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From bad to worse…

For some strange reason, we Argentines don’t seem to learn from certain lessons and keep on stumbling over the same stones again and again. This time the victim was Fernando Báez Sosa, murdered by a gang of bullies, who cowardly beat him to death.  This could have been avoided, as many Seguir leyendo

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No aprendemos más

«Ninguna desgracia evitable nos enseñó nada hasta ahora» A esta altura, dudo de que el asesinato (asesinato, no fallecimiento) de Fernando Báez Sosa, ajusticiado por una manada de violentos, nos enseñe algo como sociedad. Ninguna «desgracia evitable» nos ha enseñado nada hasta ahora, puesto que se siguen repitiendo casi cotidianamente. Seguir leyendo

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«Megxit»

«Megxit» seems to  be the soap opera of the century. The nickname -coined by the British press- describes Prince Harry’s and his wife’s plans to quit their royal duties and step back from their senior roles in the British Royal family.I guess Harry’s mother, the late and greatly missed Ladi Seguir leyendo

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Nisman’s ghost

“I doubt Nisman committed suicide, but there’s no proof of murder”, Alberto Fernández  has recently stated. Almost five years have gone by and we still don’t know what really happened.  It’s a pity the prosecutor’s ghost doesn´t turn up, like Hamlet’s father, to reveal the naked truth and ask for Seguir leyendo

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An angry Pope

«Love makes us patient. So many times we lose patience, even me, and I apologize for yesterday’s bad example,» the Pope said, after slapping a woman’s hand the day before. He added: «Women are sources of life. Yet they are continually insulted, beaten, raped, forced to prostitute themselves and to Seguir leyendo

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On the threshold of 2020

2020 already! Unbelievable! I was born in 1951 and always thought of the year 2000 as a Bradburyan science fiction fantasy. But here I am, still alive and kicking. I’ve been lucky enough to have witnessed countless revolutions in all fields. I can’t help feeling, however, that in many aspects Seguir leyendo

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