By SILVIO CANTO, JR. During my time in Mexico years ago, I had lunch once with a Mexican businessman and asked him about his country’s relationship with Fidel Castro’s Cuba. I asked him what’s the big deal? What does Mexico get out of it? He answered by saying that Mexican-Cuban relations are about keeping the left wing protestors in the
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Back in 1988, General Augusto Pinochet had run Chile for 15 years. He had overthrown the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende in a controversial military coup in 1973 that gained international condemnation but was little understood by the outside world. Allende’s three-year presidency led to an extended period of social unrest and political tension
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. It was refreshing to hear Texas Governor Greg Abbott of Texas challenge the chaos (and lawlessness) at the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend. The situation has gone way beyond a debate over unaccompanied kids on the border. It is now about encouraging criminal elements in Mexico to come north, as the governor said in an interview
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As the United States is finally beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of novel coronavirus infections, we are reminded how grave the covid-19 situation remains in Mexico, where infections and the death toll continues to rise. (As of Thursday, March 4, there were more than 2.1 million officially confirmed
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. I just saw a note that said that American football quarterback Tom Brady is not planning to retire if he wins another Super Bowl. He is 43 years old and wants to play until 45! That’s amazing and a reminder of Nolan Ryan, who was 46 when he retired in 1993. (By the way, he was
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. On Saturday, Jan. 23, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone. According to news reports, the Mexican president said that the United Stats has pledged $4 billion to Central America. in development investment programs. I guess that Biden is hoping that money going south will keep caravans from going
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Did Facebook or Twitter plan to kill the Hunter Biden story? Maybe so, but they accomplished the exact opposite. In other words, more and more people are talking about it and wondering why it was censored in the first place. This is from an article in the Daily Wire by Emily Zanotti: “Twitter’s crackdown on a
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Politics aside, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) was an extraordinary woman. She dedicated her life to the pursuit of jurisprudence and carried on a relentless war against whatever she perceived to be social injustices and legal inequities. Her battle against cancer was an inspiration for all who’ve dealt with it, directly or indirectly.
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. So who got the National Basketball Association (NBA) to shut up and dribble? Answer: China in its most intimidating ways, as David Whitley wrote in the Orlando Sentinel: “Amid all the preaching, would someone please make a peep about a country that commits more human rights abuses in 10 minutes than the United States does in 10
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As my late father used to say, “la bola pica y se extiende,” or, loosely translated, “the ball hits the ground and keeps on rolling.” It’s actually an old Cuban baseball expression about a ball that lands between two outfielders and rolls to the wall. It’s used by Cubans when a situation just keeps on rolling
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