As if we were missing any, a problem has appeared to disturb the daily life of Uruguayans, which I don’t know whether to call unexpected, but whose causes – not its visible consequences – I don’t know that requires immediate attention from the competent authorities. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿DÓNDE ESTA LA CONEJA?
Dear friends, and very distinguished Colombians, compatriots: Colombia is going through one of its most dangerous moments, a statement that warns us of an accelerated and irresponsible action by the government of Gustavo Petro, and his group of ministerial advisers, to give way to a series of projects of laws, which carry the eagerness and speed of a leering end. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: CARTA ABIERTA A Don ALVARO URIBE VELEZ, CESAR GAVIRIA TRUJILLO, GERMAN VARGAS LLERAS, Sr. Gral. EDUARDO ZAPATEIRO, EFRAIN CEPEDA, HENRIQUE GOMEZ, MARTIN ALONSO PINZON, Cnel. LUIS VILLAMARIN.
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
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»
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
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
