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
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
