Albor Ruiz

The private prison business, despicable but very, very profitable, could have been designed with Donald Trump in mind.

Marco Rubio is a dreamer. Not that his dreams will ever be of the United We Dream kind, though.

If Donald Trump were a clown, he would be a rather creepy and unfunny one. Just thinking that this buffoon has his finger on the nuclear trigger, is enough to give the country –the world- a grave case of the heebie-jeebies.

An enlightened ruler he is not, although president Trump firmly believes he is God’s gift to the world. Then again, we already knew that, which is why the fact that his visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday was an unmitigated disaster was not a surprise.

The man took his sweet time, but finally, after resisting for one full week, and just in time for his visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday, President Trump temporarily lifted the obsolete century-old Jones Act allowing the island, devastated by two hurricanes, to begin receiving ships with desperately needed aid, not only from the U.S., but from other countries as well.

The fact is that even before the almost unbelievable catastrophes left in their wake by hurricanes Irma and Maria, and the terrible earthquake in Mexico, President Trump had already made this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month the worst ever.

The time is for Cuban-Americans to jump on a plane and travel to Cuba to help their families recover and rebuild and put cash in the pockets of their compatriots who need support for repair their homes and put food on the table.

Yet Sept. 11 is a tragic date not only in the U.S. On that day, Chile also darkens at the memory of the death of President Salvador Allende and the coup d’état staged by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1973 with Washington’s support.

It was unthinkable a few years ago, but thousands of Cuban-born U.S. citizens and permanent residents are reclaiming the citizenship of their birth and, literally, going back home again. 

If you feel that after the last election the inmates are running the asylum, you are not alone. The main lunatic seems to be the president himself, who last week in Miami showed once again that his concept (or his grasp) of reality does not go beyond, well, very bad “reality shows.” 

Warning! Two dangerous epidemics are rapidly wreaking havoc on President Trump’s closest advisors – and it is not a pretty picture.

“Elián,” a recently released documentary about the saga of Elián González, the little Cuban castaway that became a worldwide cause célèbre 17 years ago, is bringing back painful memories of the Cold War-induced bitter political battle between South Florida Cuban-Americans and Cubans on the island. At a time when President Trump seems poised to reverse Barack Obama’s measures and go back to a Cuba policy of hostility and irrationality, the film becomes even more distressing.

These last few weeks we have witnessed a rather repugnant species that respond to the name of “vendepatrias” coming out of the woodwork in all its sickening splendor.