HOMENAJE A ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

Amigos y amigas gracias por aceptarme en este grupo,estoy haciendo un blog en tres lenguas,principalmente en español sobre tematicas afines a la cultura cubana,en homenaje al escritor guantanamero Orlando vicente Alvarez,fallecido de infarto hace tres meses en su lugar de residencia ,Punta del Este,a la edad de 62 años,habiendo visitado Cuba recien a los 18 años de exilio con permiso humanitario,Creo que sera mas famoso muerto que vivo porque su mensaje es obra de un genio.

Muy cordiales y respetuoso saludos

Legazcue Leon,

Maldonado.

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WIKIPEDIA DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
MEDICO UROLOGO CUBANO URUGUAYO
Diplomado en Antropologia Cristiana .España.a distancia.
NACIO EN GUANTANAMO ,CUBA,EL 2 DE FEBRERO DE 1957
FALLECIO EN PUNTA DEL ESTE,URUGUAY,EL 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2019.
VIVIO EN CUBA,NICARAGUA Y URUGUAY.
EN URUGUAY DIRIGIO UNA CLINICA DE ALIVIO DEL DOLOR E INTRODUJO EN EL PAIS LA OZONOTERAPIA.
COMO ESCRITOR ESCRIBIO NOVELAS,CUENTOS Y POEMAS,PUBLICADOS EN AMAZON.


BIBLIOGRAFIA
-MEMORIAS DE UN NIÑO GUANTANAMERO
-CHINANDEGA,SECRETOS DE LOS MEDICOS CUBANOS
.DE PALMAS Y OMBUES,EL AMOR ES MAS FUERTE
.MI MAMA Y EL DEMONIO
.DE PERROS Y TIRANOS
.CUENTOS PARA ADULTOS,CON EL ESCRITOR AMILCAR LEGAZCUE DE LEON.
.PROSTITUTAS Y PROSTITUTOS,CON AMILCAR LEGAZCUE DE LEON.

REVOLUCION CULTURAL REVOLUTION Una madrugada apareció una foto amplia de Fidel Castro pegada a la entrada de unos de los baños. Tenía emplastada toda una caca de mierda en la cara y nadie quería ensuciarse al quitarla. Se formó un lio tremendo, discursos, amenazas pero todo quedó ahí. No podían con cientos de adolescentes serios y con la boca herméticamente cerrada. Esa noche nos dieron pescado frito.------#cuba THE NEW MAN, THE ANAL CLEANING AND THE GRAMMA NEWSPAPER

#cuba THE NEW MAN, THE ANAL CLEANING AND THE GRAMMA NEWSPAPER

THE NEW MAN, THE ANAL CLEANING AND THE GRAMMA  NEWSPAPER.
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      Dr  Orlando Vicente Álvarez

URUGUAY
   When we arrived at the Seventh Grade of Secondary, the Cuban Revolution had compulsorily instituted "The School to the Field" which was to spend 45 days, suspended the teaching work, in Agriculture.
     We were simple teenagers from everywhere. They gave us a change of work clothes that included tennis shoes, trousers and a long-sleeved shirt, all of a rough but resistant fabric.
     We girls and boys were most excited. It was the first time that we separated for so long and we freed ourselves from the tutelage of our parents. The enthusiasm was contagious.
   We did not know that we were part of a plan created by Che Guevara to form what he called "the new man": obedient traitor to every order, revolutionary in every way and ideologically formed in Marxism-Leninism. In addition to separating ourselves from the generation and values of our parents, who in their immense majority were traditional bourgeois even if they were peasants of African descent and poor Galicians.
   I remember it was in December. The main time for Catholics and that was already diluting the customs of Christmas and Christmas Eve and the cerebration of a new year.
   All good until then. After the first days of work on a state farm far away from the city so that most of our parents did not come to see us, the hunger began and as we had to pick tomatoes we took a bag of salt to the field and we were fed up with them until we were satiated and lunch time arrives.
   But the big problem was the toilets that they had prepared. They were holes in the concrete with two bricks on each side to put the feet and defecate in crouches. We called them "take aim" because you had to hit the small hole accurately.
    The toilet paper that we brought from home was soon over and we had to use the GRAMMA newspaper that was not lacking. But you had to moisten it a bit earlier because it scraped the rear and then we left with the ass inked black. The holes had no wall in front so everyone who passed saw us in that very private act. The same would be with girls.
   In the afternoon bath time was an agony because we had to stand in line to load a bucket with cold water - and it was cold in December - and bathe in a row inside four walls. We had to scrub our asses well with washing soap to remove the inking. For boys there were no problems in walking naked. But for the girls I do not know how they managed.
   One morning a large photo of Fidel Castro appeared stuck to the entrance of one of the bathrooms. A whole peace of shit was plastered on his face and no one wanted to get dirty by removing it. There was a tremendous mess, speeches, threats but everyone was in silent. They could not with hundreds of serious teenagers and with their mouths tightly closed.
   That night they gave us fried fish.

DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

CUBAN URUGUAYAN,GENIUS

EL HOMBRE NUEVO, LA HIGIENE ANAL Y EL PERIÓDICO GRAMMA.

   Cuando llegamos al Séptimo Grado  de  Secundaria la Revolución cubana había instituido de forma obligatoria “La Escuela al Campo” que era pasar 45 días, suspendidas las labores docentes, en la Agricultura.

     Éramos unos simples adolescentes venidos de todas partes. Nos entregaban una muda de ropa de trabajo que  incluía zapatos tenis, pantalón y una camisa de mangas largas, todo de una tela burda pero resistente.

     Nosotros las chicas y chicos de lo más entusiasmados. Era la primera vez que nos separábamos por tanto tiempo y nos liberábamos de la tutela de nuestros padres. El entusiasmo era contagioso.

   No sabíamos que éramos parte de un plan creado por el Che Guevara para formar lo que él llamaba “el hombre nuevo”: trabador obediente a toda orden, revolucionario a toda prueba e ideológicamente formado en el Marxismo-Leninismo. Además de ir separándonos de la generación y los valores de nuestros padres que en su inmensa mayoría era tradicional burguesa aunque fueran campesinos descendientes de africanos y gallegos pobres.

   Recuerdo que fue en Diciembre. La época principal para los católicos y que ya se iba diluyendo las costumbres de Navidad y de Noche Buena y la cerebración de un nuevo año.

   Todo bien hasta entonces. Transcurrido los primeros días de trabajo en una granja estatal bien  lejos de la ciudad para que la mayoría de nuestros padres no fuera a vernos,  empezó el hambre y como teníamos que recoger tomates nos llevábamos hacia el campo una bolsita con sal y nos hartábamos  de la vianda hasta quedar saciados y llegara la hora del almuerzo.

   Pero el gran problema eran los inodoros que nos habían preparados. Eran unos huecos en el cemento con dos ladrillos a cada lado para poner los pies y defecar en cuclillas. Nosotros les llamábamos “coge puntería” porque había que acertar el pequeño orificio con precisión.

    El papel higiénico que trajimos de casa se nos acabó pronto y tuvimos que usar el diario GRAMMA que no faltaba. Pero había que humedecerlo un poco antes pues raspaba el trasero y después salíamos con el culo entintado de negro. Los huecos no tenían pared al frente así que todo el que pasaba nos veía en ese acto tan privado. Lo mismo sería con las chicas.

   En la tarde la hora del baño era una agonía pues teníamos que hacer cola para cargar un balde con agua fría- y hacia frio en Diciembre- y bañarse en fila dentro de cuatro paredes.  Teníamos que restregarnos bien el culo con jabón de lavar para quitar el  entintado.  Para los varones no había problemas en andar desnudos. Pero para las chicas no sé cómo se las ingeniaban.

   Una madrugada apareció una foto amplia de Fidel Castro pegada a la entrada de unos  de los baños. Tenía  emplastada toda una caca de mierda en la cara y nadie quería ensuciarse al quitarla. Se formó un lio tremendo, discursos, amenazas pero todo quedó ahí. No podían con cientos de adolescentes  serios y con la boca herméticamente cerrada.

   Esa noche nos dieron pescado frito.   

DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
CUBANO URUGUAYO,GENIO

BRASIL BRAZIL BOLSONARO : THE IMPORTATION OF CUBAN MEDICAL MEAT WAS FINISHED.

BOLSONARO : THE IMPORTATION OF CUBAN MEDICAL MEAT WAS FINISHED.

   The government of Bolsonaro ended the agreement that Dilma ROUSSEF had signed with Cuba. This was: importing thousands of young Cuban doctors to practice in areas where Brazilian doctors did not approach.
  The poor Cuban doctors, excited to leave Cuba and see other lands, see capitalist society up close and arm themselves on their return with all the little money that was scarce on the island, willingly joined for three years, separating themselves from their family and friends.
  This was a sign of satisfaction for the Cuban families despite the separation because the little money that the government paid them and the washing machines, motors, and clothes that they would bring back were a relief to the shortages and an incentive for the strangeness of the distance .
  The Cuban government charged a large portion of the pie to the point that it is one of the most lucrative activities that Cuban hierarchies receive, greater than tourism.
   I met a young couple who sent them to another South American country. Their destination was a wooden hut and thatched roof in the middle of a terrible weed and they had to prepare the surgery themselves. They fled like a soul that the devil persecutes and they asked for asylum in the host country, they revalidated the title and now they live happier than in Cuba even though they are longing for their relatives.
  In my book "Chinandega: Secrets of the Cuban Doctors in Nicaragua" I painted the conditions in which the doctors lived while the MININT or FAR officers lived in mansions with pools of the old moneyed class of the Somocistas, while they paid us a miserable salary in "Cordobas" that did not reach us to buy a shirt or pullover. 
 There, the bandage of communism was taken from me. There was a kind of tyranny in the medical brigade where the UJC and the CCP were in charge of watching until our cinema trips.
  Cuba now exports Cuban doctors to several countries in Africa and Latin America, charging these countries hard cash. As if it were a new slave  unconscious of manipulation in exchange for small items that are brought.
   I agree with Bolsonaro's measures regarding Cuban doctors even if I do not entirely agree with his extreme right ideology.
  But the Cuban doctors who open their eyes and demand a decent salary and not the money that accumulates in Cuba until their return, if they return.
  The human being tends to freedom because of his divine nature but also to submission because of the indoctrination that they receive as a child, as a new view comes.



DR ORLANDO VICENTE ÁLVAREZ

CUBAN URUGUAYAN ,GENIUS


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BOLSONARO: IMPORTAÇÃO de Carne Medica cubana foi finalizada.

BOLSONARO : A IMPORTAÇÃO DE CARNE MÉDICA CUBANA FOI FINALIZADA.

   O governo de Bolsonaro acabou com o acordo que Dilma ROUSSEF assinou com Cuba. Isto foi: importar milhares de jovens médicos cubanos para praticar em áreas onde os médicos brasileiros não se aproximavam.
  Entusiasmed pobres médicos cubanos para sair de Cuba e vejar outras terras, olhar a sociedade capitalista de perto  e em seu retorno armar-se com todo o lixo que era escassa na ilha, de bom grado se alistou por três anos, longe de suas famílias e amigos.
  Este foi uma sinal de satisfação para as famílias cubanas apesar da separação, porque o pouco dinheiro que o governo lhes pagou e máquinas de lavar roupa, motores, roupas que traria o retorno foi um alívio e um incentivo para a estranheza da distância.
  O governo cubano cobrava grande parte do bolo ao ponto de ser uma das atividades mais lucrativas que as hierarquias cubanas recebem, maior que o turismo.
   Eu conheci um jovem casal que se enviou para outro país sul-americano. Seu destino era uma cabana de madeira e telhado de palha no meio de uma erva terrível e eles tinham que preparar a cirurgia eles mesmos. Eles fugiram como uma alma perseguida  pelo diabo e pediu asilo no país de acolhimento, revalidou o título e agora vivem mais felizes do que em Cuba, a pesar de mas saudade de suas famílias.
  Em meu livro "Chinandega: Segredos dos médicos cubanos na Nicarágua" eu pinto as condições em que viviam os médicos enquanto as autoridades do MININT e FAR vivían em mansões com piscinas de ex classe endinheirada de somocistas como nós pagamos um mísero salário em "Cordobas" que não nos chegou a comprar uma camisa ou pulôver. Lá, o curativo do comunismo foi tirado de mim. Havia uma espécie de tirania na brigada médica onde a UJC e o PCCh estavam encarregados de assistir até nossas viagens ao cinema.
  Cuba agora exporta médicos cubanos para vários países da África e da América Latina, cobrando dinheiro a esses países. Como se fosse um novo escravo  inconsciente de manipulação em troca de pequenos itens que são trazidos.
   Concordo com as medidas de Bolsonaro em relação aos médicos cubanos, mesmo que  não concorde inteiramente com sua ideologia de extrema direita.
  Mas os médicos cubanos que abrem os olhos e exigem um salário decente e não o dinheiro que se acumula em Cuba até o retorno, se retornarem.
  O ser humano tende à liberdade por causa de sua natureza divina, mas também à submissão por causa da doutrinação que recebe quando criança.

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Bolsonaro: se terminó la importación de carne médica cubana

BOLSONARO: SE TERMINÓ LA IMPORTACIÓN DE  CARNE MÉDICA CUBANA.

   El gobierno  de Bolsonaro terminó con el acuerdo que Dilma ROUSSEF había firmado con Cuba. Esto era: importar miles de jóvenes  médicos  cubanos a ejercer en las zonas en que los facultativos brasileños no se acercaban.

  Los pobres médicos cubanos embullados por salir de Cuba y ver otras tierras, ver de cerca la sociedad capitalista y armarse a su regreso con toda la pacotilla que escaseaba en la isla, se alistaban gustosos por tres años, separándose de sus familiares y amigos.

  Esto era un signo de satisfacción para las familias cubanas a pesar de la separación pues el poco dinero que el gobierno les pagaban y las lavarropas, motores, ropa que traerían al regreso eran un alivio y un aliciente para la extrañeza  de la lejanía.

  El gobierno cubano cobraba una gran porción del pastel al punto que es una de las actividades más lucrativas que reciben los jerarcas cubanos, mayor que la del turismo.

   Yo conocí  a un matrimonio joven que los enviaron a otro país sudamericano. Su destino era una casucha de madera y techo de paja en medio de un hierbazal terrible y tenían que preparar ellos mismos el consultorio. Huyeron como alma que persigue el diablo  y pidieron asilo en el país anfitrión, revalidaron el título y ahora viven más felices que en Cuba aunque añorando a sus familiares.

  En mi libro “Chinandega: Secretos de los médicos cubanos en Nicaragua” pinto las condiciones en que vivíamos los médicos mientras los oficiales  del MININT o de las FAR viivían en mansiones con piscinas de la antigua clase adinerada de los somocistas, mientras nos pagaban un miserable  sueldo en “Córdobas” que no nos alcazaba para comprar  ni una remera o pullover. Allí se me quitó la venda del comunismo. Existía una clase de tiranía en la brigada médica donde regían la UJC y el PCC vigilando hasta nuestras salidas al cine.

  Ahora Cuba exporta médicos cubanos  a varios países de África y Latinoamérica, cobrando a dichos países dinero contante y sonante. Como si fuera una nueva trata de esclavos inconscientes de la manipulación a cambio de pequeñas artíclos que se traen.

   Estoy de acuerdo con las medidas de Bolsonaro con respecto a los médicos cubanos aunque no comulgue enteramente con su ideología de extrema derecha.

  Pero los galenos cubanos que abran los ojos y exijan un salario digno y no el dinerito que se acumula en Cuba  hasta su regreso, si es que regresan.

  El ser humano tiende a la libertad por su naturaleza  divina pero también a la sumisión por el adoctrinamiento que reciban desde niño. Hasta que una nueva visión del mundo se aproxime. 

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FREEDOM LIBERTAD El ser humano tiende a la libertad por su naturaleza divina pero también a la sumisión por el adoctrinamiento que reciban desde niño. Hasta que una nueva visión del mundo se aproxime. DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ CUBANO URUGUAYO,GENIO

The human being tends to freedom for his divine nature but also to submission for the indoctrination they receive as a child. Until a new worldview approaches. DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ URUGUAYAN CUBAN, GENIUS
LIBERTAD,FREEDOM

NOSTALGIA ,SLAVERY,BABYLON.Especially when one is getting old and a small tear slips through the nostalgia of remembrance.

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All the love in the world of others could not fill the void of the dog that suffered abandonment or perhaps other tortures.    That reminds me of most Cuban exiles. A song, a landscape of his land, a relative, brings him back to earth, no matter how adapted they are in his new nation. Especially when one is getting old and a small tear slips through the nostalgia of remembrance.    Like the Hebrews who spent 60 years in slavery in Babylon and despite the mistreatment and torture they cried for their small territory left behind and maintained their customs, traditions, their God and even their songs.     That is called sense of belonging to our roots. Even if 60 years of Communism pass there will always be a beat of Cuba in our hearts.                                        DR     ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

CUBAN URUGUAYAN

GENIUS                                             AUTHOR OF "MEMORIES OF A GUANTAMERO CHILD"         CLIK IN

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Todo el amor del mundo de otros no lograba llenar el vacío del perro que sufrió abandono o quizás otras torturas más.

   Eso me recuerda a la mayoría de los exiliados cubanos. Una canción, un paisaje de su tierra, un familiar, lo retrotrae  a la tierra, por muy adaptados que estén en su nuevo nación. Sobre todo cuando uno se  está poniendo viejo y una pequeña lágrima se desliza por la nostalgia de la remembranza. 

   Como los hebreos que estuvieron 60 años en esclavitud en Babilonia y a pesar de los maltratos y las torturas  lloraban por su pequeño territorio dejado atrás y mantenían sus costumbres, tradiciones, su Dios y hasta sus canciones.

    Eso se llama sentido de Pertenencia a nuestras raíces. Aunque pasen 60 años de Comunismo siempre habrá un latido de Cuba en nuestros corazones.

                                            DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

CUBANO URUGUAYO

GENIO

                                            AUTOR DE “MEMORIAS DE UN NIÑO GUANTAMERO”

                              

THE VEGAN DIET dose of Insulin. She do not look at the notebook, only the analysis and what it was for. She started to fight me out of herself like a crazy woman. -Do you know, Doctor? Your behavior has inspired me to write a story about you, of course, with another name. -Yes.-she said interested- And what will it be called? - A Harpy with a white coat. Do not let her answer me. I closed the door and left. Now I do not know who will prescribe me the insulin, the strips etc. But she will learn to treat patients with kindness. Of course, she is a leftist who studies in Cuba and treats Cubans from exile as trash.

THE VEGAN DIET Now I do not know who will prescribe me the insulin, the strips etc. But she will learn to treat patients with kindness. Of course, she is a leftist who studies in Cuba and treats Cubans from exile as trash.

THE VEGAN DIET
           

   A ballerina friend of mine who is in her forties and looks like twenty, recommended me for my diabetes to another girl who brought home vegetarian dishes.

 I contacted the cook girl and agreed to bring me a portion of her special diet the next day.

   Someone  knocked on the door. An androgynous girl showed up: two-colored hair, violet on one side and pink on the other. I remembered the characters of the French comedy that staged works of Moliere centuries ago.
   But I was amazed by the piercings that adorned her face. And I'm "crazy" about piercings. She had three in each ear, one in the nose and the one that left me reaching the rapture, almost in ecstasy, was the one with the lower lip. She looked like a hardware store saleswoman. But the fashion of young people should not be criticized, this makes us old or old who criticize everything, especially the youth. You have to be lenient.
  She gave me the plate of vegetables: chickpeas, chopped beans, carrot in pieces and boiled squashes. I Asked:
  - What is the name of this diet?
  -Vegana- she replied with pride.
  - What if I give it a chopped boiled egg?
  -Then it would be vegetarian Ovo, which is not the same.
  - And bits of cheese? -I asked again.
 - Lacto vegetarian
  - Okay. Young girl bring me an eh ... a ... dwarf.
  -We still do not know that diet but when it becomes fashionable I will propose it.
  - Good. For now I'll stay with it ... How did she tell me?
  - The vegan diet.
   - That's. Bring it to me three times a week.
     I paid her and we stay like this.

   I was already used to eating without salt but that diet reminded me of Cuba at the time of the Special Period.
   The girl came three times a week, tinkling the piercing as if she were waving a Christmas tree. But I started eating a pulp or a steak baked in the oven from time to time. Until one afternoon the girl did not come but a boy shaved hair on both sides and a cap or pigtail in the occiput. He introduced himself with a large glass of pumpkin soup.
  _ Not this, please, I am already tired of the Caucasian diet, beltrana, and now sopana. Tell the girl to remove me as a business client.
  The boy shrugged his shoulders. He said:
  - Well crazy-that's how Uruguayan men are called among men.
    And he left.
  When I had an appointment with my diabetologist woman, I took her the analysis of glycosidated hemoglobin. And I showed her the notebook where I wrote down the daily blood glucose that I  make me gave me 6 times a day and the corresponding dose of Insulin. She do not look at the notebook, only the analysis and what it was for. She started to fight me out of herself like a crazy woman.
-Do you know, Doctor? Your  behavior has inspired me to write a story about you, of course, with another name.
  -Yes.-she said interested- And what will it be called?
  - A Harpy with a white coat.
  Do not let her answer me. I closed the door and left.

  Now I do not know who will prescribe me the insulin, the strips etc. But she will learn to treat patients with kindness. Of course, she is a leftist who studies in Cuba and treats Cubans from exile as trash.


DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
CUBAN URUGUAYAN
GENIUS

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SAD I was sad for a moment but life is like that. You cannot be anchored to the past, now look forward and remove every trace of the Caribbean and North American culture Yo quedé triste por un momento pero la vida es así. No se puede estar anclado al pasado, ahora mirar hacia adelante y remover todo trazo de la cultura caribeña y norteamericana

Así  dejé a mi hija. En sus primeras cartas me mencionaba la canción de Barbra Straisand y de Nat King Cole, pero ya no me hablaba de Selena. Su talento para la música lo olvidó en parte por mi culpa, entre otras razones que no quiero mencionar aquí, al “quedarme”  en Uruguay.

  Años después, siendo ella una bella señorita vino al Uruguay a acompañarme y a trabajar.

  Le pregunte recién si se acordaba de las tardes en que cantábamos las canciones americanas y me dijo. –No Pa, eso quedo en el pasado y fuera de mis recuerdos.-

  Yo quedé triste por un momento pero la vida es así. No se puede estar anclado al pasado, ahora mirar hacia adelante y remover todo trazo de la cultura caribeña y norteamericana....... pero no le veo ningún entusiasmo por la música del Rio de la Plata. .........ORLANDO 

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That's how I left my daughter. In his first letters he mentioned the song of Barbra Straisand and Nat King Cole, but he no longer told me about Selena. His talent for music partly forgot him because of me, among other reasons I don't want to mention here, when "staying" in Uruguay.   Years later, being a beautiful lady came to Uruguay to accompany me and work.   I just asked him if he remembered the afternoons when we sang American songs and he told me. -No Pa, that was in the past and out of my memories.-   I was sad for a moment but life is like that. You can not be anchored to the past, now look forward and remove all traces of Caribbean and American culture ....... but I do not see any enthusiasm for the music of the Rio de la Plata.

DR ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ

CUBAN URUGUAYAN

GENIUS