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FERNANDO DÁMASO
I was born in 1938 in Havana. I'm a Sagittarius. I studied at the Escolapios de la Víbora and graduated as a Qualified Accountant. I worked in advertising (market researcher and producer of commercials and television programs) and also was in the military. I am interested in literature, film, professional sports and nature. I have been writing for years.
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Category Archives: Society
Strange Christmas Season
In this Christmas season, when peace, brotherhood, kindness and love should prevail, some bellicose grey characters call for a new witch hunt directed at this who think and act in ways different from that established by the socialist model. In … Continue reading
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Strange Leases
The Ministry of Interior Trade, part of the Central State Administration, is a purely socialist invention. It did not exist during the Republic. Created to control and distribute the misery, its physical inventory consisted of businesses, shops, warehouses, and other … Continue reading
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A Litte Bit Outraged
Here in my country, the movement of the outraged is front page news. In the three national official newspapers and on television photos, images and praised are repeated, to no one’s surprise, accustomed as we are to the government’s taking … Continue reading
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Independence: Panacea or Tragedy?
Photo Peter Deel Writing on historical things, I dusted off the 19th Century in Cuba, and with it the related currents of annexation, reform, autonomy and independence. Elaborating on each of them, I came to some controversial conclusions, and going … Continue reading
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The Disappearance of a Myth
Cuba’s baseball team could not take the title in the recently ended World Cup, which took place in Panama, the honor going to the Netherlands. This is nothing new, as the same thing happened in the two previous Cups and … Continue reading
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Swindle
A reporter for an official press agency, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the literacy campaign in an article, emphasized that it was undertaken to end four and a half centuries of ignorance in the country. It appears that she, despite … Continue reading
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Another Look at the Grito de Yara*
Nobody can deny the foundational importance of October 10, 1868 for the Cuban nation. Though twenty years before Narciso Lopez had, for the first time, unfurled the national flag calling for combat against the oppressor, though his voice was not … Continue reading
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Globilization, a Complicated Word
Globalization, like a natural process of mankind’s development, is making strides and establishing itself across the geography of the planet, including in countries both large and small, powerful or weak, rich and poor. The word is new but the phenomenon … Continue reading
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The Result of Violence
The Country Muammar al-Gaddafi is dead, executed by his captors, or assassinated, depending on the political or human viewpoint from which it is observed. An old refrain says he who kills by iron dies by iron. I do not defend … Continue reading
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Higher Education
Next I am transcribing, textually, some of the statements from the current maximum Cuban authority of Higher Education (universities) that recently appeared in the official press: insufficient ideological-political and integral preparation of professors and students, limited commitment to studies, low … Continue reading
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