EL PENSADOR: PROMESAS INCUMPLIDAS

There is a promise that the government made in the electoral campaign and then has repeated insistently, even when the circumstances seemed inauspicious: economic imbalances, the pandemic, the growth of poverty, unemployment and several relevant reforms in a row: education, social security, health, etc. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: PROMESAS INCUMPLIDAS

COLOMBIA: AL NOBEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ TRIBUTO ESPECIAL DIA TRADICIONAL DEL PERIODISTA

To the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, received on December 10, 1982, after four decades, there are many tributes he deserves; Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: AL NOBEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ TRIBUTO ESPECIAL DIA TRADICIONAL DEL PERIODISTA

EDITORIAL: EE.UU. ¿La caída de los dioses?

The US economy is looking for a way out of a progressively suffocating situation. The approval of the Inflation Reduction Act, a mega-measure of 400,000 million dollars that will be financed with public debt, indicates the intention of the United States to return to state aid to its companies and, in perspective, to reconvert the mercantilist hysteria in force since 1989 in protectionism. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: EE.UU. ¿La caída de los dioses?

EL PENSADOR: DISUASIÓN «Falta sin Aviso»

What’s wrong with Minister Heber? Tiredness, anemia? No no. In any case, the opposite: excitement. It has plunged headlong into the center of a disorderly and highly politicized debate on security, which includes figures for the reduction in crime, questioning the construction of those figures, contradictions, abrupt and even absurd comparisons with previous administrations and a string of plans to improve police services and their effectiveness, in the midst of complaints of internal corruption in the Headquarters and projects -in some cases delusional- on the rehabilitation of both prisoners and those released after serving their sentences. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DISUASIÓN «Falta sin Aviso»

EL PENSADOR: EL VALOR DE LAS PALABRAS

A few years ago, during a television report, the Argentine philosopher and writer Santiago Kovladoff outlined an intelligent reasoning when analyzing the increasingly conflictive democratic coexistence in his country – today it is decidedly worse, it must be admitted – focusing on the impoverishment of language. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL VALOR DE LAS PALABRAS

EL PENSADOR: CRECE EL ESCEPTICISMO

In a country delicately balancing on a fine wire so as not to rush into a crisis that could jeopardize the immediate future, there is a majority of politicians who, shamelessly, have anticipated foreseeable dates, adapting them to their anxiety and ambitions, launching into a brutal pre-election campaign. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: CRECE EL ESCEPTICISMO