I believe that this process began just after the Second World War, although I will not develop this theory now, as it would extend my reflection to the point of exhaustion. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: PERDIENDO EL TIEMPO
La historia del tango está llena de polémicas. En muchos casos son hijas del capricho o de la inventiva excéntrica de algún entendido o, cuanto menos, de la aceptación de meras leyendas. Continúa leyendo La Aventura del Tango: Un tango, dos versiones
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
Son asombrosos, a veces, los resultados que se logra por la paciencia de seguir investigando aspectos de la música popular –en este caso el tango, pero no es la única-, que involucran a figuras sobre las que luce una sentencia: “están más allá del bien y el mal”. Continúa leyendo La Aventura del Tango: Gardel El Perfeccionista
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
