EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MATERIA PENDIENTE

In our country, in the middle of the period of any government -from this point of view, when describing it, it can be profoundly ironic-, when it is time to fulfill pre-electoral promises and present essential projects for the future in order to find sufficient consensus , politics is transformed, with the basic thrust of the opposition, in a carnival of sticks thrown at the wheels of everything that must move, in the celebration of suspicion, lies and insults as legitimate resources and, ultimately, in the drawing of a frightful shadow that will obscure all intelligence that society expects and will give way to the umpteenth advance of the umpteenth campaign in fits and starts with a view only to sit on the soft seat of power, no matter how much time is left before the votes enter the polls. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA GRAN MATERIA PENDIENTE

EL PENSADOR: AQUELLOS VIEJOS, BUENOS HÁBITOS

How do you describe someone who, suddenly, and already at an advanced age, thinks they discover -in reality it is their memory that brings back the memory of a distant memory, or not so much-, a serious problem in the loss of some old and good habits, enjoyed by your generation and who knows how many more in the past? Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: AQUELLOS VIEJOS, BUENOS HÁBITOS

EL PENSADOR: BENEVOLENCIA Y PROPÓSITOS COMUNES

The history of humanity has been teaching, for a long time, that a close interdependence -whether between political forces of the same country, or between it and all the others with which it maintains stable relations- requires common purposes if disaster is to be avoided. . And constructive common purposes will not prevail unless some community of sentiment is formed. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: BENEVOLENCIA Y PROPÓSITOS COMUNES

EL PENSADOR: LA PREPARACIÓN DEL POLÍTICO

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

LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: EL TANGO EN EL AVION

Suena gracioso, dicho con respeto, cuando todavía hay quienes vinculan las letras del tango clásico, en su etapa inicial de la Guardia Vieja y primeros esbozos de evolución, sólo con la discriminación de la mujer, la idea cuasi infantil de la madrecita sufrida y la desolación por el barrio, las costumbres y los amigos perdidos. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: EL TANGO EN EL AVION

EL PENSADOR: ¡Ah QUÉ CÓMODO LIMBO..!

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..!