Obama visited Chile. It's natural. Chile has taken the lead in Latin America. Is a great example. It is likely that the next generation to live in a first world country, which means social levels reach to seventy percent of the census. How did he do? What happened there? Let's talk about that. A year ago
Sebastián Piñera became president of Chile greeted by a devastating earthquake which damages were estimated at thirty billion dollars. However, objective assessment of those 12 months is reasonably good. Let
numbers: GDP growth of 5.2%, slightly higher productivity, lower inflation by 25% (4 went to 3), reducing crime and relatively peaceful social climate, although some left angry tried to present the new government as the return of Pinochet, which presaged a contentious atmosphere.
However, more important than the achievements of Piñera and his decisions, taxes rose unexpectedly, prevented the creation of a coal-fired power plant needed to pressure from environmentalists, is the smooth continuation of the work of government. Similarly in 1989, presided by Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin, a center-left coalition replaced the Pinochet dictatorship after a disputed election, but did not give up the positive aspects of the general left, but was dedicated to building a modern democracy governed economically by the market and the company Private, Piñera has done exactly the same: it assumes power after the socialist Michelle Bachelet and does not destroy anything. Simply continues the march, the government proposes certain measures that he and his experts find most effective, corrects or reverses others, and all remain under the authority of law and pursuant to the institutions.
why Chile is now the most successful nation in Latin America. The vast majority of society agrees that the best model of coexistence is found within the political paradigm of liberal democracy and market fundamentals and the supremacy of civil society. Consequently, politicians and civic peaceful moves within that spectrum, which is also that of the twenty-seven European Union nations, and a dozen other winners of the first world countries: USA, Canada, Switzerland, Israel , Japan, Australia, South Korea and a brief and so on.
Finally, those who make up the range of liberal democracy-Chilean Christian Democrats, Social Democrats Liberals and conservatives, whatever their official names, "have understood that there are irreconcilable enemies, but members of the same political family, able to make coalitions, differentiated only by minor differences that do not question the system in which they live, but the style management. What is discussed with passion is the amount of the tax burden, the public spending priorities and social norms: abortion, sexual preference, position on drug use and the rest of the usual moral cockpits.
That is maturity. So serious nations behave. Smoothly, without delusions revolutionaries aimed at reshaping the nation according to fantasies of the shift leader.
is true that in societies triumphant heroes usually are not politicians, but prominent entrepreneurs create wealth, scientists have made great discoveries, the athletes who have managed to break Olympic marks or intellectuals and artists universally admired. In these countries, companies are not slaughtered to glorify their rulers, but the reverse happens: the rulers are slaughtered for the glory of the societies they serve. Do not come to power to rule, but to obey and serve.
That's what Chile has done for over twenty years. There is no secret. Via
The Houston Astros signed the Cuban José Carlos Thompson
His father was the architect of the flight of pitcher Aroldis Chapman.
Cuban baseball player José Carlos Thompson has signed with the Houston Astros for $ 250,000, reported the majors.
José Carlos Thompson, a second baseman for 23 years, hopes to become the first Cuban to appear in a game for the Astros from Oscar Zamora, in 1978.
"It has always been my dream, and I want to move to see what happens, "Thompson said, according to MLB.
Thompson comes from the Dominican Academy of the Astros. The signature includes an invitation to major league training, something that the general manager Ed Wade is usually opposed, when it comes to players in their first year.
"But this boy was not to another," said Wade. "The truth is you're doing a good job in training and has had several opportunities here for display. At some point, send it back to camp for minor leaguers who cut his teeth with a large group of young infielders.
Little is known about the past Thompson. He played one season in organized baseball in the United States and batted .440 in 59 games with the Western Oklahoma Junior College.
arrived in Boston at the age of 20, when his father Charles Thompson, the architect of the escape of Chapman Aroldis pitcher, became a U.S. citizen.
Because of his age, could play his first season in professional baseball Class-A Lancaster and Double-A Corpus Christi. Via
And this is the "leader" who is followed by million in Latin America ... what the fuck is the continent!
Chávez: "There may have been civilization on Mars, but capitalism killed it." The last intervention
the agent has been shared with the Venezuelans, and incidentally the world, this reflexisión. Digital Freedom
Hugo Chavez has sought to frighten a possible desertification of the earth. And it has thought better to drop the following sentence:
"On Mars, I've always said, hearing, would not be surprising that there has been civilization on Mars, but maybe it was beyond capitalism, imperialism and eventually reached with that planet. "
taking advantage of the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir happens, blame, as always, capitalism for all the ills of the world. He warned that water supplies were drying earth.
"Careful, careful, and watch it today on Earth where there were hundreds of years or less large forests that are now deserts, where there were large rivers that there are deserts in many parts of the world. There is a Advanced distillation process that threatens life on our planet in the medium term. "
Well, that, that "the Earth belongs to no one except the wind," which would tell others. Via
The Colombian army killed the security chief of the FARC terrorists
Jeronimo Galeano
Colombia's government confirmed his death during a military operation against the terrorist group.
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The Colombian government said the death in a terrorist military operation "Jerome", which he defined as a military target "high value", is a setback for the FARC, who have lost the leader of the structures security of its top leader, "Alfonso Cano".
As reported by Efe, ESDC on Sunday had begun to speculate on the death of "Jerome Galeano," Munoz alias Archimedes Villamil, head of the Central Joint Command called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and regarded as right hand the terrorist group's top leader, Guillermo Leon Saenz ("Alfonso Cano").
On Tuesday confirmed his death on Sunday during the military operation called "March", from the Ninth Brigade Chapinero on the sidewalk, near the town of Aipe, the regional department of Huila (south).
In a press conference in Bogota, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, said: "Jerome", with over 35 years of "career criminal" within the FARC, was responsible for "providing security rings" for " Cano "and was one of the" high-value targets "for the Armed Forces.
According to Rivera, the leader of the terrorists were moving among the departments of Tolima, Huila, Valle del Cauca and Cauca, all in the south, and in recent months there had been several military operations against him.
Army commander, General Alejandro Navas, said he was able to locate a "Jerome" thanks to information from a terrorist defector, who was given a reward of up to 3,000 million pesos (almost $ 1.6 million .)
addition of "Jerome", 57, and against whom weighed 13 arrest warrants in the operation "March" another terrorist killed ("Yamileth"), radio operator of the gang 66 and confidant of leader killed, and a soldier. Via
Cuban regime condemns UN resolution and forgets its past
Cuban troops in Namibia, Africa.
GDC, March 22 - could not be otherwise. The Cuban government has issued a statement condemning what they call "foreign intervention" in Libya and called for resolving the conflict through "dialogue and negotiation."
If it seemed at one time the island's military government would not give much importance to the political events of the Middle East, everything changed when Libya took the stage. And dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, an old ally of Castro, the threat of a revolution popular, he threw bombs at their own countrymen and killed about 6 000 people, and yet the Castro brothers' regime calls for respect to Libya, which means that his government is respected.
The shadow of what happened in Libya haunts those who hold power on the island, which are remarkable similarities between the social and political situation in both countries.
"Cuba expresses its strongest condemnation of foreign intervention in internal conflict" in Libya, which must be resolved "through dialogue and negotiation, not militarily," said a Cuban Foreign Ministry statement read in the news national television. The propaganda of the regime attempts to transfer the burden of guilt to the nations that try to stop the bloodshed in the African nation.
The resolution adopted by the Security Council United Nations authorizes military attacks and create a no-fly zone in Libya "in no way authorized attacks on Libyan territory, which constitute a violation of international law," he said.
is suitable to remember that the Cuban regime, during the 70's and 80's of last century armies sent to Africa, intervened violently in the political happenings of nations such as Angola, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Via
Obama will see a golpe.Segunda Chile different from the scale in a Latin American tour that will also take a El Salvador
blogger comment: It is time to accept, recognize and publicly honor Augusto Pinochet who was the one who laid the foundations for today's modern Chile, dismantling the socialistic anarchy de Allende, creating the economic, political and social to a Chile that is now the head of Latin America and is an example not only for this continent but for the world.
Ancient and modern come together in harmony in Chile.
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SANTIAGO DE CHILE, March 20 (Reuters)
El Chile that the U.S. president, Barack Obama, will visit on Monday, in his first tour of Latin America, is a country very different from what Washington for decades stood in his backyard, because today has become a student vantage of Latin America.
currently living reality Chile is very different from that of this country four decades ago went through moments of high political tension that led to a coup d'etat with CIA interference, the State Department and U.S. multinationals.
"There's a new reality in Chile and Latin America but also in the United States itself, which sees it raises serious competitors such as China, "diplomatic sources consulted by Efe.
Chilean authorities highlight the fact that Obama has maintained this Latin American tour amid the nuclear crisis in Japan and the United Nations warning of an attack against Libya if it declares a ceasefire.
Although there will be some demonstrations against the visit by Obama, so far nobody has responded to the suggestion of former Cuban President Fidel Castro that apology "for the imposition of military rule in 1973 and" pay tribute to Salvador Allende and thousands of Chileans murdered by Pinochet's tyranny. "
addition to a more balanced, Latin America and the United States today share common strategies to solve problems like illegal immigration, organized crime and drug trafficking, the sources suggest. Supported
the political success of the transition and the strength of its economy, Chile is presented to the world as the first country in the region that is able to eradicate poverty and has set itself this year horizon 2018.
Peru, Colombia and Brazil share the same model of economic development, against Venezuela and Bolivia, "with closed economies and democracies without a separation of powers."
"Chile has done very well, has the highest per capita income in Latin America, and our transition experience has given us prestige in the world," said Foreign Ministry sources.
And an example of this is that after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptians are seeking a referral to transition on the Chilean model, as he told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
This is the world's largest pool located in the region of Valparaiso, Chile, Hotel Resort San Alfonso, with a length of 1 km.
Whatever the political change that occurred a year ago with the arrival at La Moneda's conservative Sebastián Piñera, since military rule ended in 1990, all governments have worked to strengthen and consolidate the democratic institutions.
Therefore, in his visit on Monday, President Barack Obama will be the time to socialize with former Chilean presidents before delivering the expected "Speech of the Americas," the central act of his visit to Chile.
The conference will take place in the cultural center next to the palace of La Moneda will invited the ambassadors of all Latin American countries, as well as the general secretary OAS, José Miguel Insulza, the executive secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, and IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno.
Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy launched the Alliance for Progress and promised $ 500 million for Latin American countries, Obama will speak now of a new era in the relationship of the countries that make up the American continent.
And because the treatment must be equal, Chile claimed the United States today to leave behind trade protectionism and apply the same recipes for years given to the countries of the region.
long ago lost the American the fear of trading with the "giant of the North", as evidenced by that 20 percent of U.S. foreign trade is with countries in the region.
"But now is the United States needs to change, because protectionism has prevented, for example, to advance the free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, officials said.
Things are changing in the region and the world "and Chile is interested in playing an extremely active role" in the process. So look to seal Obama's visit "a relationship that is emerging as a society in which everyone sees what you can contribute."
"China will focus on economic growth over the next three to five decades and is content letting America take the weight of this monitor? "
Teachers of the Naval Academy here probably nodded in vigorous agreement with a recent speech made at another military facility located 200 kilometers. Give a lecture at West Point to the military leaders of tomorrow, the Secretary of Defense Gates said that "any future Secretary of Defense to advise the president U.S. to send large detachments Asia or the Middle East or Africa must lie on the couch in the delicate words of General MacArthur. "This underscores the idea that Gates" sophisticated most plausible scenarios for the U.S. military are mostly naval conflicts air, whether in Asia, the Persian Gulf or elsewhere. "
in this institution over 127 years old, which began the American practice of strategic military study in 1887, faculty members are restless professionals, all with what you have to do with Asia, read China. His naval doctrines, its acquisitions and deployments invited to draw conclusions regarding their geopolitical intentions. Teachers found it interesting that when plunged into chaos Libya, China sent a frigate through the Suez Canal in a position to help Chinese residents in danger. This was the first time that the Republic has noted a warship pointer towards a possible evacuation.
From tests as residual teachers here are trying to solve the puzzle that involves dangerous decades-long process of design and construction of ships: How should the U.S. Navy set a world order in which maritime capacity and intentions China's going to be ... what?
These scholars point out that America has not always been well ahead of its next rival. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the troops have said "this is not what we planned." But in the 22 years before Pearl Harbour, strategic review of the war successfully anticipated the nature of the war with Japan since the attacks amphibious vehicles to the capture of atolls that make bases, through the floating docks. Before
strategic review, the course of the American Navy was formed exclusively by ships that would travel to the west and would deliver something like the Battle North Sea, the fray of World War I between the British and Germanic fleets. After the war strategy, Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander of the fleet in the Pacific and U.S. representative on the Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri, said that kamikaze attacks were the only major surprise of the Pacific war theater.
The Chinese have also studied the World War II, according to some here in the center, have concluded that Japan's experience should be taken into account in strategic planning in China. Japan was defeated by sea and air crashes combined with the threat of invasion. In the words of someone here, America ensured his victory by controlling the Strait of Luzon, an island of traffic between the Philippines and Taiwan. China
no foreign bases, but has many needs to meet across the ocean, has a voracious appetite for imported raw materials-oil, coal, mining, and economic dynamism based on export. It has enormous national districts, oil refineries, shippers and shipping, among others, totally dependent on the global transport.
Today China is the passenger of a global maritime order built on a network of treaties enforced by the U.S. Navy. The frigate came to China via Suez then entered the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya says no longer control. Does not control enforced at the insistence of President Reagan in 1981 when Gulf waters are international.
The arrival of U.S. ships off the coast of Libya underlines the suitability of the Navy to project force. Mark Helprin of the Claremont Institute, notes that "40% of the world's population lives within range of modern naval reach and more than two-thirds distance with fighter cover easily deployed on aircraft carriers."
Regardless of what comes out of China Navy, some smart people will be surprised. What I do here is teaching, not espionage. Devour the flow of Chinese military publications. And experts differ on the more fundamental question, that is, China will focus on economic growth over the next three to five decades, to prosper from the free movement of raw materials, goods and services resulting from globalization, and be content letting America take the weight of this monitor?
The answer is yes, but only if China makes a purely economic calculation. But nations are usually more profound and compelling reasons. This is particularly true in emerging nations with great confidence in his ability and encouraged by old memories of humiliation and powerlessness.
Russia still runs along the ocean full of heads ballistic submarines. But this, as well as the renewed Russian air patrols that replicate the military exercises of the Cold War, probably mostly Russians psychotherapy for leaders anxious to get the respect in the world. China's naval intentions, the subject of a later column, are more interesting and potentially more sinister.
Fidel Castro and Muammar al-Gaddafi, Friends Forever (FILE)
The Cuban dictator of Libya received an award with his name and $ 250,000.
In August 1998, Muammar al-Gaddafi Foundation for Human Rights gave the (quirky) prize with the name of the Libyan leader Fidel Castro, reported official news agency Jana. The cable
news, Tripoli dated August 11, it was announced that the award was endowed with $ 250,000 and gave his reason for granting the Cuban dictator for "resistance to imperialism, the struggle on behalf of the principles and courage to face reality, they predict a new phase in the struggle of peoples against hegemony, the embargo and aggression."
Libyan According to the report, Castro collect the award on August 30 that year at an official ceremony, which did not offer details.
Since the announcement itself, the award was a reality that the Cuban press withheld by decision of Fidel Castro.
Rushing to the official presentation of the award and making him a trip to the Dominican Republic, the Maximum Leader August 23 announced a donation yours, personally, $ 250,000 for the construction of a polytechnic in town of Bani, even without mentioning the source of those funds. A clearly
, Fidel Castro did not know how to react publicly to the reward of his friend Gaddafi, then considered by many Western nations as a sponsor of international terrorism. Also feared the public face and explain why he accepted a sum of money so suspicious origin and extravagant prize name.
Without explanation, it was necessary to get rid of a money transfer in advance that could serve as evidence of personal enrichment. The official handover prize, announced by the Libyan government later this month, was postponed.
Two years later, at dawn on October 9, 2000, three journalists, information officers on duty were ordered to report presenting the award to Fidel Castro, who would become the headquarters of the Council of State in the Palace Revolucion in Havana.
monitored in hallways adorned with oil paintings of Tomás Sánchez dedicated to the "Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Raúl Castro and other Cuban artists paintings that became the seat of power in the museum, we were told to be patient because this hour, two in the morning, were held official talks behind closed doors, between Castro and a Libyan delegation.
When yawning became more persistent, journalists in Granma, the TV News and the National Information Agency (AIN, where I worked then) we were taken to a room with limited space for the official presentation of the award, postponed for two years by cunning of his receiver.
The staging of the ceremony was complete, the stage was formed by a small podium with microphone and, in the background, the flags of both countries, the actors were the envoy of the Libyan government Abuzed Omar Dorda, ambassador to UN accompanied by an embassy official in Tripoli in Havana who served as translator, and, of course, the Maximum Leader. As a select audience, three official newspapers.
No fanfare, but the songs sounded from a loudspeaker.
"When Fidel Castro militant, in recognition of his heroic role in defense of his people, as well as their resistance to imperialism, which has surrounded it for over three decades, was the dedication of the Libyan envoy.
Meanwhile, the leader boasted to defend human rights and gave the usual spiel common: Cuba "no missing" and spoke of his country's solidarity with the Third World.
Castro took the opportunity to thank Gaddafi for the award and called it "one of the great rebels of our time."
When there was nothing more to say, Castro turned his eye to a door where scrutinizing one of his bodyguards, and said, imperative: "Where's my juice?".
Without one minute after that order, an aide appeared with a tray and three glasses stunning squeezed orange for the boss. Castro pounced on the tray, preventing the Libyans came first and terminating the sham protocol.
As there was more show than watch, were taken out of there and warned us that the amount Cash Gaddafi prize was donated by Cuba "to build a school in the Dominican Republic."
I went walking up the headquarters of the AIN to write, quoting literally what was said, not to mention power sources other than official ones. The release wire service was ready at 6 am and was reviewed by two editors and sent to the Central Committee for approval.
The school was donated to the Dominican Republic Polytechnic Maximo Gomez, built with money provided solely by "Cuba" or Fidel Castro, as you see, in the town of Bani. Dominican Sources
have ensured that the cost building from the school amounted to 50 million Dominican pesos, which, at current rates would amount to about $ 1,300,000, five times the gift of Muammar al-Gaddafi to Fidel Castro.
In 2003, Fidel Castro made his last official visit to Libya, where he shook hands with Gaddafi, "one of the great rebels of our time." Castro Gaddafi walked to the palace as it has.
Official reports gave details only the visit to the palace bombed Tripoli in 1986 by U.S. aircraft on the orders of President Ronald Reagan, and that killed Gadhafi's adopted daughter.
The admiration between the Caribbean and Libyan tyrant is such that, to date, Fidel Castro has condemned the crimes against the population Gaddafi of Libya, and discussed the fortune that has Gaddafi clan. It appears that neither will. Via
Al Saavedra Lazaro HOT Raulistas bid between Fidel and the Cuban mafia
Raulistas A POINT OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE ECONOMIC COUP
Each day becomes more noticeable the deaf struggle that is ongoing between mafia groups of the Cuban tyranny, by the business domain to foreigners, the influence peddling within the unit - each day capitalist - the state, drug and human trafficking and the companies created to circumvent the embargo.
With several subgroups, the two main groups are integrated, for which until recently had the upper hand, which responded to Fidel (most outstanding examples: Max Marambio and John Henry Cabañas) and a lesser known but powerful clan that responds to Raul and his family, coordinated by Alejandro Castro Espin Colonels and Jose Alberto Rodriguez Lopez Callejas (pictured)
All indications are that raulistas go scoring the greatest victories and the apparatus of Castro is losing ground with his own eyes, what he has done that among these panic and expect a flood of ex-fidelity have handled behind the scenes the economic and have served as proxies for business major tyrant, who have been trying to take their profits accumulated over the years of theft and defrauding investors, outward, especially toward the U.S., things that many have succeeded in making with some success using his family.
Very soon we will have here a true gangsters, disguised as dissidents and "opposition", now, after half century, we want to sell the story that they have realized "the evil of that regime." And of course, you may see them revealing internals of the Castro regime in local television programs, but with their "earnings" for safekeeping.
We have reliable information from several top officials, who are preparing everything to make the leap, as they believe, and is quoted verbatim from several of them: "This is not going to fall precipitously, as expected by opponents hard Miami but will evolve so that the strongest group we integrate, what you call the Castro mafia, will be with all springs and establish a government as exists in Russia today, and already we are going to hell, because the raulistas not have compassion. "
are currently visiting Miami and surrounding areas, preparing for his final coming, several of these characters and many of them, cynically admitted that Rats have to abandon ship before it sinks. Many already have bought houses here on behalf of their children. And the most spectacular and vile. Some have been reaching out to known figures of "dissent", prisoners and even bloggers in Cuba, giving them financial assistance, seeking an endorsement as leapfrog. So clever rogues are these gangsters fidelistas.
New Action, is aware of those plays, and has names and details but not the issue for now, because we will not serve either to favor either of the two factions now vying for the fate of our country and its eleven million slaves, for any of them to succeed is so fatal as the other. In due time we will expose. Via
By Mark Steyn "Not missing young Muslim men who enjoy slaughtering babies three months and then return home dreaming of the square of the municipality or the football game to be baptized in his honor. "
Tamar Fogel, 12 years old, returned home Friday night to meet his parents, Ruth and Udi Fogel, his two brothers Yoav (11 years) and Elad (4 years), and her sister three months murdered in their beds. Had been beheaded and stabbed in the heart.
This is nothing shocking: young Muslim men are not lacking who enjoy slaughtering babies three months and then go home dreaming about the square of the municipality or the football game to be baptized in his honor.
Back in Gaza, the citizens celebrated the news with cheers and handing out candy.
Nor is nothing shocking. In worship widespread Palestinian death, there are countless legions, but not so willing to kill Jews themselves, they just revel in the glorious victory of the rest.
And in the world at large there was a marked reluctance to give coverage to the facts.
And, although not exactly shocking, it is a useful reminder of how much things have changed within a few years. September 11, recordings of Palestinians dancing in the streets and drove around handing out candy to the world's television screens, and that Arafat Reinón immediately went stale damage control mode and rushed to be recorded by donating blood.
This time there was no need for damage control, because there were none. The Western media simply deflected the light of the unfortunate events of his eyes gushing Palestinian rights. The Israeli government released crude images of the crimes, but withdrew the recording Youtube within two hours. The modern "social networking" suddenly develop a sense of decorum so exquisitely refined as the old directory of city notables. Caroline Glick writes
that a decade ago, the revelation that the French ambassador to Britain Daniel Bernard was referring to Israel as "that shitty country" was outrageous. It is now commonplace.
The legitimization of Israel today is completely universal: In fact, in these times more Palestinian leaders speak of "two-state solution" to the Europeans. Israel's national day, Britain's leading Jewish figures written to The Guardian to condemn the Jewish state's existence. And the "Israeli Apartheid Week" is a gift to Toronto's multicultural world.
Emphasizing his uncanny ability to ignore what is happening, the head of the Canadian Jewish Congress tweet today:
"Anonymity feeds unpleasantness in the network."
would have said that up to this sad fool would irrelevant noticed the striking feature of "disgusting" today is how little is anonymous. Year after year, the world's most happily with his ex-Semitism. You may have to ask John Galliano, or Julian Assange.
But sometimes, like when they kill a baby, which is not saying is just as eloquent. Recently I was talking to a Hungarian Jew who lived in hiding in Budapest during the Second World War, around 1944, when the pro-German government was running out of ammunition and was forced to get creative.
handcuffed the Jews in long chains, rose to a bridge, shot a couple at each end and then the pushed the Danube to let the dead weight dragging those who were in the middle. You must have a strong stomach to play this work, almost as strong as to kill children for three months. But, as my friend told his story, I thought of the monsters of the bridge, even those on the shore cheering, but in far greater numbers of people who remained with their affairs and making excuses for what was happening . That's what made the difference, Yesterday and Today Via libertaddigital.com
The Cuban Committee for Human Rights since its inception has fought not only in the field of allegations of violations, so has to stimulate the birth and growth the necessary Cuban civil society. Clarify the following because we are not against the right of anyone to organize and create the organization, blog, movement or school of thought that considers. On the contrary, is a right we defend. However, they are against the falsification of identification or identity of an organization and a few e-mail with my name. There is one person on the Internet is identified as the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and our symbol and an e-mail me (Bofill30@aol.com) that is not ours and we do know to save our responsibility. My link to the Internet only through this page along with Mr. Oscar Pena Vice President of the institution and also its Executive Director. And my phone number is (305) 856-8987.
"Detainees at Guantanamo are terrorists that only possible to prove that were training for attacks, so that, as in America there is no crime of belonging to terrorist organization, would be released. "
Obama said he would end Bush's counterterrorism policy. More specifically, he promised closing Guantanamo and bringing those detained there before the American Civil Justice. His arguments were not only humanitarian in nature but were also based on the realism of Pepis Miss you both like the self-proclaimed "moderate left." Guantanamo said the president, is counterproductive because it causes so much irritation in the Muslim world, which is the pretext with which Al Qaeda recruit more terrorists many U.S. forces are able to stop. In other words, the worst of Bush is that his policy would be immoral, the most serious is that it was wrong from the strategic standpoint.
The fact is that the Democratic candidate, made to discredit Guantánamo, he managed to defeat first to Hillary Clinton, who did not dare to defend Bush, despite being essentially agree with him, and then McCain who, in an attitude arriolesca, reneged on the policy of former president and now shakes Rajoy Aznar.
Well now comes Obama and not only close Guantanamo, which promised would be made by January 2010, but has ordered that prisoners who remain in the database are made available to the military commissions created by Bush and that Obama ordered a halt. And where is now the danger that bin Laden flushed swell to recruit Muslims outraged by the shame of Guantánamo?
Poor Obama! He wants, but the powerful do not let him. What fun to see our media rack your brains to find a way to explain how come Obama, handsome and good at Guantanamo have the same policy as Bush, bad and ugly. See how he does the correspondent of El Pais in Washington, "Obama has faced three major problems to close the detention camp: the fact that many foreign countries have evaded host inmates captured in Afghanistan, the refusal to accept U.S. states in its prisons, and the doubts of civil judicial system of how to judge these inmates, many of whose confessions were obtained with methods that under U.S. law would be considered torture. "
The problem is not that. The problem is that most of the detainees at Guantanamo are terrorists that is only possible prove that were training for attacks, so that, as in the United States there is no crime of belonging to terrorist organization would be released. And if not why, they would be detained without having been read his rights (which they did because they were prisoners of war, suspected offenders). So if Obama would have brought before the civil courts, most have been released, roam freely through the territory of the Union. What is Obama's political future if, as is most likely, one of the terrorists released their fault committed a serious violation? And as we are concerned, why should we accept on our territory or people that Obama wants to meet his lovely leftism in the streets of their cities?
Overall, this also in Guantanamo, Bush was right. This time, not me. San says Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize. Via
French aircraft are now flying to Libya to protect civilians. Digital Freedom
The French Government confirmed today the start of military operations in implementation of Security Council resolution on Libya UN.
The Defense Ministry spokesman Laurent Teisseire said that "operations have begun this afternoon, "and that French planes are now flying to Libya to protect civilians.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that the summit meeting in Paris have agreed to the implementation of Security Council resolution UN on Libya.
Sarkozy has confirmed that French planes are flying over Libya and there are others prepared to intervene and prevent attacks on the population. Sarkozy announced that the summit meeting in Paris have agreed to the implementation of the resolution Security Council UN on Libya.
"Our air force will oppose any aggression against population in Benghazi "he said, and demanded that Gaddafi immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of troops. If you do not," our countries will use military means. "Gaddafi has stated that" ignored "the mandate of UN and has stepped up its offensive. "Some Arabs have decided to free people from slavery," he said and stated that these populations need "help and support. It is our duty. Libyan citizens are in danger of death and we must respond to your call. "
However, Gaddafi warned that it is still time to" avoid the worst "if it meets the requirements of the international community. Our determination is total . is a serious decision but France is determined to plunge his role to history. "
Germany has confirmed he will not participate in any military action and Italy will only offer its military bases.
On anniversary of "Black Spring" new harassment of Damas de Blanco
People , mostly young, shouting slogans against Las Damas de Blanco out of the house of Laura Pollan, leader of the girl group that demands freedom for political prisoners in Cuba, where they gathered to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the crackdown "Black Spring" of 2003. Supporters of the Cuban government now starring an act of harassment against the Ladies in White, gathered Pollan's home in Havana. EPA / ROLANDO PUJOL
star Supporters of the Cuban government today an act of harassment against the Ladies in White, who met in a Havana home with other dissidents to mark the eighth anniversary of the crackdown of the "Black Spring "2003.
More than 200 people, mostly young, gathered this morning at the home of Laura Pollan, leader of the girl group that demands freedom for political prisoners, which brought together some 27 women and opponents as Guillermo Fariñas and former prisoners of conscience Héctor Maseda and Angel Moya, released a few weeks ago.
The purpose of the meeting of dissidents is to remember the eighth anniversary of "Black Spring" of 2003, when 75 dissidents were arrested and then sentenced to 6 to 28 years in prison on charges of conspiring with the U.S., threatening the independence of the state and "undermining the principles of the revolution."
While Damas de Blanco and other dissidents remain inside the chicken house in the street government supporters shout slogans in favor of the Cuban revolution and against opponents with words like "pin, put out down the worms "or" traitors ", common in these" acts of repudiation "as they are called in Cuba. The
officers are deployed from a large Cuban flag roof covering the street in the neighborhood of Centro Habana and have installed a speaker where the national anthem sounds and music of singer Silvio Rodriguez as found Efe. Nearby
has also deployed a visible police operation and security officials and several streets in the area are closed to traffic.
telephone Speaking Efe, Berta Soler, a spokeswoman for the Ladies in White is in the interior of the house, said they will not fail to commemorate the anniversary of "Black Spring" in spite of this new act of harassment.
For its part, the psychologist and journalist Guillermo Fariñas independently justified the celebration of this anniversary in the eight years since the 2003 crackdown have been years "of resistance, civic struggle and perseverance."
The commemoration of this day is marked this year by the process of releases of political prisoners of the Group of 75 that the government of Raul Castro began in July 2010 with the mediation of the Catholic Church.
Of the 52 opponents of the group who were prisoners at that time, 40 were released on the condition of exile in Spain, 10 have been released and remain in Cuba and 2 (Felix Navarro and José Daniel Ferrer) are still in prison.
Speaking to EFE, Fariñas hoped that the releases of Navarro and Ferrer occur soon and close the chapter of the prisoners of the Group of 75 (all considered prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International).
recalled, however, need to continue fighting for the fulfillment of human rights in Cuba, while highlighting the "pride and conviction" of those released from the Group of 75, and all have declared their release from prison intend to continue their work to that end. Via
Status Armando Sosa Fortuni, sick, almost 70 years, 16 prisoners and 30 penalty. Immediate release this political prisoner Who is this prisoner, ignored? Armando Sosa.
Sosa and six other Cubans living in the United States belonging to the anti-Castro organization PUND landed on the causeway that links the coastal city of Caibarién to Cayo Santa Maria, north of the province of Villa Clara.
Sosa, along with the rest of the group, was arrested on October 15, 1994 and sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of "other acts against state security."
During the 16 years he has been in prison has gone through several prisons of the island. He is currently hospitalized in the Kilo 7 Prison in Camagüey province. He has no family in Cuba and the most recent data indicate that in this last prison was visited by marriage Meivis Mülenen Diaz and his wife Madelin Cruz Avila.
prison authorities canceled those visits him and told him that only his sister, Dalia, an elderly woman living in the United States may visit. Armando Sosa
Fortuni was among the first to infiltrate when the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
This is the second conviction of Armando Sosa, a former political prisoner who was released from prison and in exile and returned to Cuba in an infiltration team. Via
GDC, March 17 - Continue the arrival of Cuban rafters Honduran coast. This time it was the turn of 22 people, nineteen men and three women, who in hours of the morning landfall in the Miami area in the Central American country.
Honduran According to the newspaper La Prensa, the 22 boat people are in good health, but hungry and tired after a journey of several days. Residents of the seaside resort to aid the group arrived without problems.
"We left Cuba on Sunday 6 March, we are out of diesel, we have four days of sail and we sail three days without food, "said one of the rafters.
Police moved the group on Thursday to Tela, the largest resort on the Atlantic Honduras, where the Bureau of Immigration granted a 30-day humanitarian permit to stay in the country.
The 22 Cuban migrants who arrived in Tela, they put their relatives in Miami, Honduras and thanked the Honduran authorities for the good treatment given to them. Name
Cuban rafters
Nolberto Rosabal Avila (31) Leader Coordinator Ladislao Castillo (39) Junior War Batista (32) Diodis Máltica Vasquez (37) Carlos Pérez Acuña (30) Ramón Moreno Castillo (37) Enrique Mendoza Daniel Guzman (26) Wilfredo Berdezia Valseira (28) Joel San Miguel Gutierrez (28) Orlando Lao Echevarría (39) Raidel Rosales (22) Marti Michell Rodriguez (30) Pedro Frias Tamayo (37) Hector Ramos Sanchez (50) The older Reina Rafael Chacón (19) the m, as young Joseph Mosquera Manuel Mora (37 Alexis Ferrera (31) Alexis Rivera (32) Jahaira San Miguel Hidalgo (24) Elizabeth Gallardo Hernández (27) Odalis Labrada Rodríguez (42) Via gacetadecuba.com
The image of "Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz, is part of the collection of stamps of the United States which was presented .
According to a statement, "The Guarachera of Cuba" is one of five Latin legends to be honored in "Forever Stamps" and supplementing Selena, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Carlos Gardel.
"It's a very well deserved honor for Celia was, is and will be part of American culture, and be immortalized on a postage stamp is something that I would have liked a lot," Cid Omer said Camus, chairman of Celia Cruz Foundation in the same statement.
The stamps, which are already available on all postal services in the United States are created by Californian artist Rafael Lopez, who was inspired by the personality of each artist to paint portraits semirealistas.
The presentation of "Forever Stamps" was made today during the musical event "South By Southwest" in Austin, Texas, in the presence of relatives of the sauce and top executives of the United States Postal Service (USPS, for its acronym in English).
"From now on, these colorful and vibrant images of our musical legends travel in Latin letters and packages throughout Latin (...) With this detail, we pay tribute to his memory undying proud to share his legacy, "said Marie Therese Dominguez, vice president, government relations and public policy of the USPS.
The five stamps are part of the selection "Forever", which always keeps its monetary value stamping mail correspondence priority so timeless. Via
Less than a month before the elections in Peru, the campaign is not surprising. It has been two "debates" only remembered for his anecdotes.
Martin Higueras / Latin America
few weeks ago, the Peruvian electoral campaign focused on drug testing of some candidates who thought it was not a bad idea to put this item on the agenda although there is no requirement for that. For them, it was important to prove they were drug users. Almost all took that step unless Alejandro Toledo, who by that time occupied the top of the polls, and Ollanta Humala, the nationalist who has now taken the name of "Gana Peru" to his movement. Both refused to regard it as unnecessary and trivial for campaign.
But everything changed last Sunday when a surprise, and no one demanded it at the time, Toledo announced that he had done such a test and had negative results. Some analysts have tried to interpret this move of the candidate when there were repeated many times that the taste would not give his opponents. The question is why did at this time when that issue had passed. Many have criticized. A Humala seemed a "farce" while Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the former minister and a candidate in recent polls has increased between 4 and 5 points, said he doubted much of that test because the laboratory did not performing such tests. Peru Possible reaction was immediate and it was not very wise and rather unfortunate, his spokesman Carlos Bruce said the candidate of the Alliance for the Great Change "seems to have Alzheimer's or be a liar."
Exhibitions and little discussion of height
So far no serious discussion of ideas in Peru and rather simply a presentation of plans of government in all the 11 candidates: one organized by the newspaper El Comercio and the other by National Elections Jury (JNE). It was precisely in the later, Toledo decided to make the announcement about his drug test. However, was not the only highlight of that night: they were two hours more irrelevant phrases, anecdotes and jokes that serious proposals. At least that is what that has become popular among voters, the Internet and in newspapers.
Toledo acknowledged his "successes and weaknesses" and said he left "an unfinished agenda in the social, environmental and institutional want to complete." Keiko Fujimori, second in polls of likely voters, used the issue of insecurity as the "leit-motiv" of their statements by stating that "only discuss human rights of terrorists and criminals", when the truth is that " abuse and rape offenders without anything happening to them. "
As for the third candidate in the polls, the former mayor of Lima Luis Castañeda Lossio reiterated his proposals to plant the country's hospitals and schools, technical institutes or highway in the Andes, as it ensured that she refuses to "consider poverty as part of the landscape" . The nationalist Ollanta Humala emphasized that previous governments have neglected the task of redistributing wealth, he suggested "change the economic model, but was careful to use vocabulary rupture.
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never missing one of the most stressed in the presentation of El Comercio, and not just by their approach, was Ricardo Noriega National Awakening Party, a man who not outspoken and very radical ideas. That night, in his last words, decided to take the whip-a sort of whip to "strike" to all candidates, directing harsh words to each of them.
front of the cameras, said: "I moved to VRAE (Valley of the Apurimac and Ene River, narco busy area) and the patrolmen gave me a job, I have given his whip. First to give Fujimori, I I can not give Mrs. Keiko, suddenly her husband gringo does anger me, but I'm going to DINOES (where he is imprisoned Alberto Fujimori) to provide you with this whip. He also said that "a PPK (so Kuczynski knows him) we do Castañeda shouting in English and we will talk because it is dumb. "Besides, said" we gave Chile PPK as a minister and I am confident that with American flag we want to deliver to the United States. "Finally, said all were" Supaipawawa "which means" son of the devil ", probably one of the worst insults that can be addressed in the Peruvian Andes.
The" private parts "of Kuczynski
Some sector of the Peruvian press has not hesitated to draw Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as possible "outsider" in these elections despite the adjective no longer reflects the candidate has extensive experience in the political life of Peru. However, is that most played in recent weeks, not only grow in the polls, despite maintaining fifth-but also because he was fondled twice, something that has caused many a headline.
The first time it happened was a few weeks ago, when on his visit to Peru's main port, Callao, a woman approached and touched his testicles suddenly, to the surprise of the candidate and his companions. That was enough for Kuczynski achieved many headlines and front pages in the press. But it was not the only time. A few days ago, was just the same but this time was the work of an enthusiastic follower of PPK. Although no one doubts that this is not has been planned, many believe that has given more popular candidate. Via
current dissent in Cuba that story reminds me of Guajirito who went to Havana with one, he says, "magnificent" cock fight fine under the arm. A week later, the father received a telegram on the farm saying, "Elder, the paint was beaten, send me a different story and we are earning money !"....
now is: "Send phones, laptops and dollars and we will send you information on kicking we receive in Guanabacoa and four fellow prisoners who fell in Baracoa "... The attitude of these individuals appears to be a blackmail most Cubans in the diaspora. It looks like a joke thing. It is a sort of collective masochism.
Honestly this is not an attack. Moreover, we teach that you should not attack from there because the people here are living very well in exile out of the water. No, I repeat, this is not a rant because I actually feel sorry for the honest opponents of tyranny. Because it is completely unaware of what a real fight to the death against evil and brutal enemy. In fact, I think not even know what is underground. Despite
to insist over and over again that the work is peaceful, the dictatorship is so diabolical that neither supports nor condones it. Only tolerated. Then the protesters not only act peacefully but they do publicly. That is, given away. And they are cornered, handled and infiltrators. And the use of "pushing bags" ...
I wonder what can Oswaldo Paya and Vladimiro Roca and Claudia Cadelo, or even Antúnez, against tyranny is not denouncing abuses? What can Yoani Sánchez overthrow the satrap if even the cat who walks through the roof of an office of the State Security in East Combined (for example) is booked as rebellious? Clear, very clear and is not considered a dangerous enemy but a commentator peaceful dissent. Otherwise she did talc.
're talking about a thousand-headed monster. I ask you to speak with former political prisoners Aida Diaz Morejon, Ana Lazara Rodriguez, Agate Villarquide, Alicia del Busto, Ileana Curra, Cary Roque, and thousands of courageous women who turned up to 20 years in prison and were virtually dust and still remain in the real fight. To put them to make broth with crushed glass inside. That figure out what was the "Camilo Cienfuegos Plan" work forced, and the infamous UMAP. And now they want to fool playing the role of allowing certain extravagances counter. This is the 'dissent allowed' to remain as 'magnanimous' in an effort to deceive the world more ignorant of their usual maneuvers. And criminals, always thirsty for blood, to give up a few shoves.
From the moment someone makes known his enmity with the regime, from writing even a simple paragraph with gentle constructive criticism, and worms dropped. Unless you are an agent of the repressive apparatus Tapin.
All I hear and read are complaints of slaps received and given a single slap. That is the truth. The opposition is so quiet that it gives me to feel that Raul Castro may be mounted on a motorcycle just in soul and go to San Antonio to Maisí no one will throw or an orange skin. And I assure you that it never could have done neither Fidel nor his brother during the 60's would have done without the hash.
And I know that this paper will raise a rash. Do you know why? For many exiles honestly go so desperate for something to happen in Cuba until Castro Fariñas former officer climbs onto a roof and say they shouted "Viva Zapata" and made long fasting, I want to compare with Maceo. When in fact the only shots were fired by this fellow against the troops of Jonas Savimbi in Angola. To equate it with the Bronze Titan would have to rise up and die in the Escambray, at least.
IMHO, the victory will be achieved only through violent action illegal. And without any public display. Perhaps through the Internet they can overthrow the tyranny if someone pops a couple of computers in the heads of the Castro brothers. Via
cock and money in Libya Are repeat the history of Hungary in 1956?
Hungary, 1956
As days go by, the Libyan people's struggle to shake off the tyranny of Gadafy, becomes more parallel with the popular nationalist uprising of the Hungarians in 1956, under the indifferent gaze of the great powers, was ruthlessly crushed by the tanks of the empire Soviet orders of Nikita Khrushchev.
Today as yesterday, history repeats itself. The leaders of the so called free world did not pass the verbal condemnations and meanwhile, every day that goes by the Libyan people, and in 1956 the brave Hungarian people, rivers of blood paid the passivity of those who are supposed to be the champions of freedom and democracy.
As in 1956, the Western democracies encouraged the demonstrations and uprisings against the tyrants, and then run with their arms crossed, while these people rebels massacred, while the diplomats of "democracies" shot in the bilge fine speeches in which the UN has become, without take any decision to bring the salvation of the rebels.
In Libya, time is running out and if nothing is done immediately, there will be another great betrayal consummated and again the fighters for freedom, will turn your dreams into ashes due to inactivity and lack of leadership in a world every day is more like hell. (Photo betrayed by the West Hungarian resistant en 1956)
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