Tag: Caribbean
A pesar de la resiliencia histórica de Cuba, ya hemos podido presenciar que, a largo plazo, los embargos y las sanciones logran minar la fuerza de voluntad de los líderes y de la población.
As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway.
Even as he underwrites and wages multiple wars, proposes a gargantuan $500 billion increase in military outlays, and plans to build his own Arc de Triomphe, President Donald Trump apparently believes himself to be a man of peace. He has become a classic example of historian Lord Acton’s dictum in action: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Siamo di fronte a un classico modus operandi degli Stati Uniti: molta pirotecnica, poca sostanza, zero pronostici.
