Armando Ch Noriega

Por casi medio siglo, he vivido en muchos lugares. En varios he sido feliz. A algunos los consideré, por un tiempo, mi casa. Pero solo recuerdo como hogar allí donde me acompañó el amor de un perro

This piece of @robertfworth from @TheAtlantic is the most vivid portrayal of the reality in Cuba that I have read in an American magazine over the past year. It is non-judgmental and empathetic—giving a voice to the people: "Here is another measure of Cubans’ anger at their government. During nine days of travel around the island, I did not meet a single person who blamed Donald Trump or the United States for their situation. I sometimes reminded them about the blockade Trump had started earlier this year, cutting Cubans off from the cheap oil that Venezuela had been supplying before the U.S. military captured Nicolás Maduro in January. Hadn’t things gotten worse since then? (.) One of the men, a wiry 65-year-old, had fought for two years in Angola, where Castro had sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the 1970s and ’80s to support a Communist-aligned government. The former soldier had once been a fan of the revolution; you could tell because he had a big tattoo of Che Guevara on his right arm. He’d gotten it when he was 18. He showed me several scars left over from battles in Africa, and I asked him how he felt about the situation in the country. He answered with an expletive. I asked him what should be done to make things better. Cuba needed to be bombed, he told me. Specifically, Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother and successor, should be bombed. And Raúl’s daughter Mariela. And the prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz" theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

En toda familia hay papas podridas. El problema es si podemos (des)calificar a una familia, por demás heroica en su decisión de defender su modo de vivir, por unos cuantos descarriados en su seno. Es lo que pasa con el tema de los "nazis en Ucrania", pieza permanente en la propaganda de la potencia invasora, cuyos métodos y objetivos si son calcados a los nazis. Y quienes hoy ponen el foco en eso, evadiendo o minimizando el marco de esta conversación, son dos cosas: ignorantes o cómplices. Para el caso de los académicos (critpo)putinistas, es lo segundo. Pero ya lo sabíamos: son hijos de Putin.

Cuando leí "Los perros duros no bailan" vi que una de las cosas que exponían la humanidad en un guerrero curtido como @perezreverte era el amor por esos seres sin doblez que son los canes. Lo admiré más desde entonces. Leer ahora esta despedida, ademas de llorar, redobla mi apuesta por su pluma y, en especial, por su persona.

Impecable @HVivesSegl, valor civil e intelectual en todo esplendor y en una coyuntura en que se echa de menos: "El INE: anatomía de una crisis y una infamia" letraslibres.com/politica/el-in…