Luis Dufaur 
As a sovereign nation, Ukraine had been negotiating to reach accord favoring closer relations with the European Union. Despite the negative aspects that this rapprochement could bring, its positive effects would far outweigh the former, as it would free Ukraine from the oppressive grip of Russia and guarantee the country’s independence. However, … Read more
For many years, Westvleteren XII beer, produced at the Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren (Belgium) has been chosen as the world’s best by thousands of experts. This year it was voted the “Best Beer in the World.” As a result of the beer’s popularity, demand for this beer has skyrocketed while supply has … Read more
Over 200 Cuban Catholics were able to make it to the shrine of the country’s Patroness, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, on September 8, her feast day. The celebration of such numbers had a heroic note because Raul Castro’s dictatorship forbid such pilgrimages and blocked the main roads to the … Read more
The Hungarian government is transferring public schools to religious institutions, reported the French magazine L’Express.This policy has infuriated socialist leaders within and outside Hungary and even in European countries where public education has had calamitous results. The angry complaints center on the fact that traditional morals are being restored with the help … Read more
While the possession of weapons, including for military use, is widespread in Switzerland, crimes with firearms are so few that there are not even statistics about them, the BBC reported. With a population of six million, the country has at least two million private firearms, including about 600,000 automatic assault rifles and … Read more
The Cuban state factory, Provari, makes a number of items, from bricks and mattresses all the way to artifacts and souvenirs for tourists and even insecticide. However, as dissidents have denounced, most of their workers are “slave workers.” They are prisoners who work unprotected and receive negligible salaries or no salary at … Read more
Years of anti-family policies have created the “culture medium” that incubated the hooligans that set many English city boroughs ablaze, wrote Max Hastings of the London newspaper The Mail. The rioters merely followed the leftist and anti-capitalist rhetoric of the day. They acted not because they are poor or marginalized or for … Read more
The establishment media seek to convey a discouraging impression of Brazil as a country where the majority of the population prefers immorality and egalitarian decadence. However, this is a very partial view of reality that does not consider the deepest aspects of the Brazilian soul. Geraldo Galindo, leader of the Communist Party … Read more
The name Isabella — that of a 5 year-old girl killed by being thrown from a 6th floor flat in São Paulo, Brazil — still resounds in everyone’s minds. Her death has an especially terrifying aspect: the killer’s lack of moral sense. This complete lack of moral sense gives us the shivers. … Read more
When the student riots began at the Sorbonne University in France in 1968, the advocates of this “cultural revolution” did not blush to admit they wanted to bring about the ruin of civilization as we know it. However, their vision of this catastrophe was enigmatic: “Soon we will have charming ruins,” they … Read more