As it is said that a Pope is Saint Peter’s successor, only God shall have the power to determine his fate. Besides, the weaker and age-older a Pope is, the more blessed and loved he is!

So, morally, a Pope should not have the right to resign.

Is it enough! If the Inquisition had deteriorated the Church culturally, sex scandals on children, along with internal double-dealings, have done so morally, breaking down its dogmas and perspectives. Thus, as everything has inside the germs of its own destruction, we are assisting to a new era for the Catholic Church with the election of  a Jesuit as a Pope, a Pope who prone to be by the poors, for whom Jesus created His church.

So, we must conclude saying that the humanity is being changing through its main current powerful structures: the Catholic religion & the Laissez-faire capitalism.

Note: Laissez-faire capitalism is when you invest your capital regardless of the inflation or overproduction leading to commercial surplus you may create.

It has been the US Laissez-faire capitalism that has made China its creditor! It has been this Laissez-faire that has encouraged wealthy Americans to export and invest their capital in foreign countries impoverishing their own land, and creating joblessness!

What happened in Ancient Rome it’s happening in America!

Note: a sociological approach states that every phenomenon, process or matter conveys in itself the root of its own destruction. However, it states as well that knowing the conditions, causes and environment that stimulate this change or destruction, it may be prevented or retarded.

 

Angel R. Almagro

Au delà d'une Aventure

This is a synopsis of a work out of ethnographic (anthropologic) research that I’ve been carrying out for years.

In 1919 some French Nationals came to Cuba to create the Cuban Aviation Company using six planes of French Farman Company, two F-60 planes, called the “Goliath”, and four F-40 planes. These latter F-40 planes had participated in the WWI. The French nationals mentioned above were members of an aerial brigade that combated Germans planes and were engaged in bombing raids with these F-40 warplanes. During that war, three of these French military pilots, Lucien Coupet, Léon Coupet, and Camille Jousse, were engaged in the Battle of Verdun. It was the greatest and lengthiest but bloodiest battle that had ever taken place in earth. It lasted from the 21th of February 1916 through the 19^th of December 1916.

         Leon Coupet and Camille Jousse were wounded twice during the war. Later, Leon was also wounded when he combated as artilleryman from an F-40 warplane. His brother Lucien was the pilot of it. During the combat, the plane was reached by the German artillery and brought down while it was returning from a bombing raid in the German city of Treves. Both brothers were taken as war prisoners, while Leon was, however, in state of coma as a result of their plane crashing in German soil.

When WWI ended due to the Armistice, these French people were part of a crew who were considered dead as they had lost contact with Paris while they were performing the first long distance flight in history from Paris to Dakar with the Farman giant plane “Goliath”. The Goliath plane had crashed in a shore of a beach where they spent two weeks without food and water under the sun of Sahara desert. Actually, Leon, who was a plane technician, made an alembic from the wreckage of the crashed plane to make drinkable the salty seawater. During that time, lost in the desert, they ate what they could preserve from the Goliath along with the crabs they captured.

        The Goliath’s crew decided to reach Mauritania by foot. The footway by the desert was hard because one of these exhausted former soldiers had thrown away the above-knee prosthesis of his right leg. His leg had been amputated because of war wounds.
The French comrades were found by a Moor and his black slave who took them to Mauritania, the nearest population. From there,

they went to Dakar in Senegal by train. They returned to Paris by ship where they were received as heroes.

        Sometime later, the six Goliath Planes of Farman Company were being used as a commercial airline from Paris to London until a Cuban millionaire bought them to create an international commercial airline in Cuba. Then, the Coupet brothers and Camille Jousse, along with other former war combatants were sent to Cuba with two Goliath F-60 and four F-40 planes to create the mentioned commercial aviation.

In Cuba, the French Nationals remained a little more than a year, and the most important location where they stayed was the aerodrome of Colombia in Havana, which became a real aeronautic fair due to the presence of the French planes. For these French people, after the battles of WWI and the testing flight of the “Goliath” to Dakar, their stay in Cuba was like an adventure which took place under relaxing and warming atmosphere with plenty of affection and happiness.

 

A Cuban woman, who was the person in charge to cook for these French pilots, was the most important woman in that aerodrome of Columbia. Her name was Genevieve. She was married to the owner of a little restaurant located within the aerodrome where the French pilots and other technicians used to eat. The owner of that little restaurant was a black Cuban, and Genevieve was a beautiful woman of mixed race; they had two sons. They were blacks.

      While the small planes F-40 were used for short aerial flights in Havana and in other close cities, the Goliath was being prepared to fly from Havana to Santiago with passengers and correspondence. During the first flight to Santiago without passengers due to the bad weather, the Goliath had an emergency landing between two sugar cane plantations. When the weather was better, they managed to take off.

 

Leon and Genevieve fell in love since the first they saw one each other. As a result of that loving intimate relation, a girl was born. She was not black. Unfortunately, she was born on September 4th of 1921 after the French nationals had left from Cuba. She never met her father. Maybe, Leon never knew that he was the father of Rosa, Genevieve's daughter, one of my sons’ grand-mother.

The most beautiful part of that event was the romantic relation between Leon and Genevieve. They had never loved so intesively in their lives in a so short time, they believed it was an eternity, as they loved so much each other.

 

Was Leon so ashamed toward Gustavo, then Genevieve's husband, that he never came back?

When you read the novel or see the film, you would know!

Angel R. Almagro 

 

 

 

Drugs: evil behavior

Legalizing marihuana or any other drug should be considered ignoramus

 

When a society is unable to indirectly take care of its idols like Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, and others, mainly making these symbols aware of what they represent for people or their admirers, it's a society to be revaluated. When these loved Americans died, it seems that they were under a state of frustration rather than depression!

Drug and prohibit substance trafficking must be treated more severely while information on drug and alcohol abuse’s consequences in humans must be part of everyone's general knowledge from primary school instruction because many people are not aware of drug and alcohol abuse’s effects leading to psychological disorders and deviant behavior. 

No one likes to die even though wanting! Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston belonged to us! It's a little sad that now we continue enjoying their music and legend after their passing away when they rather should have been protected and saved without violating their constitutional rights!

These three loved singers died being still young and quite famous, and their death was related to drugs; unfortunately, it was too late to safe none of them because they were already alienate and disturbed, and under that situation, rather than feeling death, they enjoyed going into ecstasies. They felt that they needed the drugs! They had already lost the capability to keep their inner control.

The different between humans and animals lies just in the intellect and inner or self control along with the cultural environment.

According to psychologist Sigmund Freud, humans have three psychic levels, the id, the ago and superego. While the id is the psychic level that relates to instincts in humans and animals, including to sex drive for pleasure, the ago is the power of the psyches to prevent the id from surpassing its limits and bursting. It’s the human inner control. By good luck, there is the superego, Freud states, the interpretation of social morality, values, laws, institutions, and others, including the family, i.e. the cultural environment that would ultimately help or rather prevent humans from braking or violating social norms, values and laws by behaving improperly.

When disruption occurs in neuron’s interaction, we say that a patient has minor or severe mental disorder.

In fact, drugs have the power to affect neuron’s interaction leading to deviant behavior or misconduct. Even rapes in most cases occur when inner control and the interpretation of cultural environment cannot prevent animal instincts or sexual drive (id) in humans from bursting.  So, drugs are the persuasion to do evil behavior and to forget about social norms and standards. Even to cannibalize!

Lamentably, many people are not aware of drugs’ effects, and when a person is already a drug addict, it becomes harder to dissuade him or her from quitting or stopping consuming drugs. Thus, the importance to teach children on drugs at schools is more and more imperative, and the sooner the, the better for the society.

Angel R. Almagro

 

Re: San Valentino

Cuando estoy cerca de ti

No siento el tiempo pasar

Porque eres para mí

Lo que me haces soñar

 

El deseo y la felicidad

De Sentir tu suave fragancia

De Canela y  lirio

Y ver en ti tanto candor y gracia

Invade mi alma el delirio

De vivir contigo en la eternidad