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New York - www.PayoLibre.com - The Berlin Wall is difficult not know your history, especially those who live 20 years ago. In my case, as a journalist for Radio Martí.

I had the privilege to go before the Wall fell, the area on the western side, to "Point Charlie." After November 9, 1989, much of the route where the wall was.

Today there are only plates placed on the pavement indicating where wound. Remains intact a piece of wall about 8 feet, near the Parliament.

The Wall, looked closely, it seems insignificant. If not known for 28 years that separated the German people into two halves.

Today, when we celebrate in the free world the fall of the symbol of separation, tragedy and death, are fighting for democracy can not help making comparisons with the walls still stand, raised by tyranny. How long will the worn Cuban Wall cracks open?

Who will take the first hammer to begin their fall? What circumstances will free the enslaved people of Cuba, which lies in the hands of communism nearly double the period of the Berlin Wall?

Meanwhile, in the satellite nations of Havana is not hopeful. These governments are due to Hugo Chavez who is not letting go until you pick it out by force of power.

Venezuela's analogy with the nostalgic national Muro, is almost perfect: One part of the German population longs for the privileges they had in the past in East Germany. Another is unhappy with reunification and claims the high cost that has faced.

Analysts who study the Venezuelan crisis indicate that many of the people is now unhappy with Chavez, but do not want to lose the privileges they enjoy, especially the poor, who receive subsidies and government assistance. Venezuelan military commander does not want to lose the gains in wages and negotiated that allows the state.

intricate international politics in the nations that could do something today to remember are limited. Governments are now free to applaud the 20-year collapse of the Wall, as they contemplate unmoved the barriers that separate peoples, based on the same communist doctrine that placed the first brick in the so-called Wall of Shame.