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(CNN Spanish) -
Martín Caparrós, an Argentine writer and journalist, says that vacations are "the short month in which we exercise our freedom" after giving it up for another eleven very long months "in exchange for money to live on."
You come back from vacation with the feeling of not having left.
Since smartphones appeared, vacations stopped being what they were.
Now there is no way to stop feeling the permanent arrhythmia of the markets, the lashings of the beasts in Afghanistan, the imperial sighs of Vladimir Putin and the dark philology of Daniel Ortega, which has made the verb imprison synonymous with existing.
You return from vacation as fed up as you left with the blackout of lucidity.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, invited his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the president appointed by Raúl Castro, to celebrate his country's Independence Day.
Given the suspicion with which some received the news, AMLO said: "We cannot invite some and not others."
Why did López Obrador invite Díaz-Canel to Mexico?
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Díaz-Canel continues to be criticized for the way he repressed the largest citizen protests in more than 60 years of socialist rule on the island in July.
Let's not forget that the ruler ordered his supporters to confront the protesters in the streets.
"The order to fight is given. The revolutionaries take to the streets," the president exhorted on his television and there were very violent clashes between the protesters and pro-government groups.
But Díaz-Canel was on López Obrador's guest list.
Susanita, Mafalda's friend, would have said that if we are going to celebrate the birthday of the country, let's do it taking care of the guest list.
As if it were a poor man's wedding.
I suppose that when the Mexican president needs a reference of civility and harmony, he will then invite Donald Trump.
Andrés Manuel, who calls Donald a "gentleman" in his most recent book, may once again ignore the deep contempt for Mexicans that the former US president displayed.
That I'm not exaggerating, that maybe it invites you.
For political coherence and for 'carnal', for 'cuatacho', and for 'brother'.
Because a friend, what is said to be a good friend, is for life.
Like diamonds.