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
Vin Diesel, protagonista de la saga “Fast & Furious” se encuentra en
Cuba, para filmar una película de bajo presupuesto, junto al director
de cine de Hollywood, Robert Rodriguez, un verdadero especialista en la
materia.
Producer Oprah Winfrey’s Selma won two Oscar nominations
Thursday morning: Best Picture and Best Song. Because the Civil Rights
drama failed to win nominations for its director, star or script, people
are claiming it was snubbed (it was — the Best Pic nod is an also-ran)
and crying racism.
I thought some context might help.
Before he won an Oscar at age 64, Martin Scorsese directed Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, King Comedy, Color of Money, and The Age of Innocence.
Selma is only director Ana DuVernay’s third feature film. She is just 42 years old.
Before he won an Oscar at age 61 , Paul Newman starred in The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, The Long Hot Summer, Verdict, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cat On Hot Tin Roof, Sting, and Slap Shot.
David Oyelwo’s first big starring role is in Selma. He is just 38 years old.
Yes, the cry of racism around Selma is, like Selma itself, just another in a long line of race-hoaxes dumped on the American people this year (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Oprah’s Swiss purse lie).
While the left crybabies over Oscar’s snub of Selma, here are 225 bigger Oscar snubs; a list of people who have never won a competitive Oscar, and a list of movies better than Selma that not only failed to win an Oscar, but were never even nominated! (Source.)
Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Mann
Orson Welles
Christopher Nolan
Jean Simmons
Annette Bening
Glenn Close
Agnes Morehead
Judy Davis
Gena Rowlands
Mia Farrow
Greta Garbo
Marilyn Monroe
Myrna Loy
Marlene Dietrich
Jean Harlowe
Carol Lombard
Lauren Bacall
Irene Dunne
Maureen O’Hara
Rosalind Russell
Martin Sheen
Steve McQueen
James Caan
Harvey Keitel
James Mason
Montgomery Clift
Eli Wallach
Bruce Dern
Gary Oldmam
Judy Garland
John Malkovich
Ed Harris
Donald Sutherland
Richard Harris
Peter Sellers
Cary Grant
Albert Finney
Deborah Kerr
Richard Burton
Fred Astaire
Kirk Douglas
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Peter O’Toole
Jean Simmons
Ridley Scott
Buster Keaton
Howard Hawks
Robert Altman
Sam Peckinpah
John Cassavetes
Sidney Lumet
Brian DePalma
David Lynch
Spike Lee
Lillian Gish
Errol Flynn
Joseph Cotton
Maurice Chevalier
Peter Lorre
Charlie Chaplin (except for a score award)
Stanley Kubrick (except for a special effects award)
Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born
actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and '60s who was immortalized
bathing in the Trevi fountain in "La Dolce Vita," has died. She was 83.
Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia
Ubaldi confirmed she died in Rome Sunday morning following a series of
illnesses. She had been hospitalized most recently after Christmas.
Ubaldi said that in her last days Ekberg was saddened by the illness and her advancing age.
"She had hoped to get better, something that didn't happen," she said.
Ekberg had long lived in
Italy, the country that gave her worldwide fame thanks to the iconic
dip opposite Marcello Mastroianni. The scene where the blond bombshell,
clad in a black dress, her arms wide open, calls out "Marcello" remains
one of the most famous images in film history.
Born on Sept. 29, 1931, in the southern city of Malmo, Ekberg grew up with seven siblings.
In 1951 she won the Miss
Sweden competition, after being recommended to enter by organizers who
saw her on the street, and went to the United States to compete for the
Miss Universe title.
She didn't win but became a model in Hollywood and later started taking on small acting roles.
Her role in Federico
Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" — where she played a movie star — shot her to
stardom. The movie was a colossal success and came to define the wild
and carefree days of the early 1960s.
Hosting a Swedish radio
program in 2005, Ekberg recalled shooting the scene in the Trevi
Fountain in Rome. She said it was shot in February, the water in the
fountain was cold and Mastroianni was falling over in the fountain drunk
on vodka.
"And there I was. I was freezing," she said. "They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn't feel my legs anymore."
"I have seen that scene a
few times. Maybe too many times. I can't stand watching it anymore, but
it was beautiful at the time," she said.
Ekberg remained in Italy
for years, appearing in scores of movies, many forgettable. She
returned in two Fellini movies: "Clowns" and "Intervista."
Ekberg married Briton
Anthony Steel in 1956, but divorced him four years later. In 1963 she
married again to actor Rik van Nutter, but that marriage also failed.
In an interview with Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet in 2006, Ekberg said her only regret in life was never having children.
"I would have liked to
have a child, preferably a son," she was quoted as saying. "It didn't
turn out that way. That's life, you just have to accept it."
In the interview, published in connection with Ekberg's 75th birthday, she also said she wasn't afraid of death.
"I'm just angry because I
won't get the chance to tell others about death, where the soul goes
and if there is a life afterward," she was quoted as saying.
"I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy."
Ubaldi said a ceremony
would be held in the coming days at a Lutheran church in Rome, and that
Ekberg had specified that her remains be cremated.
Hulton Archive / Getty Images Contributor
(FILE PHOTO) Swedish actress Anita
Ekberg known for her role in the 1960 movie La Dolce Vita has died in
Rome today after a series of illnesses. circa 1955: The Swedish actress
Anita Ekberg, known as 'The Iceberg'.
This story first appeared in the Jan. 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
When President Obama on Dec. 17 proposed easing 50
years of restrictions on Americans who want to visit and do business in
Cuba, the socialist nation stood to join neighbors such as the Virgin
Islands, Bahamas and the Dominican Republic as a popular destination for
Hollywood productions in search of historic architecture, good weather
and pristine locations. But even relaxed restrictions on banking, travel
and telecommunications would leave significant obstacles to overcome
before the island nation could become Hollywood in the Caribbean. Read moreIndustry Optimisitc on New Cuba-U.S. Era
Bob Yari, the only American to direct a feature in Cuba in generations — the recently wrapped Papa, a period story about Ernest Hemingway
at the time of the Cuban revolution — says filmmakers still must obtain
clearances from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, which acts for
the U.S. Department of the Treasury. "That was very difficult and took a
lot of time," says Yari.
And like anyone who wants to shoot in Cuba, Yari had to partner with
Canada-based Cuba Film Productions, which serves as a liaison. Says Bruce Donnelly, who last year directed the documentary Alumbrones, about visual artists in Cuba: "[CFP] helped facilitate everything. But we had to make clear what the nature of the film was."
A Cuban Film Commission spokesman who asked to remain anonymous tells THR
that despite the shift in policy, filmmakers still will encounter a
detailed application process, and content will be a consideration: "All
projects and scripts do get screened for content that would be
considered extremely morally offensive, subversive or undermine the
political or social values of society." Read moreHemingway Biopic 'Papa' First Hollywood Feature Film Shot in Cuba in 45 Years
Nancy Haecker, a location manager who has made
several trips to Cuba, says in addition to getting approval from
government bureaucrats, filmmakers shooting in Cuba will find little
infrastructure. "They don't have equipment to handle larger productions.
Semi trucks of grip equipment, lighting and movie trailers would all
have to come from Miami."
Still, there are clear advantages to shooting in Cuba. In addition to
plenty of little-seen historic locations (not to mention all those
classic American cars that would cost a fortune to rent elsewhere), the
exchange rate is roughly equal with the U.S., and prices for food,
housing, local transport and labor are extremely low. And perhaps most
important: Cuba wants the business.
Says Michael Pacino, an executive producer with CFP:
"American productions have always been welcome here in Cuba, to a large
degree. However, because of the embargo, getting funds into Cuba on
approved projects has been problematic. This shift in policy will
definitely help."
MOSCOW — Hollywood actor Mickey
Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a
fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout. Rourke sent
29-year-old Pasadena native Elliot Seymour to the canvas twice in the
second round before the referee stopped the fight.
The bout at a Moscow
concert hall was Rourke's first fight in 20 years. He took a break from
acting in the early 1990s, finishing a three-year pro boxing career with
six wins and two draws. He hinted that the return to the ring has
helped him cope with unspecified personal issues.
"I've got some things
going on in my life so that (boxing has) sort of saved me from myself,"
Rourke told Russian TV. "And or a man like me, it's better to live in
fear than go on in shame."
He has said he plans to
hold another four fights in Russia. He took to the ring Friday in a
Stetson hat, a red-and-gold robe and shiny gold gloves, repeatedly
crossing himself. Rourke, who had said he lost 35 pounds to prepare for
the fight, was much thinner than in his best-known cinematic fighting
persona, when he bulked up to play the title character in 2008's "The
Wrestler."
Seymour, a former
California Golden Gloves champion with a 1-9 pro record, did not land
any significant blows on Rourke, whose previous boxing career left him
with injuries that he has previously said necessitated extensive plastic
surgery to his face.
YURI KOCHETKOV / EPA
U.S. actor and boxer Mickey Rourke in action during his fight against U.S. boxer Elliot Seymour in Moscow, on Nov. 28.
The actress claims the director-producer wanted her to falsify documents and turn down other jobs to shoot Papa in Cuba in late 2012. Sharon Stone names Bob Yari
and his production companies Magenta Light Productions and Sixth Floor
Literary Properties as defendants in a lawsuit filed today in LA
Superior Court. The suit claims that Yari and his companies “lied to
[Stone] and attempted to lure her into being a participant in their
fraudulent scheme to avoid the legal licensing requirements of the
United States government.” It also alleges that she was induced “to
forego other projects and commit to making [Papa] based on
Yari’s false representation that Defendants had obtained the necessary
documentation to shoot the Picture in Cuba and to enable Ms. Stone to
travel to Cuba to render acting services.”
Stone claims she was advised to “check a box on her license
application indicating that she was going to Cuba for a ‘cultural
endeavor’ rather than” for an acting job. Had she done so, she says, she
“would have subjected herself to a host of potential criminal
liabilities and placed her passport privileges in jeopardy.” The actress
never made the trip to play Ernest Hemingway’s last wife, Mary, and she
says the role was recast. Marty Singer and Michael Holtz of Lavely
& Singer are representing Stone in the suit, which seeks at least
$500,000 in damages. Yari this month lost a seven-year multimillion-dollar court battle with members of the cast and crew of his Oscar-winning film Crash.
Oh damn I wish that I were dead — absolutely nonexistent – gone away from here — from everywhere but how would I do it There is always bridges — the Brooklyn bridge – no not the Brooklyn Bridge because But I love that bridge (everything is beautiful from there and the air is so clean) walking it seems peaceful there even with all those cars going crazy underneath. So it would have to be some other bridge an ugly one and with no view — except I particularly like in particular all bridges — there’s some- thing about them and besides these I’ve never seen an ugly bridge
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead Sunday in his New York City apartment, law enforcement officials confirmed to NBC News. He was 46.
A
concerned friend found Hoffman in the actor's bathroom, fully clothed.
When police arrived about 11:30 a.m., they found Hoffman still had a
syringe in his arm. Glassine bags believed to contain heroin were also
found, police said.
Most recently, Hoffman was at the Sundance
Film Festival promoting his film "God's Pocket," opposite "Mad Men"
actors Christina Hendricks and John Slattery. The actor was also set to
star in a new Showtime comedy, "Happyish," which was introduced to TV
critics last month in Los Angeles. One of Hoffman's last taped
interviews can be seen here.
Born
in Fairport, New York, the versatile actor was accomplished in both
theater and on the big screen. He earned three Tony nominations, three
supporting actor Academy Award nominations (including 2012's "The
Master"), and won a best actor Oscar for 2005's "Capote." He was most
recently seen as Plutarch Heavensbee in the "Hunger Games" sequel
"Catching Fire."
In the January 27 issue of People Magazine, First Lady
Michelle Obama cites Jane Fonda as a role model. "[And] there's Jane
Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp woman," Michelle
Obama responded after being asked by People who she would someday want
to look and live like.
PEOPLE: And there are other role models you look at and think, "When I'm 70 or 80, I want to look and live like her'?
MRS. OBAMA: Oh, yes. Every event I go to,
every rope line, women are looking better with every passing year. I
run into women all the time who will just happen to mention, "Oh, I'm
going to be 60," and it's like, "You're kidding me!" I just went to see
Cicely Tyson on Broadway. She is in her 80s and did a two-hour play with
stamina and passion. I told her, "I want to be you when I grow up!"
[And] there's Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp
woman.
For the last fifty years, Fonda has been one of the most divisive
political and cultural figures in America. Fonda earned the nickname
"Hanoi Jane" after photos were released of the actress laughing it up
with our enemies in North Vietnam while sitting on an anti-aircraft gun
used to shoot down American flyers.
While the war was still raging, Fonda attacked the American government and our troops in propaganda radio broadcasts for the North Vietnamese.
Recently, as the Iraq War waged, Fonda resumed her anti-war activities.
Among America's veterans, "Hanoi Jane" remains one of the most
reviled figures in American history. Still, America's First Lady
considers Fonda a role model and sees her as "politically savvy."
When you are reminded that the First Lady and the President spent 20
years in Reverend Wright's church, Michelle Obama's choice of Fonda as a
role model isn't likely to surprise anyone.
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
AP Intelligence Writer
WASHINGTON
Newly declassified documents show that former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed secret information to "Zero Dark Thirty" scriptwriter Mark Boal, who was allowed to attend Panetta's speech at CIA headquarters marking the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Judicial Watch filed a request for the more than 200 pages of documents, which the CIA released Tuesday. The documents concerned the internal investigation of its role in the film about the bin Laden raid.
In a statement, Panetta says he had no idea Boal was in the audience when he gave the speech. He says he assumed everyone inside had proper clearance.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd says the agency has since "overhauled its procedures for interaction with the entertainment industry after an extensive internal review."
As is the norm following the passing of any major celebrity nowadays, the Internet is rampant with conspiracy theories surrounding the death of movie star Paul Walker of “Fast and Furious” fame.
Walker was killed with friend Roger Rodas on Nov. 30 when the car they were driving burst into flames. Investigators believe the car was speeding at least 90 mph in a 45 mph zone when it reportedly hit a light pole and tree.
Prominent among the imaginative schemes is that Walker was killed as a blood sacrifice by the so-called Illuminati, an alleged shadowy group described as an elitist cabal that yields enormous global influence.
Another claim, based on a difficult-to-see video showing the moment of crash impact, is that Walker was killed by a drone strike. That unsupported theory is contested by a second video.
Another wild conspiracy circulating on forums is that Walker’s death was “predicted” by the “Family Guy” television show.
Some theorists home in on aspects of Walker’s death that, they claim, have occult, ritualistic or symbolic significance. Drone
One popular claim is the drone strike rumor. The allegation is based on a video released by TMZ.com showing the final moment of the crash.
The video seems to show some sort of reflection just before Walker’s car exploded into flames, prompting cyber claims that an object such as a missile struck the car.
Others have pointed to the lack of tire marks in photos of the crash site as evidence of a supposed missile strike.
Paul Joseph Watson at InfoWars.com, a site known for jumping on other assassination conspiracy theories, called the Walker drone theory a “baseless conspiracy” that “discredits real evidence of political assassinations.”
The site reports the object in the video is “almost certainly” the light pole Walker’s car struck just before the explosion.
(Reuters) - Retired American basketball star Michael Jordan is going to be a father again. He and his Cuban-American model wife, Yvette Prieto, are expecting their first child, celebrity magazine Us Weekly reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed Jordan representative.
No due date was reported.
Jordan, 50, and Prieto, 34, were married in April in Florida after a five-year courtship. They live near Miami.
Jordan has three adult children from his previous 17-year marriage to Juanita Venoy, which ended in divorce in 2006.
The Hall of Fame player won six National Basketball Association championships with the Chicago Bulls. He won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award five times and was named an all-star 14 times.
His on-court success and commercial endorsements have made him one of the most recognizable and prosperous athletes in the United States
Sean Penn cares, deeply, for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his fellow Tea Party members. It's why the Oscar winner wants Cruz and co. committed to a mental asylum.
Penn shared his views on the Tea Party during Monday's edition of the low-ratedPiers Morgan Live on CNN.
I think they have -- there's a mental health problem in Congress,” Penn said. “This would be solved by committing them by executive order, I think. Because these are our American brothers and sisters, we shouldn't be criticizing them, attacking them … this is a cry for help.
“You literally commit what, people like Ted Cruz?” asked Morgan.
“He is my American brother,” the actor said. “I think we should take care of him, he is in trouble.”
Morgan did not challenge Penn's assertion or ask any follow-up questions as even a third-rate journalist might. Instead, Morgan chuckled like a school girl sitting atop a whoopee cushion.
LOS ANGELES – Samuel L. Jackson has some words of wisdom for President Obama when it comes to his deliberate dropping of “g’s” off the ends of words to seemingly sound like Joe Average.
“First of all, we know it ain’t because of his blackness, so I say stop trying to ‘relate.’ Be a leader. Be f**king presidential,” Jackson told Playboy magazine. “Look, I grew up in a society where I could say ‘It ain’t’ or ‘What it be’ to my friends. But when I’m out presenting myself to the world as me, who graduated from college, who had family what cared about me, who has a well-read background, I f**king conjugate.”
The 64-year-old actor, who stars this fall in the highly-anticipated remake of “Oldboy,” is also known in social media circles as the “grammar police.”
“On Twitter someone will write, ‘Your an idiot,’ and I’ll go, ‘No, you’re an idiot,’ and all my Twitterphiles will go, ‘Hey, Sam Jackson, he’s the grammar police.’ I’ll take that,” he continued. “Somebody needs to be. I mean, we have newscasters who don’t even know how to conjugate verbs, something Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow never had problems with. How the f**k did we become a society where mediocrity is acceptable.”
Raised in Tennessee, Jackson went on to note that he’s finally proud to acknowledge his Southern roots, and how his strict family upbringing put him in good stead.
“Looking back, I love the South so much, even though there was a time when I didn’t feel so proud of being from there. The sense of community there is unheard of in this day and age. The idea that it takes a village to raise a child—it works,” he said. “The one thing my family insisted on was, don’t embarrass us. Don’t make us come to jail, because though we will come to see you, we’re going to leave you there. It just wasn’t an option for me. I was more afraid of the people I lived with than the people I ran with.”
The famed actor also staunchly defended director Quentin Tarantino’s controversial use of the “N” word in last year’s hit “Django Unchained.”
“These 20-somethings can’t turn around and tell me the word n**ger is f**ked-up in ‘Django’ yet still listen to Jay Z or whoever else say ‘n**ger, n**ger, n**ger’ throughout the music they listen to,” he told the men’s magazine. “You can’t have it one way and not the other. Saying Tarantino said ‘n**ger’ too many times is like complaining they said ‘kike’ too many times in a movie about Nazis.”
However, there are a couple of things he says won’t do onscreen – not even for his buddy Tarantino. Maybe.
“Probably dress up as a woman and kiss another guy. I don’t think people want to see me do that,” Jackson added. “He hasn’t asked me, but you know what? If it’s done right and the story is good, I might.”
It has been three years since Jack Nicholson last appeared on screen and now Radar Online is reporting that the three-time Oscar winner has retired from acting due to a failing memory that makes it impossible for him to remember his lines. Radar's source says Nicholson will continue to be a public figure, just not on film.
The 76-year-old icon has no plans to appear in films again after a career spanning five decades.
“Jack has — without fanfare — retired,” a well-placed Hollywood film insider confirmed to Radar.
“There is a simple reason behind his decision — it’s memory loss. Quite frankly, at 76, Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him.
Nicholson's decision puts him in a club with fellow Oscar winners Sean Connery and Gene Hackman, who also quietly retired from the acting profession in their mid to late seventies.
Radar adds that Nicholson will still be seen courtside at Lakers' games and in public appearances, such as his co-presentation of the Best Picture Oscar at last year's Academy Awards.
Nicholson's screen career began in 1956 in the television series Matinee Theatre. After numerous film and television appearances, stardom would finally arrive thirteen years later with a memorable supporting role in 1969's Easy Rider. From there, Nicholson never looked back. On his way to becoming a screen legend, Nicholson would rack up an incredible twelve Oscar nominations, winning three.
¨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!!!
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