One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, false evidence and generally all the attacks provided by the civil and penal codes, are especially hostile when they happen in public, without boundaries or possible restraint. Fernando Buen […]
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Jose Marti and his “Night from the other side of his dreams”
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 […]
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 […]
















