Come in, ladies and gentlemen, to the show!

The dilemma of a magician who pulls rabbits out of a hat is the impossibility of returning them to the same hat without the trick being discovered in the process. To end the show, he then resorts to a distraction: he almost always makes use of a beautiful woman who, half-naked and to the beat of vibrant music, graciously grabs the animal and hides it behind the screen.

Author: Antonio Rodríguez Salvador | internet@granma.cu

april 7, 2022 11:04:28

The dilemma of a magician who pulls rabbits out of a hat is the impossibility of returning them to the same hat without the trick being discovered in the process. To end the show, he then resorts to a distraction: he almost always makes use of a beautiful woman who, half-naked and to the beat of vibrant music, graciously grabs the animal and hides it behind the screen.

The United States is a wizard at pulling rabbits (in this case, news) out of the media. For example, the war in Ukraine has served as a distraction so that, suddenly, we forget that its public debt already exceeds 30 trillion dollars (130 % of its GDP); that the inflation of its economy is the highest in the last 40 years (7.9 %), and that it has already reached one million deaths due to the COVID-19 (one sixth of the deaths in the world).

An important technique in illusionism is to organically get the viewer to look away at the right moment. Apart from the supposed massacres where the corpses smoke cigarettes in their shrouds; the victories of some Azov fleeing in disarray, or the destruction of Russian media, whose images are taken from video games; who knows if even the nonsense with which they make us laugh on social networks are not part of the same trick.

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Our America in the face of the onslaught of imperialism and the oligarchies

CANCILLERÍA DE CUBA·WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2019

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The most recent events in the region confirm that the US government and the reactionary oligarchies bear the primary responsibility for the dangerous unrest and political and social instability that broke out in Latin America and the Caribbean.

As was anticipated by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, on January 1, 2019: Those who entertained the illusion of the restoration of imperialist domination in our region should understand that Latin America and the Caribbean have changed and so has the world (…) The region resembles a large prairie in times of drought. A single spark could cause an uncontrollable fire that would damage the national interests of all.”

President Donald Trump proclaims the validity of the Monroe Doctrine and resorts to McCarthyism to maintain the imperialist domination over the natural resources of the region; prevent the exercise of the national sovereignty and the aspirations of regional integration and cooperation; attempt to re-establish his unipolar and hemispheric hegemony; eliminate progressive, revolutionary and alternative models to wild capitalism; revert political and social achievements and impose neo-liberal models, with full disregard for International Law, the rules of the game of representative democracy, the environment or the wellbeing of peoples. Continue reading Our America in the face of the onslaught of imperialism and the oligarchies →