The little book jumps into my hands in a mysterious way early in the morning: It is the Jose Marti’s campaign dairy on the way from Cap-Haïtien to Dos Ríos, published in 1978 by the Social Sciences publishing house, La Habana, Cuba. Armando Orozco Tovar There is […]
In Focus
In Focus
The other earthquakes
“On the 31st of August of a year that I shall not say, successive earthquakes will destroy Santa Fe…” Francisco Margallo Armando Orozco Tovar The Earth is an animal that shakes. It is a living being that has been turning since the moment of its known existence, and […]
UK Welfarism: an analysis
The recent budget of the Conservative Government in Britain, delivered by Chancellor George Osborne, has caused consternation. Steve Latham Welfare cuts have been extended over ever-more vulnerable groups, such as the disabled and single parents. But the current reduction in welfare spending should come as no surprise. It […]
Everything collapses … we all collapse
This is what the founder of the Silva Poetry House discovered, on the day that celebrating the hundred year anniversary of an important poet, she ordered a sculpture to be made, in the form of a labyrinth of mirrors. Armando Orozco Tovar The sculpture was placed in the […]
What kind of Europe do we want?
Some talk about the risk of Islamisation of the continent and the danger that a Muslim presence poses for Western society. Others see immigration as an emerging threat. Claudio Chipana* According to British historian, Eric Hobsbawm, Europe had a short 20th Century, starting with the First World War […]
















