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Monday, February 4, 2019

LA BELLA DOCTORA JUDIA.

  LA BELLA DOCTORA JUDIA


  Cuando  fui director de una clínica privada allá en Montevideo ofrecí  pequeñas conferencias sobre técnicas contra el dolor crónico.

  Asistían Neurólogos, internistas y fisioterapeutas. Entre ellos me fascino una mujer pelirroja, de piel muy blanca y muchas pecas en la cara que no trataba de ocultar con maquillaje.

  Yo en mi disertación la miraba más a ella que a otras inconscientemente. Dios sabe cómo me gustaban las pelirrojas naturales y si eran pecosas, caía rendido a sus pies.

  Otro día vino ella sola. Se presentó. Su nombre era impronunciable, creo que de origen polaco o algo así. Después el dueño de la clínica que se ausentaba  periódicamente de Montevideo, me dijo que la mujer era especialista en Medicina Interna y que sería mi colaboradora en las consultas, ya que yo solo no daba abasto.

   Con los días hicimos buenas relaciones de trabajo. Me contó que era judía Askenazi – descendiente del centro y este de  Europa-y que su madre, ya fallecida, era sobreviviente de un campo de concentración nazi. De su padre no supo más nada la madre.

   A sus espaldas las secretarias la llamaban “La Polaca” por no poder decir su apellido.

  Tenía una  hija de un matrimonio con otro judío que le puso un cheque de un millón de dólares encima de la mesa para quedarse con la beba como único custodio, cosa que la doctora rechazó rotundamente.

  Un día conocí a la hija. Una adolescente blanca como la leche, de ojos azules y sin pecas. Quitaba la respiración con su belleza blonda. Conversamos a solas en la consulta. Me dijo que iba a entrar a la Universidad y me gané su confianza  con mi “basta cultura” de la que hice alarde para que hablara bien de mí a su madre. La chica se fue encantada.

  La Doctora de apellido impronunciable se sentaba a mi izquierda en la mesa de consulta y veíamos a los pacientes juntos.

  Cansados de los disparates verbales que pronunciaba a cada instante yo le daba un punta pies con mi pierna izquierda y ella detenía su verborrea incontenible. Después que terminaba la  consulta salía cojeando o rengueando  de una pierna a causa de mis golpes. Pero lo hacía yo con cariño.

 Un día la hija me presentó a su novio. Otro judío pero sefardí- de los que expulsaron de España siglos ha-. Ambos eran practicantes de su credo y el chico permaneció silencioso como si temiera hablar en público.   Era alto, casi morocho y fornido.

 A la Doctora no sabía cómo yo entrarle con mis encantos, aunque le lanzaba indirectas todo el tiempo, permanecía como si nada entendiera. Solo le temblaban los dedos de su mano derecha, como si un tic nervioso  le atacara.

  En la TV y en la Radio cuando dábamos programas de propaganda de nuestros tratamientos  ella tenía que ocultar la mano en algún lugar, debajo de la mesa u otro sitio.

  Luego vino la crisis económica y el dólar- que era  el billete en que pagaban nuestros pacientes- se fue por las nubes. Y casi cerramos.

  Pero la Doctora tenía dinero guardado y compró la clínica. No vinieron más que un poco  de pacientes. Ya arruinada tuvo que vender los numerosos aparatos, artículos y hasta lámparas del techo en un remate.

  Y me tuvo que pagar el Seguro de Paro.

  Nunca llegué a nada con ella. Yo creo que si le daba un beso le empezaría a temblar todo el cuerpo en una catalepsia convulsiva.

    Después me dijo:

  - La verdad que los mejores años de mi vida me los pasé en la clínica sobre todo cuando era yo la dueña. Era la primera vez que tenía algo propio, mío, sin tener que darle cuentas  a nadie. Quedé arruinada.

  Yo la miré fijamente como para insinuarle que yo aún estaba disponible, pero a ella le empezó el Tic nervioso de los dedos de su mano, dio media vuelta y se alejó de mí.

  Yo no era hombre para ella, no era judío ni atesoraba un millón de dólares.     


Sunday, February 3, 2019

URUGUAY: JULIETA, EL FÚTBOL Y LOS CHURRASCOS






JULIETA, EL FÚTBOL Y LOS CHURRASCOS.

   Una noche me llamaron de la mutualista con urgencia. Mi hija de 6 meses de embarazo había sido intervenida quirúrgicamente por Eclampsia –hipertensión arterial elevada en el embarazo- aun cuando tenía solo 6 meses de dulce espera.

 Mi yerno había presenciado la cesárea y me dijo que la beba había chillado fuertemente y que la madre estaba bien.

  Yo, usando mi carnet de médico, me colé en la CTI de prematuros. La beba estaba en una inmensa incubadora. Tan pequeña como una muñeca chiquita, rosada y llena de tubos por doquier.

  Miré sus pequeños pies y me acordé del poema “Ismaelillo” de nuestro prócer José Martí:

  “piececitos que caben en un solo beso”

  Lloré de la emoción. Se veía tan frágil. Solo pesaba entonces 860 gramos. Después fui a ver a mi hija. Estaba tranquila con la esperanza que Dios nos da siempre frente en las contingencias. Yo no, le peleé al Altísimo como me había enseñado mi madre hasta reconciliarme con Él en el futuro.

    A la beba la llamaron Julieta como a la difunta madre de mi yerno.

  Aumentaba de peso con los días y la leche materna que le ordeñaban a la madre. Pero Juli era inquieta y se revolvía en su incubadora: luchaba por más comida.

  -Lo que pasa es que es una beba de mucho carácter. Va a tener una fuerte personalidad- me dijo la Pediatra  jefa del CTI infantil.

  Yo las iba a ver cada día y preguntaba los gramos que había aumentado.

  Por fin la sacaron de a poco de la incubadora y mi hija pasaba a darle el pecho directamente y a cargarla en su regazo para que se acostumbrara al olor de su madre y caricias del padre. Yo solo la veía de lejos.

  Al fin a Julieta le dieron de alta en la mutualista y se fue a casa con sus padres. Yo le compré muchos juguetes, algunos que no utilizaría hasta dentro de 6 o 7 años, tan chocho estaba con mi nieta.

    Pero el padre acertó con un juguete que la fascinó desde el primer momento: una pequeña pelota de futbol verde que ella prefería a cualquier otro- y eso que le compré hasta dinosaurios que los apretaba y hacían como gritos o chillidos.

  Cuando ya podía manipular las cosas con sus propias manos el pediatra le indicó charrascos asados para que se los llevara a boca e ingiriera los jugos. Cosas de los uruguayos, primero el asado y después los demás alimentos.

  Existe un video de Juli agarrando un gran churrasco aún caliente, gritar y soltarlo en el plato, para después tomarlo de nuevo y saborear el gusto a carne asada.

  Pero lo que más le llamaba la atención desde su coche era ver al padre jugar al futbol con una pelota grande. Eso la ponía alegre y la hacía gritar de placer, hasta daba pateadas con sus largas piernas. Quizás por eso las primeras palabras que se le escuchó decir claramente eran “Hola Papá”

   Su herencia uruguaya le había proporcionado la predilección por la carne asada y por el Futbol.

   Quizás no sea  como el famoso futbolista argentino “Marangona” pero de que lo trae en la sangre es vedad.


  Y yo celoso de que no pueda enseñarle algo cubano pues quiero que sepa con el tiempo-si Dios me da algunos años- sus raíces cubanas que en algún lado de sus genes deben estar.              

Saturday, February 2, 2019

OF TOMATOES AND PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM.





    OF TOMATOES AND PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM.

  I witnessed the largest harvest of tomatoes back in the year 87 of the Caujerí Valley.Harrows and harrows lined up to transport the fruit to the whole island. Tomatoes at breakfast, tomatoes in lunch and tomatoes at dinner. The people saw tomatoes even in their worst nightmares.

  They had dreams that a giant tomato, with protruding eyes, a big mouth with sharp teeth, chased them from all sides. It existed as a tomato delirium. Later the psychiatrist of the small Hospital of San Antonio del Sur called the epidemic as TOMATO FOBIA, but in no treaty of Mental Health mentioned that contribution of the modest Guantanamo doctor

    A year later got suicided the psychiatrist with a mejunge of tomato, kerosene and caustic soda. Silent victim of Castro who developed some kind of psychopathy

  And Fidel Castro could not take advantage for propaganda purposes of the great harvest of Tomate del Caujerí Valley. Other more international things worried his World Maximum Authority Complex.

 In the country of Angola the Angolan-Cuban troops retreated before the Angolan-South African enemy. Castro put the tomato aside and took care personally-and with his military sycophants-about the matter. He sent more Cuban soldiers to fight in a foreign country to win the war at the price that was necessary. Result: the battle of Cuito Coanavales drove the enemy soldiers of UNITA back to their positions on the other side of the Angolan border.

  It was a triumph of "proletarian internationalism", that is, of foreign interference - Cuban - in other countries ...

   ALL TO PROTEST BY THE YATERITAS BEACH IN GUANTÁNAMO.

   A TOTAL ABANDONMENT.

  Who has not lived in Gtmo a few years ago and has not bathed in the famous Yateritas Beach? Famous for all the Guantanamo people, although its proximity to the American naval base was not enjoyed in all its extension and not only geographic.

  There was a police post at the west end of the beach that prevented all non-military Cubans from passing, with arms on their shoulders and severe facial expressions.

   I wrote in my blog a few months ago "A Cow on a Cuban Beach" that summed up the hunger that was happening in the middle of the special period. A young cow appeared swimming near the shore and everyone-there were many people because of the suffocating heat in the provincial city-frightened her with screams so she could drown and take advantage of the beef that had disappeared from the Cuban butcher shops.

  Some young people even threw themselves into the sea knife in hand to see who was the first to catch the ruminant and sacrifice it right there.But the cow ran across the other shore in the border area.

   They say she asked for asylum in the naval base and explained with her mooch that the Cubans were murderers and wanted to flee from them. The asylum was granted - they say that now she lives in Miami in a corral with a bovine husband and everything and that her second baby waits, I say calf, and that she feels happy - part of the town remained without consuming the precious beef.

  Now I learn that the Yateritas beach is destroyed, by the authorities' abandonment. Diaz- Canel in his past tour of Baracoa, San Antonio del Sur and Guantanamo, by the route taken by the liberators mambises of the fatherland and with the false purpose of observing first hand - no hand, capable claws -, did not notice the state of the beach.

   Of course, it was not a tourist place nor does it have large hotels like the Meliá of Varadero and Havana.

  He only looked at the production of tomatoes from the nearby Caujerí Valley.Here's how things do not happen out of pure taste or are related: from a simple tomato, a population troubled by nightmares of tomatudos and the war in Angola-as STEFAN SWAIT said: small details determine radical changes in the world.

  I know firsthand that the doctors who were in Angola exercising their profession in peaceful villages sent them to the famous Battle of Cuito ...  Those who refused said that they had come to Angola to help the poor and not to a real battle for which they were not prepared, they were returned to Cuba with "a stain on the file". Unable to aspire to higher positions in their respective specialties or not to receive the right to buy a Soviet car. Many doctors I knew condemned to the most abominable ostracism and without being able to complain.

  It seems to be a lie but in history there are small details that decide how to change the colonizer: from the Portuguese to the Cubans.The Angolans since that day say that they have not had another colonizing country better than Cuba: it brought equality to everyone: all were poor and miserable before the new constitution that was signed shortly after in the Republic of Angola.

   When the remains of the Cuban soldiers killed in Angola arrived, Fidel said: thanks to the kind harvest of tomatoes that did not distract me in my desire for conquests in other countries.

He only mentioned briefly in a speech that a "Bright Future" we were waiting for on the island.

  The land of the Caujerí Valley was devastated for many years. It was both the Soviet fertilizer and herbicides to obtain a record harvest of tomatoes, which even the malesa did not grow for many years.

  And going back to the beach.As that beach is for the simple people of the fourth world it does not matter.

  The deterioration that is according to the photos of a girl in FB is amazing.

  And from there, we exhort hundreds of Guantanamo residents that we propose to complain at all levels to restore our only beach to the people.

  Many memories brings us this beach, our childhood, adolescence and when we were adults with children.

  That is what we can do for now. I do not know the Twitter of the top figures of that government who persist in failure.

  Our beach will be saved even for our grandchildren who will one day return to Cuba and ask how our grandparents enjoyed themselves?

  -In this beach, children, in this beach called Yateritas by our ancestors.

   I found out the Diaz-Canel Tweeter: @DiazCanelB

Cuba: Last News: Invasion of Proteins, meat and chicken





    INVASION OF PROTEINS: LAST NEWS. MEAT SUCULENT MEAT AND A SEMIPOD CHICKEN.

  I know this firsthand because I also have my informants in Cuba who are not from the Government or the Cuban KGB. They are simple citizens who read my blogs anonymously and who write me about the Cuban system, how things are going and the work they do.I do not want to denounce them because in some way the systems analysts of the Cuban PCs and informers who earn their salary for two dishes of additional peas would be able to follow the trail to my informants. But they will never know. They are well camouflaged within the hierarchy of the state and they know how to protect themselves from snitches.

  Well, the latest news of interest I have received is very serious because it concerns the precarious food of the people.It turns out that they were selling a mince of beef that hungry and hungry dogs did not want.Now they have left the picadillo aside as they once did with Soya's - which poisoned almost the entire country - and they are selling frozen and apparently healthy chickens at the shopping centers.

  Of course the queues to get these chickens are to die for. People go early in the morning or sleep in folding chairs that are brought, to reach at least to buy a miserable chicken. These can be eaten.

  But the population is already getting tired of these birds, because they are coming out on their skin as "Feather" and some people are "cackling" when they wake up.

   The doctors do not know what to do. They are gathering Veterinarians to study the phenomenon.

   Do you blame the chicken? No. They must now see more clearly where the hunger comes from, especially meat, that the population no longer produces enzymes to digest them. For how long now! Decades and decades of Communism.

    And Diaz-Canel says: now the population is better fed. Nothing like Socialism to distribute poverty equitably.And it adds:

  -Today I want another beef steak, well fried with onions like the one that was served yesterday!

HOROSCOPE: THE ZODIAC SIGNALS








HOROSCOPE: THE ZODIAC SIGNALS.

  There is an old woman next to my house who watches on TV every night so as not to miss how her zodiac sign will go the next day.

  What a very pretty blonde says- Lady Blanquet- and without the appearance of a witch- is a holy word for my friend the old woman.

   If what the girl says of her sign has some negative flavor, my friend locks herself in her house and does not receive anyone, less me. She fears that a dog will come home and bite her and that if it rains some lightning will fall and split the ass ...

  Of course my friend the old woman goes to mass every Sunday but not before confessing to the priest:
  -Good. Ter ... The day of San Telmo is approaching and we need your collaboration ...

   -Forgive me, Father. But the Horoscope girl predicted that those days are bad luck for me. Wait for those bad days to pass and the forecast is good. Able to drop money or inherit some property ...

   - It's okay, Sister. Resguársese in your house in those days that we will arrange it with others of the community that are not of your sign - the priest said with the patience that the years had given him to intercede with the catholic dates and the signs of the Zodiac. It was a competition in which he always lost.

  When I arrived in Uruguay before asking me the name, my young cousins asked me what sign I was:

   -I think Aquarius, if I'm not wrong- I said hesitantly.

   - Ahh. Aquarius. Poor little cousin. It is a sign of Water. Aquarians are very sensitive, they suffer from mental illnesses, they are artists -especially they like philosophy- and they have to look for some other compatible sign to combine as a couple. Example: Gemini and Libra.

   - Then I'm lost! - I replied with respect but almost about to laugh.

    -You can not do anything my cousin. That is already written from your birth. You know, it's because of the position of the planets and all that stuff.

    Then I met a lawyer who after asking my name told me:

   -In what day and month were you born?

  -Yes. Already. You want to know what sign I am, right? Well, the Chameleon!

   And I left him with the word in his mouth, perhaps thinking that which sign was the one he did not know.

   Psychiatrists seeing the impact of the signs of the zodiac in the population are already recommending to their patients with minor personality disorders that they pay attention to Lady Blanquet and thus save the ton of psychotropic drugs and then more drugs to counteract the side effects of these . They have had to recommend their patients to follow the predictions of the zodiac because they do not know what to do anymore.

   I think my Aquarius sign does not influence me at all: it has given me lately to paint oil paintings of sunflowers like Van Gogh - they look so "cute", I have been hospitalized like 7 times in psychiatric clinics and now I have given to read to a German writer called "Ludwig Feuerbach"

   By the way. I think that horoscopes and zodiacal signs hasve a sense of shit... in myself.


                                      ORLANDO VICENTE ÁLVAREZ

CUBA: ABEL AND JOSE MARTI








CUBA: ABEL PRIETO AND JOSÉ MARTÍ.

Abel Prieto  stop using our hero's story of independence in favor of those who now and before oppressed her.

  Martí did not need the current social media because he was his struggle he had: a good pen and newspapers that published   his articles.

  You, who are no longer in charge of the Ministry of Culture and rule the Ministry of Martian Affairs, have folded to the fashion of tweeting like your boss, Díaz-Canel and others.

  I want to tell you that exile is as Cuban as you are and that does not take away from us any of Marti's or Castro's or yours. We were born is Cuba and we will be Cubans until death.

   The difference is that we know Freedom. If Martí resuscitated, he would escort us against the tyranny that oppresses us 60 years ago. Or would they try to give him a PCC card? But the apostle was not stupid, he knew what freedom he wanted for Cuba.

  Are you afraid that your head rolls like that of Robaina, Carlos Lage and Roque? That's why you shout in favor of the government's opprobrium.

  You are a intelligent man. You are in time to rectify. We are many Cubans on the island and outside of it, who have not been deceived by so many years of suffering.

    IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT YOU I SENT TO MY BLOG:

   https://arcoorlo.blogspot.com/2018/12/abel-prieto-las-navidades-y-la-compra.html

Friday, February 1, 2019

INVASIÓN DE PROTEINAS: Última NOTICIA. PICADILLO SUCULENTO DE CARNE Y POLLO SEMIPODRIDO




INVASIÓN DE PROTEINAS: ÚLTIMA NOTICIA. PICADILLO SUCULENTO DE CARNE Y UN POLLO SEMIPODRIDO.

   Esto lo sé de primera mano pues yo también tengo mis informantes en Cuba que no son del Gobierno ni de la KGB cubana. Son simples ciudadanos que leen mis blogs- anónimamente- y que me escriben sobre el sistema cubano, cómo andan las cosas y el trabajo que pasan.

   No los quiero denunciar pues de alguna forma los analistas de sistemas de las PC cubanas  y delatores que ganan su salario por dos platos de chicharos adicionales  serían capaces de seguir el rastro a mis informantes. Pero nunca lo sabrán. Están bien camuflados  dentro de la propia jerarquía del estado y saben cómo resguardase de los soplones.

    Pues la última noticia de interés que he recibido es muy seria pues atañe a la alimentación precaria del pueblo.

   Resulta que le estaban vendiendo un picadillo de carne de res que ni los perros hambrientos y famélicos  apetecían.

  Ahora han dejado el picadillo a un lado como antiguamente hicieron con el de Soya- que envenenó a casi todo el país-y están vendiendo pollos congelados y aparentemente sanos en las shopping.

   Por supuesto que las colas para obtener estos pollos   son de morirse. La gente va de madrugada o duerme en unas sillas plegables que se traen, para alcanzar al menos que le vendan un miserable pollo. Estos sí se pueden comer. Pero la población ya se está cansando de estas aves, pues le están saliendo en la piel como “Plumas” y algunas personas están como “cacareando” al despertarse.

  Los médicos no saben qué hacer. Están reuniendo Veterinarios para estudiar el fenómeno.

  ¿Le echan la culpa al pollo?

   No. Deben ver ahora más claro de dónde viene el hambre, sobre todo de carnes, que la población ya no produce enzimas para digerirlas. ¡Desde hace cuánto tiempo ya!

   Décadas y décadas de Comunismo.

    Y Diaz-Canel se dice: ahora la población está mejor alimentada. Nada como el Socialismo para repartir equitativamente la pobreza.

Y agrega:


  -¡Hoy quiero otro Bistec de vaca bien frito con cebollas como el que me sirvieron ayer!