![]() ![]() If Galileo had just provided truths, he wouldn’t have been condemned. Latin American independistas raised precisely Baldwin’s question: how to resist the “lie at the heart of the nation” when it is about “love, life and death”, that is, everything. In 1963, he wrote, “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we … imprison ourselves … to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.” Glaude supports Baldwin’s call to “begin again”, with the “America idea”, shedding its “old ideas”. You know human connection – a fact of science – and you learn its energy. Once you’ve lived it, you cannot not live it. Ubieta describes Cuban internationalism as an “inescapable ethic”. In Zona Roja, Enrique Ubieta Gómez says Cuban medical workers – fighting Ebola in 2014 - know about existence: We exist interdependently. But for Baldwin, “what kind of human beings we aspire to be” is most important and the explanation for Cuba’s success is precisely that. It is urgent according to Eddie Glaude in a new book on James Baldwin. ![]() Support grows for the Nobel Prize nomination but the justification for the Henry Reeve Brigade, established in 2005, is left out. ![]() Cuba’s astonishing internationalism, the “good news” of the pandemic, is talked about (outside Cuba) as if a miracle, without cause. When an event is unexplained, it can’t be repeated. ![]()
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