It is possible that, between the end of this year and the beginning of the next legislative period, the Uruguayan Parliament will face the responsibility of deciding on the two reforms that the government and the opposition consider essential: social security and education. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿Y LA BASE, EL CIMIENTO?
The war of Biden and Putin in the Ukraine regardless of how the long-awaited PEACE ends and is achieved, deals a treacherous and deadly blow to the fruitful and necessary unity of the authentic Europe from Finisterre to the Urals; of which the EU, being today the essential part, the driving force, is not and will never be the whole, and cannot be, survive and grow free and powerful even with Ukraine, if it excludes Russia, its vast territory and incalculable natural reserves. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: ¡¡NO A LA GUERRA!! PUTIN ESPERA AL GENERAL INVIERNO, ZELENSKY-BIDEN EL GRAN BUSINESS del GAS y GUERRA Y EL ACTOR PERDIÓ LOS PAPELES Y SU ESTADO DE GRACIA EN POLONIA
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
The Puebla Group, a forum made up of representatives of the political left in Latin America, will meet this week on November 10 and 11 in Santa Marta, Colombia, for its VIII meeting, hosting different progressive leaders. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: El Grupo de Puebla llega al Magdalena para su VIII encuentro, para impulsar la integración regional
A space of an academic nature and for reflection on the advantages of the federalist model as a bastion for strengthening regional autonomy, will be held in the beautiful city of Santa Marta in Colombia from tomorrow, November 8 and 9, with the holding of the ‘ International Forum on Federalism and Territorial Autonomy in Colombia: New Challenges in Latin America’, which has the support of the Government of Magdalena. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: 8/9 11-22 SANTA MARTA ‘Foro Internacional sobre Federalismo y Autonomía Territorial en Colombia: ‘Nuevos Retos en América Latina’
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..!
El triunfo del Educador, Político y Abogado Abel Martínez Durán por un amplio margen en la candidatura presidencial del opositor Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), impone un cambio en las estrategias políticas trazadas por los virtuales candidatos para las elecciones de 2024. Continúa leyendo REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA: TRIUNFO DE ABEL MARTÍNEZ CAMBIA EL ESCENARIO POLÍTICO
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
There are problems in Uruguayan society, diagnosed decades ago, which, far from being resolved, become more complex and inconvenient. Perhaps, at least in part, they are expanded by the accelerated complexity of everyday life. That imposed by the rapid progress of problems caused even by important activities -and intrinsically constructive- such as science, technology and education, in addition to others, these pathological, such as social security in a country that sees its population age more than others and where the weakness in the fight against crime and corruption is losing ground, for now without remedy. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: AH, LA JUSTICIA
I warn, without too much difficulty, that the unpopularity of politicians continues to increase among the majority of our society. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL PESIMISMO CRECE
As he usually shakes his threadbare clothes, almost without exception for a long, long time, I begin by admitting that the question I am going to expose is not new. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PUENTES
The EU’s path towards a price cap for Russian hydrocarbons seems difficult. A unified reading for 27 countries, with 27 different energy realities, solely on the basis of a political motion, seems hardly credible. The Italian proposal to extend the price cap to all suppliers, regardless of their nationality, is followed by four other countries, while three believe that it should only apply to Russian gas (but this would be a new sanction on Russia, not a political energy saving). As the necessary unanimity did not exist, it was postponed to the mid-October meeting. If it was supposed to be a show of determination and unity, for now it is a sign of weakness and fragmentation. Continúa leyendo El Estrecho camino entre Bruselas y Samarcanda
Hate is killing us. Every day that passes, Uruguayan society is divided into tribes – small, large, of all sizes – that base their philosophy, if that is what generates their actions, on intolerance, lack of respect for those who think differently , fanaticism, discrimination, racism and the idea of dogma prevailing over the postulate. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EPIDEMIA DE ODIO
If there is an issue that politicians, so-called specialists, journalists and even many simple citizens who shout inconsistencies have turned into a gigantic pot of Spanish-style stew, which they feed with fiery enthusiasm without wanting to stop, it is security. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: Y, SI «LA POLICÍA A LA CALLE»
Listening to the arguments between pro-government parliamentarians and those of the opposition that have begun to torment our search for serenity, without pauses and at the speed of state-of-the-art machine guns, we can see that if something is lacking, or directly lacking in relation to the Rendering of Accounts project, it is the understanding. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: HACIA EL ENTENDIMIENTO
The attitudes, gestures, reactions, governmental composure of Petro, are turning out to be a paradox, that as easy as victory came for him, as easy as it can be. Continúa leyendo Punta de Lanza.SERA QUE PETRO,¿ESTA ENFERMO?
Entrada fija
Federico García Lorca was born on June 5, 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, (Granada). The year of what was popularly called in Spain, the year of the loss of the Pearl of the Antilles, (Cuba) in addition to Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.
The end of the empire that did not mean the independence of these territories, but the beginning of the North American empire, which now, one hundred twenty-four years later, is in decline, as is the destiny of all the empires that have existed in the world, whose paradigm It is the Roman Empire, which was undoubtedly the most important, which began and ended in the city of Rome, with an interval of eleven centuries. Continúa leyendo LITERAL PLANET: LAS ESPAÑAS DE GARCÍA LORCA
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, has very clear objectives and it is not exactly to help the American people. She uses and acquires privileged and confidential information to buy shares in different companies to further increase her fortune. Continúa leyendo EE.UU: NANCY PELOSI USA INFORMACIÓN PRIVILEGIADA Y CONFIDENCIAL PARA SU PROPIO BENEFICIO.
I am convinced that a vast majority of adult citizens in our country do not have the remotest idea about the pension reform bill; that is to say, they do not know -unless slogans are repeated here and there, depending on where the sun is that warms them- how it will affect their lives and those of their descendants or why and, much less, the implications it will have on the economy on which we will all continue to depend afterwards. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: SOLO SÉ QUE NADA SÉ
The International Energy Agency, a structure dependent on the OECD, in its monthly report on the oil market, reports that the impact of Western sanctions on Russian energy exports has so far been essentially nil. The OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – is not based in Moscow. It is an organization based in Paris of which 36 countries are part, including the United States, almost the entire European Union, Japan, Australia and Canada, Mexico and Chile, Switzerland and Turkey. As of June 1, 2021, the Secretary General of the OECD is the Australian Mathias Cormann. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: UE y RUSIA, LOS SANCIONADORES SANCIONADOS.
Definitely, the ticket moves people, of that I have no doubt. There were quite a few people there, but, honestly, I thought that the whole country would be in the Plaza de Bolívar, to see the show, which was undoubtedly very beautiful. Continúa leyendo PUNTA DE LANZA: POSESIÓN EN PAUSA POR LA ESPADA
Yesterday, Sunday, August 07, the Presidential Inauguration of the 42nd President of the Republic of Colombia took place: Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, a 62-year-old Colombian politician and economist who arrives with the first left-wing government of Colombia together with his vice president Francia Márquez, therefore Colombia has for the first time in 200 years of independent life a president of the left Continúa leyendo HISTÓRICA ASUNCIÓN A LA PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA DE GUSTAVO PETRO URREGO.
Iván Duque took off his bandana, and everything is ready for the preparations for the media circus of the inauguration of Gustavo Petro, brand new and new president of Colombia. It is said that as a «hero» he could «wield» Simón Bolívar’s sword, the same one that they say he borrowed in 1974 (stolen) and never returned, when he was a member of the M 19 group. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: ¿POSIBLES SÍMBOLOS Y MENSAJES OCULTOS, EN LA TOMA DE POSESIÓN DE PETRO…?
A republican democracy, to be really and not in appearance, that is to say to function as it should, must be based on the independence of three essential Powers that are related to consolidate it: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DIFÍCIL, NO IMPOSIBLE
On July 29, 2022, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left the United States of America to visit Indo-Pacific allied countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and possibly Taiwan. on a diplomatic tour where he will fly on a military plane to Taipei” and the tension soared before Pelosi’s possible trip. Continúa leyendo CHINA / EE.UU: EL VIAJE DE PELOSI A TAIWÁN, UN MAL AUGURIO EN UN MOMENTO INAPROPIADO
Panama after the invasion of the Americans to overthrow General Noriega, became a tax haven. Dollarization was implemented and the country enjoyed good financial health, but the people took to the streets during the month of July 2022, due to the rise in oil prices, blamed on the war in Ukraine and Russia, inflation and the cost of living and rampant corruption, the people took to the streets despite the proposals presented by the president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo. Continúa leyendo PANAMA: ENTRE EL ESTALLIDO SOCIAL Y EL BORDE DEL COLAPSO…
On July 20, just 48 hours ago, in different parts of Colombia, various activities were held on the occasion of Independence Day, among them the traditional military parade as well in the capital of this beautiful South American country Colombia in Bogotá the installation of the new Congress of the Republic 2022 – 2026 was carried out, with those who were elected on the democratic day of March 13, where it was possible to appreciate that there will be 16 representatives to the Chamber more than what has been seen in previous years, taking office for the first time, those belonging to the Special Transitory Districts of Peace, defined in the Peace Agreement. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: INSTALACIÓN DEL NUEVO CONGRESO DE LA REPUBLICA 22/26
There is no more lapidary phrase for an irreverent senator and candidate for the presidency, today president, than the trilled response, which was given to him by Mr. General Zapateiro Altamiranda, to defend the institution of the army. Continúa leyendo PUNTA DE LANZA HASTA LA VISTA, ¡MI GENERAL!
I don’t know if when I write this column, the issue I want to deal with will have been resolved or will still be coming and going. Assuming the risk of developing reflections in this scenario, I do not want to curtail my right to free critical opinion. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: UN FALLO POLÉMICO
The meeting between President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aroused opinions on both sides of the southern border of the United States. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: DE LO DICHO A LO HECHO, HAY UN GRAN TRECHO.
As a regular reader I find myself alert like a radar to analyze world events. Today I will comment on the BRICS, 16 years after its founding. Continúa leyendo BRICS: LA NUEVA RESPUESTA A UN NUEVO ORDEN MUNDIAL
Skepticism is a philosophical doctrine that consists in affirming that the truth does not exist, or that, if it exists, the human being is incapable of knowing it. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: EL ESCEPTICISMO VS LOS PANCISTAS, UN CAMBIO RADICAL DEL CIELO A LA TIERRA
Going back over old readings of philosophers from different times -Bacon, Kingsley, Huxley, Russell- I have noticed the antiquity of a problem that Uruguayan society suffers today and that I, perhaps confused by the speed, sound and little thinking of the modern world, I had believed something installed from the democratic restoration after the dictatorship. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA POLÍTICA MITÓMANA
There are many citizens – I know – who have been surprised by information that has been circulating in recent days: according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, based on data from the OAS Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, Uruguay is the country with the highest Per capita consumption of cocaine in Latin America. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: OPINIONES OLVIDADAS
Given the surprising results of the second presidential round in Colombia, those who cast as the undisputed winner the candidate of the Historical Pact, the leftist Gustavo Petro Urrego, with the highest vote obtained by any president in the country, eleven million two hundred and eighty-one thousand and thirteen votes (11,281,013), for a fifty point forty-four percent (50.44%). Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: ANÁLISIS DE LAS ELECCIONES EN COLOMBIA «SEGUNDA VUELTA PRESIDENCIAL»
COLOMBIA: “Between virtue and sin. In no way will I change my worrying and constant assessments, expressed both in writing and verbally, about the winner. IT DOESN’T INSPIRE ME CONFIDENCE, I will only apply the condition of a gentleman, as a man of his word, who respects the results. The winner is recognized for his victory, so, he has achieved it by any of the means used, good or bad, the point is that he achieved it, period. The form is no longer interesting, it is an accomplished fact. But as a matter of principle, today I must express my point of view. – The human being is a being subject to change, if it does not change, it dies faster.- Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: PUNTA DE LANZA FESTIVO «GANO PETRO»
In the previous column I tried to describe, as succinctly as I could, the number of unsatisfied needs that our society exhibits, suggesting that political consensus is as necessary as an increase in investment from abroad. And I remember that I also referred to the importance of education and my pessimism that, in reasonable time, its reform will become the effective solution to the problems we face. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EDUCACIÓN Y POLÍTICA
The second round to elect the new president of Colombia is just around the corner and to the good understanding, up the sleeve of Gustavo Petro and his advisers, they can get an Ace… because you are already seeing dirty and low tricks, to achieve their mission and for this they have Sebastián Guanumen «The strategist of the Historical Pact» and «The leftist architect of Petro», to carry out a deceptive policy Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: SEBASTIAN GUANUMEN, El AS de LA ESTRATEGIA y ARQUITECTO de LA POLÍTICA ENGAÑOSA CON LOS PETROVIDEOS.
It is necessary to improve the economy – without inflation or the dollar through the roof – to increase the money in the hands of the State and use it in a more efficient and equitable way. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA SOLUCIÓN ESTÁ AFUERA
Muy apreciado Ingeniero
Don Rodolfo Hernández.
Candidato Presidencia de Colombia. Continúa leyendo PUNTA DE LANZA: CARTA ABIERTA A DON RODOLFO HERNANDEZ
After a prudent time to reflect and meditate on my future, I decided to write about World Sport: «Politics» and like a fish in water today I come to accentuate the first round of the Colombian elections, an iconic election between the main candidates Gustavo Petro, Rodolfo Hernández, Fico Gutiérrez and Sergio Fajardo, where some factors were decisive in the campaign: Fear, inequality, unemployment and the promise of change, as a determining factor in this first round. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: RODOLFO HERNÁNDEZ, LA CENICIENTA QUE NADIE VIÓ VENIR AL BAILE…
Many years ago a work appeared in France, clandestinely, precisely referring to two illustrious thinkers, respectable for the time and a fundamental piece in the governments of the day, in which both had a lot to do with the deep state of the time, and for one of them, like MONTESQUIEU, he considered the cause of democracy and freedom as a good that must be protected by law. Meanwhile, for MACHIAVELO, his main objective revolved around the fact that the end justifies the means, to achieve the objectives and political survival. Kind of like Roy Barrera. For Machiavellianism, ALL GOES prevails. They say that Armando fits in there. Continúa leyendo PUNTA DE LANZA: «MONTESQUIEU MAQUIAVELO Y SANTOS DIALONGAN EN EL INFIERNO»
The US imperialism never imagined that its backyard, south of its border, would one day, far in the future, wake up and begin to break the chains of USA dependency, both economic and military and even cultural, of the full domination that for almost two centuries has imposed on the countries of the American continent. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: Un gigante dormido que despierta
If someone, observing what is happening in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, put forward the hypothesis that we are approaching a third world war, he would only be describing one of the considerable risks if the current situation spreads. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ENTRETEJIDO DEL CINISMO
In a synthetic but correct definition, egocentrism is, in the behavior of the human being, the exaggerated exaltation of one’s own personality to the point of considering it as the center of attention and common, general activities. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL EGO PERTURBADOR
The Commander of the National Army of Colombia, General Eduardo E. Zapateiro Altamiranda affirms with great propriety and certainty that joint work and the union of capacities will always be a guarantee of effectiveness. Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: PUNTA DE LANZA PULCRITUD Y HONOR MILITAR CON LEGALIDAD
Simply looking around with an open mind and a critical spirit, it does not take too much light to notice that, during the last decades and increasingly, Uruguayan society has become a set of individualities in which selfishness prevails, manifested in different ways. although always present. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL OBJETIVO SOCIAL
In my opinion, progressively, we are witnessing a pathology that places the Judiciary in an uncomfortable position to say the least. The slowness of its procedures, at all levels, compromises with certain assiduity –and I do not intend to be alarmist- a more dynamic, balanced and equitable operation of the republican democratic system on which Uruguayan society is based. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL RITMO CANSINO
Two hours of talks with Xi Jinping were not enough for Joe Biden to convince Beijing that it should play a mediating role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Continúa leyendo Ucraina, la Cina non è vicina
Tengo edad suficiente como para haber vivido en plena madurez intelectual, y además en ejercicio de mi oficio periodístico, el extenso, oscuro, amenazante y fabricante de novelas de terror –algunas que, sin embargo, se acercaron peligrosamente a hacerse realidad- proceso histórico que dio en llamarse “La guerra fría”. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: EL EQUILIBRIO FRÁGIL
With each passing day, my conviction that, as a society, we are on the way to becoming a factory of messes with increasingly serious consequences because it seems that all the guiding references, historically incorporated into it, they have entered a state of dilution or obscurantism. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA FÁBRICA
The favorable vote of four magistrates and one associate judge of the Constitutional Court, and with the saving of votes of four magistrates, among them, among these, three women, in a recent, controversial, painful and sad ruling decriminalizes abortion in Colombia and legalizes its execution up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. In the event that one of the three exceptional causes established by the same Court several decades ago does not apply the aforementioned term to abort. Continúa leyendo OPINIÓN: COLOMBIA FALLO DE LA CORTE CONSTITUCIONAL QUE LEGALIZA EL ABORTO HASTA LAS 24 SEMANAS DE GESTACIÓN
It all begins in the earliest, most tender childhood. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: VIEJAS IDEAS…¿NUEVAS?
Me senté ante el ordenador y empecé a escribir este artículo a mi regreso de un largo viaje, el domingo día 20, y veo que los acontecimientos se precipitan a tal velocidad que debo terminarlo hoy mismo o quedará obsoleto antes de enviarlo. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: ¡¡PAZ!! ¡¡NO A LA GUERRA!! Y A LOS CANALLAS QUE LAS PROVOCAN
During the last few days – weeks already, perhaps? – opinions of all kinds and colors have not been lacking, but rather abounded about a case that involves values that are the foundation of democratic republicanism: freedom of the press, protection of the used by journalists and the attitude that the judicial system must assume, both in the face of these values and hypothetical violations of their limits in the face of the Constitution and complementary legislation, including the New Code of Criminal Procedure. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LIBERTAD Y FORMACIÓN
The tensions between Russia, Europe and the United States of America, they are at the height of the crisis because of the great geopolitical interests and this points to «A new goose that lays the golden eggs called Ukraine». Russia does not want to easily leave Ukraine as part of the European Union, since they have historical, ethnic and cultural ties. Continúa leyendo RUSIA-UCRANIA: ALTA TENSIÓN DE UNA GUERRA INMINENTE EN EL ESTE DE EUROPA
Curiously – or not, pues tal vez hasta ahora haya sido solo ignorancia mia- all meanings of the words secularism,
secular, laicist or laicize refer to the independence of the State, or of society especially through education, of all ecclesiastical or religious influences. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MANIOBRA
Estamos estrenando año, hoy primero de enero del 2022, en la que a Colombia se le viene previniendo con el lema: ABRE EL OJO, …….. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: PUNTA DE LANZA «PATRIA BOBA o HACIENDO EL CURSO ¿PARA LA ESCLAVITUD?
LA AGENCIA MUNDIAL DE PRENSA 