So today I made roughly translating and reproducing the texts that I sent on the case of Orlando Zapata, the Cuban prisoner who died of a hunger strike. There were several reasons for this:
1) The first is that the death of a human being, whoever and whatever the circumstances, it really affects me. And even more so in this case where there was a hunger strike, a self-destruction. The simple fact of seeing this man’s face was painful to me. It reminded me of Guy Georges, that mulatto who have always thought that eventually deeply destroyed by lack of love before becoming a serial murderer of elderly. I played a kind of rebelliousness, a disease in feverish gaze, the political issue disappeared for me at this self-immolation and could only feel close to their humanity destroyed. So I thought it had to comply with a time of silence. But we have allowed. Neither he, nor I, nor above all to his mother, whose deep pain for that child imagine violent crucified and suffering that so many times. I know.
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The U.S. government closed four banks in the states of Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Utah, bringing to 26 the number of institutions closed due to insolvency so far this year.
The Wall Street Journal 
A year ago the President of the United States, Barack Obama, is determined to make a substantive change in overseeing the U.S. financial system, terribly beaten by the global financial crisis caused almost by themselves. 
It is sad and laughter (if not as dramatic theme) the desire and tear with many matches still left clinging to their great classics: the Cuba of Castro, Chavez Bolivarism authoritarian, anti-imperialism. I do not like to see visiting Cayo vip Lara, leader of United Left, the “socialist paradise” of Cuba, nor do I like the warm look of Zapatero’s government on this Caribbean island and the Venezuelan media. When IU leaders expressed their displeasure at the criticism of the Castro regime, peaking the injustice of not similarly criticized the excesses of the U.S. in Guantanamo (is done, friends, it has become), I think they obfuscate the tantrum free. It seems they do not want to shed some old identity features, which distinguish the social perhaps watered down and increasingly liberal PSOE, and continue to defend outdated models and dictatorships that have gone into decline and only time before they reach the End station.
This Christmas I went to see ‘Avatar’ by James Cameron movie. The film lifetime, no 3D or bagpipes. Well, I must say it’s the cowboys and Indians movie’s most spectacular I’ve seen in a long time, and in fact I intend to see her again in three dimensions this time. 
United States on Monday tried to convince private investors to take huge amounts of bad assets from banks, while the IMF warned of a sharp rise in unemployment could threaten democracy in some countries and even cause war.