A Good President

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June 3, 2015

Published in El Universo
(Ecuador) on 27 May 2015
by Colón V. Quiroz (link to original link to original)

Translated from by Miken Trogdon. Edited by Emily France.

In a time that requires performance at a high level, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, has demonstrated how right his voters were to trust in him to guide the most successful nation in the world.

I’m not a diplomat, but I have common sense, and upon observing its development throughout history, the mold is the same, politically speaking, across the majority of nations: talk, lie, make promises and criticize those who came before you. At the end they run out of time, but they do worry about having a captive audience of voters because they are used to having power and they only think about staying in their position, or getting back to it. What Obama is doing with U.S.-Cuban relations makes him a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The most important thing will be ending the injustice against a people who have had no opportunity to know a better world, to reduce the possibility for politicians to deceive their constituents and to let those people live with dignity and the scientific advances necessary for a good quality of life. If things continue at this pace, in the near future the Cuban people will change their way of life from what some call an “Empire,” and I can assuredly say, in democratic fashion the next Cuban president may be an exile living in Miami who determines the path of that country.

Buen presidente
El presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, ha demostrado en el tiempo que desempeña tan alta función, el acierto de sus votantes al confiar en él para dirigir la nación más exitosa del mundo.

No soy diplomático pero tengo sentido común y al observar el desarrollo a través de la historia, en la mayoría de las naciones el molde es el mismo políticamente hablando, mentir, ofrecer, criticar al anterior; al final faltó tiempo, pero sí se preocupan de tener un universo cautivo de electores porque se acostumbraron a disfrutar del poder y solo piensan en quedarse o regresar. Lo que Obama está haciendo en la relación de Estados Unidos y Cuba le puede permitir ser candidato al Premio Nobel de la Paz. Lo más importante será terminar con la injusticia de un pueblo sin oportunidad de conocer un mundo mejor, y a políticos les cierre el espacio de engañar a su pueblo y permitir que pueda llevar una vida con dignidad y con todos los adelantos de la ciencia para el buen vivir. Si las cosas siguen por ese rumbo, el pueblo cubano en futuro cercano cambiará su forma de vida y su criterio, de lo que algunos llaman el “Imperio”; y sin temor a equivocarme, de una forma democrática el próximo presidente de Cuba puede ser un exiliado en Miami que enrumbe el camino de esa nación.(O)

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