Phrases for thought, ideas for harmony: excerpts from the speech of Mario Vargas Llosa in Stockholm (December 7, 2010)
No speech is infallible and is not exempt from criticism. Poor intellectual thought that does not deserve controversy. But beyond the debatable issues that undoubtedly contains the speech given by Mario Vargas Llosa on the day before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, there are phrases, ideas and considerations that should, in my opinion, highlight. Not in vain for us to think about key issues of our history and our time.
"... what an extraordinary privilege for a country that has no single identity because it has them all."
"English and Latin American writers ... were mixed and fraternized, recognizing owners of the same tradition and allies in a common enterprise and a certain "
" The homeland is not the flags and anthems, or apodictic discourse on the iconic heroes, but a handful of places and people that populate our stained memories and melancholy, the warm feeling that, no matter where we are, there is a home to which we return. "
" Without the fiction would be less aware of the importance of freedom for life livable and hell where it becomes when it is trampled by a tyrant, an ideology or a religion. "
"No city took both Barcelona and better than the beginning of opening (in the last years of Franco) not experienced a similar excitement in all fields of ideas and creation. Became cultural capital of Spain, where he had to be breathing the advance of freedom is coming. And in a way, was also the cultural capital of Latin America by the number of painters, writers, editors and artists from Latin American countries that settled there, or came and went to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbecause it was where you had to be if one I wanted to be a poet, novelist, painter or composer of our time. "
"For let us not serve us to invent machines to be their servants and slaves. And because a world without literature would be a world without ideals or desires or contempt, a world of robots deprived of what makes the human being truly human: the ability to leave and move himself into another, in others, modeled with the clay of our dreams. "
" Because we will always Fortunately, an unfinished story "
the end, the Palestinian cause receives due and deserved international support: towards the recognition of a free and independent Palestinian State
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very little, this news is attracting attention in the European press. A kind of cloak of silence or scorn is upon a fact that, beyond its political significance, holds considerable symbolic significance with regard to solidarity with one of the most serious geopolitical issues of our time stabbing. It was not the European Union has taken the initiative ought to have reciprocated in this process, but Latin America, and in particular those countries that have understood, without the typical ambiguities to which we are accustomed to in the language of diplomacy vacuo irrelevant, that something must be done well to rescue from oblivion a reality that can not be forgotten.
had to happen sooner or later. Was imperative, a necessary to ensure that the tragedy of the Palestinian people were permanently lost in oblivion or indifference. The passage of time, with a huge load of frustration, pain, injustice and helplessness, not only worsened the magnitude of an international problem that remains unresolved after ten resolutions United Nations have tried to ensure consistent output with international law.
not go into details about a problem which I have been echoed many times in this blog, and I will continue dealing with the same interest as I feel about what is happening in Western Sahara. I will simply recognize, with admiration and applause, the initiative taken by the countries of MERCOSUR have agreed to recognize a Palestinian state, free and independent according to the 1967 boundary lines. The first step was taken by Uruguay on 13 November, when President Mujica Embassy announced the opening of the highest level.
Later, while leaving the presidency of Brazil with one of the highest levels of popularity that are known, Lula da Silva joined the initiative on December 3 stating that "the initiative is consistent with Brazil's historical willingness to contribute to the peace process between Israel and Palestine, whose direct negotiations are currently stalled and is in line with UN resolutions , calling for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories and building an independent state on the borders of 4 June 1967. Brazil, says the official statement, admitted from 1975 to Organization for Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, that has a personality of public international law. In 1993, Latin American country authorized the opening of the Special Delegation of Palestine diplomatic status similar to the representations of international organizations and in 1998 likened the treatment to an embassy. But never, as now, had spoken of a free state and independent.
Three days later, the Republic Argentina has joined the same process. Not surprisingly, and according to the official statement "Argentina has traditionally supported the Palestinian people's right to independent statehood and the right of Israel to live in peace with its neighbors, within secure and internationally recognized borders" not free to express its support "for dialogue and peace initiatives of the international community for a peaceful solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
initiatives Is it isolated? Will continuity the world? What European Union will , which gives much support to Palestine to attend then, undaunted, to its destruction by Israel? What Mr. Obama now opine that seems, given to the edification of the Jewish state fever in the illegally occupied territories? What will he think of the subject by the English Minister of Foreign Affairs, as evanescent and always inaccurate in his statements? Numerous questions arise before an inevitable process that was shown, as they have not been few voices in the world have called for the recognition of a Palestinian state He notes as a form of blockages, failures and delays to the solution of this problem has been exposed . Surely not be an easy process and as fast as many would like. But there have been important steps in that direction, hand key precedents of countries are not irrelevant in the world.
Is this the vision with the Catalans in the world?
From the standpoint of educational and cultural mental maps have always been as helpful as an illustrative exercise. reveal the vision of who makes it his surroundings, the world we live. No technical rigor in them or any map, but it is clear that valuable conclusions can be drawn on how to understand and assess both what is near and so, far, deserves also to be taken into consideration simply because it exists and because It records are more or less solid. Difficult escape the global dimension of what is happening where they happen. There are few geographers who have dedicated pages without story to the empirical manifestations of the "Geography of Perception" , associated with the conception of space as an expression of a subjectivity that derives from the culture you have and which in turn explains behavior (behavioral geography) that are otherwise difficult to interpret.
Serve this forethought to record the surprise I produced the "mental map" that edition of El Pais Semanal 28 November, publishes designer Javier Mariscal on conception, in its view, the Catalans are in the world, the world world in which they live. It does a "charnego" or viewing a swollen Catalan Catalunya criticism but a Catalan, but from Valencia, out-and-out, recognized as one of its most distinguished talents, designer pet that occurred to know the Barcelona Olympic Games 92 (do you remember Cobi ?), and what do I know more things.
I stopped at the map carefully, because everything that has to do with the territory I am interested. And my astonishment was great, because, beyond the caricature and humorous that these drawings are to be made with a certain air of provocation, it is clear that invite reflection. Take a look at the picture, and you'll know what I mean. According to Marshal, the part of the world gravitates Catalans perceive as not so much about on Catalunya Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe epicenter of the centrality magnified and space dominance. Their references are topical, which symbolize the image more conventional Condal City , relegating to second place to other place names that identify the Catalan region in the splendid interface that it is between the Mediterranean and the many expressions of the mountain.
But what is lost in the remoteness is what extends beyond the river Ebro, powerful continuum short of insurmountable. Outright separation barrier, which opens from that huge bed is quite small: most hideous strength Madrid, emerges in the middle of nowhere, flanked by land interior where the cactus grows only solitary, shy contrast to peripheral regions, the signs associated with more topical in which identity is based not well understood. Identity in the case of the Basque Country and Galicia for its greenery spreads only, without in either excel another reason that it gives a symbolic name in the projection of nationalism lining is our sustained bull skin .
Very little remains beyond the Ocean Sea, I'd say the admiral, whose statue stands, proud, where they start or end of the Ramblas in Barcelona. America is faded in a very distant horizon where only excel the "skyline" of New York and the individuality of the "beautiful island", the discoverer qualifier used when he suddenly ran into Cuba. Nothing more. We miss what is missing, ie, continents (Asia, Africa, the deep southern) that, despite their distance, have much, for whatever reason, in this globalized world of images that can not escape by more than one pawn.
We should understand, finally, as a simplification, as a "boutade" as a game ("fun?) deceptive cartography, which may only lodge in the mind of an artist sampler imaginative capacity, and, of course, also very critical closer to their fellow citizens . But he certainly would attract attention, coming from a creator who knows everything. Could this be the view that the Catalans, or a significant portion of them have the world? Is it the one with the Marshal himself, without sufficiently calibrated with others?
In fact, it matters little, since, for better or for worse, the world is there, spinning around its axis, but not like it or not we like, we can never detach its universal values, multiple and contrasting and invite solidarity and indifference.
Nobody talks about them. Nobody remembers the tragedy of losing your home city
I follow closely the debates in Spain examines the dimensions of crisis and the factors that cause it. I show interest in the measures proposed to address it. I get lost in the diagnoses, warnings and calls for attention. I attend to the five senses statements from the authorities and the opposition are made on the subject. peered into the scheme provided by the Government a list of laws that are covered until the end of the term, in order to show the willingness to tackle important issues. I read carefully, In short, the outcome of the talks by Mr. Rodríguez Zapatero, and his deputies, with the cream of English business. I look at myself how only four of 37 (Anfac, Grifols, Inditex and C. Mondragón) belong to the industrial activity, namely that creates innovation, employment, value added, export, while dominated by financial groups, builders, energy and tourism. Companies that obtain the most substantial part of their profits abroad. Concern picture in a country that has been de-industrializing , justifying the absence from the meeting of heads of ministries Industry and Science and Technology. Does not it surprise you too?
I think, in short, know almost everything, or at least try, what the media say about the major global problems currently affecting the country. In this country, mired in confusion, frightened and submissive. And yet, none appear, nor any involvement in discussions with large companies, they say nothing, absolutely nothing, a social and economic reality has become a tragedy of enormous scale. Nothing is spoken in these forums where major decisions are brewing problem that is the million citizens affected by the risk of eviction from their homes as a result of the inability to meet their mortgage debts.
citizens are forgotten, left to their fate, despite being legion. More than 230,000 eviction cases have taken place in Spain since mid-2008. The problem affects most of those who plunged into the maelstrom irrational mortgage lending in the past five years , attracted by low interest rates, the attractiveness of access to homeownership under proliferation also induced by property and banks that were willing to support with your credit riskier operations, involving them to the guarantors of the applicants to set up a web tupidísima in that he was arrested, almost a lifetime, an important sector of English youth and immigrants arrived to the lure of supposedly secure employment.
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that shed has collapsed and the bursting of the bubble has befallen a human tragedy of colossal proportions. People lose their homes without remedy or palliative, but will not involve the cancellation of debt, since mortgage commitment up until its final redemption. And is that the procedure foreclosed on the delivery of housing implies the elimination of debt, does not apply in Spain. debt does not disappear with the surrender of property, it also loses value it had in the time of purchase, you so the debt held frequently exceeds the appraised value of the home. This explains the tragic situation in which they operate many young people, and not so young, who have had to seek refuge in the family, while the insoluble problem is shown in the case of immigrants affected by the same situation, without, however , the receipt of the host family and protect it. Hence his desperation, and protests of their governments, as Ecuador has done forcefully. There has been, in both cases, terrible situations, which are in everyone's mind. What could be more terrible in the life of a person, a family, that the homeless to stay without reference in the fucking street?
More of this subject hardly speaks in the media and, more seriously, is ignored in the areas of decision that could introduce measures that contained the severity of problem. A word of recognition of their tragedy also be relevant. The United States has very strong protests against the evictions, which have achieved important successes, and even the federal government has set up a helpline for those affected by the insolvency and where in any case, repayment of housing frees Bank the load. In Spain the situation arises to the resigned attitude of every man for himself. There has been collective reactions against the phenomenon that comment. Just solidarity isolated, irritated hands on his face, an insult to another and looks to the ground.
However, there are always spaces of encounter and solidarity to those who qualify. Why not to use the Red Active Solidarity against Evictions, which was created in Spain?
I be right when I say that the vast majority of English society is honest, hardworking, sensitive and critical to the problems of our time . In both the environments in which I develop normally, and at work or at play, as when I find out through the channels I value or attend cultural activities of the most varied perceive my feelings about creative, in which respectful debate is this, where people talk without shouting, listen politely and avoids the hype, insult and impertinence.
understand that is the model of society which dominates against vulgarity and bad taste that occasionally shakes like a whip brutally violated, the media space. Undoubtedly its resonance is great because they have in their favor with the provision of tools that spread to the four winds his outbursts and loud. Sometimes I come to think that when subjects from the public space, boasting of pedophilia or sexual fantasies, that offend the intelligence, or presumed attitudes that support the most miserable shamelessness do they feel that their sentences have a hearing that the jelly or, even worse, because they are unaware of what they actually say, feeling unpunished in the midst of a scandal that basically do not care because they think it may even get cut. Actually live, for they know not to do anything, brazenly displaying his obsessions by way of original proclamations, which are nothing but words stale, outdated and filled meanness.
This Patulea of \u200b\u200bindecency coexist quarrelsome politicians who boast cocky style speak their minds without thinking, journalists, scribes and tertuleros of middling stands occupy surprisingly paid with public money and in which daily wallow in the midst of its own excretions. Usually they respond to a common denominator: they are fattened in the offense types of women, ie in the treatment of women as being capable of being shamelessly denigrated, moved by male depravity in which they all fall to mix political backlash to personal insult. Also picking on the weak, the poor, those who can not defend themselves with those who are suffering.
One of these big mouth, word miserable and sordid mind where available, which invited him to his television program called "sick", without the individual's Indecent curb its verbiage, heard by several groups of children who attended a debate surprisingly focused only on the salt, the vulgarity and insult the opponent. Do the parents know what is exposed their children attend Telemadrid pens? Sick is certainly the type of yore. But I doubt that the character is aware of their condition, then, immediately afterwards, he receives in his robe media such emblems of crappy comes to his defense and support even assuming the brutality and obscenity of their posts, saying no blush if they knew of their private conversations, "would be dead" (sic). Someday will take stock of what he has commented adversely affect the quality of English democracy and the dignity of politics. Nobody eventually escapes trial objective history. There have the newspaper to put each one in its place, even if they think that the speed of time dilutes what they would like to forget.
Nevertheless, and assuming that these things happen because certain policy areas harbor or excuse such atrocities, truth is that society, the great majority of society, walk in another direction . The problems of the people are different, their concerns are discussed in different settings, their sensitivities shamelessness prevail over the galaxy than trying to impose cumbersome. So, even the noise of moral misery permeates the atmosphere and give the impression that we are in the country of the filth, we are many more who abhor that style and we are ashamed of being citizens of these wretches.
The scandal of looking the other side when you destroy a people. We can never let go of the History of Western Sahara
Saharawi Children Villanubla Airport (Valladolid), about to return to their places of living in exile. Summer 2009
For many years the Saharawi people's tragedy has been identified primarily with the plight of refugees in camps in the Hamada of Tindouf in western Algeria. represented the symbol of a community evicted from their land, tenaciously defending their identity and more willing to sacrifice as she waited anxiously, with the patience that gives the feel convinced of their rights, compliance with international legality, which simply limited, in successive resolutions , to raise, by referendum, so shamefully process began with the occupation force in 1975. Today we know already that this "green march" that invaded the English territory and forcing the Madrid Agreement called for transfer of Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania was supported, after consultation, the United States under President Gerald Ford, culminating one of the most ignominious international experiences of the last quarter century. Obviously this Agreement was considered illegal for all purposes. A blot on the contemporary history of Spain.
However, what is happening in November 2010 brings a new dimension, in addition to show the severity of conditions found in the Saharawi living in the occupied territory, completely disrupts the misleading arguments of Morocco and opinions from Europe seconded the claims of the autocratic government to propose an option that the verification of the facts reveals as offensive and insulting. Offering Moroccan replace the referendum demanded by the UN by an autonomy plan is an affront when looking at reasons that have led to the installation camp in the vicinity of El Aaiun, the violence that has been dismantled, repression, intimidation and looting suffered by the Saharawi community, and what should not be overlooked, handling information prompted by the impossibility access to the capital of Western Sahara to know what happened and report it to the international community.
Well, what reliability, what guarantee has an autonomy plan applied to a territory that has been aggressively colonized and whose residents from appearing undergone a process of marginalization that makes them subjects discrimination, no access to the same rights afforded to the occupants? what confidence, what credibility deserve a country that violates the rights to information and verification of what happened, unacceptable arrogance demonstrating absolute contempt for the rules governing freedom of expression and the right to accurate information, especially when there is clear evidence of violence and abuse?
Tindouf Gdeim Izik. Here are two places will be joined forever in the history of infamy and breach of human rights. As if missing one more example of the extent to which the tragedy arises Sahara, there's no doubt it is worth. Everything has been clear: both exiles and residents form a community that will always be abused by Morocco. Colonialism has been exposed through the usurpation of the rights and property. in Western Sahara as in Palestine. Two situations are intertwined as the world's great fearless and cowardly attend the ceremony relentless destruction. Either I have dealt several times in this blog, it is a cause that I defend resolutely.
And with regard to Western Sahara, the land of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, no it is another feeling that the mixing solidarity with disappointment. Solidarity long it will be shown endless battle. After seven decades of lawlessness with impunity. And brutal disappointment and grief at what we are seeing: deafening silence on the four winds, indecent samples of hypocrisy, any hint of condemnation and denunciation of the acts (except the notable exceptions of the parliaments of Andalucia and Navarra), members of the English government that conflict with terse statements and circumstances, not knowing what else to say, embarrassing visits to Algeria to placate the Polisario Front, temporizing and elusive statements of the problem, Union its fuss-ridden European aimlessly in the hands of mediocre leadership, while aware all that should enrage his personality traditionally human rights defender, intellectuals of the stem at only interested in highlighting "au dessus the mêlée " uncontrollable rage pundits who just mumble vague when it comes to disaster, Report of the public television news relegated to the fourth plane. Misery everywhere, dressed in bad conscience that forces look down and stand on their heads. Feeling of powerlessness, deliberate neglect, boredom unstoppable?
Anyway, my friend Valldosera Antonia Pons, whom I admire since I met you in this space and then personally, and has revealed as a seamless fighting for this noble cause, showed a few days ago right here your fatigue, regret because the passage of time is excessive and devastating. I share your feeling, but I refuse to wallow in it. We can not give up, even though the outlook of those who should do something only invites disappointment. And, whatever happens, the history of Western Sahara will always be linked to the English. We were never able to dislodge it.
All voices are needed to defend the Sahrawi people and the more resonant ...
No state recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara. After 35 years of illegal occupation by force, remains the only country in the world aware of decolonization, while remaining unfulfilled the UN resolution requiring the holding of a referendum to end autoderminación the legal uncertainty in which is a territory that is still under English administration. Meanwhile, the harassment and humiliation do not stop. Both in exile and in the area under occupation.
As you know the situation of the Sahrawi living in the occupied territory, the anger grows, because there is no need to surprise. What is happening at this moment cries out to heaven and does nothing but accumulate experience after experience, shows that more than enough policy Morocco on Western Sahara is based on three permanent axes: marginalization of the Saharawi relegated to insecurity and neglect, repression without limits to those who defend the just cause of the people subjugated and permanent pillaging of resources . What other arguments can be invoked to that end, the world demands Morocco to comply with international law? Why not be apply with equal cogency measures used against those governments that have also failed to international standards and has even put its leaders to the International Criminal Court? Nothing seems immutable the head of the Moroccan State : While in a ghetto to the camp population in subhuman conditions in the camp of Gdeim Izik, takes the opportunity to claim the Saharan territory held by the Polisario Front, displaying an arrogance as insulting as petty.
Both suffered the Saharawi people, as has been experienced by the English contempt solidarity with the people, so the ignominy suffered day after day, so much despair ... that r t is difficult resist the claim that other voices will join ours to find the exit to end one of the most tragic episodes in world geopolitics today. And if these voices have the resonance they deserve, will consistent with what they want in this world of unsolved problems, avoiding selective critical positions and the use of different yardsticks against injustice and violence.
For that reason, and after nearly seven decades of shame, is not it time that the Pope of Rome harness the interest and the zeal shown by what happens in this country , which so distressed him although gives both to make their voices demanding justice and respect for the Saharawi people? And since the 2010 Nobel Prize brand has made a written complaint unequivocal voice against colonization and exploitation of the Congo of the Peruvian Amazon in excellent Celtic's dream, is not the time seems right too, as a English citizen who is that Mario Vargas Llosa claim, with the firmness and force with which it does for other settings compliance with international law and human rights where, as in the space in question, are violated to an extent inconceivable?
best messages on the street (30): Mayor vain and new times for the monarchs?
Ebro River as it passes through the town of Miranda de Ebro (Burgos)
observe and stop at the street signs realize the life and history of a place sheds valuable lessons, sometimes surprising. Nothing spreads graphically in the public space for others to see is innocent and banal. Nothing is accidental and inconsequential. Always conceals an intention, a purpose decided that invites reflection, encouraged by the comments or merely serves to get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat the responsibility of the notice or announcement intended.
stroll through the magnificent eighteenth-century bridge across the Ebro in Miranda de Ebro, an industrial town in the northeastern province of Burgos, a pleasure that allows not only contemplate the prospect of the largest river in Spain, property of all because it crosses several regions, but also appreciating the historical significance of that work plays in the original kernel linker the city (the district of Hither : great references of listed buildings for their architectural interest ) with the space in which there have been major transformation processes of growth and urban (neighborhood Allende ). But the traveler who looks into the distance without noticing small details suddenly stops because the left eye, which holds for the details closely, indicates that something catches the eye. Few may be set on the fact, but in faith of the stroller, the thing has its intricacies.
Excellent descriptions on the architectural character of the unique buildings of the historic district of Miranda de Ebro An example to follow.
What is it? From something as significant as the changes plates that bear witness to the outstanding repairs to infrastructure as . Have been three:
during the first the reign of Charles III, King admirable that he tried to modernize Spain have some of the best minds that history has given the country under whose major public works were undertaken, the second ruling at the time Alfonso XIII, that king of very serious indiscretions that ended in exile and the ruin .... And third, what has happened in the third repair? Nothing, that altering the model used so far, the figure of the Head of State has disappeared. No king is worth, or monarchical references that fit the era. who commanded at the time did so in Spain, but in the city, its people, in their field power and relationships. Commanded the mayor. Period.
funny thing is that the munícipe who did this was the same who ordered the inscription on the previous reform, which included the king himself but not the mayor. How to understand this change? How deliberate neglect, it is , the monarch of the time or obsessive demonstration of that commitment from the mayors of our days, jealous of their legitimacy, who have it are willing to appear in everything that inaugurated for his name to be associated forever as it passes through the power that can do everything?
"You'll return to my garden and my fig tree ...." Cartoons
How Miguel Hernández not remember the day that is a hundred years? He was born in Orihuela, with figs, and died in prison in the midst of barbarism. Was not even 32 years. Remains alive and fresh in the collective memory of Spain, where his work is thrilling as when it was written.
A great poet is a writer so, when, having read his works many times, reading it again is thrilling, causes sensations flower skin requires read and reread it because it is a haven where you feel comforted. About those for which no time passes. His memory lives on, his work remains, retains his post today. And those perceptions are sharpened when we face the work and the figure of Miguel Hernandez, the man from the simplicity and poverty, from the defense of liberty and unwavering commitment to involved, learned poetry placed on top of human sensibility.
I join the tribute deserved recognition of the human and literary quality that should evoke both at the present stage of the English political and cultural reality. Miguel Angel , the indefatigable chronicler of the best that has life raises us. I refer to him without further circumlocution.
Hello forgotten (potential readers), after several important events in my life, (my son, projects), I take this time to comment on Unity3D tool for game development and 3D applications. If you remember, (or can not read a few entries back) I was working with Unreal UDK tool, but became extremely unfriendly to the programming. So I took a break using Unity3D and I found one of the best tools for game development.
The word I would use to describe Unity3D is versatile. The way is prepared Graphical User Interface, tools, programming, and how to add new content is great. Not to mention that works directly with Blender 2.49.
tell you all a little later, as I leave you with the demo of HOME
inviting to think (15): politics as art scenes or risks of delayed communication
is one thing pedagogy and quite another, the communication . The first, beyond their platitudes and simplifications, is associated with the methods and techniques used for teaching, for the transmission of knowledge, development of educational processes; the latter implies, however, an eminently theatrical dimension , posed and exposed face to an audience that, skeptical or delivered, prepares to address the arguments of those who on a stage prepared ad hoc has no other purpose than to distract, to harness the interest of the audience or explain the things that interest to the approach that aims to seep into the minds of the listeners. is the "art" of communication, become the paradigm of political action, a subsidiary tool of the actions and decisions, but decisive, so you see, to seat them in the collective, public opinion . We know what it is: in information processing is done from the standpoint of interest and import that communicates.
is curious. Who makes decisions do regardless of the value judgments that deserve their actions, not even bother to justify them in advance. does not come to the fore to expose with sincerity and precise eloquence what is coming. Rather, the recipient of the measures is limited to capturing what it sounds in your environment to get a rough idea of \u200b\u200bwhat can happen and how it will affect them. But when the decision comes, at last, body and uncomfortable, the injured rebels and show their displeasure with no other response than allow its limited resources and possibilities. To counter the rage misunderstood, is said to be well informed, lacking sufficient evidence, that his perspective is too much influenced aliquot and a raw information that malicious bias of those who spewed.
Then there is the need to communicate, to clear from the proscenium doubts clouding the mind of maverick thinking that if he had clarified the position immediately before its reaction would have been different. To this end, communication solves everything so that the more skilled and convincing communicator better the result achieved. is thought to be is in possession of truth, mastering the interlinings of what outsiders are unable to perceive, I l irrefutable arguments Balm communities operate as powerful in resolving the ambiguities that have led to misunderstanding. In appearance, the way of communicating, typically stage, is the solution to the problems, most appropriate and effective therapy.
Everything is conceived, in short, as a mechanical process subject to laws of the scenery. However, something as simple paradigm fails. Companies are not as inane, inexperienced as you might think, people know exactly what is happening and why it happens, and may even feel angry if he dominates the scene for a ride intended to provide or use the trick that all, ultimately, just discovered. It then comes the sense of rage to find that, behind the scenes, well-modulated speech and power point, only shelters the spirit wishes to confuse with reality. And that usually does not please anyone.
".... MIL things can happen ". And happen in the land where they expand in all latitude climates in the world. With that opening sentence, among other compelling ideas, summarized the group Quilapayún the country's image at the end of the famous Cantata on the tragedy in Santa Maria de Iquique the December 21, 1907. Beyond the Andes, and to a Pacific whose shores offer the most varied forms that can an enormous coastal area from the nitrate in the north to the southern glacial landforms, Chile offers a geographical identity, based on a plurality of landscapes and horizons, that catches the attention.
much as its history and traits of a people that despite the distance, we find it particularly close and intimate. A seasoned people in the fight against tyranny in defense of freedom and overcoming disasters. are all, obviously, as in any country, but, leaving aside the contradictions of a complex society, worth noting the efforts made at the present time to deal with difficult situations associated with three in case of serious that highlight the strength of those who suffer and time star. occur in the south, in the center and north. I own a country so long. How to ignore them how not to grant the attention and recognition they justly deserve?
Little attention is being paid in Europe and in Spain Mapuche people's struggle in the southern areas of the country . It is said, a quiet battle, though very active and persistent, away from the media and deliberately forgotten. Mapuche community (the man of the earth) calls for recognition of the agreements signed in the mid-nineteenth century, which recognized the allocation of their ancestral lands in the region of Araucania. In defense of the return of the 32 indigenous law have begun a hunger strike, with which also claims the right to their community, and those who are incarcerated, not apply to them the Terrorism Act, in force since the Pinochet dictatorship. A very serious problem, entrenched in the southern regions, and that has made the Mapuche population, which owned 800,000 people, is the most visible and militant among native societies in South America. hardly speak of them in Europe, but they exist.
When we mentioned the central highlands of Chile no one can forget the earthquake in late February 2010. Country strong seismicity is even talk that the quake could have changed the weight distribution of the world and altered the terrestrial rotation speed. The impacts on people and infrastructure have not reached the level of catastrophe and destruction caused in Haiti by the terrible earthquake January. More than 700 people died and damage was enormous in the area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Concepcion and in the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bSantiago. And a half million homes were affected phenomenon and there are still many who remain unusable. It was a huge test for the country, which is still far from having recovered from the tragedy.
And again the tragedy shakes northern areas, the areas of mining, which for centuries has commercial projects in the world. Overwhelmed by the journey through the desert lands, filled with mineral, of the north of Chile. The look never gets fully covered in the "solitude of droughts." Death or threats and diseases of all kinds have always been omnipresent. And it happened again. From 5 August to 13 October 2010, 33 miners have been buried at 700 meters depth as a result of a collapse due to a poor security conditions aggravated by the reopening of the farm to the good prospects market. The outcome has been happy, but it could have led to the tragedy. The problem has been the world on edge for two and half months, and has revealed something already known for a long time and nobody has to notice: that the work in the mine involves going risk that every precaution is little to prevent accidents tend to happen with repetition, if nothing is done properly, in the most difficult and inhumane labor activity. Before the collapse occurred on mine safety statements of the leaders of the country were in a lamentable laxity. The locking qualified bureaucratic and unnecessary price increases. It seems that the lesson learned is not falling on deaf ears.
Chile this year has been front page news on many occasions. All painful, all sad, all powerful but with marked differences between them. Nature has been mixed with that country. Wild and wonderful, brutal and exciting, fruitful and barren, untamed and transformed. A contrasting scenario that invites understanding and reflection, precisely because it offers an open model with very different management systems at the confluence of problems in history, the behavior of the natural environment and, above all, human action, ultimately, is responsible that problems will be faced with positive or abandoned to their fate, which always impact on quality of life of disadvantaged or worse treated by history.
In any case, the final stanzas of Iquique Cantata, sung jointly by Inti Illimani and Quilapayun, bring us better to the aspirations and hopes of that country so long and complex.
