremio que monopoliza la gestión del conocimiento y de sus productores.

Dentro del gremio, el académico más débil tiene ventaja decisiva frente a quien se engolfa en la misma disciplina desde fuera: aquí la reputación se gana ya sólo con trabajo propio, mientras que aquel académico tiene de antemano credibilidad por aparecer en el directorio telefónico de alguna institución. De ahí que la gente pague buen precio en dinero y tiempo para agarrar el solapín de acceso a tal o cual gremio. El Consejo Nacional de Investigación publicó A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (2010), que revela cómo la mitad de los doctorantes en algunas disciplinas humanísticas —v.g.: lengua y literatura inglesas—cuelga los guantes y sólo la mitad de quienes no lo hacen pasa a trabajar en su especialidad, que a menudo no da para otra cosa que profesor universitario. Así, la primera lección del doctorado en ciencias sociales o humanísticas consiste en que se trata de una lotería, incluso para lengua y literatura españolas, adonde vienen a coger mangos bajitos los inmigrantes hispanos que se gradúan en colegios estadounidenses.  Mas >>

Trabas kubishes de la I-D en Cuba

En el Granma >>

Taxpayer-Sponsored Cuba Trips: Smithsonian People-to-People Cultural Exchange Program to Cuba

Capitol Hill Cubans/

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement on the Smithsonian Institution’s, a taxpayer-funded entity, upcoming trips to Cuba under a so-called People-to-People Cultural Exchange Program:

“The Smithsonian's 10-day trips to Cuba will amount to little more than a tropical vacation. Americans participating in these trips will not see the brutal reality of the Castro dictatorship. They will not be visiting run down hospitals where sick Cubans have to bring their own bed sheets and medications, nor will they have the opportunity to sit in a court room where peaceful pro-democracy advocates are sentenced because due process and a real judicial system are non-existent.

The nature of the Smithsonian's upcoming trips to Cuba becomes clear merely by looking at the ad promoting it. The ad fails to mention that Cuba is a state-sponsor of terrorism or that Castro's thugs repeatedly and routinely beat and harass the innocent Ladies in White while they peacefully march down a street. It does not mention that an American citizen is being held hostage by the regime simply for seeking to lift the veil of censorship that the dictatorship imposes on the Cuban people.

Americans will not be able to interact with a typical Cuban family as they conduct their daily desperate search for food, stop by a dormant newspaper's office that no longer operates because there is no freedom of the press, or visit the ever-growing prisons where countless political prisoners languish in their cells for exercising freedom of expression. These are the real cultural experiences in Cuba. Instead, these tourists will experience a false depiction of Cuba through a biased and censored 'tour' of the island. More  Capitol Hill Cubans >>

Also  Travel To Cuba with Smithsonian >>

smithsonianjourneys.org

La Inteligencia Castrista y las Universidades Norteamericanas

En  Cuba al Descubierto

Por Jose Cohen, ex oficial de Inteligencia [Licenciado en Matemática aplicada a la criptologia. Estudió en el Instituto Superior del MININT, en la escuela superior de Inteligencia “Adriana Corcho”, en el preuniversitario vocacional del MININT Jose Carlos Mariategui. Trabajó en la XI Dirección del MININT, y en los Departamentos M-VI y M-I de la Dirección de Inteligencia en Cuba. Desertó en el año 1994, junto a otro oficial de inteligencia cubano]

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The University of Michigan will sponsor Cuba trip for alumni

Detroit Free Press/

The University of Michigan Alumni Association was awarded a license from the U.S. Treasury Department to offer trips to Cuba, the university announced last week.

The Obama administration eased travel restrictions on Cuba earlier this year. But there are many limitations, and only groups are allowed.

The U-M trips are set for March 19-26 and March 26-April 2. A maximum of 36 people is allowed on each trip.

Travelers are limited to U-M alumni, family and friends. The price is $3,845 per person.

For more, see http://alumni.umich.edu/get-active/true-blue-travel/travel-itineraries/2012/Cuba or call 800-847-4764.

Other groups have licenses for travel to Cuba, too. The largest is Insight Cuba, www.insightcuba.com.

The 20 university degrees with the highest unemployment rates

Workopolis

What's your university degree in? I just ended that sentence with a preposition, so you might be able to guess that I don’t have one. If I did, it might be in English literature, but I dropped out, which is just as well, since people used to joke that Concordia’s English lit. department has its graduation ceremony in the unemployment office. (I later went back and studied history and musicology at U of T, but I didn’t get those degrees either. Maybe one day.)

English is one of the more proverbially useless degrees, but it’s not the most useless, not today and not in terms of unemployment rates, anyway. No, that honour goes to clinical psychology. This is according to The Wall Street Journal, which recently looked at how 173 college majors fare on the job market in terms of employment and pay, based on 2010 US census data.  

Psychology in general is a pretty terrible idea, as are visual, performing and fine arts - pretty much any art, really. You probably could have guessed that. But some of the others surprised me. I guess I assumed, for example, that a degree in neuroscience, would be specialized enough to give you a good chance at a job. I assumed wrong. On the other hand, education of just about any kind is a pretty sure bet.

Obviously, your choice of degree affects your employability. There are other factors to consider, such as the popularity of the degree and the earning potential - all of which you can view here. But for a simple look, below are the 20 highest and lowest unemployment rates by degree. See where yours fits in. Or, if you’re thinking of getting (another) one, perhaps this will influence your choice of discipline.

20 HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY DEGREE:

1. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - 19.5%    2. MISCELLANEOUS FINE ARTS - 16.2% 3. UNITED STATES HISTORY - 15.1%    4. LIBRARY SCIENCE - 15.0%    5. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY & MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES, TIE - 10.9%    6. ARCHITECTURE - 10.6%    7. INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - 10.4%    8. MISCELLANEOUS PSYCHOLOGY - 10.3%    9. LINGUISTICS AND COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - 10.2% 10. COMPUTER ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY - 9.5%    11.   VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS & ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, TIE - 9.2% 12.   SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - 8.8%    13. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - 8.5%    14. HUMANITIES & ELECTRICAL AND MECHANIC REPAIRS AND TECHNOLOGIES, TIE - 8.4%    15. GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCES - 8.2%    16. COMMERCIAL ART AND GRAPHIC DESIGN - 8.1%    17. STUDIO ARTS - 8.0%    18. PRE-LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES - 7.9%    19. MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE & COMPOSITION AND SPEECH, TIE - 7.7%    20. LIBERAL ARTS - 7.6%      

20 LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY DEGREE:

1. ACTUARIAL SCIENCE & PHARMACOLOGY & EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION & SCHOOL STUDENT COUNSELING & GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING & ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, TIE - 0.0%    2. TEACHER EDUCATION: MULTIPLE LEVELS - 1.1%    3.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS - 1.3% 4.   MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES TECHNICIANS - 1.4%    5. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND METEOROLOGY - 1.6%    6. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING - 1.7%    7. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING & NURSING & PUBLIC POLICY & NUCLEAR INDUSTRIAL RADIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, TIE - 2.2% 8. PHYSICAL SCIENCES - 2.5%    9. TREATMENT THERAPY PROFESSIONS - 2.6%    10 PLANT SCIENCE AND AGRONOMY - 2.7%    11. MEDICAL ASSISTING SERVICES - 2.9%    12. SOCIAL SCIENCE OR HISTORY TEACHER EDUCATION & AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT & GENERAL AGRICULTURE, TIE - 3.0%    13. FORESTRY & INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, TIE - 3.1%    14. PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND ADMINISTRATION & GEOSCIENCES, TIE - 3.2%    15. COMMUNICATION DISORDERS SCIENCES AND SERVICES & OCEANOGRAPHY & MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH MEDICAL PROFESSIONS, TIE - 3.3% 16. MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION - 3.4% 17. MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE - 3.5%    18. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING & SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION, TIE  - 3.6%    19. MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATION & MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURE, TIE - 3.7%    20. SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, TIE - 3.8%

Islamic Dictator Establishing Professorships in Western Universities

by AmericanDefenseLeague

Qaboos bin Said Al Said the Sultan of Oman is establishing Islamic to proselytize non-Muslims towards Islam.  William and Mary College and fifteen others have accepted Qaboos professorships including Harvard and Georgetown universities; Leiden University in the Netherlands; Peking University; Tokyo University; the University of Melbourne; and Oxford and Cambridge universities in England.

 

Sultan Qaboos bin Said

What’s not to like about a guy who overthrows his father and in doing so formed an absolute dictatorship with his decisions not subjected to review.

Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the Sultan of Oman, rose to power after overthrowing his father, in 1970.  The political system which Qaboos, considered a moderate Muslim, established is that of an absolute dictatorship. Unlike, the situation in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Qaboos’ decisions are not subject to modification or review.
Recently, Qaboos has allowed parliamentary elections (in which women have voted and stood as candidates) and pledged greater openness and participation in government. Oman was the only Arab state to recognize Egyptian President Anwar Sadat‘s peace agreement with Israel.  

His supporters point to his relative success in governing the country. By Gulf standards, Oman boasts good public order, middling prosperity, and a relatively permissive society. Since he acceded to the throne, Oman has broadened international relations, allowed newspapers, established high schools, built highways, opened hotels and shopping malls and spends a substantial portion of its dwindling oil revenues on health care and education.
According to an unconfirmed source, Oman remains one of the 9 countries that proscribe death for blasphemy, along with: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Gaza.
Although, Omani law prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion, all religious organisations must be registered. Almost the entire Christian population is expatriates working in Oman. Foreign Christians are allowed to worship in private homes or on work compounds. Locals are strongly discouraged from visiting these compounds, since Christian materials are available there.  Proselytizing Muslims (helping them leave Islam for another religion) is forbidden. Muslims that visit churches face severe persecution from family and society – and the government also take action including interning them as psychiatric patients.
The bottom line is simple, Oman’s dictator is paying for professional proselytizer positions at western universities and act that if committed in Oman would be a crime.

#Cuba - Tribulaciones de estudiantes universitarios con las "tecnologias de la informacion"

En  Juventud Rebelde >

Programas para arreglar “Conductas Desviadas” [y la #UMAP ]/ Andres Pascual

"Caricatura de un enfermo"

Por Andrés Pascual -  Tres Verdades

[Cortesia del autor] 

        Entre 1966 y 1970, la Escuela de Letras y Arte de la Universidad de La Habana era un verdadero “níDo” de maricones y tortilleras. Curioso, sin embargo, que también lo era de chivatos del G-2.

       Ser hombre o mujer, es decir, hétero, en el recinto que dirigía Vicentina Antuña y para el que trabajaban como docentes la lesbiana Mirta Aguirre y Adelaida de Juan, era un acontecimiento.

        Antes de continuar, lo peor de Mirta era lo fea y lo mala que estaba, parecía un macho virado de espaldas, pero sabía, era inteligente e hija de puta por naturaleza. Su amor enfermizo, casi platónico, era Juana de Asbaje, a la que nunca se refería como la conoce la historia, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, para no contaminarse con lo místico, a pesar del libro que escribió sobre la insigne poetisa y monja azteca.

         En aquella época, Camilo José Cela estuvo en Cuba y, en la Casa de las Américas, dijo lo que José Antonio Portuondo y el Sargento Tamal, Roberto Fernández Retamar, consideraron una expresión más ofensiva que rallar la tumba de Gonzalo Castañón para España: “Para nosotros, Cuba siempre será esa hija que se nos fue de puta”.

         Cuando la UMAP echó a andar, lo mismo en el llamado de 1965 que en el de 1966, de la Facultad de Letras y Arte solo fueron concentrados en aquellos campos de abuso y represión los maricones que no eran chivatos o, algunos héteros que escogieron que tampoco lo eran; o sea, el 98 % de los homosexuales, que eran informantes, se quedaron en el centro sin problemas.

          ¿Por qué fue así? Porque la dictadura no perseguía a los homosexuales, sino a los anticastristas y desafectos. Un maricón “entusiasta y combativo”, no tenía ningún problema, porque no era terreno fértil para “la penetración del enemigo” y hablo en funciones de espionaje, no de sexo y, si el tipo no era de “familia siquitrillada” con una bodega, farmacia o puesto de frutas, menos. Ahora, asistir a la Iglesia o al Culto y, además, ser fanático del mismo sexo, era un pasaporte directo a “Camanyule”, como llamaron los Hermanos Bravo al asunto en la conga famosa y prohibida que casi les cuesta la carrera…

          Curioso que nunca hubo un movimiento masivo represor contra las lesbianas, por lo que era muy difícil que perdieran sus trabajos, aunque fuera en el aula y Mirta Aguirre fue un soberano ejemplo, o Consuelito Vidal y Esther Borjas en el ICRT.

          Abel Prieto, Ministro de Cultura que perdió la botella política del Buró Político y del Comité Central en el reciente Congreso, adorador de The Beatles, The Rolling Stones y The Cream, primo hermano de Marisela Verena y con una hermana viviendo en Miami, no salió de Letras para la UMAP ni nunca fue castigado por “desviarse” a trabajo en Crusellas, en chocolate La Estrella o sembrando pinos en Guanahacabibes u Oriente: siguió, se graduó y a escribir, que era su pasión, tan fuerte como la de Berenice.

          Desde diciembre de 1965, una batería de intelectuales-politólogos, como el padre de Abelito, del mismo nombre y apodado El Cojo por una malformación en una pierna desde su infancia (tal vez poliomielitis, no recuerdo), chupatintas del grupo de Becas en el Ministerio de Educación de la era del  liliputiense Armando Hart; como Gaspar Jorge García Galló, como José A. Portuondo, como Blas Roca o el propio tirano a través de los editoriales del Granma, en la revista Verde Olivo o en Alma Máter, iniciaron una campaña contra las conductas desafectas al régimen, utilizando como chivo expiatorio al homosexualismo y basada en el peligro que representaban para la sociedad comunista, porque lo explicaban como conductas desviadas, heredadas o influidas por la sociedad capitalista. El nombre que usaron para definir al joven que debería ser enviado a la UMAP, o que ya lo estaba, era “enfermo” y las caricaturas de Nuez y compañía lo presentaban con cara soñolienta, pantalones estrechos y actitud afeminada. La guerra contra la juventud, por circunstancias de “diversionismo ideológico” alcanzó, en ese momento, su verdadero clímax, continuado hasta hoy sin concesiones de ninguna índole.       

     Raúl Roa Kourí, vástago del canciller indigno de igual nombre y de la cardióloga Olga, hija del eminente oncólogo Pedro; así como el músico Felipe Dulzaides, Pablo Milanés y el actor, galán de CMQ, Alberto Insua, también fueron reconcentrados allí.

      El tiempo cambia vertiginosamente, tanto así que los homosexuales en Cuba tienen protectores a través de una institución que lidera Mariela, hija del asesino-tirano de turno y hasta marchan por La Habana a favor de su orientación, es decir, de la dictadura “cambiante

Useful idiots:Sarah Lawrence College

Karen Lawrence

President, Sarah Lawrence College

In January, President Obama announced an easing of restrictions on American travel to Cuba and people-to-people exchanges. Increasing two-way traffic, despite the persistence of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba, is an extremely promising development from which both countries stand to benefit. I know that will be the case, as my institution -- Sarah Lawrence College -- is celebrating the 10th anniversary of a highly successful collaboration with the University of Havana, the longest continuously running study abroad program between Cuba and an American college or university.

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Cuba as a Learning Lab: Perspectives From Sarah Lawrence College's 10-Year Study Abroad Program

Canadian Ambassador to Cuba Highlights Academic Links with Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 22 (acn) The Canadian ambassador to Cuba, Matthew Levin, affirmed on Monday, at the opening ceremony of the 10th National Seminar on Canadian Studies in Havana, that academic relations between Cuba and Canada are a priority for his country.

Canadian Ambassador to Cuba Highlights Academic Links with Cuba

Como expulsaron de la Universidad a Reyner Aguero

El Jefe de la Operación Verdad de la UCI inició el ritual para expulsar a Reyner Aguero

Estudiante expulsado de la UCI por querer servir de "ejemplo para enfrentar el miedo"

Punt de vista: Reyner Aguero ha sido expulsado de la universidad por conceder una entrevista a este.

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