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Historia taína tallada en piedra

Gigantescas piedras que bordean el Río Canóvanas y que resguardan los petroglifos que evidencian los asentamientos taínos en esa zona. (Suministrada)

Nota de archivo: esta historia fue publicada hace más de 6 meses.

Por Glorimar Muñoz Berly

14 de junio de 2022 • 3:45am

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La huella imborrable de los asentamientos indígenas en Canóvanas ha quedado plasmada en las gigantescas rocas que bordean sus afluentes, especialmente en los ríos Grande de Loíza y Canovanillas, donde se pueden apreciar los petroglifos que datan de los años de la colonización de la Isla.

Los grabados indígenas corresponden a la comunidad taína, destacó el director de la Oficina de Turismo Municipal, Carlos Colón.

Desde la orilla de la carretera PR- 185, los transeúntes pueden divisar los impresionantes grabados que ubican en el Río Grande de Loíza, lugar que se ha convertido en un punto emblemático de la zona para los historiadores y los visitantes del pueblo haciendo mérito al cognomento de la ciudad “Cuna de los indios”. “Algunos visitantes ya saben que existen, como quiera les hacemos mención; muchos petroglifos se han preservado y están en varios de los ríos de nuestro pueblo”, dijo Colón.

También Canóvanas es conocido como “el Pueblo Valeroso” en referencia a la Cacique Yuisa, quien murió en la rebelión indígena en ese pueblo.

Los petroglifos de este caudal representan, según la historiadora Norma Carrión Portela, un niño en una canasta. “Ese es uno clásico. Es el que se ve a un nene con su cabeza, los ojos saltones como si tuviera unos cuernitos y como si estuviera envuelto en una canasta. Hay otro que aparenta ser la acción del Huracán o un caracol”, destacó Carrión Portela, quien posee estudios conducentes al doctorado en Historia y vasta experiencia en arqueología terrestre con el Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico.

La experimentada cronista explicó que la historia dirige su mirada a los asentamientos indígenas en sectores que ubican entre Loíza y Canóvanas, destacando en este último municipio los ubicados en el sector Cubuy.

“Uno de los asentamientos más importantes estaba al mando del indio Canóbana. El indio Canóbana y la india Yuisa eran encomendados; o sea se encomienda ese grupo de indios a un español en particular. Ambos indios fueron pacíficos, les llamaban amigos de los españoles; y protegieron ambos asentamientos. Económicamente ambos asentamientos eran los que enviaban alimentos hacia San Juan. De esa zona era que se proveía la yuca hacia San Juan. Así que, a falta de trigo, casabe. El cognomento de los Indios sí, viene de ahí, de la importancia de estos dos caciques”, dijo la también conferenciante en temas de historia puertorriqueña quien, además, instó a preservar el área de los petroglifos y a fomentar la visita a estos tesoros que guardan un pedazo de historia de nuestro país.

La Piedra del Indio; viaje a nuestra herencia taína

Entre las explicaciones a los dibujos está que se trata de dos caciques y otra que señala que forman parte de un sistema de rotulación para llegar hasta El Yunque
Recorrido por la Piedra del Indio en la Base Roosevelt Roads por parte de Manuel Jose Martinez, presidente de APRODEC en Ceiba.
En la foto: Manuel Jose Martinez, Aprodec
Xavier Garcia / Fotoperiodista (XAVIER GARCIA)

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Por Diana Ojeda

1 de octubre de 2021 • 3:45am

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Ceiba. “Wuanikí Bawa”, mejor conocida como La Piedra del Indio, es un petroglifo en la costa de la antigua base naval Roosevelt Roads, considerado como uno de los yacimientos más importantes de la zona este de Puerto Rico.

El origen de los dibujos de la piedra es desconocido, sin embargo, existen varias explicaciones sobre su historia, que se pueden descubrir durante una gira guiada por la Alianza Pro Desarrollo Económico de Ceiba (APRODEC).

“Los caciques se reunían cada luna llena para hacer una ceremonia y se la dedicaban al dios Wuanikí Bawa, que es el dios de los mares, para que hubiera más pesca para la tribu”, explicó el presidente de APRODEC, Manuel Martínez, quien lideró la caminata de unos 10 minutos hasta el complejo de rocas ubicado en un punto medio entre Vieques y El Yunque, lugar por donde se cree entraban los taínos provenientes de otras islas.

Se cree que por esta costa los taínos de otras islas entraban a Puerto Rico. (XAVIER GARCIA)

Pero esa es solo una de las varias teorías que rodean este histórico espacio ceremonial, que es solo uno de más de 30 yacimientos arqueológicos que han sido encontrados en toda la zona de la antigua base naval, y que es considerado patrimonio cultural.

“Nosotros hoy en día tenemos abogados notarios que te hacen las escrituras y tú sabes que eres propietaria de esta casa porque hay unas escrituras. Pero antes, ¿cómo se sabía que este sitio tiene dueño? Pues, si tú podías demostrar que tus ancestros y tus antepasados vivían aquí ya, eso te daba el derecho de propiedad. Queriendo decir que te estás acercando a un sitio que ya está habitado y que ya tiene dueño”, agregó el arquitecto y líder comunitario sobre la piedra que data del año 600, de acuerdo a estudios realizados por arqueólogos y geólogos.

También se dice que quienes están dibujados en la piedra mayor son los caciques de Daguao y de Vieques, y que cada raya sobre los cuerpos simboliza una batalla ganada. Y hasta se ha hablado de la posibilidad de que se trate de dibujos de extraterrestres. Sin embargo, la teoría más aceptada por los arqueólogos es que la piedra forma parte de un sistema de rotulación.

“Estas mismas caras se repiten cada 900 metros de camino a El Yunque, por el río. Por eso piensan que era un sistema de rotulación para llegar allí, al Yunque”, dijo Martínez.

APRODEC, que como parte de su misión tiene un compromiso con la preservación de la herencia cultural del área, ofrece recorridos guiados hasta la piedra, a pie o en kayak, desde su sede en la antigua base naval. Para más información o para coordinar una excursión pueden llamar al 787-354-6188 o acceder a APRODEC.net.

El presidente de APRODEC, Manuel Martínez. (XAVIER GARCIA)

Secrets of Comandante Women, wealth and style of Fidel Castro : Phenomena: Values: Lenta.ru

Lenta.ru continues a series of articles about the life of dictators. Last week we covered Jean-Bedel Bokassa. This time we will talk about the commandant from the Island of Freedom. Many hated him, many loved him, but no one was indifferent to Fidel Castro. Americans saw him as a ruthless dictator who would stifle any dissent. In the Soviet Union, his image was always surrounded by a romantic halo, and this veil has not dissipated until now: no matter what the commandant does, no matter what mistakes he makes, he always remained our friend. What secrets did Castro hide, Lenta.ru found out. nine0003

Secret life

“Comandante was God to me. I was always ready to die for him. However, everything changed when I once heard his conversation with Colombian drug dealers,” the book “The Double Life of Fidel Castro” begins with these words, the reaction to the publication of which could be compared to the effect of an exploding bomb.

Its author, former bodyguard of the Cuban leader Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, who served as Comandante for 17 years, fled in 2008 from Liberty Island to Mexico and from there to the USA. He said that the leader of the Cuban revolution had a lot of real estate. In particular, he owned the private island of Cayo Piedra. There, he had at his disposal a private villa with ivory-decorated furniture, a turtle breeding farm and a personal dolphinarium. Fidel Castro’s estate in Havana had its own medical center, basketball court, private jetty, and even a rooftop bowling alley. nine0003

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When Forbes ranked the ten richest dictators in 2006, Comandante Fidel was on the list. The publication claimed that his fortune is estimated at 900 million dollars. Castro himself launched into an angry tirade, promising to bring to justice all those responsible for spreading filthy slander. Comandante claimed that the figure given by the Western media is real – 900, but not millions and not dollars, but pesos (about $ 43) per month. Castro claimed to live the same way as the rest of the Cubans. From the real estate he has – a “fisherman’s hut” and an ordinary apartment in Havana. “This is a lie, in this hut he only receives those who come to him on official visits, in fact, he lives in a huge villa outside the city,” says Sanchez. nine0003

In total, a fugitive bodyguard counted twenty luxury properties from the leader of the Cuban revolution. Comandante sailed to his private island on his own yacht Aquarama II. According to the bodyguard, valuable species of Angolan wood were used in the design of its interiors. That’s just about how this yacht ended up at the disposal of the Cuban leader, conflicting information comes. According to one version, this is a gift from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. According to another, Castro bought it himself. nine0003

It’s no secret that the Soviet leaders liked to send presents to the Comandante. In Castro’s garage there was an open ZIL-111V car donated by Nikita Khrushchev, as well as an army SUV GAZ-69. However, foreign cars were also present in the fleet. Castro’s bodyguard claims that the leader of the Cuban revolution loved his Mercedes most of all.

As for clothes, usually in his youth Castro appeared in public in a military jacket and cap with a wide khaki peak. At an advanced age, he began to wear a tracksuit. However, this does not mean at all that he did not like expensive accessories, says Sanchez. According to him, the Comandante had a large collection of luxurious Swiss Rolex watches. Yes, at 19In 63, during a visit to the Soviet Union, two expensive Rolexes flaunted on Castro’s hand at once. However, then the journalists were explained that it was only a necessary measure: one of the clocks showed Havana time, others – Moscow time.

Fidel Castro’s visit to Moscow in 1963. Khrushchev and Brezhnev are in the same car with him

Photo: Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

The book also said that the Comandante neglected Cuban rum produced in the country, preferring Scotch whiskey. True, the locals loved cigars: whatever one may say, there are no better Cuban cigars. At the same time, he allegedly kept valuable Angolan diamonds in a cigar box. nine0003

Castro could lead such a luxurious life in secret from completely subordinate ordinary Cubans, according to his deserter guard, on the money he received from the smuggling of cocaine and marijuana. For drug traffickers, Cuba was a transshipment point: drugs came from Latin America and were then transported to the United States. Sanchez is sure that the Comandante personally led this process on the island. Drug dealers, with his blessing, floated drugs to Florida, came to Castro to share the proceeds. nine0003

Our man in Havana

Fidel Castro came from a relatively wealthy white plantation family. Unlike many of his associates, who lived in poverty since childhood, he was imbued with leftist ideas only at the law faculty of the University of Havana. Avidly reading the works of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky, he began to participate in demonstrations in front of the American embassy, ​​to defend poor peasants in court. Castro tried to overthrow the Dominican dictator Trujillo, but did not succeed. Finding himself quite by accident in the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, during the uprising, he realized two things: what terrible power the people’s anger can have and how quickly it will fade if there is no one to lead the people. nine0003

In the early 1950s, the dictator Fulgencio Batista came to power in Cuba as a result of a coup. Castro and his comrades tried to provoke an uprising against Batista, but the operation failed. The court sentenced the future commandant to 15 years in prison. At the trial, he delivered his famous, later disassembled into quotes, speech, ending it with the words: “History will justify me.” However, the Batista regime turned out to be too complacent towards dissidents: two years later, Fidel was able to leave under an amnesty.

Once free, Castro left for Mexico. There, he immediately began to gather a detachment of supporters to go to Cuba already in arms. In 1956, he returned with a handful of supporters on the motor yacht Granma and in a few months was able to seize power in the country. In his political program “Manifesto Number One”, he proclaimed the transfer of land to the peasants, industrialization, the nationalization of industry and free education. Once in power, Fidel naturally and quickly quarreled with the United States, made friends with the Soviet Union, and also shook up the whole of Cuba, building a “state of justice” on the island – in his understanding, of course. nine0003

Cigars in a box signed by Castro’s hand were sold at Julien’s auction house in New York

Photo: Brendan McDermid / Reuters

According to eyewitnesses, Castro was an amazing person: he could ignite the crowd from the first words and then keep them for hours her attention. In this case, the commander, of course, was not a pacifist and did not differ in a complacent attitude towards dissidents, which cost Batista’s power. After the communists came to power in Cuba, thousands (and according to Castro’s opponents, tens of thousands) of his political opponents, rebellious peasants and supporters of the Batista regime were shot. nine0003

The new government had to be defended: for example, in 1961, the famous operation in the Bay of Pigs took place, when, with the support of the Americans, 1.5 thousand troops of Cuban emigrants who had undergone military training in camps in Nicaragua landed on the coast of Cuba. Apparently, this was a “reconnaissance in force” organized by the United States: when they saw in America that the landing force was defeated by the Cubans under the leadership of the commandant, who, like Chapaev of the new era, himself flew into the attack “on horseback” on a Soviet self-propelled gun, they retreated. At 19In 1962, the Americans demanded the imposition of sanctions against Cuba, but things did not go beyond economic pressure: the USSR, represented by Khrushchev, quite convincingly brandished missiles with atomic warheads, thus resolving the Caribbean Crisis.

Fidel Castro was repeatedly tried to kill: according to the Americans, there were about a hundred attempts, the Cubans counted over 600. They tried to kill him with bullets, poison and explosives, which were supplied by the agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency. However, excellent health and fate kept the commandant. nine0003

During the years of Fidel Castro’s rule, the stratification of society has reached catastrophic proportions. Only those who are connected with the tourism industry (including men and women involved in prostitution and human trafficking), as well as representatives of the ruling elite, have led and lead a normal life on the island. At the same time, as promised, Castro introduced free medicine and education; in Soviet times, some young Cubans studied in the USSR.

Recently, Cuba has been gradually changing. Cubans now have mobile phones with Internet access, not only American rarities of the 50s and 60s (under Fidel, the population could only own cars produced before Castro came to power) and Soviet Zhigulis now drive through the streets, but also modern cars decent quality. nine0003

One of the most significant historical figures of the 20th century, Fidel Castro, died in 2016 at the age of 90. He retired from business 10 years earlier, transferring authority to his younger brother Raul, who had previously been his right hand and confidant. In many countries, especially in Latin America, Castro, even after his death (and a very noisy funeral that turned into an international event), continues to be an idol. The debate about who he was: a bloody dictator or a great and almost disinterested fighter against American imperialism will probably not subside for a very long time. nine0003

Paulo Coelho “On the banks of the Rio Piedra, I sat down and cried” – review from usermame

No, you know, I didn’t even expect it. For a long time I wanted to read something authored by one of the most popular writers of our time – they still discuss, praise, scold, swear and admire. I wonder what kind of Coelho this is!

Guys, you can fuck it up.

“On the banks of the Rio Piedra I sat down and cried” – stupid shit, not a book. Excuse me, and if what I just wrote confuses you, then you should immediately twist your finger at your temple, resent my ignorance and the like, and stop reading the review immediately. Because I can hardly find words to describe what I read. It’s so boring and dull that..nothing! I have never seen anything even remotely comparable to such an imposing and stupid shit in my life, sorry for the uneven handwriting. nine0003

Mortal anguish – and this fully characterizes this, so to speak, novel. The book entirely consists of the most boring pseudo-philosophical verbal diarrhoea, packed to the gills with enormous layers of religious vomit pathos, well, offhand:

whatever I go. She also loved the world and loved it as much as God, because She gave Her son so that people would sacrifice him. But did She know what a woman’s love for a man is? Maybe She suffered because of love, but it was a different kind of love. Her great Husband knew everything and worked miracles. Her earthly husband was humble and hardworking, believing in everything Her dreams told Her. She did not have a chance to know what it is to leave a beloved man or be abandoned by him. When Joseph, having learned about Her pregnancy, wanted to drive Her out of the house, the Heavenly Husband immediately sent an angel to him to prevent this intention …

Have you fallen asleep yet? And so the whole book! Boredom, sleep, sleep, away, scat, Brazilian graphomaniac. The pinnacle of sadness and blablabla. Blablablablabla. Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh With a serious, with such a smart look! Here it is, some humor in the text:

In less than two thousand years, how did they realize that Christ and the Church are not one and the same? I asked with restrained irony.

Ololo, bashorg!

Plot? What plot, what are you? Once upon a time there was a girl, met an old friend, sad vomit about God, likes-dislikes, sad vomit about God, all the men are bastards, sad vomit about God, but, wait, don’t, don’t bastards, sad vomit about God, drank wine , talked about God, walked the streets, talked about God, sad vomit about God, talked about God …. – the reader sat on a chair in front of the book, clutched his head and began to cry. nine0003

Personally, I respect world religions, the feelings of believers, and everything else, but such mockery is impossible to endure, after all, in fact. Here Coelho sticks in the novel here and there, all sorts of philosophical parables, and so this story just draws the maximum to such an “instructive” parable, set forth by the priest in a low voice by candlelight in some confessional. The book, although small, is stretched 999999999 times – it was necessary to manage it so well, it was necessary to stir it up so brilliantly, and at the same time to disrupt the enthusiasm and applause of some, it seems, a very significant part of the globe.