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"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
During
the second and final presidential debate on June 10, the three main
candidates in the Mexican election discussed how they would move forward
in the continuing drug war. All three pledged a different strategy to
that which has been carried out by current president Felipe Calderón,
who has focused on using the armed forces as the main form of attack
during his tenure. This has led to
a death toll "which has spiraled out of control during Mr. Calderón's
six-year tenure." Each candidate has mentioned reducing the body count,
although the manner in which they plan to achieve this differs.
Below is an overview of the three candidates' strategies for combating the violence in Mexico.
The three candidates:
Enrique Peña Nieto: The current front-runner, for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), stated recently in an interview with the New York Times that
The
adjustment in the strategy is to focus on decreasing violence [as
opposed to reducing drug trafficking]. And that means that the whole
Mexican state, jointly between the three levels of government‚ - state,
federal and municipal‚ - should really focus its efforts on combating
homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the homicides
committed, as with kidnapping and extortion.
Peña Nieto's promises include:
Bringing more police
to less populated areas. "There are too few police, sometimes without
equipment, without weapons, and organized crime . . . ends up easily
getting there and taking over these places with small populations."
Focusing on
"combating homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the
homicides committed, as with kidnapping and extortion" primarily through
cutting corruption.
While Peña Nieto says he will continue to work with the United States, he has made clear that Mexico should not be "subordinate to the strategies of other countries."
Peña
Nieto has said he would hire former Colombian police chief, Oscar
Naranjo, as a security advisor. A move which could mean continued strong U.S.-Mexican cooperation, according to the Washington Post.
One question
being asked is whether Mr. Peña Nieto really would be a new leader for
the PRI or simply a return to the old guard which ruled the country for
71 years and which many allege allowed the cartels to exist in return
for benefits for the government.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador:
AMLO, as he is often known, represents a leftist, three-party coalition
called the Progressive Movement. He is a returning candidate who
narrowly lost the 2006 election to current president Calderón. López
Obrador has had to change his campaign strategy for this election and
distance himself from his failed attempt at the presidency, although his
attitude towards the drug war has not changed hugely.
AMLO's promises include:
A holistic strategy he has dubbed "Abrazos, no balazos," or "Hugs, not bullets," which focuses on reducing unemployment and fostering economic growth to end the drug war.
A new federal police force to replace the army in the streets, though he has not elaborated on how this would be organized.
He has not ruled out legalizing drugs, but will consult with experts and local governments.
On
collaboration with the U.S.: Rather than increased or continued U.S.
military aid, AMLO argues that Mexico would benefit more from receiving economic credits that could be used for social programs.
Although polls present differing views of how close the election is currently, López Obrador is generally agreed to be in second place.
Josefina Vázquez Mota:
Vázquez Mota is the first female presidential candidate fielded by a
major political party in Mexico, representing the Partido Acción
Nacional or PAN, the party of current president Calderón.
Her promises include:
A return to law and order by establishing a well paid, well-trained police force from within the community.
A four-pillar approach focusing on security, well-being, productivity, and a sustainable Mexico.
On collaboration
with the U.S.: "We have to continue strengthening our relationship with
the United States" in an effort to move forward with the drug war.
This
is markedly different from Calderón's increased use of the army in an
attempt to tackle corruption within the police force. Although Vázquez
Mota was second in the polls at one point, in the past month she has slipped down to third place behind López Obrador.
The election outcome
Only
one of these candidates will have the opportunity to take their
proposed policies forward past the July 1st election. Although polls currently suggest Peña Nieto is the favorite to win, there has been some indication that the Yarrington scandal,
in which President Calderón has accused a former governor and member of
the PRI for alleged links with drug cartels and corruption, has damaged
the perception of Peña Nieto by association. With just under two weeks
remaining, it remains to be seen if he can hold his lead.
Brian Palmer of Slate reports that cocaine prices have dropped significantly in the past three decades due to economies of scale. As drug traffickers have become more organized (in processing, transport, and retail networks), the price of cocaine has plunged:
Since [the end of the 1980s], the price has dropped more slowly, down to approximately $140 for a gram of pure cocaine in 2007. (That’s almost 80 percent less than it cost in 1982.) Some of the continued decline is attributable to increased production and softening demand, but a large component likely has to do with changes on the retail end. According to figures compiled by Jonathan P. Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, around 33 percent of the price of cocaine went toward compensating smugglers and dealers for the risk of violence in 1990.
Technology is another factor in reducing transaction costs, and Palmer writes that “enforcement of drug laws has added substantially to the cost of street drugs, but those increases haven’t been enough to outpace efficiency gains in the industry.”
Randy Keeper is sick of building coffins. A wiry fellow who looks younger than his 49 years, Keeper is proud of his job as a carpenter and crew leader, saying he’s built 25 houses from scratch over 17 years in Pikangikum, the reserve in northwestern Ontario where he has lived his whole life. But when it comes to the wooden boxes he builds for Pikangikum’s dead, he draws a blank. “I don’t count them,” he says from his daughter’s dining room table. He remembers the last ones, though. They were in December. “I had to make two in one day, one for an elder and one for a younger person.”
The dreams started a couple of weeks after that. In one, he’s lying face up in a freshly dug grave, watching as a coffin is slowly lowered toward him. He doesn’t know if there’s anyone inside, but he recognizes his handiwork: 100 lb. of plywood, treated pine and nails, a simple enough thing that takes him no more than 90 minutes to build. In the dream he’s alive but can’t move as it comes down on his chest, smothering him. Then he wakes up. “The elders told me to stop making them,” he says, “but I have no choice because I work for the band. I get nervous, shaky. Once the dreams happened I’d say yes out of respect for chief and council, but sometimes I don’t show up.” More >>
"The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorists
association. You don't look at people as human beings. They are nothing
but pieces on the chessboard." -- Verne Lyon, former CIA agent in
revealing documentary "Secrets of the CIA"
Secrets of the CIA is a
revealing 45-minute Turner Home Entertainment documentary available for
free viewing at the link below. In this riveting exposé, five former
CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving
their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they
were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in
the name "national security" and promoting foreign policy agendas.
A
Notre Dame football star, an aerospace engineering senior at Iowa
State, an attractive high school graduate, a young patriot, and an
Olympic shooting champion all were recruited by the CIA at a young age.
These five brave individuals risk retaliation in revealing the story of
their gradual disillusionment and finally defection from the CIA, as
they eventually became convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they
were serving neither democracy, nor the people of their country.
The
Olympic shooting champion describes being put in charge of overthrowing
the democratically elected government of Guatemala. The patriot relates
his deep remorse for his direct responsibility in the deaths of
numerous innocent people for which he can never make amends. The pretty
high school graduate describes how her initial addiction to power and
intrigue turned to disgust and horror. This powerful documentary is a
rare and remarkable look at the results of unbridled secrecy and the
lengths to which some elements in government will go to achieve
questionable foreign policy goals.
A soldier guards boilers at an outdoor clandestine methamphetamine laboratory discovered in Chiquilistlan, Mexico, on December 7.
By F. Brinley Bruton, msnbc.com
The number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has rocketed in the last five years but shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow, according to government statistics.
The increase highlights how Mexico’s cartels have diversified beyond their traditional focus of exporting cocaine, heroin and marijuana by transforming their operations to also make methamphetamines on an industrial scale.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted “a sustained upward trend in Mexican methamphetamine availability in U.S. markets.” Research by the U.S. government also shows that methamphetamine prices are falling and that the purity level of seizures is rising.
According to information from Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense, 22 methamphetamine labs were seized in 2007. That number increased to 206 in 2011.
The vast majority of these were classed as super labs – in contrast to smaller operations that characterize much of the production in the United States, a secretariat official confirmed to msnbc.com. The official asked for anonymity for security reasons.
"Methamphetamine seizure rates inside the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico border have increased markedly since 2007," according to a U.S. Department of Justice report.
'In the business of making money'
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials said they could not comment specifically on statistics released by the Mexican government, but acknowledge that the cartels have adapted and changed since President Felipe Calderon declared his war on drugs in December 2006. More >>
The story about President Barack Obama’s bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying.
Norma Jean Young revealed to The Globe that her son Donald, who was openly gay, was a “close friend” of Obama. Mrs. Young also believes the Chicago Police Department has not placed a high priority on finding the killers of her son. Mrs. Young, who is, herself a former employee of the Chicago Police Department, told The Globe that, “There is more to the story,” adding, “I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting someone.”
The Globe’s revelations are consistent with information obtained by WMR during a May investigation conducted in Chicago. On May 24, WMR reported:“President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.” The report added, “WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama’s former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the ‘Down Low Club’ but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase ‘DLC.’ The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications [FBI wiretaps in the Rod Blagojevich case likely contain such references] believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC . . . Among the members of the gay ‘DLC’ were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: ‘septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.’”
Larry Sinclair, the gay man who claimed to have had two sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago in 1999, wrote a book, “Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder,” in which he states that Obama was linked to Young’s murder. Sinclair wrote that he was in contact with Young shortly before his murder and Young revealed his relationship with Obama. At the time of his revelations about Obama at a National Press Club news conference, WMR doubted the veracity of Sinclair’s story due to the absence of corroborating evidence coupled with a bizarre news conference. However, since that time, WMR has received corroboration from a number of sources in a number of locations, including Chicago, Alabama, Georgia, and Washington, DC. WMR has received information that various competing camps, including the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns, attempted to co-opt Sinclair and his revelations for their own political purposes. Sinclair, it should be noted, has not deviated from his original story or charges against Obama.
On June 19, 2008, WMR reported: “WhiteHouse.com held a news conference following Sinclair’s at which a video of Sinclair’s polygraph was to be shown. After experiencing technical difficulties with the video presentation, Parisi abruptly canceled the news conference and took no questions.” The aborted news conference was as bizarre as Sinclair’s. Sinclair was arrested by Washington, DC police following his news conference based on a warrant from Delaware issued by Vice President candidate Joseph Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. The Delaware charges against Sinclair were later dropped.
Sinclair’s book is now the subject of a defamation lawsuit [Daniel Parisi, et al v. Lawrence W. Sinclair a/k/a "Larry Sinclair," et al] brought by Dan Parisi, the proprietor of the website, Whitehouse.com, who is mentioned in Sinclair’s book with regard to his involvement in polygraphs administered to Sinclair after he made his allegations against Obama public during the 2008 presidential campaign. The lawsuit is being handled by the politically powerful Patton & Boggs law firm, the same firm that represented George W. Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak, and has been filed against Sinclair, his publishing company, and distributors, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sinclair is currently a resident of Florida.
The lawsuit against Sinclair has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon, the Republican deputy chief minority counsel on the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, aka, the Iran-contra scandal. From 1988 to 1989, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and from 1992 to 1993 was the Republican chief minority counsel on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s October Surprise Task Force investigating the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign’s secret dealings with Iran to ensure the defeat of President Jimmy Carter. Leon Leon was nominated for the federal bench by President George W. Bush on September 10, 2001. Leon’s involvement in so many high-level cover-ups of White House misconduct makes him an illogical choice to hear a case involving serious allegations against President Obama.
Note: Blagojevich’s defense in his federal corruption trial is slated to begin today in Chicago. Judge James Zagel has denied the defense’s request for all the government’s wiretaps to be played. The tapes, as previously reported by WMR, contain some earthy references to Obama’s and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s homosexual habits.
Sinclair has told WMR that he believes the Obama White House is trying to have his book withdrawn from circulation to avoid any further embarrassments about Obama’s homosexual past and the possible involvement of his top lieutenants in Young’s murder. The Globe reported in May 2008 that a top Chicago private detective said he believed Young was “rubbed out” because of his relationship with Obama. Sinclair has echoed the private eye’s beliefs about Young and Obama. The Globe reports that before his death, Young was planning to flee to Africa to teach. The information was provided to The Globe by Young’s mother, who also now fears for her life and plans to leave her Peoria, Illinois home for a secret location. Mrs. Young said the Chicago police have warned her that her life is in danger.
Circula por internet una supuesta entrevista realizada por el periódico O’Globo de Brasil a Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, conocido en el hampa brasileña como “Marcola”, líder de la organización criminal Primeiro Comando da Capital. (PCC) que se actualmente, se encuentra preso en una cárcel en el estado de São Paulo.
Titulada como "Pierdan todas las esperanzas. Estamos todos en el infierno" o «Escalofriante entrevista de la cadena televisiva brasileña O Globo al conocido capo "Marcola"», la supuesta entrevista hace un viaje socio-económico-politico por toda la problemática de pobreza, exclusión y crimen que azota a Brasil y a Latinoamérica, presentando al susodicho Marcola como el catalizador del terror e impotencias ciudadanas ante el embate del crimen organizado, el narcotráfico, etc, esta entrevista fué negada por el propio “Marcola” según se puede leer en la noticia relacionada.
Sin embargo el mensaje que deja es universal para nuestro caso y muchas de las “realidades” que Marcola expone son válidas y están vigentes incluso aquí en El Salvador, la “tierra del cambio”, que viaja a lomos de caracol.
Rodolfo H. Terragno, político y empresario de medios argentino, publica un interesante artículo que titula “Lasciate ogni speranza” en alusión a la famosa frase que adorna la entrada al infierno de Dante, en el que analiza el montaje que se hizo del “discurso” de Marcola a la sociedad en algo parecido a lo que vivieron nuestros abuelos con la emisión radial de “La Guerra de los Mundos” de H.G. Well, montada por el actor Orson Welles a principios del siglo pasado o similar a lo que vimos en la película V de Venganza basada en el famoso Comic de Alan Moore, que utilizan un inteligente pero cruel discurso para exponer la realidad de la incapacidad del gobierno ante el crimen y resaltar el miedo que esto causa en la población.Mas >
El exceso de los boxeadores (léase vicios), no es nuevo en el deporte: en las peleas hasta finales de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, verdaderos maratones de golpes de 20 y más rounds de una época en que el boxeo era prohibido en muchos lugares, era frecuente que un contendiente, cuando no ambos, mostraran con orgullo un protuberante “vientre cervecero” en el exacto sentido del término, porque, a lo largo de todo un día o de una noche, podían beberse un barril completo de cerveza, como si nada hubiera ocurrido, durante los descansos entre episodios.
Incluso en el beisbol, muchos jugadores, como el pitcher de los Cardenales del San Luis Morton Cooper, se bebían casi una botella de escosés y salían como si nada a cumplir con el compromiso del día.
Barney Ross, uno de los mejores boxeadores de la historia, que nunca cayó por un knockdown, participó en la Batalla de Guadalcanal, fue herido y condecorado con la Cruz de Hierro al valor, durante su recuperación, se hizo adicto a la morfina, que le administraban para los terribles dolores que sufría. Con ayuda profesional y religiosa se recuperó de la adicción y murió en Chicago en 1967, a los 57 años como asesor de gente agredida por el flagelo ¿Pudiera justificarse la situación en que cayó el pugilista? Depende, para mí, sí.
Pero la droga hecha adicción de forma voluntaria y sin razón aparente, está directamente relacionada con la sociedad, con el nivel cultural y con la procedencia del boxeador, por lo general, provenientes de barrios misérrimos y violentos donde en cada segundo cuenta lo que se haga para poder vivir el próximo.
El atleta cubano de hoy que llega a Miami con hambre de fama y fortuna en el circuito profesional, es escudriñado milimétricamente por muchos medios de prensa y por cronistas cubanos de la Isla y no cubanos (Dan Rafael, ESPN) para hacerlo leña, se vio ante el caso Gamboa y el suceso doméstico de hace un año. Cuando uno de estos deportistas resbala, le dan sin compasión, en el suelo y por la nuca.
Joel Casamayor acaba de dar positivo a mariguana producto del rutinario examen de orina posterior a la pelea del sábado pasado.
Considerando que existe una ojeriza hecha pública con respecto a los cubanos de hoy, que afecta el nombre de todos los cubanos y de la patria misma, cada cuadra que tenga por lo menos un peleador de las recientes hornadas, tiene que establecer una cartilla de moral y cívica que, en igual medida que les enseñen cómo se evita un golpe para que no los lastimen, les hagan entender que tienen que moverse por cauces limpios socialmente hablando.
Casamayor es uno de los mejores peleadores cubanos de todos los tiempos, un futuro Salón de la Fama, un orgullo del país más sufrido, reprimido y humillado del continente que, lo poco que le ha quedado luego del saqueo moral de 50 años, es sentir orgullo por sus atletas en el profesionalismo.
Cada boxeador, cada pelotero exiliado tiene que concientizar que también tienen que hacerse dignos de orgullo por su condición de ciudadanos ejemplares y no tienen otra alternativa.
The RCMP announced a new initiative to combat marijuana grow operations on Wednesday. (Joe Bryksa/Canadian Press)
Toronto — The RCMP has launched a website listing the addresses of where marijuana grow-ops were found.
The National Grow Initiative is an RCMP-led project launched on September 21st, 2011 in Ottawa that will focus on enforcement, deterrence and awareness as part of the National Anti-Drug Strategy.
The addresses will remain on the RCMP website for a period of one year.
The website's address is www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/
drugs-drogues/mgi-ircm/index-eng.htm.
British Columbia leads the list with the most grow-ops discovered, with several dozen locations listed, mainly in the Surrey area. A property in Hope, B.C., displayed on the website, was said to have had 6,496 marijuana plants found on it in June, 2011.
Categorized by provinces, the website lists the addresses of homes, outbuildings and businesses where search warrants were executed. It also lists when the busts were made and how many marijuana plants were found. Clandestine drug labs are also included in the database.
"Grow-ops can be major headache for Canadian Real Estate investors" says Navtaj Chandhoke, founder of Professional Real Estate Investors Group (PREIG) Canada,” this information will empower Canadian home buyers as well As Real Estate Investors since there is no database known to Canadians of former grow-ups".
So far, the only way for a Canadian home buyer to know if a home was a grow-op is for the property seller to disclose that information.
EFE Cuba opina que despenalizar la marihuana sería una "irresponsabilidad histórica" que podría conllevar un "daño irreparable", según afirmaron hoy en La Habana fuentes oficiales. El secretario de la Comisión Nacional de Drogas de la isla, ...Leer...
¨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.
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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!!!