CONTRA EL PINGALISMO CASTRISTA/
"Se que no existe el consuelo
que no existe
la anhelada tierrra de mis suenos
ni la desgarrada vision de nuestros heroes.
Pero
te seguimos buscando, patria,..." - Reinaldo Arenas
La líder del grupo disidente cubano "Damas de Blanco", Berta Soler, dijo hoy a su regreso a la isla que su gira internacional de 78 días por varios países de Europa y Estados Unidos fue "muy fructífera y positiva".
"Llego a Cuba fortalecida, tras recibir una acogida bien positiva y receptiva de los gobiernos de los países que visité", declaró Soler a Efe, tras su llegada este lunes a La Habana procedente de la ciudad estadounidense de Miami, último punto del recorrido que inició por España el pasado 10 de marzo.
En su primera salida de la isla, Soler también viajó a Polonia, Bélgica, República Checa, Puerto Rico y Alemania, entre otros países.
"Para mí ha sido fructífero y muy positivo porque he podido denunciar al Gobierno de Cuba por la situación en que está el país", señaló Soler.
Dijo además que salió de la isla "a buscar solidaridad, apoyo o moral, espiritual y material de la comunidad internacional y de los exiliados cubanos para el crecimiento de las Damas de Blanco y he tenido ese apoyo".
Durante el recorrido, Soler participó en una ceremonia en Bruselas junto a otras integrantes del colectivo opositor que lidera, en la que recogieron el premio Sájarov que le concedió el Parlamento Europeo en 2005.
Soler como otros miembros de la disidencia interna entre los que figuran la bloguera Yoani Sánchez, el activista de derechos humanos Elizardo Sánchez y Rosa María Payá, hija del fallecido opositor Oswaldo Payá, han salido fuera de Cuba después que entró en vigor el 14 de enero pasado una normativa que flexibilizó los viajes de los cubanos al exterior.
Yesterday, Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega (once again) scolded dissidents who support sanctions.
Meanwhile, today in Vatican City, Pope Francis met the leader of Cuba's Ladies in White, Berta Soler, and bestowed his blessing upon her.
Soler supports sanctions against the Castro regime. Oh, the irony.
In October 2011, upon turning 75-years old, Cardinal Ortega presented his resignation as Archbishop of Havana to then-Pope Benedict XVI.
We pray Pope Francis finally accepts his resignation -- for the Cuban people deserve better.
La líder de las Damas de Blanco, Berta Soler, asistió este miércoles a la Audiencia General del papa Francisco en el Vaticano, tras la cual pidió al pontífice "su bendición para el pueblo" de la Isla.
"Ha sido muy lindo. Esto es el punto culminante de mi gira. Llevo a Cuba la bendición del papa Francisco, es algo muy grande que el pueblo de Cuba necesita", dijo Soler en declaraciones a este diario desde el Vaticano.
Explicó que, tras la audiencia, el Papa saludó a todos los cardenales y luego a los asistentes que estaban en primera fila.
"Cuando llegó a mí, teníamos desplegada la bandera cubana y le dije 'Su Santidad, somos las Damas de Blanco de Cuba, familiares de presos políticos. Ayude a Cuba, su bendición para el pueblo de Cuba. Seguiremos rezando por usted", relató.
Según Soler, tras darle la bendición, el Papa le dijo: "sigan adelante".
Havana in Black and White Dissident Berta Soler takes a big risk by telling the truth about racism and repression in Cuba.
After an 11-hour police interrogation in 2011, Berta Soler, one of the founding members of the Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White, was given an ultimatum.
During an interview at the Journal's offices last week, Ms. Soler told me that the ministry of interior official who escorted her home said "Laura [Pollán, another founding member of the group] and I had to leave the country—because without us there would be no Ladies in White." Ms. Soler said she responded by telling the official that "the ones who have to leave are the Castros."
Cubans have been put against a wall and shot for less, but Ms. Soler's courage could not have been news to the regime. For seven years, beginning in 2003, the Ladies, dressed in white from head to toe, had attended Sunday Mass together at St. Rita's Church in Havana and then silently filed through the streets to demand that their political-prisoner relatives be freed.
The group was regularly set upon by Castro agents and clawed, punched and kicked. But they never retreated, even when the regime upped the ante by dragging them onto buses, driving them far from home and dropping them off to find their own way back. By 2010, cellphone photos of the brutality embarrassed the dictatorship enough internationally that it began deporting the prisoners with their immediate families to Spain. It was classic Castro: For more than a half-century, strong dissident leaders who couldn't be broken have been killed or exiled.
Laura Pollán's husband, Héctor Maseda, and Ms. Soler's husband, Ángel Moya, were among a small number of prisoners of conscience who refused to leave. Eventually Castro paroled them, but the Ladies did not disband. Instead they began to work for the release of all political prisoners and for human rights.
The group was growing in numbers and expanding across the island on that day in 2011 when Ms. Soler was told to get out of Cuba. Seventeen days later, on Oct. 14, 2011, Pollán died mysteriously in a Havana hospital, surrounded by state security agents.
Ms. Soler's friend had reportedly been in good health only weeks earlier when, as she describes it, Castro enforcers attacked Pollán, bit and scratched her arm, and ran a handkerchief over the open wounds. Whether that was a way to introduce something into her bloodstream we may never know. But a week later Pollán came down with chills and vomiting and on Oct. 7 when she was admitted to the hospital, she suffered from shortness of breath.
Ms. Soler claims that Pollán might have been given oxygen but instead was "intubated and doped" and "seven days later we lost Laura." As I reported at the time, there was no autopsy and Pollán's body was quickly cremated.
Raúl Castro may have thought that the Ladies would soon fade away. He thought wrong. Ms. Soler says that the death of her friend and the equally suspicious death of dissident leader Oswaldo Payá in July 2012—supposedly in a car accident in which witnesses did not report a crash—has energized the movement.
Now Ms. Soler is taking advantage of the dictatorship's new travel policy—that for the first time in a half-century allows Cubans to take trips abroad—to ask the international community for "moral and spiritual support" for the Cuban people in their struggle against the dictatorship.
She wants the world to know of Castro's racism. Blacks, she says, are grossly underrepresented in the universities and overrepresented in prisons. "The beggars in Cuba are black, not white. The marginalized are blacks, not whites." She adds: "They tell me 'Negra, what are you doing? You have a lot to thank the revolution for!'"
Repression is on the rise, and in the absence of international condemnation the regime feels free to administer publicly the beatings the Ladies in White endure in order to show who's boss. The regime used to send women only to attack the Ladies but now they send men as well. They punch the Ladies with the clear intent to hurt them. They sometimes break bones.
Ms. Soler says that these attackers "never have been neighbors" spontaneously defending the glorious revolution. They are professionals working for the Interior Ministry or civilians who obey the regime in order to keep their jobs or their place in university classrooms. Ms. Soler says that for the past two years many of "the same faces" have consistently shown up to attack the group. The woman who bit Laura Pollan is well known by the Ladies because she is a regular on the goon squad and works for the ministry.
It is chilling to think what might happen to the politically incorrect Ms. Soler when she returns to Cuba, which is what makes her trip to Rome this week so crucial. She has asked to see Pope Francis. If he agrees, the visit might protect her. Without it, and in the absence of other influential international voices coming to her defense, her fate is less certain.
Yesterday, the Castro regime carried out its usual Sunday of violent repression against members of Cuba’s peaceful human rights group the Ladies in White when they joined together for Sunday church services as they do every Sunday. As the women stepped out of the church after Sunday mass in the town of Palma Soriano, they were met by Castro State Security agents who began to viciously punch them and beat them with umbrellas before placing them under arrest. Among the Ladies in White victimized by the violence of the Castro dictatorship was Belkis Cantillo, a Lady in White who just a week ago was in Brussels to take part in the long overdue acceptance of the Sakharov Prize the group had won in 2005. Ms. Cantillo was one of the women who was beaten and arrested by the Castro political police before being arrested and taken away. As of this morning, her physical condition and whereabouts are unknown.
The Castro regime has brutally beaten and arrested members of the Ladies in White upon leaving Mass in the eastern city of Palm Soriano.
The Ladies in White is a peaceful pro-democracy group composed of the female relatives of Cuban political prisoners.
Members of Castro's secret police punched and hit them with umbrellas as they exited the church, Our Lady of the Rosary.
Among those arrested was Belkis Cantillo, who just returned from Brussels this week, where she joined Ladies in White leader Berta Soler in receiving the European Parliament's Sakharov Award for Freedom of Thought.
Cantillo's current whereabouts are unknown.
(Another group of seven Ladies in White have been beaten outside the the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Santiago.)
El preso político Ramón Alejandro Muñoz está en huelga de hambre en la prisión Combinado del Este, en La Habana, para exigir una solución a su caso y el de su esposa, la Dama de Blanco Sonia Garro.
La pareja lleva más de un año en prisión sin juicio. Están acusados de "tentativa de asesinato" y "desorden público".
Sonia Garro sufre actualmente una infección en una pierna, en una herida con bala de goma que recibió en marzo de 2012 durante su arresto, informó el Directorio Democrático Cubano, con sede en Miami, citando a la hermana de la activista, Yamilé Garro.
Ramón Alejandro Muñoz "está haciendo una huelga de hambre y me llegaron noticias de un preso que (…) lo habían sacado inconsciente de donde lo tienen (…) en 'la incrementada' (zona de mayor seguridad)", dijo Yamilé Garro.
"Lo iban a llevar para el hospital a pasarle suero, pero él se estaba negando; en las mismas condiciones que él estaba se estaba negando (…) Él lo que quiere es que se acabe de determinar qué es lo que van a hacer con ellos", añadió.
Yamilé Garro denunció que las autoridades de la Prisión de Mujeres del Guatao, en La Habana, engañaron a su hermana diciéndole que la llevarían al hospital para tratar la infección de su pierna.
Según relató, lo que hicieron fue sacarla del centro penitenciario para que no estuviera durante la visita que organizó el Gobierno para la prensa internacional la semana pasada.
"Hace unos días le dijeron en la prisión que la iban a llevar para el hospital para hacerle un chequeo general para ver de qué le estaba saliendo, a ver qué parásito tenía y a ver con qué antibiótico se lo podían curar, y todo fue mentira", dijo Yamilé Garro.
"La sacaron de la prisión (…) para que la prensa extranjera viera lo que ellos querían que vieran, no les convenía que ella estuviera ahí", añadió.
"La regresaron de nuevo para allá sin atenderla un médico, sin nada", aseguró.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, an anti-Castro lobbyist in Washington who has denounced the couple’s visit to Cuba, said he only wants the singers to hear the arguments of people such as Berta Soler, leader of the dissident Ladies in White.
“The point is not to get them fined or reprimanded,” he said. “I just hope they can take five minutes to meet with someone like Berta Soler and hear their side, and I will be a happy camper.”
As the article notes,
Beyoncé is not new to political controversies, and in 2009 was paid $2 million by a son of Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi to perform at a New Years Eve bash in the British-run Caribbean island of St. Barts. She later donated the money to Haiti earthquake relief.
Beyonce corrected her controversial action then with a noble deed after -- can she do the same now?
Just give 5 minutes to Berta, who will be visiting the U.S. later this month.
Two Easters in Castro's Dungeons For speaking about human rights, Sonia Garro has been held in prison without charge since March 18, 2012.
It's hard to believe a year has passed since Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba and met with the Castro brothers. Tempus fugit. That is, unless you're Sonia Garro, a dissident who has been sitting in a Cuban jail since then. For her, time moves painfully slow. Ms. Garro's sister, Yamilet, recently told the independent online newspaper Diario de Cuba that Sonia "feels she has been forgotten."
That's exactly how her jailers want it.
Ms. Garro is a 37-year-old mother and a member of a women's group that supports the Ladies in White. Both groups work for the release of political prisoners. Ms. Garro just spent her second Easter in lock-up even though she has never been charged with a crime. She is now being held at the notorious Manto Negro prison.
Her husband, Ramón Alejandro Muñoz, who tried to defend his wife, was arrested at the same time and also has never been charged. He is being held at Havana's maximum-security Combinado del Este prison. Both jails are run down, rat-infested dungeons where neither international Red Cross observers nor the United Nations special rapporteur on torture are permitted. Government investigators say they are still mulling over their cases. The couple's 16-year-old daughter is in the care of her aunt.
Welcome to the surreal world of Cuban "reform," where the more the regime talks of change, the worse things get for anyone with a conscience. In the latest episode, Cuban propagandists have been flaunting the new travel policy that has allowed a few high-profile government critics out of the country. But a much larger group has been left behind. Their inhumane treatment, rarely covered by the media, underscores how little progress has been made.
Ms. Garro and Mr. Muñoz were taken from their home on March 18, 2012, a week before Benedict was scheduled to arrive on the island for a three-day visit. The Ladies in White and Ms. Garro's group, Ladies in Support, had been refused an audience with the pope but they were still agitating to see him in the hope that the Vatican would relent. Suddenly armed guards from the ministry of the interior descended on the Garro-Muñoz home.
Journalist Iván Garciá recently interviewed a neighbor who was there for a report published in Diario de Cuba on March 19. The guards "were dressed like riot police in American films. They used rubber bullets. They employed exaggerated violence; they detained Sonia and her husband Ramón. They took away almost all their belongings. It was something tremendous. They treated them as if they were terrorists." In a letter written from prison in February, Mr. Muñoz said 60 armed men invaded his house that day and one of the rubber bullets hit Ms. Garro in the left leg.
Ms. Garro is poor, black, generous in spirit and nonconformist—in short everything the regime detests and fears. Born in 1975, 17 years after Fidel Castro seized power, she has lived the racism and impoverishment of the glorious revolution. Mr. García reported that Ms. Garro told him in 2009 that she grew up in "a marginalized and violent neighborhood" but believed that if she studied and worked hard "I could change my luck."
The revolution had other ideas. One example: She studied to be a lab technician and earned highest honors. Because of this her diploma was to be presented in person by the minister of public health at graduation. Just before the ceremony a government official told her that someone else would stand in for her because her dark skin would spoil the photo. She told Mr. García that she never picked up her diploma.
Later she was fired from her job because of her husband's opposition to Fidel. That's when she learned to sew and began working out of her home to earn a living. She noticed the children in the streets in her neighborhood. Girls as young as 13 and 14 were working as prostitutes, and other children were getting hurt because they had no supervision. Ms. Garro opened a community center for them in 2007.
"The first rule was no talking politics," Ms. Garro told Mr. García. The children were encouraged to draw, sew and study music. The center was so successful—with donations from foreign charities—that she opened another center in a different neighborhood. The response from the government was to unleash a mob of citizen thugs to lay siege to her home three times and to twice beat her up. The harassment finally forced the closing of the community centers.
For her determination to try to change Cuba for the better, Ms. Garro has paid a steep price. In one seven-hour detention by state security in 2010 she suffered a broken nose.
Cuban dissidents know her story well, and it is meant as a warning to them. That you have probably never heard of Sonia Garro, put away for daring to speak about human rights ahead of Pope Benedict's visit, is a testament to the power of regime propagandists and the weakness of American journalism.
Castro's secret police has surrounded the home of Denia Fernandez, a prominent member of The Ladies in White pro-democracy movement, in the eastern municipality of Palma Soriano.
The home has been surrounded and is (literally) being stoned by agents of the regime.
There are eight members of The Ladies in White inside the home, including the organization's leader of the Santiago de Cuba province, Belkis Cantillo. There are also children inside the home.
Some of the women have been hospitalized.
Meanwhile, various neighbors, including Jessica Hernández, Maricela Chea and four other women, have been beaten and arrested for expressing their solidarity with the besieged democracy activists.
Apparently, these activities didn't make-the-cut of the recent "women's rights" reports issued on the Castro regime.
Cincuenta y tres Damas de Blanco asistieron a misa en la iglesia Santa
Rita de Casia, en Miramar, La Habana. Luego del oficio religioso, las
mujeres realizaron su acostumbrada marcha por la 5ta. Avenida, que esta
vez dedicaron al décimo aniversario de la Primavera Negra.
Vistiendo
un pullover con la imagen de Laura Pollán, las Damas marcharon
portando una foto del periodista independiente Calixto Ramón Martínez
Arias, quien cumplió 6 meses de injusto encierro en la prisión Combinado
del Este, y que desde el 6 de marzo se encuentra en huelga de hambre.
Barcelona/ Mambí en A/ Berta Soler, líder de las Damas de Blanco, ha recibido seis premios en la capital española por la lucha de su organización por la libertad y la defensa de los derechos humanos en Cuba.
Los premios que ha recogido Soler en la Casa América de Madrid han sido los siguientes:
-Premio Internacional de Derechos Humanos 2005
-XIII Premio Miguel Ángel Blanco a la convivencia 2010
-Premio a la Libertad 2010 del Consejo Atlántico
-Premio a la Mujer en Igualdad 2010
-Premio Internacional 2010 Ján Langos
-Y el XIX Premio a la convivencia Manuel Broseta.
mientras usted rumia su monologo en su pagina o con su alter ego, los discursos suelen ser coherentes. el problema se presenta cuando usted se cree su propio cuento y se pone de blanco en el estrado del dialogo plural. y no importa que usted tenga labia y "calle" y se llame yoani o eliecer, saladrigas o lopez-levi, las plumas se le ven si usted definitivamente es pato o sabe en que laguna darse un chapuzon.
por ello se agradece, digo, la dignidad y la integridad humana retoman su lugar cuando la negra soler que dirige a las damas de blanco sin labia pero con integridad habla alto y claro. -----------------------------
La líder de las Damas de Blanco, Berta Soler, advirtió que mientras el Gobierno de Raúl Castro aprueba "reformillas" como la nueva ley migratoria, la represión contra la oposición "se recrudece", hasta el punto de que podría ser considerada "terrorismo de Estado", reporta Europa Press.
Soler, que este lunes ha llegado a Madrid desde La Habana, se ha mostrado esperanzada por visitar "un país donde hay libertades y democracia".
Su viaje se enmarca dentro de las visitas internacionales que realizan varios disidentes desde la entrada en vigor, a mediados de enero, de la reforma migratoria. La líder de las Damas de Blanco ha querido aclarar que su viaje no es fruto de la bondad del régimen castrista, sino de la "presión internacional".
En este sentido, ha restado importancia a la "reformilla migratoria", toda vez que los "requisitos" impuestos antes de este cambio para obtener el permiso de salida se aplican ahora para negar la concesión del pasaporte o la salida del país.
Soler ha advertido, en una entrevista con Europa Press, que el Gobierno sigue teniendo un "filtro" para vetar los viajes y ha citado el caso de su marido, Ángel Moya, que no pudo obtener el pasaporte por tener una licencia extrapenal.
Moya es uno de los opositores detenidos durante la Primavera Negra de marzo de 2003 y, aunque se benefició de un programa de excarcelaciones, su salida de prisión no ha supuesto un indulto.
'La represión se recrudece'
"Estamos por la libertad de los presos políticos y también por los Derechos Humanos", ha explicado, antes de apuntar que "todos los cubanos son familia" y, como tal, las Damas de Blanco luchan también por las libertades de toda la ciudadanía.
Soler ha recalcado que "la represión se recrudece" en Cuba. Para la líder opositora, el Gobierno de Raúl Castro perpetra "terrorismo de Estado" contra quienes no comulgan con las ideas del régimen. Ahora, según Soler, los opositores no solo reciben "golpes" en la cárcel, sino también en la calle, "para infundir miedo" entre la población.
Las integrantes de las Damas de Blanco han sufrido los abusos del Gobierno, ha denunciado la líder de este grupo, que ha lamentado que el régimen actúe "impunemente".
En este sentido, ha pedido "presión" a la comunidad internacional, para "no dar oxígeno" al Ejecutivo castrista, una petición que confía en transmitir personalmente a autoridades políticas en España.
Respecto a la futura salida del poder de Raúl Castro, Soler ha apuntado que "todo es igual", ya que al margen de las caras, sigue sin haber "elecciones libres".
Un régimen castrista sin hermanos Castro será "más de lo mismo" si no se producen cambios y "se resuelve la necesidad del pueblo", ha apostillado.
'No lamentamos la muerte de Chávez'
Cuba se ha visto salpicada estos días por homenajes en memoria del presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, uno de los principales aliados políticos de la Isla. Sin embargo, según Soler, el fallecimiento de Chávez "importa a Fidel y Raúl, pero no al pueblo".
Soler ha denunciado que los cubanos de a pie no se han beneficiado del petróleo llegado en los últimos años desde Venezuela y que terminaba sirviendo como combustible para vehículos de la Seguridad del Estado.
Entretanto, "había ambulancias que no podían salir" por falta de gasolina, según esta activista.
"Nosotros no nos alegramos de la muerte de Chávez, pero tampoco la lamentamos", ha indicado Soler, al recordar que el difunto presidente venezolano "aplaudía la represión" contra la disidencia en Cuba.
On International Women’s Day, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) commends the courage of the Ladies in White, the Cuban women’s non-violent protest movement.
The Damas de Blanco (Spanish), or Ladies in White, is an opposition movement in Cuba comprising the wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents. Every Sunday the women attend Mass dressed in white, to symbolize peace, and then walk silently through the streets of their town or city. They are often harassed or arrested on their way to Mass, and members of their group have been threatened.
The Ladies in White movement was formed in 2003, just two weeks after the Black Spring, the Cuban government’s mass crackdown on dissidents and journalists, which resulted in 75 being detained. Since 2010, all of the Black Spring prisoners have been released, mostly into exile in Spain, following dialogue between the government and hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. However, there are still political prisoners in Cuba and the Ladies in White are still active and growing in number.
In 2005 the Ladies in White were jointly awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament, along with Reporters without Borders and Nigerian human rights lawyer Huawa Ibrahim. The Cuban government barred the group’s leaders from travelling to France to accept the award.
In 2012, one of their members, Caridad Caballero, a journalist and activist, sought refuge in the United States following months of harassment by the Cuban authorities. She was also arrested on a number of occasions. The authorities particularly targeted her religious faith, blocking her from participating in any religious activities at Jesus Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in the Pueblo Nuevo neighborhood of Holguin.
Caballero and other members of the Ladies in White were among hundreds of Catholic dissidents who were imprisoned for the duration of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba in March 2012. CSW documented a dramatic increase in violations of freedom of religion or belief in Cuba in 2012. While Roman Catholic churches reported the highest number of violations, mostly involving the arrest and arbitrary detention of parishioners attempting to attend church activities, other denominations and religious groups were also affected.
¨Saturno jugando con sus hijos¨/ Pedro Pablo Oliva
Seguidores
Carta desde la carcel de Fidel Castro Ruz
“…después de todo, para mí la cárcel es un buen descanso, que sólo tiene de malo el que es obligatorio. Leo mucho y estudio mucho. Parece increíble, las horas pasan como si fuesen minutos y yo, que soy de temperamento intranquilo, me paso el día leyendo, apenas sin moverme para nada. La correspondencia llega normalmente…”
“…Como soy cocinero, de vez en cuando me entretengo preparando algún pisto. Hace poco me mandó mi hermana desde Oriente un pequeño jamón y preparé un bisté con jalea de guayaba. También preparo spaghettis de vez en cuando, de distintas formas, inventadas todas por mí; o bien tortilla de queso. ¡Ah! ¡Qué bien me quedan! por supuesto, que el repertorio no se queda ahí. Cuelo también café que me queda muy sabroso”. “…En cuanto a fumar, en estos días pasados he estado rico: una caja de tabacos H. Upman del doctor Miró Cardona, dos cajas muy buenas de mi hermano Ramón….”. “Me voy a cenar: spaghettis con calamares, bombones italianos de postre, café acabadito de colar y después un H. Upman #4. ¿No me envidias?”. “…Me cuidan, me cuidan un poquito entre todos. No le hacen caso a uno, siempre estoy peleando para que no me manden nada. Cuando cojo el sol por la mañana en shorts y siento el aire de mar, me parece que estoy en una playa… ¡Me van a hacer creer que estoy de vacaciones! ¿Qué diría Carlos Marx de semejantes revolucionarios?”.
Quotes
¨La patria es dicha de todos, y dolor de todos, y cielo para todos, y no feudo ni capellanía de nadie¨ - Marti
"No temas ni a la prision, ni a la pobreza, ni a la muerte. Teme al miedo" - Giacomo Leopardi
¨Por eso es muy importante, Vicky, hijo mío, que recuerdes siempre para qué sirve la cabeza: para atravesar paredes¨– Halvar de Flake[El vikingo]
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir"- Lorca
"Al final, no os preguntarán qué habéis sabido, sino qué habéis hecho" - Jean de Gerson
"Si queremos que todo siga como está, es necesario que todo cambie" - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Todo hombre paga su grandeza con muchas pequeñeces, su victoria con muchas derrotas, su riqueza con múltiples quiebras" - Giovanni Papini
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"Habla bajo, lleva siempre un gran palo y llegarás lejos" - Proverbio Africano
"No hay medicina para el miedo"-Proverbio escoces "El supremo arte de la guerra es doblegar al enemigo sin luchar" -Sun Tzu
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office" - H. L. Menken
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Elie Wiesel
"Stay hungry, stay foolish" - Steve Jobs
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years ther'ed be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less" - Vaclav Havel
"No se puede controlar el resultado, pero si lo que uno haga para alcanzarlo" - Vitor Belfort [MMA Fighter]
Liborio
A la puerta de la gloria está San Pedro sentado y ve llegar a su lado a un hombre de cierta historia. No consigue hacer memoria y le pregunta con celo: ¿Quién eras allá en el suelo? Era Liborio mi nombre. Has sufrido mucho, hombre, entra, te has ganado el cielo.
Para Raul Castro
Cuba ocupa el penultimo lugar en el mundo en libertad economica solo superada por Corea del Norte.
Cuba ocupa el lugar 147 entre 153 paises evaluados en "Democracia, Mercado y Transparencia 2007"
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, Callé: yo no soy comunista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, Callé: yo no soy sindicalista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, Callé: yo no soy judío. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los católicos, Callé: yo no soy “tan católico”. Cuando vinieron a buscarme a mí, Callé: no había quien me escuchara.
Un sitio donde los hechos y sus huellas nos conmueven o cautivan
CUBA LLORA Y EL MUNDO Y NOSOTROS NO ESCUCHAMOS
Donde esta el Mundo, donde los Democratas, donde los Liberales? El pueblo de Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan los Green, los Socialdemocratas, los Ricos y los Pobres, los Con Voz y Sin Voz? Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan el Jet Set, los Reyes y Principes, Patricios y Plebeyos? Cuba desesperada clama por solidaridad. Donde Bob Dylan, donde Martin Luther King, donde Hollywood y sus estrellas? Donde la Middle Class democrata y conservadora, o acaso tambien liberal a ratos? Y Gandhi? Y el Dios de Todos? Donde los Santos y Virgenes; los Dioses de Cristianos, Protestantes, Musulmanes, Budistas, Testigos de Jehova y Adventistas del Septimo Dia. Donde estan Ochun y todas las deidades del Panteon Yoruba que no acuden a nuestro llanto? Donde Juan Pablo II que no exige mas que Cuba se abra al Mundo y que el Mundo se abra a Cuba? Que hacen ahora mismo Alberto de Monaco y el Principe Felipe que no los escuchamos? Donde Madonna, donde Angelina Jolie y sus adoptados around de world; o nos hara falta un Brando erguido en un Oscar por Cuba? Donde Sean Penn? Donde esta la Aristocracia Obrera y los Obreros menos Aristocraticos, donde los Working Class que no estan junto a un pueblo que lanquidece, sufre y llora por la ignominia? Que hacen ahora mismo Zapatero y Rajoy que no los escuchamos, y Harper y Dion, e Hillary y Obama; donde McCain que no los escuchamos? Y los muertos? Y los que estan muriendo? Y los que van a morir? Y los que se lanzan desesperados al mar? Donde estan el minero cantabrico o el pescador de percebes gijonese? Los Canarios donde estan? A los africanos no los oimos, y a los australianos con su acento de hombres duros tampoco. Y aquellos chinos milenarios de Canton que fundaron raices eternas en la Isla? Y que de la Queen Elizabeth y los Lords y Gentlemen? Que hace ahora mismo el combativo Principe Harry que no lo escuchamos? Donde los Rockefellers? Donde los Duponts? Donde Kate Moss? Donde el Presidente de la ONU? Y Solana donde esta? Y los Generales y Doctores? Y los Lam y los Fabelo, y los Sivio y los Fito Paez? Y que de Canseco y Miñoso? Y de los veteranos de Bahia de Cochinos y de los balseros y de los recien llegados? Y Carlos Otero y Susana Perez? Y el Bola, y Pancho Cespedes? Y YO y TU? Y todos nosotros que estamos aqui y alla rumiando frustaciones y resquemores, envidias y sinsabores; autoelogios y nostalgias, en tanto Louis Michel comulga con Perez Roque mientras Biscet y una NACION lanquidecen? Donde Maceo, donde Marti; donde aquel Villena con su carga para matar bribones? Cuba llora y clama y el Mundo NO ESCUCHA!!!