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Por Alberto Acereda. Escribir sobre la experiencia en Estados Unidos no resulta tarea fácil y menos cuando se hace desde la perspectiva del inmigrante. El norteamericano de origen cubano, Manuel Ballagas, acaba de publicar un recomendable libro, tan personal como ameno y que bajo el título Cuando llegué ofrece una mirada nueva y esclarecedora a lo que significa la aventura del sueño americano.

Francisco Alarcón
Hasta hace muy poco, los teóricos y académicos venezolanos se devanaban los sesos para buscarle los rasgos socialistas al llamado por Hugo Chávez “socialismo del siglo XXI”. Encontrándose que en Venezuela no hay lucha de clases ni nada que se parezca a una reivindicación social, paradójicamente el régimen se enrumbó hacia una autocracia personalista, [...]

As Yogi Berra might have put it, it’s déjà vu all over again. Just as fellow-traveling liberals in this country looked the other way during Joseph Stalin’s ruthless consolidation of power, just as they worked the State and Treasury Departments to sell Mao Tse-tung as a friend of democracy, just as they glamorized Che Guevera [...]

By Humberto Fontova
We cannot for a second abandon propaganda. Propaganda is vital — propaganda is the heart of all struggles. (Fidel Castro in a letter to a revolutionary colleague in 1954)
A foreign reporter — preferably American — was much more valuable to us at that time (1957) than any military victory. Much more valuable than [...]

In response to the attacks and defamations made against the Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez by the Castro regime in Cuba, the American opinion and news site, The Americano, signs this Manifesto in support of Yoani Sánchez. This site opens a space for its readers to place their signatures in support of this Manifesto and all it represent. More importantly, to voice your discontent towards this injustice.

Five Decades, Five Myths
By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
The regime of Fidel Castro converted one of the most advanced countries in the Americas, in all economic and cultural sectors registered by UNESCO in 1958-59, into the poorest and most terrorized nation in the Western Hemisphere.  Nonetheless, the regime retains a cult-like status among many foreigners.  Cults are based [...]

Since shortly after Cuban leader Fidel Castro marched into Havana in January 1959 under the flag of a socialist “Cuban Revolution”, the United States has been at odds with the communist country.
Since then, all U.S. Presidents have understood the lack of democracy and freedom in Cuba. Obama is now changing the strategy and accepting talks [...]

26 de agosto, 2009.
Fuentes fidedignas y cercanas a The Americano confirman la expansión en Cuba de la dictadura castrista y el aumento de falta de libertad de expresión en la isla bajo el régimen de los hermanos Fidel y Raúl Castro. Sirva como ejemplo el caso de un conocido poeta cubano, quien acaba de informar [...]