Aclaro, ya en el inicio, que esta columna ya fue escrita y publicada. Pasa que hace tanto tiempo, que es probable muchos no la recuerden y hasta no la hayan leído. Por eso la reitero, obvio que con ciertas actualizaciones y para que tenga vigencia. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LOS CHIMPANCÉS DE LA POLÍTICA
To see the course of the war between Biden and Putin in Ukraine is to see how Putin loses the papers and all the reasons for invading it. What, the repeated failure of the USA and NATO to comply with what they promised a naïve Russia, perplexed and defenseless, when it needed to turn the page and bury the cold war, when the USSR was shipwrecked. The Maiden coup d’état -model USA- in February 1914. Zelensky’s failure to comply with the Minsk agreements and the historic and repeated encirclement and harassment by NATO, now with the support of the Ukrainian government to keep Moscow within reach of its missiles, can explain, but not justify the invasion and war in Ukraine. We have gone from bad to much worse, today, Russia with more NATO, and the EU more cold and ruin. Continúa leyendo PIERDE Y PAGA LA UE, GANA (por ahora) BIDEN – OTAN y El Poder de las Familias del Gas, Petróleo, Fábricas de Armas POR EL ABSURDO ERROR-HORROR DE PUTIN, AL INVADIR UCRANIA
There is a simple exercise -obviously simpler the more intellectual capacity and good intentions the person who undertakes it has- that citizens could do about politics, the object of so much dislike and distrust today: appeal to memory, history books and any other way that allows us to remember if it is true that the quality of those who exercise it has been progressively diminishing at least since the middle of the last century. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA PREPARACIÓN DEL POLÍTICO
If I had the obligation to define the attitude of Uruguayan politics – all of it, government and opposition, although the generalization makes it uncomfortable – in the face of the ups and downs that are shaking the region, with different intensity depending on which country we are talking about, I would need, to be the civilized as possible, appeal to a metaphor. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¡Ah QUÉ CÓMODO LIMBO..!
When we talk about improving coexistence in our society, the first thing to understand is summed up in a school-level phrase, even though that is the root of many misunderstandings and conflicts: “My rights can reach the limit where the rights of others». We all have constitutional rights in a democratic State, as well as obligations, but for both, no one ignores that there are limits. Continúa leyendo El PENSADOR: DETALLES MÍNIMOS, GRANDES PROBLEMAS
Now that we are just a few steps away from deciding on the educational reform project – or so the facts seem to indicate – I feel the impulse, even at the risk of being labeled as simplistic, to insist that the essential point is learning to read correctly, to develop comprehension and, in parallel, speak, write and think better. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL LENGUAJE Y SUS COMPLEJIDADES
