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We share with the readers of Palabra Nueva this text by Jorge Fernández Era, who this time writes about the need that we all have to feel accompanied and accompany at the same time the family member, the friend, the neighbor door with door or the acquaintance of the corner. “That’s what it’s all about: we have to go with each other. There’s no other left.”

Respectable and noble peoples rise only on the basis of virtues, assures us Teresa Díaz Canals, for whom the number one task in the face of the physical and moral deterioration of the nation, “without building, is to build”. Building, he tells us, is making history. It is a double building: architectural and historical. “And in that reparation of our society that eliminates the deep confrontation between ‘official’ Cubans and ‘mercenaries’ we must find the need that goes beyond any building as a sturdy coat, inner wealth is required. A loss of interior space has a paralyzing effect of subjecting to the immediate.”

“That the swings of international trade will give us a damn in the future will depend on the cumin not having to look for it in China and make our land produce it, so that everyone, back from their work, can buy it at ease with the percentage of sweat invested, using only their Legitimately Conquered Currency.” About this and more, goes the analysis of Jorge Fernández Era in the most recent issue of #PalabraNueva, without leaving aside the intelligent and certain humor to which he has us accustomed.

The year 2020 will be remembered by humanity as one of the most terrible of this new century. As if wars, daily miseries and climatic and human dismantling were not enough, an epidemic came to […]

A topic of constant debate today in the world of social media is spelling. When we write well we respect not only the art of communicating and the language we speak, but the neighbor who reads to us.

According to The Cuban writer Eric Adrián Pérez González or Yitzjaq Aharon, a Sephardic Jew, selfishness has spawned humanity’s worst monsters. For the author of “La Vuelta”, an acute work that says truths that touch many nations, selfishness manifests itself in its most horrible form when it assumes power, for it completely loses its sanity and shatters human dignity. For this author, a Miami resident, the only liberating force is true love. “When you really love everything starts to make sense, you connect with that eternal energy and you feel complete, because you understand what your part is in that great puzzle of life,” he says.

With regard to the celebration of Cuban Culture Day this October 20th, the magazine Palabra Nueva proposes reading a text by Msgr. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who was, until his death, a member of our editorial board. About the writer José Lezama Lima and his Catholic being, goes the following article. With the conviction that the Lezamian theme will never be exhausted, for it is an inexhaustible mine, the author does not seek to canonize Lezama, but he does not demonize it either. He considered him as a person and admired him as the multifaceted writer he was. “And I do not exclude him from ecclesial communion, which lived with truth, but… in his own way!” he says.

This is the story of a man who walked through life under a dangerous amount of vices, sleepovers and alcohol in his blood, without knowing days or nights, and without any attention to the advice of his mother and friends, Christians a good part of them. He finally heard them. Today he is an ambulance driver, a job he appreciates, because he feels that from his post he helps the needy. And even if ambulances are missing and the guards are tense, it takes encouragement to many in need, whether it’s a sick child, a physical impeded or an old man.

The beautiful song Only Once, was composed by Agustín Lara for his friend the Mexican actor and vocalist José Mojica (Mexico 1896-Peru 1974). Lara wrote the lyrics when she learned that the great singer would become a Franciscan friar. From the New Word we share small fragments of a long and fruitful existence, which are, in short, like small pieces of a puzzle that are arming the soul of a great man, who was able to choose an expeditious and glamorous life; but he chose a spiritual life where fame, gold and money never took place.

This could be the story of any mother, professional or not, committed to the mission of cultivating authentic values in her children to nurture and at the same time offer to the society where they live. Today, when technology absorbs many of our children, it would be healthy not to compete with this reality. It is about using it in our favor, as a tool for formation, which, of course, presupposes a change of paradigam in thought, attitude and action.