The national sport
Every country has a national sport: cricket in India, rugby in New Zealand, the gangs of El Salvador (it had it and got through it), football in Brazil and the blockade of Bolivia. The sport of blockades is all about preventing vehicles of all sizes from crossing a road, allowing only pedestrians with their belongings […]
The obligation to align
At no time in history have plurality and tolerance of ideas and life choices been so appreciated and defended as in ours, yet no other era has been so polarized as to force everyone to align themselves with extreme positions. For the progressive and socialist left, liberals are all genocides, Zionists, exploiters and imperialists. In […]
Holiday curiosities
I read that the winter holidays have been extended by another week, as usual. Good news for teachers and students, but not so good news for working parents who will have to invent activities to prevent their children from getting bored or addicted to video games. In my childhood, summer holidays were lived as a […]
Birthdays
Not all birthdays are the same. The form of the celebration varies according to the age and culture in which one is educated. For example, in all my childhood and youth I did not celebrate my birthday, the date of which, actually, almost no one knew or remembered. It is said that the best way […]