The Nazis did not invent euthanasia. They copied it from liberal eugenicists in Britain, America and Scandinavia. These liberals were motivated by humanitarian desires to help people with lives that were considered not worth living.   Steve Latham   In a strange irony the issue of euthanasia was recently raised […]

Gabo – the author of “One hundred years of solitude” and successor of Cervantes in our language, who was denied a visa to find work in Cartagena de Indias because the land was dying of hunger – never would have imagined that his book would reach Cuba clandestinely by plane. […]

When I was a child and my grandmother wanted to talk about “grown up” things with her friends, she sent us to my mother, she told us, “Go and ask your mum for a twig of temboruco”.   Mabel Encinas   I asked for the small branch and my mother […]