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I could hardly believe it when I saw the picture! Nicolás Maduro and Ravi Shankar, both smiling and shaking hands?! A humanitarian and spiritual leader next to a ruthless dictator who persecutes, imprisons and tortures opponents? Maduro, a pathetical, clownish character who has forced thousands of Venezuelans to leave their homeland, Seguir leyendo
“After July 4, a lot of people are going to be brought back. They go back home. ICE is going to be apprehending them and bringing them back to their countries». US President Trump’s words, referring to his adamant decision to deport undocumented immigrants after Independence Day. I wonder what Martin Luther Seguir leyendo
All Argentine politicians suffer from FOMO: fear of missing out. This has been clearly seen these last few weeks. They’re all doing their best to fit somewhere, to get something, to approach someone, however alien that someone might seem. They’ve been running a frantic race against the clock, shamelessly, ruthlessly, Seguir leyendo
¿Estamos en condiciones de derrochar 4.500 millones de pesos en las PASO? ¿Qué sentido tiene? ¿Acaso nos sobran? Y si así fuera, ¿no se podrían destinar a algo más útil, más necesario, más urgente? ¿No es un verdadero despropósito teniendo en cuenta el estado calamitoso en el que nos encontramos Seguir leyendo
Last Sunday’s huge blackout seems a suitable metaphor for the darkness we’re immersed in. It was Father’s Day, which looks like a good symbol, too, ‘cause we, Argentines, are prone to look for a Father/Mother figure as President. We choose politicians rather than policies, individuals rather than programs, relying too Seguir leyendo
Enorme metáfora del estado de situación en la Argentina. Por un lado, nunca hemos estado inmersos en semejante oscuridad con respecto al variopinto carnaval de candidatos con el que amanecemos cada mañana. Y por otro, lo del Padre, nunca hemos estado tan huérfanos políticamente. Hay una marcada tendencia en el Seguir leyendo
My kids used to sing a song at school: “Lost my partner, what shall I do?”, and for some strange reason I link this popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s with the frantic candidate rat race which we watched in disbelief this week in Argentina. This simple game of Seguir leyendo
A menudo me pregunto qué hicimos (o no hicimos) los argentinos para merecer la clase dirigente que tenemos y padecemos. El espectáculo que los candidatos están ofreciendo estos días es patético. Los vemos “rosquear”, cruzarse de vereda, cambiar de bando y camiseta como si nada, inescrupulosamente, desembozadamente. ¿Acaso no se Seguir leyendo
«We share the same ideals. All South America is worried about not having any more Venezuelas in the region. (…) I call the Argentine people to receive God’s guidance because elections are coming in October. And all of them need to put reason above emotion to decide the future of Seguir leyendo
Former United States President, Barack Obama, has hit the nail on the head this week: «Argentina fails to win the World Cup even with Lionel Messi because they do not play as a team.». In plain words, he has described one of our major historical difficulties as a nation: we Seguir leyendo