I felt very close to Castro, but my admiration for him and his achievements didn't seem to be enough. He was desperate to be fussed over. For me to fuss over him, over Fidel Castro.
THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG In the last few year spent traveling to Mexico it became clear that Mexican drug syndicates are in control of the Mexico-U.S...
"The impasse is the dynamics of deterioration," my friend said, part philosophic part pessimistic after listening to Raul Castro's speech in the National Assembly yesterday.
f you're like the other snowed-in 40-something percent of consumers this year, you're probably way behind on gifts. If so, you may want to give the (last-minute) gift of the book that Hugo Chávez is reading.
In Colombia there is an expression: la paz del cementerio - the peace of the graveyard. This is the kind of peace that powerful forces enjoy when everyone who resists them is dead and buried.
Anyone thinking of going to Venezuela or doing business there, think again. Here's the latest injustice.
World leaders -- most notably President Obama -- took over these negotiations and used everything in their power to push forward an agreement in Copenhagen.
Nothing like a market where volume is drying up as it usually does at the end of the year--which makes it easier for traders to move stocks on news an...
For some people, the assent of the Obama Doctrine will be uncomfortable: it's designed for a world rendered in shades of gray, not the black and white of easy demagoguery. Nevertheless, subtle should not be confused with weak.
The only thing that will end this oneiric sequence of being shut in and forced out, is the end of the immigration restrictions for Cubans. I want to have the right to travel.
As a naturalized citizen, I hold dual citizenships, and dual political points of view that see two presidents.
Although I'm not a fan of his, I do find myself applauding Chavez for directly questioning the developed world's priorities: Saving banks or saving the planet.
There are a growing number of severely depressed Hispanic adolescents in Queens who hide suicide attempts. In some traditional pockets, to talk about mental illness is considered shameful.
I know them from forever, since I ventured beyond my neighborhood of dirty facades to a Havana that never ceases to surprise me. You could say they re...
Here are the "top ten" things our government could do in 2010 to reverse our nascent economic recovery. Of course, it shouldn't do any of these things - but its record causes me grave concern.
I like a good cigar once in a while. And I have had none better than the one I smoked recently. That's because I rolled it myself.
The Big Bad Wolf or the Boogieman was called something else in my childhood: The Urban Reform. Raised in a house for which my parents had no papers, ...
In June, the Honduran military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint and flew him out of the country. Conflicting statements from the Obama administration have left many confused.
The alternative Cuban blogosphere continues to propagate itself. It is no longer like the bleak wasteland that displayed -- if anything -- a few pseudonymous pages in April 2007.
United States, Immigration Detention | Posted by: Sarnata Reynolds, December 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM The ...
What I have come to realize is that every mind has a unique shape. There are two minds that are alike so labeling someone as crazy is just simply insane.
