SOCIETY

They pushed us and we stumbled

Havana returned to the indigenous transmission phase and many wonder what will happen from now on? By dawn on Monday, on central Monte Street and other Habaneras arteries nothing had changed. While it is true that the capitals were pushed and stumbled upon, it is also wise to rectify, we are now at that point.

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SOCIETY

Covid Year Notes (5)

Cuban narrator Lázaro Zamora gets up every day thinking about when he will start giving up the pandemic, whether he will ever disappear. So far he has not been able to find answers; neither do scientists. Still, he says, “I want to be optimistic, to think that finally this nightmare will pass and life will be back to the way it was.”

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RELIGION

The invitation is to walk with Jesus

With Havana’s return to the epidemic phase, private masses are resumed in the territory. Every Sunday, from Palabra Nueva we will continue to transmit the speech of Cardinal Juan de la Caridad Gacía, Archbishop of the Archdiocese. On this occasion, our pastor part of the text of the Gospel of Matthew 14,22-33, to remind us that from the beginning of Christianity the Church sails in the opposite wind, shaken by the tangle of evil, but continues to sail. “That Jesus walks on the waters,” the cardinal tells us, “means that evil overcomes, and it is also a manifestation that with Him, forgiveness overcomes vengeance; generosity to selfishness; the truth to the lie.”

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SOCIETY

Goebbels’ post-smile

It is not easy to fight that of journalism in the face of the rise or bombardment of information that only appeals to emotions and not to the enumeration of evidence, arguments or concrete facts on the subject they refer to. Today, when anyone communicates anything, there are many journalists who continue to bet on being more serious, more rigorous, more accurate… to prevent such a vapulous profession from going through the swallow.

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SOCIETY

Covid Notes of the Year (4)

The poet, narrator and Camagueyan essayist, Carlos Esquivel, although he claims that not all stories have a terrible ending, this one, which does not end yet, has shallow stretches. In the midst of this pandemic, he says, “We are actors, of which no one recognizes.”

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