A Cuban who recently arrived in Miami shared a video on his social networks showing the trailer he lives in, for which he pays $1,100 a month.

Pedro Alonso, a young man who arrived in the country just over a month ago, wanted to show his compatriots the reality of Miami in terms of rental prices, which have recently increased sharply, influenced by the arrival of thousands of Cubans every month.

“This is reality, here to live, trailer, nobody tells you that,” he said on his TikTok account.

Pedro toured the cramped space where he lives with his girlfriend, where they have the basic items: a bed, a table, a small fridge, an air conditioner, a gas range with a small oven and a microwave, a built-in bunk bed for visitors, and a tiny one Bathroom that only fits one person.

“That’s how we are, my people. What nobody tells you: I come home from work at this time, work like a dog, look at me. Miami reality, and thank god we’ve got our little roof for a month and a few days to be here,” he stressed.

The young man has shared other videos of his experiences in the United States.

He recently broadcast footage of a market after buying groceries with the food stamps the government gives to those in need.

“How expensive meat is in Miami, queuing in Cuba and spending the money from the food stamps here, I think I don’t get the food stamps (…). The quality doesn’t matter, it’s the quantity what I’m hungry” , he joked.

Alonso and his girlfriend came to the country by land after crossing several borders and traversing the Darién jungle.

Former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg expects Russia to collapse as a result of the war in Ukraine. “The decolonization process will continue in the Russian Federation. Russia will fall apart. Great plays will become independent as soon as they can,” Schwarzenberg told “Presse am Sonntag”.

Since the 15th century, Russia has “constantly expanded,” Schwarzenberg emphasized. For the generation of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, the collapse of the Soviet Union was “the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century”, which he wanted to “fix”.

“The tragedy of Russia is that it does not know its borders. Every imperial power must experience a major defeat before it can return to normal thinking.” In this sense, he compared Russia to Germany, which was only “cured” of imperialism after its defeat in the Second World War.

Ukraine “obviously” conceivable as an EU member

Schwarzenberg also used historical analogies to substantiate his support for Ukraine’s defensive struggle. “In the past, there was always this idea that small nations should kindly sacrifice for bigger ones. Be it Munich in 1938 or Yalta in 1945. But this way of thinking repeatedly leads us to catastrophes.”

“Of course” Schwarzenberg can envision Ukraine as a member of the EU, but he “still doesn’t” believe in NATO membership for the former Soviet republic. On the other hand, he can imagine that in relation to Russia a “repeated scene after 1945” could emerge. Just as Germany was “integrated into the West relatively quickly” at that time, the West may also need the defeated Russians “as allies against China”.

ÖVP threatened by Kurz

While he does not expect former prime minister Andrej Babis to be elected president of the Czech Republic at the ballot box in January, he sees the existence of Austrian Chancellor ÖVP’s party in jeopardy. The time of Sebastian Kurz was “a catastrophe for Austria”. “I’m curious to know if the ÖVP will recover from him. I already said it back then. If Sebastian Kurz ends up as I expected, it could also be the end of the ÖVP.”

President Luis Arce Catacora warned this Saturday that “certain anti-patriotic elites” feel superior because of the color of their skin or their foreign surname and are reproducing the worst vices of their predecessors, such as racism “or the idea that they can sacrifice integrity”. his country as if on a whim”.

This was stated during the discharge ceremony of 248 lieutenants and lieutenants in the armed forces at the Army Military College in the city of La Paz.

“In the history of our armed forces there are many examples of sincerity and martial commitment among the popular classes, and one could go back to the times of Túpac Katari or Juan José Torres to demonstrate it, it is this glorious tradition to which they are called in defense of our state’s sovereignty, its constitution and democracy against anti-patriotic elites who still today reproduce the worst vices of their predecessors, such as racism or the idea that they can sacrifice their country’s integrity on a whim,” said the head of state.

He pointed out that “the time has come when you become the uniformed homeland, the homeland whose plurinationality makes us proud, as opposed to certain elites who feel superior because of the color of their skin or their foreign surname.”

In doing so, he was alluding to plans by some politicians concentrated in the Pro Santa Cruz committee and the government who have proposed reviewing that ministry’s relationship with the state.

These political actors, who led the region to a 36-day strike that fell short of the goal of the national government’s census beginning in 2023, delegated a constitutional commission tasked with proposing proposals to define the new relationship between Santa Claus and to discuss the cross The Plurinational State.

According to the President of the Pro Santa Cruz Committee, Rómulo Calvo, the goal is to define the self-determination and self-government of this region and to distance itself from the plans that the other departments might have.

Although the proposal was accepted by the plenary session of the Interinstitutional Committee, which was integrated by the Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno alongside the citizenry and the government, the rector Vicente Cuellar marked a certain distance to this idea of ​​”reviewing the relationship of Santa Cruz with the State of Bolivia.

During an interview with El Deber Radio, Cuellar believes that the committee’s proposal contains a “lapus” because “Santa Cruz is part of the Bolivian state.”

Like him, this proposal to review Santa Cruz’s relationship with the state was rejected by various political actors and authorities, who saw secessionist desires in these plans.

In fact, on December 12, President Arce warned of “unpatriotic conspiracies” that manifest themselves in attempts at division and separatism.

Meanwhile, the army’s casual commander-general, Brigadier General Juan José Zúñiga Macías, warned the “petty oligarchic lodges” that any attempts at destabilization would be “neutralized” because the “homeland would remain untouched.”

That day, in his address to the lieutenants and lieutenants, Arce assured his confidence that the new soldiers “will always fulfill the wish of the liberator Antonio José de Sucre, who asked to preserve the independence of Bolivia in the face of all dangers and to preserve all that prefer misfortune and the death of their children before they lose their sovereignty”.

“Never forget that you are from the city, your families belong to the city like you, always remember, always remember where you come from, always remember your roots,” he emphasized./ABI,