Category: United States
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Los dos pilares de la administración Bush [11.2.08]
El período de gobierno del presidente George W. Bush se abrió con un estado de emergencia provocado, o co-ayudado, por los dos aviones que se estrellaron en las Torres Gemelas. El acontecimiento dió ocasión al gobierno de Bush para encender la mecha del patriotismo, declarar la guerra contra el terrorismo y urgir al congreso el…
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Racism and Human Rights
06.06.2008 The series of events that unfolded in Sucre, Bolivia, since May 24 have not received much attention by the international press; and in some cases, the report contributed to obscure the facts. The events invite us, all of us, to think about racism and human rights; who are the perpetrators, who are the victims,…
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We Get What We Deserve: On the Latest Al Gore and George W. Bush [03.22.2007]
I learned to think this way in the early 90s when Carlos Saúl Menem was elected president of Argentina. I was in one of Buenos Aires’s well known book-stores, Librería Gandhi, talking with an admired friend, el Negro Tula, going back to the exciting university years in Córdoba, before Juan Carlos Onganía took power (1966-1970)…