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Israel Centeno There is a question that should be asked more often, though many avoid it out of convenience or dogma: how can a Mexican, a Venezuelan, or any Latin American still call themselves a Marxist when Karl Marx himself despised their people, ridiculed their culture, and justified their subjugation? This is not about interpretation.…
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Israel Centeno English Spanish Childhood in Derry, growing Up Between Walls and Music Clare Crockett In the Northern Irish city of Derry during the 1980s, Clare Theresa Crockett’s childhood unfolded amid civil conflict and sectarian division. She was born on November 14, 1982, into a Catholic family from a working-class neighborhood. The undeclared war known…
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Israel Centeno English/Spanish When Jesus says, “Whoever believes in me shall never die,” he is not making a poetic or symbolic claim. He speaks from the heart of divine revelation, with a clarity that, once grasped, transforms our entire perception of history and human destiny. “Whoever believes in me will never see death” (Jn 8:51).…
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The Dark Night English/Spanish Israel Centeno The dark night of the soul always struck me as more than a trial—it felt like cruelty. But is it God who abandons us? No. God never withholds His grace. It is we, still bound by the law of gravity—as Simone Weil would say—who fail to sustain ourselves in…
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By Israel Centeno The human brain is a structural marvel: complex, functional, alive. It is the operations center where stimuli are processed, memories stored, motor responses organized, and commands executed. From it, the heart is regulated, light becomes color, vibration becomes sound, loss becomes pain. It is, without doubt, the most powerful biological device known…
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En los restos oxidados de lo que alguna vez fue la república, en las costas erosionadas del oriente venezolano, más allá de las ruinas del Puente Angostura y el eco de los discursos huecos que alguna vez retumbaron en Caracas, se alzaba la comunidad de Los Últimos Orientales. No tenían bandera, ni himno, ni calendario.…
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Israel Centeno English Chronicle of the End Without Uproar “You say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,’ not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” Revelation 3:17 By Israel Centeno If the age-old problem of sustaining oneself —that ancient dilemma of securing the minimum income to pay for…
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Magoya, Milagros, and a War Without Clear Fronts By Israel Centeno When Magoya and Milagros arrived, others were already there. They weren’t guests. They weren’t family. They were faces that couldn’t appear in any photo, people who carried false names and knew they were sleeping every night on a thread. They were accused of sabotage,…
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Israel Centeno The manuscript is said to be kept—some claim without conviction—in a secondary archive of the convent of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. It consists of three sheets of aged vellum, barely legible, attributed to one Brother Bartholomew of Altomonte, a Dominican friar of the 13th century, believed to have served as confessor…
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