Blog posts March 2009
Will we learn from an obsolete past how to face an uncertain future?
During the second half of the 20th century, my native country, Argentina, experienced a series of economic and social challenges that lead to devaluation of the national currency to avoid printing bills with a ridiculous number of zeros. In fact, so many zeros were taking out of the currenc…
¿Aprenderemos de un pasado obsoleto cómo enfrentar un futuro incierto?
En la segunda mitad del siglo XX, mi país natal, Argentina, experimentó una continua serie de problemas económicos y sociales que hicieron que a la moneda nacional se les fuese quitando ceros para evitar la impresión de billetes con ridículas denominaciones. De hecho, tantos ceros se le qui…
A dangerous idea: legislation to punish a group of people
Last week, the Congress of the United States approved –I think- a law imposing a high tax on the bonuses that AIG executives received, so that those executives are forced, so to speak, to return the money. I am not going to write about AIG. It has been already done ad nauseam. But I am goin…
Una idea peligrosa: legislar para castigar un grupo específico de personas
La semana pasada el Congreso de Estados Unidos aprobó (eso creo) una ley para que los ejecutivos de AIG regresen el dinero que recibieron como bonos o para que por lo menos lo tengan que devolver como impuestos. El escándalo, para mí, no es ni AIG ni los bonos (de eso ya se ha hablado hasta…
Closing minds and books leads to building more jails
After more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, I still find there are stories I don’t want to write, but, at the same time, I feel obligated to do it, not only because I am a journalist, but more importantly because informing the public about those stories may lead to change. The f…
Se empieza censurando libros y se sigue construyendo cárceles
A pesar de que ya tengo más de dos décadas de experiencia como periodista, todavía me encuentro con historias que no quisiera escribir pero que a la vez me veo obligado a hacerlo no sólo por un deber periodístico sino también por el deber de informar a la comunidad con la esperanza que la in…
The world is changing fast and nobody asks for my permission
One morning last week, I opened the same email program I have been using for years to read my email and I discovered that, to my surprise, the program had changed and that now includes features it didn’t have before, features that I don’t like, and I didn’t request and, in my opinion, make t…
El mundo cambia rápidamente y sin pedirme permiso
La semana pasada abrí el programa que utilizo desde hace muchos años para leer mi correo electrónico y me encontré con la sorpresa que el programa había cambiado, ya que ahora incluye elementos y características que antes no tenía y que, de hecho, yo no pedí, no me gustan y hacen que todo se…
I lost two friends and a part of myself
Last week I lost two good friends and with them, I also lost a part of myself. In fact, their departure affected me more than I first realized. Last Thursday, it was announced the closing of Rocky Mountain News (RMN), the oldest daily newspaper in Denver, published for 150 years. Last Satu…
Perdí a dos amigos y una parte de mi vida
La semana pasada perdí a dos amigos y con ellos se fue una parte de mi vida. De hecho, su partida me afectó emocionalmente más de lo que en un primer momento yo mismo quise reconocer. El jueves de la semana pasada se anunció el cierre del periódico Rocky Mountain News, el diario más antiguo…
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