The ground is getting hotter in the island. What about the underground?

Yolanda left Cuba in 2000 and returned a week ago from Havana after visiting her family. She has visited Havana a few times in recent years. This trip, however, was different. It has left her "trulydestroyed." "Doctor, Cuba is over, done. Children are languishing in hunger. They go to school with a tiny bun of bread. " She indicates the size of the piece of bread with her hand. It’s about two inches in diameter. She goes one. "The older ones are falling down on the streets. No coffee is to be found. No milk either. No doctors or even the neighborhoods health posts are open. " The doctors are in hospitals. To get a medical certificate is hard for either a special diet or whatever. Some health care workers steal them from the hospital and make them “available” to the people. They get falsified. Raúl himself has said that the revolutionary coffee is made up of coffee beans mixed with with peas. Yolanda assures me that the peas are s[rayed with some real coffee. In the "Shopping" at the Carlos III in Havana, Yolanda could not use her credit cards. When she asked: Why? And the clerk responded "because Americans do not pay." Yolanda was losing patience. She replied: "You thieves, you are the ones who do not pay!"

Fidel, you perverted liar, Our Lone Star flag is not yours.

President Obama is the legitimate leader of the executive branch of the government of the United States today. The public has chosen him transparently. You, obsolete thinker of evil ideas and twisted reasoning, have not been elected by the Cubans, but by the Communists, who impressed by your terror, fearing the consequences or tired of the eternal struggle proposed by Marx, have followed you fanatically more than 50 years. But note, not a daypasses when a Cuban seeks asylum somewhere outside the island.

If you think that Our Lone Star flag, the flag that landed in Cárdenas in 1850, the flag that inspired and accompanied Marti and Maceo, is the flag of your revolution, let me disagree with your opinion, refute your reasoning and expose another lie form your lips. You have another flag, so show it and do not pretend to be so innocent.

And finally, when you write –or is written for you:"I paid, in fact, my services to the Revolution for a long time but never evaded risks or violated constitutional, ideological or ethical principles. I regret not having had more health to keep serving it."

You did not pay services to the revolution that engaged most Cubans in the late 1950’s to restore the constitution of 1940. You did not. What did you do? Well, you betrayed, derailed, dispersed and eliminated hopes that the revolution would restore the constitution..
You could never escape risks or violate constitutional, ideological or ethical principles. In fact, you were directly or indirectly supported by the two major poles of your time, the Soviet on the one hand and important sectors of the complex American society on the other. You did make ​​a constitution and then revised it several times, to justify yourself and your regimen, not to aspire to a greater justice and guarantee human rights. Finally, ethics must be understood in the light of the practice, that is that which is done or performed, and this in turn should be made freely and transparently in order to be appreciated. For you, freedom and transparency do not exist in your world. You do not allow independent journalism, or free access from Cuba to the internet, much less access to your prisons to the inspectors of the UN.

How many Cuban doctors would come to the call of the Cuban people?

Among the news that are coming out of Libya, some definitely are hard to take lightly. They suggest that maybe, just maybe, the up-to-now Libyan strongman, who is neither president or king or anything like that to resign- according to his own words- may prevail. There is one story that bears witness to what has made ​​Dr. Rida Mazagri.

Dr. Mazagri studied medicine at the Al Fateh University in Tripoli. He then went to Canada where he became a neurosurgeon. Later, he came to the United States and began working in West Virginia. So far, we could say that the doctor was pleased with his "American dream."

Except that a few weeks ago, while watching form afar the rebellion in his country, "he felt united with the freedom fighters." Almost without thinking again, he left another doctor in his place and went first to Europe, then to Cairo and from there went by land into Libya. He made contact with the rebels and is now working hard in a makeshift military hospital in Ajdabiya a few kilometers before reaching Benghazi through the northern highway bordering the Mediterranean Sea from the border with Egypt.

While the Libyan rebels fighting against a superior force in arms and resources bleed almost to death, one wonders, if a similar battle would occur in Cuba, who would turn or return to assist the people in their struggle for freedom? How many Cuban doctors in the island would come to the call of the Cuban people? How many Cuban doctors outside the island would come to the call of the Cuban people?

Havana, Cuba 1930s A look into the past looks of Havana. But what will the future look like?

Two years ago a film clip was published on YouTube providing a window into the Havana of the 1930’s.I invite you to watch the clip. You can copy the web address:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEMYLkpYxX8Place it in the URL in your browser and open the movie directly. If you want, you can go to YOUTUBE and search for "CUBA, HAVANA 1930's."

I have shown several women the clip. Women are usually better in picking up details than men. Their responses are summarized in these observations:
1. People dressed much better then than now.2. Lottery tickets were sold.3. Public transportation consisted of trams and buses.4. The buses were not jammed packed. 5. A fair amount of traffic moved through the streets.6. There were lots of ads. 7. All types of awnings were kept up in the buildings and stores.8. There were no queues. 9. Food and supply stores (“bodegas”) were full of merchandise.10. There were flowers shops11. The beauty parlors were full of gracious ladies12. There were no buildings propped up with scaffoldings or partially demolished.

You may have other comments. Please feel free to add them to the blog. Do it, not be afraid.Certainly, Havana today is not the Havana of that time. I would never have been, time always leaves its traces.
What will be the looks, sounds and scent of Havana in the future? What can the future bring to the Cuban capital in the largest of the Antilles?

The times of "history will absolve me" are over.

The International Criminal Court is already investigating the "possible" atrocities taking place in Libya where the former strongman of the Arab country continues to "deny" that his people fight against his regime.

The prosecutor of the international court just declared that the court not only will investigate El Gaddafi, but all those around him and also the rebels. No one is beyond suspicion.

Meanwhile, our hopes that the Libyan people engaged in a serious and bloody internal conflict of major proportions, do not spend all their patriotism, ammunition and supplies before arriving at a national consensus about the future of Libya.

The intervention of a foreign force is not the best way to resolve this conflict and the European Union and the United States have acted well to stay out of it until now. The entire world supports the cause of freedom and democracy of the rebels. Only three leaders support El Gaddafi: Fidel Castro of Cuba, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

The lessons for Cuba, and to a certain extend for Venezuela and Nicaragua also, in the coming months are clear. All will be investigated and some will be judged. The times of "history will judge me and absove me" are over. We are now in one world in which actions are judged by something concrete, with the appropriate institutions and methods.