I was born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba in 1952. Sancti Spiritus and the surrounding area have been traditionally hot beds for revolution. The Escambray Mountains are in the vicinity, which rebels notoriously used for guerrilla warfare. That same year (1952) Fulgencio Batista carried out a successful coup d’état and became dictator. Although subsequently he was […]
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George Orwell and the communists and anarchists of Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War! Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell is an absolutely terrific little book. These are Orwell’s memoirs about his direct involvement in the Spanish Civil War as an English member of the 29th Battalion of the POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification),
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ABSTRACT — The Venezuelan crisis is filling the headlines and truly deserves the world’s attention. It is a wake-up call to all as it holds relevant lessons for both developing and developed countries. The country suffers a severe humanitarian crisis. Its economy has declined at a faster pace than any other peacetime economy worldwide. Hardship
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar are the socialist trio moving the Democratic Party far to the left, to embrace socialism and, if not stopped, totalitarianism. Tlaib and Omar are the first female Muslims elected to Congress, and they are as confrontational as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and just as left-wing. Facts are no
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After examining and witnessing the ever-expanding war of destruction of the founding principles of individual liberty, I have concluded there are two basic groups of intellectuals battling each other — those who use as the foundation for their beliefs a world of illusion and those who reach their conclusions based on reality and objective truth.
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I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.— Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler is worth reading and not forgetting. It is
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