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
Más de 500 cubanos perdieron la vida en
accidentes de tránsito de enero a septiembre, cuando hubo 29 fallecidos
más en comparación con similar período del año anterior, en un fenómeno
atribuido a indisciplinas e irresponsabilidades.
Los decesos ocurrieron en ocho mil 412 contingencias por colisiones
de vehículos en marcha y estacionados, vuelcos, atropellos, obstáculos
fijos, despeñamiento, caída de personas de carros, ciclistas y peatones,
según la Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Vial (CNSV). Sin embargo, la
cifra de contingencias disminuyó en 111 en relación con 2013, indicó
uno de los integrantes de ese grupo, la Dirección Nacional de Tránsito
(DNT), que este mes promueve su jornada 52 por la seguridad vial. Añadió
que en total hubo seis mil 545 lesionados, 504 más comparativamente con
la misma etapa del año anterior, en autos, ómnibus, camionetas, motos,
paneles, jeeps, bicicletas, camiones, taxis, microbuses, ambulancias,
cuñas, rastras, tracción animal y otros.
El cubanoamericano Aric Almirola, de 30 años, obtuvo el domingo el primer triunfo de su carrera en la Sprint Cup Series al volante del auto No. 43, que llevaba el emblema de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos, y que se corrió bajo la lluvia en el Daytona International Speedway, en Daytona Beach, Florida.
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debió finalizar el sábado por la noche pero fue pospuesta por lluvia
para el domingo, día que también llovió tras las primeras 10 vueltas y
concluyó tras 112 vueltas con el triunfo de Almirola, conocido como "el
cohete cubano" debido a su ascendencia cubana.
Antes de esta competencia, que lideró 14 vueltas, Almirola había
logrado cuatro finales en el Top 5, tras siete temporadas en la Sprint
Cup. Su victoria lo catapulta para la competencia conocida como Chase.
Esta fue la primera victoria del auto 43 en Daytona desde 1999 y la
primera en la Sprint Cup en cualquier tipo de pista desde 1999.
"Esto es increíble, crecí a solo dos horas de aquí en Tampa, viendo
la Daytona 500 y la Firecracker 400s, y crecí soñando con ganar aquí",
indicó Almirola, quien nació el 14 de marzo de 1984 en la Base Aérea de
Eglin, en Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Estados Unidos.
Es la primera vez que se conocen cifras sobre la polemica venta de autos por el gobierno cubano. Segun Luis Ernesto Ruiz Martínez. en las “Agencias de venta de la Corporación CIMEX se han vendido 50 carros y 4 motos por el valor de 1 millón 283 mil CUC”
SPARTA, Ky. – Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman is not the only professional athlete nicknamed the Cuban Missile, for NASCAR has one of its own.
Sprint
Cup driver Aric Almirola is also called the Cuban Missile, thanks to
his Cuban-American heritage. Almirola, who started No. 22 in Saturday
night's Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, was born on Eglin Air
Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
The 30-year-old Almirola
took media members on ride-along tours of bumpy Kentucky Speedway
Saturday afternoon, about five hours before the Cup race.
"Welcome to the roughest racetrack known to man," Almirola said, as the car pulled onto the track.
Almirola
was driving about 90 mph as he took reporters around the 1.5-mile track
in a Kentucky Speedway Ford vehicle, with three passengers at a time.
"The
earth underneath the racetrack has settled a lot over their winters,"
Almirola said. "It gets hot in the summer, then cold. When we hit that
(bumps) at 180, your car can literally take flight."
Sprint Cup driver Aric Almirola takes media members on a bumpy Kentucky ride
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Almirola
entered Saturday ranked No. 22 in Sprint Cup season points. In seven
years of Cup driving, Almirola has not won but has 15 top-10 finishes.
Almirola drives the No. 43 Ford for Richard Petty Motorsports.
How is the track riding?
"I think it gets rougher every year, I really do," Almirola said.
de acuerdo con el exteniente coronel juan reinaldo sanchez quien fuera guardaespalda de la bestia de biran, estos vehiculos no se corresponde con los empleados por el satrapa en jefe, sino con los que a cargo de la seguridad personal y protocolo se empleaban para trasladar dignatarios cuando aun visitaban la isla, aunque fueran del excampo socialista.
In
this June 18, 2014 photo, taxi driver Moises Suarez navigates the
Soviet-made limousine that he rents from the government in Havana, Cuba.
Today the fleet of limos that were once part of Fidel Castro's fleet
have been decommissioned and repurposed as Havana taxi cabs, at the
service of tourists who want a little slice of history to go with their
ride across town. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
HAVANA — In a former life they were the "comandante's" cars: A fleet
of black, boxy, Soviet-made limousines that for years were at the
disposal of the presidency in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Today the limos have been decommissioned and repurposed
as Havana taxi cabs, at the service of tourists who want a little slice
of history to go with their ride across town.
"When I tell (travelers) where the car came from, they
sit in the seat back there and ... stretch their legs and say, 'I can't
believe it!'" said Moises Suarez, 58, who has been behind the wheel of
one of the ex-presidential limos for the last three years.
The luxury automobiles were produced by Russian
manufacturers GAZ and ZIL in the 1960s and '70s. Those sent to Cuba
reportedly included a ZIL-111 convertible model that was the first of
its kind to roll off the assembly line, a personal gift to Castro from
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
They were often used to ferry around visiting
dignitaries. At least one of the limos was used occasionally by Castro
himself, though he usually preferred a military-style jeep for his own
transportation needs.
When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
paid a historic visit in 2002, Castro — who always had a flair for
stagemanship — picked him up at the airport in a Soviet stretch despite
the fact that by that time the presidency had acquired a fleet of slick
Mercedes Benzes.
Suarez, who drives for state-owned Cubataxi, said about
14 of the cars passed into the hands of the company about five years
ago, and 10 are still on the road.
Many aspects of his GAZ-built Chaika — Russian for
"seagull" — are original, from the camel-colored headliner to the radio
with its buttons and knobs labeled in Cyrillic lettering. At some point a
Mercedes engine was swapped in, however, similar to all the 1950s
Detroit classics in Havana that are still running thanks to makeshift
monkeywrenching.
On the driver's-side door, Suarez has affixed a small
sign that says "Smile, Jesus loves you" — a small irony for a country
that was officially atheist for decades under Castro (the policy was
removed from the constitution in the 1990s).
The limo seats
six passengers in relative comfort. But despite the extra leg room, it
can hardly be considered a luxury ride anymore.
The faux wooden inlay is chipped and peeling, and the
faded, brown-floral upholstery emits a smell best described as musty
with perhaps a hint of stale cigar.
Still, it's a novel way to cruise down the seaside
Malecon boulevard or through Revolution Plaza, where a massive sculpture
of Argentine-born revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara gazes
stone-faced from the side of a building.
Suarez said fares are negotiable, from just a few bucks
for a quick trip to $100-$140 for an all-day road trip outside the
capital.
On a recent morning, a group of Spanish tourists took
turns having their photo taken next to and inside the car as it sat
parked beneath the massive, pyramidal monument honoring Cuban
independence hero Jose Marti.
"It's exciting to be able to get inside a historic
piece of Cuba," said Miquel Torres, who was visiting from Barcelona.
"It's a very different kind of car."
As Suarez drives through the city, heads turn
constantly. Not only tourists but also Cubans, who instantly recognize
it as one of Fidel's fleet.
"A lot of drivers pull up next to me at stoplights,"
Suarez said. "They start laughing and they say, 'You never imagined you
would be driving the comandante's car, eh?' 'You have a great car in
your hands."
On a 500 metre stretch of highway in the Netherlands, streetlights have been replaced with glow-in-the-dark paint.
The glow-in-the-dark markings are created by mixing a photo-luminescent
powder into the road paint. The paint charges by absorbing daylight,
and stays lit for about eight hours during the night.
As the inventor Dan Roosegaarde explains to Wired UK, "It's like the
glow in the dark paint you and I had when we were children, but we
teamed up with a paint manufacturer and pushed the development. Now,
it's almost radioactive."
The paint was developed in conjunction with Heijmans, a road
construction company. Specifically, the luminous road is found on the
N329 highway in the city of Oss.
Should this test project prove successful, imagine the savings this
could net for a city, using this paint as opposed to installing,
powering, and maintaining those massive lights that run along most
highways.
Whether that will happen depends on the proverbial government red tape,
which proved to be the largest obstacle to the studio seeing its
invention come to life. In fact, the studio said that despite being
ready for a while, the project was held up because of a delay in a
licences application approval from the local government.
Mr. Roosegaarde envisions future uses for the paint, such as when
outside temperatures reach a certain low point, snowflake symbols would
appear on the road, reminding drivers that the road is slippery.
Until then, the paint is currently being tested to determine wear and tear, as well as effectiveness.
The latest issue of Al-Qaeda's Inspiremagazine
contains an article about using car bombs in U.S. cities as well as
abroad during election seasons, both presidential and congressional, as
well as on Christmas and New Years Eve.
The cities and areas listed in the piece include Washington, D.C., New York, Northern Virginia, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
America is our first target, followed by United Kingdom, France and other crusader countries.
As for the field target for the car-bomb, you have places flooded
with individuals, e.g. sports events in which tens of thousands attend,
election campaigns, festivals and other gathering. The important thing
is that you target people and not buildings: Washington DC and New York:
Washington is the capital, and New York is the former capital. Both
have symbolic importance to the American people and government.
Moreover, White House is in Washington, and DC has about 347,000 federal
govern ment employees and many important figures in the government live
there. As for New York, it is known for its status as a financial,
cultural, transportation, and manufacturing center, it is the leading
center of banking, finance and communication in the United States. Northern Virginia:
It has a big military presence, almost all the military bases are
based in this state, apart from the Air Force which is based in Chicago.
There are federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the
headquarters of the Department of Defense and CIA; and military
facilities in Hampton Roads, the site of the region's main seaport.
Virginia in general attracts a load of tourists. Chicago:
It is in the mid of the US, hence it is a major transportation hub.
It is an important component in global distribution, as it is the third
largest inter-modal port in the world. It is also an important worldwide
center of commerce. The city has the second largest financial center in
the United States. Among its most important financial structures:
1. Sears Tower, a 108-story skyscraper, it held the title tallest building in the world for about 25 years.
2. The Chicago Board of Trade Building. Los Angeles:
The most populous city in the state of California, and the second
most populous in the United States. It is also the largest manufacturing
center in the western United States. It is also the home base of
Hollywood. Areas and Restaurants with high profile personalities -
Usually these people visit the restaurants during the weekend: Arlington Alexandria
Restaurants and Bars in the M street, Washington.
Tennis stadiums; they are visited by thousands of people, and high profile people, especially the US Open.
The piece includes interviews with islamist and Al-Qaeda recruiter
Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011, and
Samir Khan, who was killed in the same air strike. Khan served as editor
and publisher of Inspire up to that point. A photo of New York City is shown at the end of the piece.
The terrorist organization's magazine has a letter from the editor that states:
Whenever Al-Qaeda is mentioned, the American citizens' mind thinks of vest and car bombs.
Bearing in mind that none of these weapons has struck them post 9/11.
So why would they relate Al-Qaeda to these bombs? Simply because they
fear these weapons and have seen enough of their destructive power in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Many Feisal Shahzads are residing inside America, and all they need
is the knowledge of how to make car bombs. They are all yearning to
fulfill their duty of Jihad.
The American government was unable to protect its citizens from
pressure cooker bombs in backpacks, I wonder if they are ready to stop
car bombs!
Therefore, as our responsibility to the Muslim Ummah in general and Muslims living in America in particular, Inspire Magazine humbly presents to you a simple improvised home recipe of Shahzad's car bomb.
And the good news is … you can prepare it in the kitchen of your mom too.
The piece also lists specific locations and times to attack
European sites in England and France. These include the Bastille
Military Day Parade on July 14 in Paris and soccer (football) stadiums
during Premier League FA Cup Matches in the UK "when huge crowds leave
the stadium and celebrate around the entrances and FA Cup matches."
La gente de Supermarché preparó hace tiempo una minipelícula titulada Metrópolis II dedicada al proyecto del mismo nombre que creó Chris Burden y del que ya hablamos por aquí hace un par de años.
El hipnótico y relajante montaje está compuesto en total de 18 carriles para coches, 1.000 cochecitos Hot Wheels, 13 vías de tren y decenas de edificios LEGO.
Se necesitaron tres meses para moverlo de la impresionante nave en que
se construyó –atención a la última escena– hasta el Museo de Arte de Los
Ángeles, donde ahora está expuesto.
During
each shift at her drive-through window, once an hour, Cordelia Cordova
sees people rolling joints in their cars. Some blow smoke in her face
and smile.
Cordova, who lost a
23-year-old niece and her 1-month-old son to a driver who admitted he
smoked pot that day, never smiles back. She thinks legal marijuana in
Colorado, where she works, is making the problem of drugged driving
worse — and now new research supports her claim.
"Nobody hides it anymore
when driving," Cordova said. "They think it's a joke because it’s
legal. Nobody will take this seriously until somebody loses another
loved one."
As medical marijuana
sales expanded into 20 states, legal weed was detected in the bodies of
dead drivers three times more often during 2010 when compared to those
who died behind the wheel in 1999, according to a new study from
Columbia University published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“The
trend suggests that marijuana is playing an increased role in fatal
crashes,” said Dr. Guohua Li, a co-author and director of the Center for
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University Medical
Center. The researchers examined data from the federal Fatality Analysis
Reporting System (FARS), spanning more than 23,000 drivers killed
during that 11-year period.
"Nobody will take this seriously until somebody loses another loved one."
Alcohol
remains, by far, the most common mind-altering substance detected in
dead drivers, observed in the blood of nearly 40 percent of those who
perished across six states during 2010, the Columbia study notes. (That
rate remained stable between 1999 and 2010.)
Cannabinol,
a remnant of marijuana, was found in 12.2 percent of those deceased
drivers during 2010, (up from 4.2 percent in 1999). Pot was the most
common non-alcoholic drug detected by those toxicology screenings.
“The
increased availability of marijuana and increased acceptance of
marijuana use” are fueling the higher rate of cannabinol found in dead
drivers, Li told NBC News.
Researchers limited
their analysis to California and five others states where toxicology
screenings are routinely conducted within an hour of a traffic death.
They note that California allowed medical marijuana in 2004. Since then,
California has posted “marked increases in driver fatalities testing
positive for marijuana,” Li said.
"The number of deaths will grow," Cordova said. "I'm scared."
Minutes
after the crash that killed Cordova's niece, Tanya Guevara, and
Guevara's 5-week-old son, police arrested the driver who struck
Guevara's car. Steven Ryan, then 22, admitted to smoking pot earlier
that day, according to court records. Ryan later pleaded guilty to
vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2012.
Courtesy Cordelia Cordova
Tanya Guevara and her son, Adrian,
were killed in 2010 when a driver, impaired after smoking marijuana,
hit Guevara’s car head-on in Colorado.
That same year, Cordova
testified before Colorado lawmakers about a proposed impairment limit
for stoned drivers. Under Colorado law today, drivers who test positive
for 5 nanograms per milliliter of THC — an active ingredient in
marijuana — can be charged and punished as drunk drivers.
That
law has not, however, led Howard Myers to feel safer on local roads.
He, too, takes the issue personally: In 2002, his three children were
seriously injured when their car was struck by a driver who, Myers said,
had smoked marijuana a short time earlier. (A police record provided by
Myers showed that oncoming driver was charged with vehicular assault).
Myers' children were returning from school to their home near Colorado
Springs.
All three now are adults
and their injuries have become chronic, Myers said. His daughter, who
was driving, receives physical therapy for neck and back pain. One of
his sons is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. Another son had a
leg partially amputated.
"The attitude here is it's safe," Myers said. "So more people are driving under the influence.”
“If the current trends continue, non-alcohol drugs, such as marijuana, will overtake alcohol in traffic fatalities around 2020.”
But
marijuana can be detected in the blood for one week after consumption,
perhaps leading chronic consumers to be wrongly arrested, critics of the
law assert.
A separate study —
also based on FARS data — found that in states where medical marijuana
was approved, traffic fatalities decrease by as much as 11 percent
during the first year after legalization. Written by researchers at the
University of Colorado, Oregon and Montana State University, the paper was published in 2013 in the Journal of Law & Economics.
Those
authors theorized pot, for some, becomes a substitute for alcohol. They
cited a recent, 13-percent drop in drunk-driving deaths in states where
medical marijuana is legal.
“Marijuana
reform is associated with … a decrease in traffic fatalities, most
likely due to its impact on alcohol consumption,” said Michael Elliott,
executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association
in Colorado.
Overall, though, drugged driving is closing the gap with drunk driving.
The
rate of traffic deaths in which drivers tested positive for non-alcohol
drugs climbed from 16.6 percent in 1999 to 28.3 percent in 2010,
according to the Columbia study.
Among
dead male drivers, 4.0 tested positive for narcotics in 2010, up from
2.2 percent in 1999. Among female drivers killed, 7.6 percent tested
positive for narcotics, up from 4.3 percent.
“If
the current trends continue,” Li said, “non-alcohol drugs, such as
marijuana, will overtake alcohol in traffic fatalities around 2020.”
Un ciudadano canadiense murió y cuatro cubanos resultaron heridos
este miércoles por la tarde, al chocar un auto de turismo con un
carro-grúa en una carretera de la provincia Granma, informó la estatal
Agencia de Información Nacional (AIN).
En el choque, que ocurrió en la Carretera Central, cerca de la ciudad
de Bayamo, "perdió la vida el ciudadano canadiense Jiwoirn Aisin, de 56
años, quien conducía un automóvil del Ministerio de Turismo, en
dirección hacia el occidente de la Isla", señaló la AIN.
Añadió que los cuatro cubanos heridos —dos mujeres y dos hombres—
están reportados "de cuidado". Son Odalis Uber Monteagudo, de 26 años de
edad y residente en Jiguaní, provincia de Granma; Aliannys Martínez
García, de 26 años y procedente de Jimaguayú, Guáimaro, Camagüey; Luis
Manuel Álvarez Pelegrino, de 49 años de edad, y Yunior Infante Cobas, de
24 años, ambos de Santiago de Cuba.
El accidente, cuyas causas se investigan, se produjo cuando el auto
de turismo impactó contra el carro-grúa de la estatal Empresa de
Transporte a Granel, de Santiago de Cuba.
En otro indicio de que la nueva Zona de Desarrollo Especial (ZDE) de
Mariel en Cuba se concentrará en una economía de maquiladoras --
personal barato y calificado produciendo bienes de alto valor agregado—
el portal de negocios Cuba Standard anunció que el fabricante brasileño
de autobuses Marcopolo podría estar interesado en establecer en esa área
una operación de montaje.
Las empresas como Marcopolo "están interesadas en la fuerza laboral
cubana ya que tienen experiencia en las líneas de ensamblaje, además de
tener conocimientos técnicos", dijo al Boletín Panamá el agregado
comercial cubano en la capital istmeña, Yanni Solano, quien confirmó la
noticia.
El director de la agencia brasileña de promoción del comercio, Apex,
había revelado el año pasado que Marcopolo quería abrir una fábrica en
Cuba. Según el funcionario, ejecutivos de la compañía brasileña se
reunieron a fines del 2012 con personeros de la estatal Caisa, su
potencial socio cubano en una empresa mixta.
Marcopolo tiene operaciones de montaje en México y Colombia; su rival
doméstico, Busscar, ha estado ensamblando microbuses en Cuba desde la
década de los 90.
Según Cuba Standard ésta es la segunda mención de una empresa brasileña
interesada en operar en la ZDE del Mariel. La primera fue Fanavid S.A.,
de São Paulo, una cristalería que espera abrir una planta de producción
para abastecer de vidrios arquitectónicos a Cuba ,Brasil y la región del
Caribe, según precisó el año pasado un portavoz del Itamaraty
(cancillería).
Mariel, situado 30 kilómetros al este de La Habana, es objeto de una
expansión valorada en 950 millones de dólares que lo convertiría en uno
de los mayores puertos de contenedores del Caribe, con capacidad para
hasta un millón de esos portadores, y que se prevé sustituirá las
operaciones de carga en el puerto de La Habana. Será operado por la
Autoridad Portuaria de Singapur, PSA International.
Junto a la terminal de contenedores se construye la Zona de Desarrollo
Integral del Mariel (ZDIM ). Esta se contempla en el plan de zonas de
desarrollo especial (ZDE) de Cuba, que permitirían a las empresas
beneficiarse de menos burocracia, procedimientos aduaneros simplificados
y una mano de obra local altamente calificada.
Cuba Standard señala que las ZDE son parte de un esfuerzo del gobierno
de la isla para convencer a los inversores extranjeros de producir en
Cuba bienes y servicios de alto valor agregado para la exportación. La
empresa creada a esos efectos, ZDIM S.A., es operada por una subsidiaria
de GAESA, el holding de las Fuerzas Armadas cubanas .
Agrega el portal que para establecer las zonas de libre comercio, Cuba
aún tiene que cambiar su ley de inversión extranjera. El Gobierno de
Brasil anunció el año pasado que estaba ayudando a La Habana en la
creación de un marco jurídico para las zonas especiales de desarrollo,
pero las nuevas regulaciones no han sido publicadas todavía.
"Tenemos mucho interés en cooperar en la definición de este modelo, con
el fin de insertar el mayor número posible de empresas brasileñas",
adelantó el ministro de Comercio Exterior de Brasil, Fernando Pimentel,
mientras visitaba los sitios de construcción.
El Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Brasil (BNDES)
está financiando el 85 por ciento del proyecto del puerto, incluida la
ZDE, mientras que Cuba aporta el 15 por ciento restante, según fuentes
oficiales en Brasilia.
A cargo de la ejecución de las obras está el gigante brasileño de la
construcción Grupo Odebrecht, mientras que prácticamente todos los
suministros y servicios para el proyecto son provistos por empresas
brasileñas.
La compañía Marcopolo está en tratativas con el holding militar cubano
GAESA. Sería la segunda empresa de Brasil interesada en operar en Mariel
con mano de obra cubana.
El ENLET, European Network of Law Enforcement Technologies, trabaja entre otros proyectos, en un dispositivo capaz de desactivar la alimentación de un automóvil a distancia. Una herramienta que se supone de gran utilidad para que las policías eviten peligrosas persecuciones, disparos a las ruedas y líneas de pinchos,
a la hora de echar el guante a los malos. Sólo se podría activar desde
una sala de control, visualizando el delito en pantalla, bajo el visto
bueno de la autoridad judicial, y contaría por encima de todo con la
colaboración de las marcas de automóviles. Todas ellas deberían aceptar
un estándar común y en todos sus coches a partir de 2020 debería existir
la posibilidad técnica de detenerse por control remoto.
¨Saturno jugando con sus hijos¨/ Pedro Pablo Oliva
Seguidores
Carta desde la carcel de Fidel Castro Ruz
“…después de todo, para mí la cárcel es un buen descanso, que sólo tiene de malo el que es obligatorio. Leo mucho y estudio mucho. Parece increíble, las horas pasan como si fuesen minutos y yo, que soy de temperamento intranquilo, me paso el día leyendo, apenas sin moverme para nada. La correspondencia llega normalmente…”
“…Como soy cocinero, de vez en cuando me entretengo preparando algún pisto. Hace poco me mandó mi hermana desde Oriente un pequeño jamón y preparé un bisté con jalea de guayaba. También preparo spaghettis de vez en cuando, de distintas formas, inventadas todas por mí; o bien tortilla de queso. ¡Ah! ¡Qué bien me quedan! por supuesto, que el repertorio no se queda ahí. Cuelo también café que me queda muy sabroso”. “…En cuanto a fumar, en estos días pasados he estado rico: una caja de tabacos H. Upman del doctor Miró Cardona, dos cajas muy buenas de mi hermano Ramón….”. “Me voy a cenar: spaghettis con calamares, bombones italianos de postre, café acabadito de colar y después un H. Upman #4. ¿No me envidias?”. “…Me cuidan, me cuidan un poquito entre todos. No le hacen caso a uno, siempre estoy peleando para que no me manden nada. Cuando cojo el sol por la mañana en shorts y siento el aire de mar, me parece que estoy en una playa… ¡Me van a hacer creer que estoy de vacaciones! ¿Qué diría Carlos Marx de semejantes revolucionarios?”.
Quotes
¨La patria es dicha de todos, y dolor de todos, y cielo para todos, y no feudo ni capellanía de nadie¨ - Marti
"No temas ni a la prision, ni a la pobreza, ni a la muerte. Teme al miedo" - Giacomo Leopardi
¨Por eso es muy importante, Vicky, hijo mío, que recuerdes siempre para qué sirve la cabeza: para atravesar paredes¨– Halvar de Flake[El vikingo]
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir"- Lorca
"Al final, no os preguntarán qué habéis sabido, sino qué habéis hecho" - Jean de Gerson
"Si queremos que todo siga como está, es necesario que todo cambie" - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Todo hombre paga su grandeza con muchas pequeñeces, su victoria con muchas derrotas, su riqueza con múltiples quiebras" - Giovanni Papini
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"Habla bajo, lleva siempre un gran palo y llegarás lejos" - Proverbio Africano
"No hay medicina para el miedo"-Proverbio escoces "El supremo arte de la guerra es doblegar al enemigo sin luchar" -Sun Tzu
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office" - H. L. Menken
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Elie Wiesel
"Stay hungry, stay foolish" - Steve Jobs
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years ther'ed be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less" - Vaclav Havel
"No se puede controlar el resultado, pero si lo que uno haga para alcanzarlo" - Vitor Belfort [MMA Fighter]
Liborio
A la puerta de la gloria está San Pedro sentado y ve llegar a su lado a un hombre de cierta historia. No consigue hacer memoria y le pregunta con celo: ¿Quién eras allá en el suelo? Era Liborio mi nombre. Has sufrido mucho, hombre, entra, te has ganado el cielo.
Para Raul Castro
Cuba ocupa el penultimo lugar en el mundo en libertad economica solo superada por Corea del Norte.
Cuba ocupa el lugar 147 entre 153 paises evaluados en "Democracia, Mercado y Transparencia 2007"
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, Callé: yo no soy comunista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, Callé: yo no soy sindicalista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, Callé: yo no soy judío. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los católicos, Callé: yo no soy “tan católico”. Cuando vinieron a buscarme a mí, Callé: no había quien me escuchara.
Un sitio donde los hechos y sus huellas nos conmueven o cautivan
CUBA LLORA Y EL MUNDO Y NOSOTROS NO ESCUCHAMOS
Donde esta el Mundo, donde los Democratas, donde los Liberales? El pueblo de Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan los Green, los Socialdemocratas, los Ricos y los Pobres, los Con Voz y Sin Voz? Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan el Jet Set, los Reyes y Principes, Patricios y Plebeyos? Cuba desesperada clama por solidaridad. Donde Bob Dylan, donde Martin Luther King, donde Hollywood y sus estrellas? Donde la Middle Class democrata y conservadora, o acaso tambien liberal a ratos? Y Gandhi? Y el Dios de Todos? Donde los Santos y Virgenes; los Dioses de Cristianos, Protestantes, Musulmanes, Budistas, Testigos de Jehova y Adventistas del Septimo Dia. Donde estan Ochun y todas las deidades del Panteon Yoruba que no acuden a nuestro llanto? Donde Juan Pablo II que no exige mas que Cuba se abra al Mundo y que el Mundo se abra a Cuba? Que hacen ahora mismo Alberto de Monaco y el Principe Felipe que no los escuchamos? Donde Madonna, donde Angelina Jolie y sus adoptados around de world; o nos hara falta un Brando erguido en un Oscar por Cuba? Donde Sean Penn? Donde esta la Aristocracia Obrera y los Obreros menos Aristocraticos, donde los Working Class que no estan junto a un pueblo que lanquidece, sufre y llora por la ignominia? Que hacen ahora mismo Zapatero y Rajoy que no los escuchamos, y Harper y Dion, e Hillary y Obama; donde McCain que no los escuchamos? Y los muertos? Y los que estan muriendo? Y los que van a morir? Y los que se lanzan desesperados al mar? Donde estan el minero cantabrico o el pescador de percebes gijonese? Los Canarios donde estan? A los africanos no los oimos, y a los australianos con su acento de hombres duros tampoco. Y aquellos chinos milenarios de Canton que fundaron raices eternas en la Isla? Y que de la Queen Elizabeth y los Lords y Gentlemen? Que hace ahora mismo el combativo Principe Harry que no lo escuchamos? Donde los Rockefellers? Donde los Duponts? Donde Kate Moss? Donde el Presidente de la ONU? Y Solana donde esta? Y los Generales y Doctores? Y los Lam y los Fabelo, y los Sivio y los Fito Paez? Y que de Canseco y Miñoso? Y de los veteranos de Bahia de Cochinos y de los balseros y de los recien llegados? Y Carlos Otero y Susana Perez? Y el Bola, y Pancho Cespedes? Y YO y TU? Y todos nosotros que estamos aqui y alla rumiando frustaciones y resquemores, envidias y sinsabores; autoelogios y nostalgias, en tanto Louis Michel comulga con Perez Roque mientras Biscet y una NACION lanquidecen? Donde Maceo, donde Marti; donde aquel Villena con su carga para matar bribones? Cuba llora y clama y el Mundo NO ESCUCHA!!!
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