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<title><![CDATA[Carlos Alberto Montaner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16148.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Carlos Alberto Montaner]]></description><category domain="16148">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Castro in State of Confusion]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ra&#195;&#186;l Castro is intent on building an efficient and productive socialism, capable of generating profits. That is why he has just laid off half a million unneeded wage earners.The objective is to detach 25 percent of the labor force from the state within 18 months. That's 1.3 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Socialism Has Many Faces]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/28/1990882/socialism-has-many-faces.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty-first-century socialism in Latin America actually consists of five socialisms, as many as the countries that constitute that caudillo-led, anti-republican, chaotic and authoritarian little world.They unite in anti-Americanism, in the conviction that individuals must be at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Well-Deserved Nobel Winner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/12/1868683/at-last-a-well-deserved-winner.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Swedish Academy gave an odd reason for granting Mario Vargas Llosa its Nobel Prize for Literature -- for his "cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.''Some gobbledygook. I imagine the writer was struck speechless....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cold War Heats Up a Bit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/06/1716789/cold-war-heats-up-a-bit.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news about the Russian spies uncovered in New York, beyond the comedic aspects of the episode, is a mine of interesting information and analysis. The first thing that needs to be discarded is the naive notion that the Cold War is over.That's not true. Espionage services have their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['They Lack Any Vestige of Decency']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/02/they_lack_any_vestige_of_decency_104610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Today, Feb. 25, we're burying him," shouted Reina, the distraught mother, in an interview with a European TV network.
She was like a wounded beast. &#96;&#96;It was premeditated murder,'' she charged as she wept. She is a black, humble woman, like her son, a simple mason who wanted to be free....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reality Defeated Communist Theory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/10/reality_defeated_communist_theory_99089.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, the rubble of the Berlin Wall crashed down loudly onto Marxism and pulverized it. Something that, paradoxically, confirmed Marx's opinion about theories, which he explained in his Theses on Feuerbach: &#96;&#96;It is in practice that man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Solution for the Conflict in Honduras]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/07/a_solution_for_the_conflict_in_honduras_97335.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, an extremely competent diplomat, tried hard to keep Congress from ousting President Manuel Zelaya. After his arguments and pressures were exhausted, and faced with something that seemed inevitable, he did something that ennobles him: He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's the Chance of Stability?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/01/whats_the_chance_of_stability_97255.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States, the OAS, the European Union, Hugo Ch&#195;&#161;vez, Fidel Castro -- most of all, Ch&#195;&#161;vez and Castro -- want Manuel Zelaya immediately restored to the presidency of Honduras. He was expelled from the country on the morning of June 28.
Almost by unanimity, the Honduran Congress,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Good' Tyrants Impoverish the People]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/good_tyrants_impoverish_the_pe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hugo Ch&#195;&#161;vez has an uncontrollably generous heart. In 2008, he donated 45 million gallons of heating oil to 200,000 poor American families. The cost of that contribution was about $100 million. The gift was made through CITGO, the Venezuelan state-owned energy company doing business in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raul Wants to Chat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/raul_wants_to_chat.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly before his profoundly anti-American speech of Jan. 1, Ra&#195;&#186;l Castro, at the time in Brazil, insisted publicly on his desire to talk with President-elect Barack Obama. What is his intention?He has three objectives up his sleeve: to gain access to soft credit so that he can import...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Wants to Follow Peter the Great]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/putin_wants_to_follow_peter_th.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russian ships no longer carry the names of heroic comrades but rather of figures from imperial history. As I write this column, the nuclear cruiser Peter the Great is sailing toward Latin America heading a flotilla of four imposing vessels. Some ships from the Venezuelan Navy will meet...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Road to a New Cold War?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/on_the_road_to_a_new_cold_war.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Carlos Alberto Montaner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost 20 years ago, as the Soviet Union tottered, I chatted with Boris Yeltsin and came to two odd conclusions: He liked to drink vodka in the mornings and had lost all his faith in communism. I never learned whether alcohol, contrary to what usually happens, cleared his mind, but it...]]></description>
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