In his newly-published book of poetry, "In case I die tomorrow," Albor Ruiz gives voice to his journeys from his hometown of Cárdenas, Cuba, to the streets of New York City, in Manhattan.
En su poemario, "Por si me muero mañana", Albor Ruiz lleva a la lírica sus experiencias vitales, desde su natal isla de Cuba hasta su ciudad adoptiva de Nueva York. “Sepan todos que Cuba me reclama...”, advierte el escritor neuyorquino, evocando a su natal Cárdenas en verso de postrimero.
In his newly-published book of poetry, "In case I die tomorrow," Albor Ruiz gives voice to his journeys from his hometown of Cárdenas, Cuba, to the streets of New York City, in Manhattan.
Can democracy be possible without well-informed voters?
Estos son tiempos extraños en los que la ignorancia, los prejuicios, la mendacidad y la intimidación son las características definitorias del presidente del país más poderoso del mundo y sus facilitadores republicanos.
These are strange times in which ignorance, prejudice, mendacity and bullying are the defining characteristics of the president of the most powerful country in the world and his Republican enablers.
Son muchos los que piensan que los primeros seis meses de la presidencia de Donald Trump han sido un desastre de proporciones titánicas.
President Trump’s first six months in office look to many like a disaster of titanic proportions.
Inconcebible hasta hace pocos años, hoy miles de ciudadanos estadounidenses, así como residentes permanentes nacidos en Cuba, están recuperando su ciudadanía de nacimiento y, literalmente, volviendo a casa.
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.
Si usted siente que después de las elecciones pasadas son los pacientes los que dirigen el manicomio, créame, no es el único. El lunático número uno es, sin duda, el mismo presidente, quien la semana pasada en Miami demostró una vez más que su concepto (o su comprensión) de la realidad no pasa de los “reality shows”.
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.”
¡Cuidado! Dos peligrosas epidemias están causando estragos en las filas de los colaboradores más cercanos del presidente Trump. Y no es un cuadro agradable.
Estas últimas semanas hemos presenciado la reaparición de una especie repugnante conocida como “vendepatrias” en todo su repulsivo esplendor.
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.
C’mon people, give the man some credit. Yes, it’s true that these past few days have been completely chaotic and disastrous for the increasingly confused and erratic Donald Trump. But hey, how many other presidents have squandered their political capital so completely in such a short period of time?
Vamos señores, denle algún crédito al hombre. Sí, es cierto que estos últimos días han sido un caos y un desastre para el cada vez más confundido y errático Donald Trump. Pero, hey, ¿cuántos presidentes han malbaratado su capital político tan completamente y en tan poco tiempo?
Los partidarios de Donald Trump no son, ya lo sabemos, lo que llamaríamos gente buena. A cambio de su apoyo, ellos esperan que Trump presida sobre la administración más racista y antiinmigrante de que se tenga memoria.
Message to all those self-righteous individuals in Puerto Rico who made a show of being scandalized by the stones thrown –God knows by whom—during the May 1st march in San Juan, while minimizing the 200,000 people who peacefully protested the extreme austerity measures and the imperial federal control board deciding their future: You must either ignore your nation’s reality or be complicit in its creation. In either case, shame on you.
Sí, eso es lo que retórica recalentada de Washington sobre Corea del Norte –a la que el país asiático responde en tonos igualmente belicosos – es en realidad: una sucia guerra de palabras. Pero puede estar seguro de que no están a punto de intercambiarse balas, cohetes, la madre de todas las bombas y mucho menos armas atómicas. Lo cual, por supuesto, es muy bueno.
Yes, that’s what the heated rhetoric coming from Washington about North Korea –and being responded to in no less bellicose tones by the Asian country – is: a nasty war of words. Rest assured that no bullets, no rockets, no mother of all bombs, not to mention atomic weapons are about to be fired, dropped or exchanged. Which, of course, is great.
No se da a querer. Ni siquiera es agradable. Lo que Donald Trump sí es, es el presidente de EE. UU. más impopular del que se tenga memoria, lo cual tiene muchísima lógica.
Lovable he is not. He is not even nice, for goodness’ sake. What Donald Trump is, is the most unpopular U.S. president in modern history, which coming to think of it, was to be expected.
Nightmarish. That’s the best way to describe Donald Trump’s past few weeks in the White House.
During those days he has seen his closest henchmen exposed as liars and cheaters –the most recent, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, a man well known for his extremist racist ideology.
Not surprisingly, they --Trump included-- deny any wrongdoing with a straight face while, as in some third-rate TV reality show, are doing the impossible to hide their suspicious dealings with the Russians and paint themselves as harmless patriots.
Una pesadilla. Esa es la mejor descripción de las semanas recientes de Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca. En esos días Trump ha presenciado el desenmascaramiento de sus colaboradores más cercanos como tramposos y embusteros, incluyendo a si fiscal general, Jeff Sessions, cuya ideología racista y antiinmigrante es de sobra conocida.
Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements. That’s how the White House has called the first of two executive orders Donald Trump signed on January 25. The second one is also named with the same cold, bureaucratic language that makes it sound harmless, just another routine governmental decision.
But don’t be fooled by the innocuous names. What Trump ordered with those documents is nothing less than an all-out assault on immigrants and the values that, supposedly, define the United States as a nation.
