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My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school”. This is what Donald Trump said after 17 people were killed by a 19 year old gunman , armed with a Seguir leyendo
Seamos sensatos y realistas. El hecho de que -de una vez por todas- se legalice el aborto en la Argentina no implica necesariamente que todas las mujeres decidan abortar (así como la promulgación de la ley de divorcio no llevó a su proliferación). El aborto, legal o no, es siempre Seguir leyendo
La marcha convocada por Hugo Moyano no parece tener un origen muy claro. Da la sensación de que quiere valerse de esta estrategia para cubrir sus espaldas. Justo cuando está siendo investigado por la Justicia para dilucidar el origen de su abultado patrimonio, llama a sus muchachos para que copen Seguir leyendo
Better late than never, they say. And it’s never too late. We, women, seem to have finally woken up from a long slumber. And this time there is no Prince softly kissing Sleeping Beauties awake. Instead, we have woken up on our own, and have helped one another too. We have Seguir leyendo
In Argentina, we seem to live in a never ending “deja vu”. Crucial problems are never solved. On the contrary, they get worse and worse as time goes by. Every February we are told that the beginning of the academic state school year is at stake. Every single year, the Seguir leyendo
There are undoubtedly some scary world leaders nowadays. Men who are really dangerous, although , at first sight, you would laugh at some of their weird public attitudes. Take Trump, for instance, clapping for himself right in front of the microphone, during his State of the Union address last Tuesday. Seguir leyendo
En estos tiempos, en los que afortunadamente las mujeres nos animamos a revelar abusos, acosos, discriminación, violaciones, maltratos, y hemos decidido no callar más, me parece justo también salir en defensa de los hombres buenos, no violentos, sensibles, solidarios, a quienes nunca se les cruza por la cabeza violentar o Seguir leyendo
Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a particular ceremony takes place in La Plata, my hometown. This tradition started over half a century ago. It’s called “La quema de los Muñecos”, “the burning of the dolls”. These so-called dolls are huge figures and structures, made of “papier machiée”, wood, Seguir leyendo
Another Argentine union leader in prison. Marcelo Balcedo, head of the SOEME, was arrested in his luxurious Uruguayan mansion, “El Gran Chaparral”, together with his wife. He is accused, among other crimes, of money laundering, a widespread “sport” in this country. What did the police find? Automatic weapons, luxury cars, Seguir leyendo
I remember reading at College “The Sound and the Fury”, a novel by Southern writer William Faulkner. Faulkner borrowed his title from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, when the troubled character says: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Now “Fire and Fury: Inside the Seguir leyendo