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The blindness of the economists
¿How many economists saw the Global Recession coming, the deepest in our lifes? Practically No One.
Read MoreReagan And Obama
When we inspire in the past – Ronald Reagan said, refering to the people from the United States – is when we can live for the future.
Read MorePorcelain Dolls
The ideal image of the female body as a sack of bones is so spread, that there are already networks dedicated to promote Anorexia and Bulimia as a life style.
Read More¿Individual Humanitarian Special Agreements?
Colombians want Kidnapped to be liberated. For that reason it would be logic for us to support the Government when it gives incentives for the Guerrilla members to scape with the kidnapped people, as the strategy has made some liberations possible. But the matter is not that simple, as the strategy politically risky and unstable.
Read MoreThe enormous challenges of a good man
Since World War Two this is the first time the Unites Stated doesn’t have the capacity of imposing, that it had before.
Read MoreAbout politics history
During holidays, I was reading texts about latinamerican politics history. I am not going to use this column, dear reader, for developing a synthesis of what I read, neither to write an essay about democracy in Latin America. What I am going to do is to show the impressions those texts left me about our own political regime.
Read MoreHypocracy and Reelection
Adjusting himself to the prototype of a Cynical, Uribe pretends us to believe that reelection is not with him; are the people who are claiming his permanence in the power.
Read MoreTragic Wars
Conflicts and tragedies have caused enormous suffer to humanity. But more terrible than that, have been conflicts that are assumed as tragedies, as natural events or supernatural that no one can resist. Those are the total wars, the holy wars, the wars where fighters are ready to die before negotiating with the enemy. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has a lot more than that.
Read MoreI Dream with a New Policy Against Drugs
The custom is to start the year expressing some wishes and commitments. I confess that since long time ago, one of my dreams is that the world see sense and leave that nightmare that is the war against drugs.
Read MorePocket Rules
Douglass North, Nobel Prize in Economy, sustained some time before that the poor economical development of Latin America, in comparison with that of the United States, can be explained, in its major part, by the way how, since five centuries ago people and institutions conceive laws in this continent.
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