You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.