MiamiHerald.com: Carlos Alberto Montaner http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/carlos-alberto-montaner/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Carlos Alberto Montaner http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/carlos-alberto-montaner/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2013 MiamiHerald.com Carlos Alberto Montaner 60 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:08 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com <![CDATA[Where does Latin America stand?]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/13/3395477/where-does-latin-america-stand.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/13/3395477/where-does-latin-america-stand.html Mon, 13 May 2013 16:25 EDT

How’s your wife? It depends — compared to whom?

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In Venezuela, Iris Varela, minister of prisons, a young lawyer with fiery eyes and incendiary speech, has warned that she has already prepared the cell in which Henrique Capriles will be imprisoned. I believe her unreservedly.

]]> <![CDATA[Lessons from the North Korea crisis]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/15/3346166/lessons-from-the-north-korea-crisis.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/15/3346166/lessons-from-the-north-korea-crisis.html Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:11 EDT

There are three lessons to be learned from what’s happening in the pitiful, totalitarian madhouse known as North Korea.

]]> <![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro, the bird, and the future of Venezuela]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/08/3329871/nicolas-maduro-the-bird-and-the.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/08/3329871/nicolas-maduro-the-bird-and-the.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:21 EDT Nicolás Maduro became aware that a little bird was talking to him. At first, he thought it was the Chogüi bird, a usually friendly and chatty creature, but because he is a shrewd person, trained by the Cubans in the various types of warbles, he quickly realized that it was Hugo Chávez.

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Yoani Sánchez visits Miami. It is the most difficult stop in her long tour. Everywhere, like a bullfighter hailed after a good afternoon, she has been carried on the shoulders of the crowd. She will also triumph in Miami, but her task will be a bit harder.

]]> <![CDATA[Don’t be fooled — there’s no real change in Cuba]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/18/3293468/dont-be-fooled-theres-no-real.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/18/3293468/dont-be-fooled-theres-no-real.html Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:57 EDT Raúl Castro’s regime wants to change the general perception about Cuba. It is intent on displaying an image that fundamental changes are taking place on the island, but that’s not true.

]]> <![CDATA[Legacy of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez will be hard to erase]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/11/3280236/legacy-of-venezuelas-hugo-chavez.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/11/3280236/legacy-of-venezuelas-hugo-chavez.html Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:46 EDT What does Hugo Chávez leave to the Venezuelan people? Three legacies, all of which are poisoned: a harebrained way to govern, the mindless 21st-Century socialism, and a neopopulist model based on welfare-patronage.

]]> <![CDATA[Let us see Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, dead or alive]]> http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/04/3266812/let-us-see-venezuelas-hugo-chavez.html http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/04/3266812/let-us-see-venezuelas-hugo-chavez.html Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:50 EST Panama’s former ambassador to the Organization of American States, Dr. Guillermo Cochez, a person who is usually well informed, affirms that Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, died a few days ago and challenges the government of that country to prove otherwise. How? In the only credible manner: by producing the sick man or, failing that, his cadaver.

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