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Rebecca Solnit on Hope on Vimeo
"Despair is a black leather jacket in which everyone looks good, while hope is a frilly pink dress few dare to wear. Rebecca Solnit thinks this virtue needs to be redefined.

Here she takes to our pulpit to deliver a sermon that looks at the remarkable social changes of the past half century, the stories the mainstream media neglects and the big surprises that keep on landing.

She explores why disaster makes us behave better and why it's braver to hope than to hide behind despair's confidence and cynicism's safety.

History is not an army. It's more like a crab scuttling sideways. And we need to be brave enough to hope change is possible in order to have a chance of making it happen."
mainstreammedia  davidgraeber  venezuela  indigeneity  indigenousrights  indigenous  us  mexico  ecuador  anti-globalization  latinamerica  bolivia  evamorales  lula  cynicism  uncertainty  struggle  paulofreire  barackobama  georgewbush  humanrights  insurgency  hosnimubarak  egypt  yemen  china  saudiarabia  bahrain  change  protest  tunisia  optimism  future  environment  contrarians  peterkro  peterkropotkin  worldbank  imf  globaljustice  history  freemarkets  freetrade  media  globalization  publicdiscourse  neoliberalism  easttimor  syria  control  power  children  brasil  argentina  postcapitalism  passion  learning  education  giftgiving  gifteconomy  gifts  politics  policy  generosity  kindness  sustainability  life  labor  work  schooloflife  social  society  capitalism  economics  hope  2011  anti-authoritarians  antiauthority  anarchy  anarchism  rebeccasolnit  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Brasil quer facilitar vistos para profissionais estrangeiros - O Globo
"Mas decisão deve valer somente para imigrantes altamente qualificados"
latinamerica  economics  glvo  travel  2012  visas  immigration  brasil  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Es Un Monstruo Grande Y Pisa Fuerte: 12 Latin American Protest Songs : NPR
"Esta semana en Alt.Latino les presentamos a varios artistas que denuncian la injusticia social. Es un show dedicado al arte de la canción contestataria. Tenemos íconos como Mercedes Sosa de Argentina, Chico Buarque de Brasil, Violeta Parra de Chile, y Ruben Blades de Panamá. Y también enfocamos en los trabajos de artistas mucho más jóvenes, que continúan la tradición: la cantautora mexicana Ceci Bastida, el dúo boricua Calle 13, y el rapero peruano Immortal Technique. Cantan sobre temas tan variados como el horror de la guerra, la necesidad de un sistema de educación más justo, la violencia en México, y el estatus político de Puerto Rico."
mercedessosa  argentina  perú  panamá  calle13  puertorico  chicobuarque  brasil  spain  españa  mexico  chile  violetaparra  deportee  manuchao  songs  protest  latinamerica  music  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war' | World news | The Observer
"What he’s most proud of, though, is that he didn’t fire a single shot. Didn’t kill a single person. Didn’t lead his country into a war – legal or illegal. “We kept our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. But still we achieved our international goals. We brought peace to other people, including Egypt and Israel. We normalised relations with China, which had been non-existent for 30-something years. We brought peace between US and most of the countries in Latin America because of the Panama Canal Treaty. We formed a working relationship with the Soviet Union.”<br />
It’s the simple fact of not going to war that, given what came next, should be recognised. “In the last 50 years now, more than that,” he says, “that’s almost a unique achievement.”"<br />
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[via: http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/10079201835/interview-with-jimmy-carter-from-the-guardian ]
jimmycarter  2011  interviews  presidents  presidency  war  pacifism  environment  israel  campdavidaccords  panamá  panamacanaltreaty  us  policy  politics  china  latinamerica  sovietunion  egypt  diplomacy  history  georgewbush  tonyblair  iraq  waronterror  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Students Pressure Chile to Reform Education System - NYTimes.com
"Segments of society that had been seen as politically apathetic only a few years ago, particularly youth, have taken an unusually confrontational stance twrd government & business elite, demanding wholesale changes in education, transportation & energy policy, sometimes violently…<br />
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last Friday, Mr. Piñera noted Chileans were witnessing a “new society”…people “feel more empowered & want to feel they are heard.”…rebelling against “excessive inequality” in country…[w/] highest per capita income in Latin America but also…one of most unequal distributions of wealth…<br />
…protests leaders are also pushing for constitutional change to guarantee free, quality education from preschool through high school & a state-financed university system that ensures quality & equal access…<br />
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“For many years our parents’ generation was afraid to demonstrate, to complain, thinking it was better to conform to what was going on. Students are setting an example without the fear our parents had.”
chile  politics  reform  education  equity  equality  disparity  sebastiánpiñera  2011  protest  protests  activism  change  apathy  engagement  empowerment  income  incomegap  wealth  latinamerica  access  policy  energy  transportation  wealthdistribution  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Hope for the Hell of It | TomDispatch
"Unpredictability is grounds for hope, though please don’t mistake hope for optimism. Optimism & pessimism are siblings in their certainty.  They believe they know what will happen next, with one slight difference: optimists expect everything to turn out nicely without any effort being expended toward that goal. Pessimists assume that we’re doomed & there’s nothing to do about it except try to infect everyone else with despair while there’s still time.

Hope, on the other hand, is based on uncertainty, on the much more realistic premise that we don’t know what will happen next.  The next thing up might be as terrible as a giant tsunami smashing 100 miles of coastal communities or as marvelous as a new species of butterfly being discovered…When it comes to the worst we face, nature itself has resilience, surprises, and unpredictabilities. But the real territory for hope isn’t nature; it’s the possibilities we possess for acting, changing, mattering…"
rebeccasolnit  hope  optimism  pessimism  uncertainty  pendulumswings  coalitionofimmokaleeworkers  labor  2011  resistance  firstnations  globalization  latinamerica  decolonization  anti-globalization  change  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Latin American Pamphlets
"Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. One of the few institutions to have consistently collected Latin American pamphlets, Harvard has benefited from collections formed by Luis Montt (Chile), Nicolás Acosta (Bolivia), Manuel Segundo Sánchez (Venezuela), José Augusto Escoto (Cuba), Blas Garay (Paraguay), Charles Sumner, John B. Stetson and others. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection.<br />
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These pamphlets are valuable primary resources for students and researchers working on Latin American history. They document the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states, and illuminate many aspects of their populations' social and cultural life. Many pamphlets are devoted to boundary disputes, territorial expansion, the description of unexplored territories and the relationship between Church and State…"
history  latinamerica  chile  pamphlets  cuba  bolivia  mexico  paraguay  venezuela  primarysources  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
"To Hell with Good Intentions" by Ivan Illich
"Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S. idealist, who turns up in every theater of the world: the teacher, the volunteer, the missionary, the community organizer, the economic developer, and the vacationing do-gooders. Ideally, these people define their role as service. Actually, they frequently wind up alleviating the damage done by money and weapons, or "seducing" the "underdeveloped" to the benefits of the world of affluence and achievement. Perhaps this is the moment to instead bring home to the people of the U.S. the knowledge that the way of life they have chosen simply is not alive enough to be shared."

"I am here to entreat you to use your money, your status and your education to travel in Latin America. Come to look, come to climb our mountains, to enjoy our flowers. Come to study. But do not come to help."

[via: http://twitter.com/johnthackara/status/88500793115815936 ]
education  culture  politics  travel  activism  ivanillich  1968  humanitariandesign  designimperialism  mexico  do-gooders  goodintentions  middleclass  us  latinamerica  poverty  hypocrisy  blindness  self-importance  deschooling  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
unphotographable: 1976, en una cárcel del uruguay: pájaros prohibidos. [English translation also on page]
los presos políticos uruguayos no pueden hablar sin permiso, silbar, sonreír, cantar, caminar rápido ni saludar a otro preso. tampoco pueden dibujar ni recibir dibujos de mujeres embarazadas, parejas, mariposas, estrellas ni pájaros.

didaskó pérez, maestro de escuela, torturado y preso por tener ideas ideológicas, recibe un domingo la vista de su hija milay, de cinco años. la hija le trae un dibujo de pájaros. los censores se lo rompen a la entrada de la cárcel.

al domingo siguiente, milay le trae un dibujo de árboles. los árboles no están prohibidos, y el dibujo pasa. didaskó le elogia la obra y le pregunta por los circulitos de colores que aparecen en las copas de los árboles, muchos pequeños círculos entre las ramas:

- “¿son naranjas? ¿qué frutas son?”

la niña lo hace callar:

- “shhhh…”

y en secreto le explica:

- “bobo. ¿no ves que son ojos? los ojos de los pájaros que te traje a escondidas.”
eduardogaleano  freedom  children  innocence  birds  uruguay  1985  1976  latinamerica  literature  writing  stories  love  revolution  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence | Video on TED.com
"In this passionate talk from TEDxSanMigueldeAllende that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the current climate of violence in Mexico -- or rather, how Mexican society responds to it. He calls on ordinary citizens to move from denial and fear to peaceful, community-based action. This is the first talk posted on TED.com that was delivered in a language other than English. (It has English subtitles by default.)"
emilianosalinas  carlossalinasdegotari  mexico  us  change  community  community-basedaction  activism  victimization  victimhood  civics  violence  2010  society  latinamerica  participatory  citizenship  denial  apathy  normailzation  fear  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
CDI - Center for Digital Inclusion
"Our mission is to transform lives and strengthen low-income communities by empowering people with information and communication technology. We use technology as a medium to fight poverty, stimulate entrepreneurship and create a new generation of changemakers"

"Founded in 1995, pioneer of the digital inclusion movement in Latin America, CDI (Center for Digital Inclusion) is one of the leading social enterprises in the world with a unique socio-educational approach. CDI Founder and Ashoka Fellow Rodrigo Baggio and our work at CDI have been recognized with more than 60 international awards. Today, we are a network of 816 self-managed and self-sustaining CDI Community Centers throughout Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay – monitored and coordinated by our 32 regional offices."
education  design  technology  social  community  latinamerica  brasil  argentina  bolivia  chile  colombia  ecuador  mexico  paraguay  perú  uruguay  digitalinclusion  cdi  poverty  activism  digitaldivide  learning  grassroots  computers  software  ngo  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
LRB · Perry Anderson · Lula’s Brazil
"Contrary to a well-known English dictum, stoical if self-exonerating, all political lives do not end in failure. In postwar Europe, it is enough to think of Adenauer or De Gasperi, or perhaps even more impressively, Franco. But it is true that, in democratic conditions, to be more popular at the close than at the outset of a prolonged period in office is rare. Rarer still – indeed, virtually unheard of – is for such popularity to reflect, not appeasement or moderation, but a radicalisation in government. Today, there is only one ruler in the world who can claim this achievement, the former worker who in January stepped down as president of Brazil, enjoying the approval of 80 per cent of its citizens. By any criterion, Luiz Inácio da Silva is the most successful politician of his time."
brasil  politics  brazil  lula  democracy  policy  slavery  history  class  society  inequality  approval  latinamerica  hierarchy  poor  wealth  socialempowerment  empowerment  2011  disorder  government  personality 
march 2011 by robertogreco
Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com
"You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home — and in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, it may get worse.<br />
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The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.<br />
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C.E.O.’s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent."
nicholaskristof  development  inequality  poverty  taxes  unemployment  us  wealth  economics  politics  geography  2010  capitalism  classism  government  policy  bananarepublics  latinamerica  caudillos  disparity  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Un Techo para mi País
"MISIÓN: Mejorar la calidad de vida de las familias que viven en situación de pobreza a través de la construcción de viviendas de emergencia y la ejecución de planes de habilitación social, en un trabajo conjunto entre jóvenes voluntarios universitarios y estas comunidades. Queremos denunciar la realidad de los asentamientos precarios en que viven millones de personas en Latinoamérica e involucrar a la sociedad en su conjunto, logrando que se comprometa con la tarea de construir un continente más solidario, justo y sin exclusión."
activism  architecture  argentina  chile  haiti  perú  bolivia  brasil  latinamerica  colombia  costarica  ecuador  elsalvador  guatemala  honduras  mexico  nicaragua  panamá  paraguay  dominicanrepublic  uruguay  social  housing  volunteerism  glvo  yearoff  charity  community  untechoparamipaís  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
José Lezama Lima - Wikipedia
josélezamalima  cuba  literature  latinamerica  poetry  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 120, Mario Vargas Llosa ["I realized then that we [Latin Americans] have extremely interesting writers—the novelists perhaps less so than the essayists or poets.…]
"…Sarmiento, for example, who never wrote a novel, is in my opinion one of the greatest storytellers Latin America has produced; his Facundo is a masterwork. But if I were forced to choose one name, I would have to say Borges, because the world he creates seems to me to be absolutely original. Aside from his enormous originality, he is also endowed with a tremendous imagination and culture that are expressly his own. And then of course there is the language of Borges, which in a sense broke with our tradition and opened a new one. Spanish is a language that tends toward exuberance, proliferation, profusion. Our great writers have all been prolix, from Cervantes to Ortega y Gasset, Valle-Inclán, or Alfonso Reyes. Borges is the opposite—all concision, economy, and precision. He is the only writer in the Spanish language who has almost as many ideas as he has words. He’s one of the great writers of our time." [That's just a snip. There's lots more inside.]
mariovargasllosa  latinamerica  literature  borges  sarmiento  facundo  interviews  faulkner  fscottfitzgerald  dospassos  writing  reading  perú  victorhugo  floratristan  guimarãesrosa  sartre  dostoyevsky  balzac  flaubert  tolstoy  nathanielhawthorne  charlesdickens  hermanmelville  gabrielgarcíamárquez  gabo  cervantes  spain  spanish  español  language  history  politics  ideology  happiness  unhappiness  parisreview  depression  josélezamalima  hemingway  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index | Video on TED.com
"Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised."
economics  environment  happiness  statistics  sustainability  ted  nicmarks  fear  well-being  productivity  latinamerica  future  progress  finance  growth  metrics  gdp  measurement  greed  robertkennedy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Global Voices in English » Getting to Know the Global Voices Latin America Team
"As outgoing Editor for Latin America, I have seen the Global Voices team from Latin America grow tremendously over the past three years. Each of the volunteer authors has dedicated time and energy to serve the mission of Global Voices, and to share their part of the world with a global audience. At any given time, each of the countries that make up the Latin American region has been represented by a talented blogger tasked with the challenge of presenting a wide range of issues in a balanced and fair manner. Now that I am moving on to take the helm at Rising Voices, I am eager to see how the team will take the coverage of such a diverse region to greater heights under the leadership of the new Latin America Editor, Silvia Viñas. Continuing a recent tradition, let's meet some of these amazing people that have been part of the Latin American team (in alphabetical order by first name)."
globalvoices  blogs  blogging  chile  argentina  mexico  uruguay  colombia  perú  paraguay  costarica  guatemala  venezuela  latinamerica  dominicanrepublic  ecuador  honduras  panamá  nicaragua  bolivia  elsalvador  cuba  spanish  español  portuguese  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Latin American Literature Inclusion in the High School English Classroom [.pdf]
teaching  english  translation  latinamerica  latino  literature  filetype:pdf  media:document 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Why the Immigration Issue May Just Fade Away - Newsweek
"A little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development has been unfolding south of our border. The fertility rate in Mexico—whose emigrants account for a majority of the United States’ undocumented population—has undergone one of the steepest declines in history, from about 6.7 children per woman in 1970 to about 2.1 today, according to World Bank figures. That makes it roughly equal to the U.S. rate and puts it at what demographers call “replacement level,” the point at which women are having just enough babies to sustain the current population. In coming years it’s expected to dip even further. Other countries in Latin America have experienced a similar drop, though not as sharp. All of which means that the ranks of those “invading” hordes are thinning—rapidly."
demographics  economy  immigration  trends  us  arizona  1970  2010  ariancampo-flores  borders  economics  fertility  birthrate  population  mexico  latinamerica  birthcontrol  education 
june 2010 by robertogreco
a m l - want to look ahead? look around instead.
"when new high-tech & high-priced gizmos like kindle & its much hipper cousin ipad came out, the blogosphere was very excited. nevermind that hacker websites from russia to south america have been scanning & posting pdfs for consumption of rest of the world that does not have a library around the corner nor easy access to jstor et al. the ipad is not the revolution, digital text is. it is less important how you read it, than the possibility of being able to read it at all! ingenuity finds uses for technology other than those originally intended, & this often happens because of need. think of cell phones used as micro loan mechanisms in india. think of the development of the bus rapid transit system in curitiba, transforming the bus into a dedicated line system resulting in an affordable mass transportation system that has been replicated in several cities in south america. christopher hawtorne thinks we should look at medellin… he is, of course, a bit late, but hey, we’ll take it."
thestreetwillfindause  medellin  colombia  india  streetuse  technology  ipad  kindle  libraries  text  digitaltext  anamaríaleón  cities  suburbia  travel  jetset  sustainability  green  latinamerica  southamerica  jaimelerner  pdf  learning  information  hacks  hacking  microloans  rapidtransit  christopherhawthorne  architecture  urban  urbanism  planning  future  decline  invention  thefutureishere 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Medellín, Colombia's architectural renaissance - latimes.com
"Medellín, in the end, is more than an isolated urban success story or an example of a city that has managed to bridge contemporary architecture's great divide. It also offers a timely model for Los Angeles and other cities that have long turned almost exclusively to New York and Europe for ideas about how architecture ought to look — and how cities ought to operate.
architecture  design  medellin  colombia  losangeles  latinamerica  development  planning  urban  infrastructure  sergiofajardo  libraries  schools  parks 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Q'ero Restaurant: Peruvian & South American Cuisine.
encinitas  sandiego  restaurants  food  peru  latinamerica  perú 
april 2010 by robertogreco
line of sight » bogotá: first impressions
"Regardless of its rapid expansion, Bogotá seemed remarkably clean. Sidewalks were in need of major repair & quite a number of buildings were neglected, but the city itself was impeccable. We only took a couple of the ubiquitous lemon yellow taxis (cheap, fun, & clean as well) as most of our transportation was on the Transmilenio: bus service using dedicated lanes (two each way) with stations in the middle of the avenues. Although the schedules are confusing at first & lines for tickets can be long, service is quick & once again, the buses are amazingly clean. Buenos Aires could learn a lot from Bogotá:"
bogotá  colombia  robertwright  cities  latinamerica 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Milton Friedman did not save Chile | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk [see also: http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2010/03/03/chicago_boys_and_the_chilean_earthquake_2/index.html]
"since deregulation caused worldwide economic meltdown...hasn't been easy to be fanatic of...Milton Friedman. So widely discredited...admirers have become increasingly desperate to claim ideological victories...particularly distasteful case...Just 2 days after Chile...earthquake, WSJ columnist Bret Stephens informed readers that Milton Friedman's "spirit was surely hovering protectively over Chile" because, "thanks largely to him, country has endured a tragedy that elsewhere would have been apocalypse … not by chance that Chileans were living in houses of brick – & Haitians in houses of straw –when wolf arrived to try to blow them down." According to Stephens, radical free-market policies prescribed to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet by Milton Friedman &..."Chicago Boys" are reason Chile is prosperous nation w/ "some of the world's strictest building codes."...problem with this theory: Chile's modern seismic building code, drafted to resist earthquakes, was adopted in 1972."
capitalism  chile  economics  economy  foreignpolicy  latinamerica  naomiklein  neoliberalism  pinochet  earthquakes  2010  buildingcodes  miltonfriedman 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Beloved South American Leftists leave power | Beyond The Beyond
*It turned out these lefties were great democrats who brought stability and prosperity to their long-suffering peoples, instead of being bloodthirsty commies bent on the destruction of private property.
michellebachelet  chile  brasil  latinamerica  left  politics  government  approval  2010  presidency  presidents  luladasilva 
february 2010 by robertogreco
University of Cambridge: Beyond Modernist Masters [via: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=95732_0_24_0_C]
"A book which challenges traditional views about the nature and future of Latin American architecture has been written by Cambridge architect and lecturer Felipe Hernández.
books  architecture  design  latinamerica  albertokalach  giancarlomazzanti  alejandroaravena  chile  mexico  colombia  modernism  modern 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Wikipedia’s ‘Terra Incognita’ - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
"Today’s idea: More Wikipedia articles are written about fictional places like Middle Earth than about many countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia, a new map reveals. Behold the “terra incognita” of the Internet."
wikipedia  geography  latinamerica  middleearth  fiction  places  maps  mapping  africa  asia  terraincognita 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Prudent Chile Thrives Amid Downturn - WSJ.com
During the emerging economies' commodities boom a few years back, Chilean Finance Minister Andrés Velasco was a wet blanket at the fiesta. Chile, the world's largest copper producer, was reaping a bonanza from the quadrupling in the metal's price. Mr. Velasco insisted on squirreling away a large chunk in a rainy-day fund. As the savings swelled above $20 billion - more than 15% of Chile's economic output -- Mr. Velasco faced growing pressure to break open the piggy bank. In September, protesters barged into a presentation by Mr. Velasco, carrying an effigy of him and shouting, "The copper money is for the poor people." The 48-year-old Mr. Velasco, wary that a flood of copper income could generate lending and consumption bubbles, stood his ground, even as the popularity of the center-left government withered. Latin American history, he cautioned, was full of "booms that had been mismanaged and ended badly. Today Mr. Velasco looks like a prophet."
chile  economics  copper  moderation  development  globalization  latinamerica  politics  money  crisis  2009  prudence  savings  rainydayfund  andrésvelasco 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Urban Think Tank | icon 048 | June 2007 | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE
"Our ambitions are huge. We think there should be Urban Think Tanks all over the world – we want to be a non-university university, reach out to schools of architecture and give them our office space. We want them to send students to us so we can show them the realities of the informal city – we want to link the first and third worlds. We also want to see massive investment, in the way that governments invested in computers for informal cities, and we want to see these changes in our lifetime. Everybody says we have ten years to reverse climate change – we think the same way about these cities of sprawl.”"
urbanthinktank  design  architecture  informal  urban  urbanism  activism  cities  non-universities  informalcity  sprawl  change  venezuela  caracas  latinamerica 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Urban Think Tank | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE
urbanthinktank  architecture  latinamerica  venezuela  caracas  activism  culture  slums 
november 2009 by robertogreco
u-tt Under Construction [Urban Think Tank]
art  culture  architecture  urbanism  columbia  urban  brasil  sãopaulo  caracas  newyork  nyc  activism  latinamerica  venezuela  architects  urbanthinktank  development  slums  informal  informalcity 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Alejandro Aravena | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE
"Elemental, has to be one of the most unusual in the world: equal partnership between an architect, an oil company & a university...a "do tank", but not for a lack of thinking...Its ethos is to implement what it can, whatever the circumstances - & the circumstances of housing the poor in Latin American cities are pretty onerous...In 2003 Aravena was asked to house 100 families in Iquique...w/ just $7,500 per family in government subsidies to buy land & build houses..."Let's do the half that the family would never be able to do on its own." Namely, the structure, roof, kitchen & bathroom...one of a group of architects, including Venezuelan Urban Think Tank & San Diego-based Teddy Cruz, who are the conscience of their profession...Today, Chile is producing the most interesting architects in South America. Yet, without diminishing the formal & material inventiveness of compatriots such as Smiljan Radic & Matthias Klotz, the country has been a different kind of crucible for Aravena."
alejandroaravena  elementalchile  chile  architecture  activism  doing  latinamerica  housing  design  teddycruz  urbanthinktank  smiljanradic  mathiasklotz  scarcity 
november 2009 by robertogreco
ULTRA BAROQUE: Aspects Of Post Latin American Art
"Foreword by Hugh M. Davies Written by exhibition curator Elizabeth Armstrong and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, with contributions by Miki Garcia, Serge Grunzinski, and Paulo Herkenhoff.
books  mcasd  latinamerica  art  ultrabaroque  glvo  tcsnmy 
september 2009 by robertogreco
TRANSACTIONS
"In a "post-Latin American" age, Latin American art has taken a postmodern tack, mindful of borders and identity politics but not determined by them. Many of the 42 artists featured here, including Francis Alÿs, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Daniel J. Martinez, Alfredo Jaar, Vik Muniz, Damián Ortega and Gabriel Orozco, infuse their work with social commentary from local and global perspectives, exploring and parodying cultural locations and identities even as they uphold and transgress them. All of them share an interest--beyond those borders--in revitalizing existing artistic language and forms."
art  latinamerica  glvo  books  postmodernism  borders  mexico  alfredojaar  francisalÿs  felixgonzalez-torres  danieljmartinez  vikmuniz  damiánortega  gabrielorozco  mcasd  tcsnmy 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Near Future Laboratory » Eduardo Galeano Contemplates History’s Paradoxes
"I found the context of this radio interview intriguing for a number of reasons. The setting of a cafe as a place to think and plot and plan future worlds — of course this is resonant to me. The right cafes are peerless as places to think, observe, meet people, write, sketch, ponder. Much, much better than just about any of the social settings available in digital environments. I mean, really — Facebook is an obscure diacritic in the language of human social practices as far as my experience suggests."
eduardogaleano  thinking  facebook  writing  thirdplaces  julianbleecker  djangoreinhardt  jazz  cafe  cafes  music  books  latinamerica  uruguay  writers 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Eduardo Galeano Contemplates History's Paradoxes : NPR [via: http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/08/26/eduardo-galeano-contemplates-historys-paradoxes/]
"Now 68, the Uruguayan author spends most days at his favorite cafe in Montevideo, Uruguay, where fans phone to ask if he is there or when he's expected. Sometimes they leave letters and books for him to sign. Galeano says he was formed in this cafe and others like it:
eduardogaleano  writing  thinking  technology  mobile  phones  computers  myth  storytelling  history  thirdplaces  paradox  jazz  djangoreinhardt  music  books  writers  latinamerica  uruguay  cafes  cafe 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Book Review: ‘The Ascent of George Washington’ - WSJ.com
"He had taken what nature had given him"—a robust native intelligence, a strong will & a commanding physical presence—"& through ­observation, self-scrutiny, thoughtfulness, perseverance, & industry reached a point that others saw him as a potential leader." Quite an attainment for a relatively poor, untraveled & totally self-educated younger son of a minor planter, although Mr. Ferling thinks that lucky timing had a lot to do with it. Washington...was "precisely the right age for every epic event of the 2nd half of the 18th century." But so were countless other people born in 1732, only to live & die in obscurity. Consider the crop of egomaniacal liberators & revolutionary ­heroes-turned-caudillos who soon afterward made a mess of Latin America—not to mention Napoleon, whose infatuation with his own destiny led to European tyranny & slaughter on an epic scale—& the conclusion is inescapable. Revolutionary-era America was lucky to have George Washington, not the other way around.
georgewashington  timing  us  history  self-education  homeschool  autodidacts  leadership  latinamerica  serendipity  luck  observation  self-scrutiny  perseverance 
august 2009 by robertogreco
raquel paiewonsky: 'mutants' at venice art biennale 09
"raquel paiewonsky of the dominican republic is exhibiting her installation 'mutants' in the latin american pavilion at the biennale. unknown worlds populated by rare species and different races make their appearance
raquelpaiewonsky  art  sculpture  plush  glvo  hybrids  dominicanrepublic  latinamerica  dolls  mutants 
june 2009 by robertogreco
David L. Carr - Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barabara
Javier: David Carr was a classmate of mine for a semester in Chile. I thought some of his research might be of interest to you. - "Human dimensions of global environmental change, land use/cover change, migration, fertility, health, rural poverty and development, Latin America"
friends  geography  latinamerica  migration  poverty  economics  agriculture  health  rural 
may 2009 by robertogreco
World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
education  art  culture  online  history  books  research  media  maps  information  visualization  reference  world  international  archives  libraries  unesco  resources  digitization  images  classideas  latinamerica  middleeast  asia  europe  us  northamerica  caribbean  africa  timelines  timeline  primarysources  mapping 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Una aplicación para evitar el “paseo millonario” - FayerWayer
"Para contribuir a combatir el mal llamado “paseo millonario” o “secuestro express” que aqueja a varios países latinoamericanos, una empresa colombiana ha desarrollado una aplicación que si bien no acabará con el problema, al menos nos ayudará a evitar ser víctimas. ... Nace entonces taxi-911, un servicio que funciona enviando un SMS al número 911 con el número de la placa del taxi, recibiendo como respuesta un “Registrado/No registrado” que indica si el taxi es legal y está en las bases de datos de la autoridad competente de tránsito y afiliado a una empresa, o si por el contrario el taxi es potencialmente inseguro."
security  kidnapping  colombia  latinamerica  secuestros  sms  taxis  safety 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Mapping History
maps  mapping  visualization  geography  history  europe  us  ancientcivilization  ancienthistory  ancientgreece  ancientrome  africa  latinamerica 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Last Evenings On Earth
"Well, it's not dead yet. The modernist idea, which is really a Romantic idea, that the truest art comes from the margins, from the social depths, from revolt and disgust and dispossession, from endless cigarettes and a single worn overcoat, is still, in this age of MFA's and faculty appointments, when Pound's "make it new" long ago became Podhoretz's "making it"--is still, still, however improbably alive. A young man can still get up in a Mexico City bookstore and declare war on the literary establishment, give the finger to coffeehouses and Octavio Paz, plunge like a burning wreck into willed obscurity, toil in poverty for twenty years, and wind up forging, at the cost of youth and health and finally life, works that mark a time and point a new way forward."
robertobolaño  literature  fiction  chile  2666  latinamerica 
march 2009 by robertogreco
A translator's task – to disappear | csmonitor.com
""He was a geographically obsessed writer, especially when it came to Mexico City. He always told you exactly where he was going – down to the street, the intersection, the building," Wimmer remembers. "Café La Habana, for instance, was the basis for Café Quito," an important set piece in "The Savage Detectives." (The book, which traces the literary and political adventures of two ambitious poets, is partly autobiographical.)
robertobolaño  mexico  mexicodf  place  location  translation  2666  literature  latinamerica  geography  literatura  cities  books 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Berta's Restaurant in Old Town
"Berta's is located in a quaint, little cottage in the heart of Old Town where you’ll find some of the finest Latin American cuisine this side of Guatemala! Our atmosphere is casual and fun, and the food is delicious! So, come on down and see why we are the 1998 winner of the highly acclaimed Zagat Survey! AND why Berta's Latin American Berta's PatioRestaurant was awarded the 2001 Critics’ Choice Award from San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles!"
food  restaurants  sandiego  chile  argentina  brasil  uruguay  latinamerica  colombia  guatemala  venezuela  perú  costarica  spain  españa  cuba 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986: Edgar J. Dosman: Books
""Mandatory reading for everybody interested in Latin America." Mariano Ben Plotkin, researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires and professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero "A comprehensive and very readable account of a fascinating personality - this will, for some considerable period and perhaps forever, be the definitive source on Prebisch's personal life and career." Gerry Helleiner, Munk Institute for International Studies, University of Toronto" via: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/11/the-life-and-times-of-raul-prebisch-19011986.html
books  biography  economics  argentina  history  raúlprebisch  latinamerica 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Raúl Prebisch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a neo-Marxist though this label is misleading." via: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/11/the-life-and-times-of-raul-prebisch-19011986.html
economics  marxism  argentina  raúlprebisch  latinamerica 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Wrong-Thinking, Ill-Feeling | n+1
"El Malpensante has a few kindred spirits in other Latin American countries: Peru's Etiqueta Negra, Argentina's La Mujer de mi Vida, and Mexico's Reverso, to name a few, evince the same affinity for literary cosmopolitanism as a means to interpret culture at large. Most of these countries are, like Colombia, plagued by instability—in Mexico, an escalating, grisly war between drug traffickers and the military; in Peru, a tenuous state of peace achieved by an ex-president who is now undergoing trials for corruption and human rights abuses. In such contexts, magazines like El Malpensante and Etiqueta Negra act as bunkers for literary culture; they protect our enjoyment of the more refined pleasures from the hostility of the elements."
elmalpensante  colombia  magazines  reviews  art  culture  politics  literature  criticism  argentina  peru  latinamerica  mexico  perú 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Rhizome - Exploring the Concept of Democracy in Latin America: Carlos Motta's "The Good Life"
"Commissioned by Art in General, Carlos Motta's new Internet archive, The Good Life, is the latest part of a project the artist has developed since 2005, comprising 360 video interviews with pedestrians in twelve Latin American cities. In his essay, "Postscript: Civilization or Barbarity," the Colombian artist outlines the shift from politicized, creative practices, like those of Argentina's Third Cinema and Brazil's Paulo Freire, to increasing U.S. incursions, since the 1970s, into Latin American governments and economies. Attempting to close the divide "between democratic theory and practice" and reclaim, according to essayist Stamatina Gregory, an older conception of participatory politics, explored by Aristotle and revived by Hannah Arendt, Motta asks his interviewees about their own conceptions of democracy, democratization, and U.S. interventions in the region."
carlosmotta  latinamerica  intervention  paolofreire  democracy  interviews  public  video  internet  archive  argentina  thirdcinema  brasil  colombia  politics  policy  us  via:regine  paulofreire 
october 2008 by robertogreco
America Latina: chau al pasaporte | Blog de Viajes
"En este último año, una serie de reuniones entre los gobiernos latinoamericanos tuvieron como objetivo eliminar la necesidad de usar pasaporte para que los ciudadanos de la región que debían movilizarse a otras naciones latinoamericanas. De a poco ese objetivo se va cumpliendo, y ya son varios los países que han anunciado esta medida, como Perú, Colombia y Ecuador. Antes, sólo se podía viajar sin pasaporte, a lo sumo, a las naciones límitrofes."
latinamerica  travel  passports  international 
october 2008 by robertogreco
From Gleeful to Fearful in Latin America - NYTimes.com
"In only a few days, Latin American leaders have gone from schadenfreude to fear. Despite strong economic growth this decade and some aggressive efforts to break free of the American orbit, there is a growing nervousness that once again Latin America cannot escape the globalized connections in the financial sector that run through the United States."
latinamerica  brasil  argentina  venezuela  economics  world  global  china  us  crisis  finance  markets  inflation 
october 2008 by robertogreco
TED | TEDBlog: The Bailout and the A-word
"A solution requires the country to begin to spend what it earns, reduce its mountainous debt, and address massive liabilities, restructure Social Security, pension deficits, military, and Medicare. No wonder politicians would rather spend more of your money now rather than address these problems. Because we have been spending 5 to 7 percent more each year than we earn, a forced restructuring, triggered by a currency collapse, would have the same effect on wages and purchasing power that the housing collapse had on housing prices. So let's learn from our Latin and Asian friends and act before it is too late."
debt  bailout  economics  latinamerica  brasil  argentina  austerity  crisis  banking  government  policy  politics  juanenriquez 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A life in writing: Derek Walcott | Books | The Guardian
""I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays...Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses?...You can't act a myth...the poet...can make his language grandiose, but the interior tone must be human. That's the achievement of Shakespeare: this grandiose poetry is spoken as if somebody could say it""; "Walcott insisted on "the importance of the shape that you make out of a poem...Pasternak said: 'Great poets have no time to be original.'" Imitation..."is not only a form of flattery, but is in a way creation. No two things are going to be alike. Whatever you bring to the craft is going to be individualistic"; ""the totalitarian view of anything, the callous view, the indifference to beauty. If you are indifferent to that, as part of your politics, then everything is permissible. If you can say God is dead, then harmony is dead, melody is dead, music is dead, therefore faith is dead. Therefore it's easy to do what you have to do in the name of necessity""
via:preoccupations  derekwalcott  poetry  ancientgreece  inspiration  originality  literature  storytelling  writing  latinamerica  caribbean  imitation  creativity  opera  race 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Education Next - Scaling Up in Chile
"On international tests, Chilean students in 2006 outperformed those of all other Latin American countries in reading and were second only to Uruguay in math (see Figure 1). But although Chile’s educational performance appears to outstrip that of its closest competitors, the country’s educational system has become highly controversial among scholars throughout the western hemisphere. By and large, the education systems of most Latin American countries are all but ignored by outside scholars. However, the Chilean system has generated a veritable cottage industry of research scholarship that has yielded a range of conflicting findings."
chile  schools  education  policy  vouchers  research  latinamerica  competition 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Quality of Life in Buenos Aires Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach [.pdf]
buenosaires  qualityoflife  housing  homes  latinamerica  statistics  studies  research  filetype:pdf  media:document 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Artkrush | Interview with Teddy Cruz
"Tijuana imports the waste of San Diego — garage doors and other debris produced from the dismantling of suburban neighborhoods. All this waste is transferred to Tijuana to construct the city's new periphery." ... "Everybody's flocking to Dubai and China to build their dream castles, but in the meantime, we have places in the world like Latin America where they're reconfiguring themselves politically and trying to find alternative ways to produce development that don't rely on those recipes of American style globalization. But architects are not there. I hope that a lot of the speculations, theories, and observations that I've been developing — with the help of institutions like the PARC Foundation — can take place in fact in places like Latin America."
teddycruz  architecture  borders  us  mexico  sandiego  tijuana  design  urbanism  urban  space  cities  interviews  latinamerica  gamechanging  alternative  development 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Marginal Revolution: Chile impressions
It's interesting to read Tyler Cowen's impressions, but I think some of the commenters have a much better grasp of the problems Chile is facing and the lack of progress for the majority of Chileans during the over-hyped Chicago Boys years. Their programs are too often used as examples for other parts of the world without giving them a thorough evaluation.
tylercowen  chile  economics  change  politics  latinamerica  religion  food  santiago 
august 2008 by robertogreco
The Caracas Speech by Roberto Bolaño - Triple Canopy - The first complete English translation of the Chilean novelist's 1999 speech accepting the Rómulo Gallegos Prize.
"What’s true is that I am Chilean, and I am also a lot of other things. And having arrived at this point, I must abandon Jarry and Bolivar and try to remember the writer who said that the homeland of a writer is his tongue."
latinamerica  translation  speech  literature  robertobolaño  identity  dyslexia  venezuela  chile  colombia  cervantes  books 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Senator Jesse Helms - Telegraph
"Helms had also supported Pinochet in Chile and had been the only senator to back the Argentine junta against Britain during the Falklands war. He once advocated the invasion of Cuba and was one of the few American conservatives to back the white aparthei
jessehelms  history  us  latinamerica  policy  foreignpolicy  racism  chile  argentina  southafrica  cuba 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Richard Florida and The Creative Class Exchange: Mexico City - Capital of the 21st Century?
"A new book (via Tyler Cowen). Here's a related website. What Manhattan was to the 20th century, the author argues, Mexico City will be to the 21st. It's a strong statement, but I believe he has a point."
mexico  richardflorida  books  tylercowen  future  mexicodf  urban  urbanism  latinamerica  culture  cities 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Wikipedia:WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, we had contributed three featured article and eight good articles. None of these articles was a goo
wikipedia  education  colleges  universities  collaboration  learning  literature  latinamerica  classideas 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Argentina, más aislada que nunca · ELPAÍS.com
"La tercera potencia latinoamericana ha perdido peso internacional. Mantiene un sorprendente conflicto con Uruguay, se desentiende de la crisis de Bolivia, se aleja de Estados Unidos y se escribe poco con España"
argentina  international  politics  policy  economics  latinamerica 
may 2008 by robertogreco
América Latina: Mayor crecimiento mundial para Google - FayerWayer
"De todas las búsquedas en español que se realizan en Google, dos tercios provienen de América Latina. La publicidad en la región además representa unos US$350 millones."
google  latinamerica  trends  search 
april 2008 by robertogreco
ed4wb » Blog Archive » Not So Distant Learning
"As an independent contractor, any teacher wishing to create and deliver their own class would probably need to be working under the umbrella of some certifying body if they hope to attract students. There are two principal reasons for this"
lcproject  teaching  schools  society  politics  bureaucracy  international  latinamerica  distancelearning  studentdirected  learning  education 
april 2008 by robertogreco
CounterPunch: "America's Best Political Newsletter" - Noam Chomsky on the Hopeful Signs Across Latin America
"Chile is claimed as being a market economy but that's highly misleading: its main export is a very efficient state owned copper company nationalized under Allende. You don't get correlations like this in economics very often. Adherence to the neoliberal
chile  bolivia  business  economics  politics  history  latinamerica  argentina  brasil 
march 2008 by robertogreco
User:Jbmurray/Madness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Was introducing wikipedia to classroom act of madness leading only to mayhem if not murder? Reflections on use of wikipedia in the UBC's course SPAN312, "Murder, Madness, & Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation," Spring 2008."
latinamerica  wikipedia  education  teaching  learning  collaboration  classroom  literacy  assessment  via:preoccupations 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Micromuseo - Bitácora: NEOCRIOLLO: Mónica Giron en el MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)
"título remite a elucubraciones lingüísticas de Xul Solar concebidas para resolución utópica de tensiones babélicas surgidas en Río de la Plata por mareas inmigratorias del siglo XX...más específica...Leo Marechal en "Adán Buenosayres"
neocriollo  art  xulsolar  buenosaires  immigration  history  glvo  leomarechal  malba  latinamerica  argentina  mónicagiron 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Micromuseo - Bitácora: NEOCRIOLLO en el MALBA y en LATINART
neocriollo  art  xulsolar  buenosaires  immigration  history  glvo  leomarechal  malba  latinamerica  argentina  mónicagiron 
march 2008 by robertogreco
250 - Who Put the ‘Gau’ in Gaucho? A (Forged) Map of Nazi South America « Strange Maps
"Hitler has often protested that his plans for conquest do not extend across the Atlantic Ocean. I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler’s government" revealed FDR on 27 October 1941. The map, however, was a fake."
maps  ww2  wwii  history  fakes  southamerica  germany  chile  brasil  argentina  latinamerica 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Marginal Revolution: How poor does Cuba look?
"I've long thought that Prague looks much richer than it is, and that the ugly northern Virginia or Houston looks poorer than it is. Where else looks deceivingly rich or poor?"
capitalism  architecture  economics  cuba  latinamerica  us  poverty  politics  inequality  communism  perception  cities  wealth  mexico 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Latin America's New Gospel: Special Report [The Christian Science Monitor]
"As church lights dim across the US and Europe, Christian houses of worship are opening every day in Latin America. The majority of the new churches are Pentecostal, an expressive evangelical creed that emphasizes individual “gifts of the Holy Spirit.
christianity  religion  latinamerica 
december 2007 by robertogreco
How Pentecostals brought 'the fiesta spirit' to church in Latin America | csmonitor.com
"A look at the religion's theological roots and how the faith took hold in the region."
christianity  religion  latinamerica 
december 2007 by robertogreco
What We Don't Know About South America; Dr. Ernesto Nelson of Argentin... - Article Preview - The New York Times
January 16, 1916, Sunday: Section: MAGAZINE, Page SM7, 3397 words "HOW much more do the people of the United States know about the people of South America now than when this congress began two weeks ago?"
argentina  latinamerica  us 
december 2007 by robertogreco
Emergentes - 10 projects by Latin American artists (part 2)
spain  art  latinamerica 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Emergentes - 10 projects by Latin American artists (part 1)
spain  art  latinamerica 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Urban Think Tank :: RESEARCH
"UTT Films seek to create new discursive spaces in order to raise questions about how cities are shaped and for whom. Seeking new means to express critical public opinion, our urban films fall into the genealogy of the ‘theory film,’ a largely ignored
cities  films  urbanism  policy  urban  via:grahamje  urbanthinktank  venezuela  architecture  latinamerica  caracas  slums 
november 2007 by robertogreco
El Mercurio.com - Formación de profesores en Latinoamérica es "para una escuela que ya no existe"
"situación actual exige mejorar el reclutamiento de los alumnos de pedagogía y calidad de académicos que los forman. "cambios deben hacerse ya", dice, considerando que transformaciones en educación demoran al menos 5 años."
education  chile  schools  pedagogy  training  teaching  professionaldevelopment  colleges  universities  latinamerica  argentina  uruguay 
november 2007 by robertogreco
YouTube - ¿Por qué no te callas?
"El Rey y Aznar versus Hugo Chávez"
video  latinamerica  hugochavez  juancarlos  politics  etiquette  international  chile  venezuela  españa  spain 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Emol.com - Chávez se enfrenta a Rodríguez Zapatero y al Rey al cierre de la Cumbre
""¿Por qué no te callas, ya?", expresó con tono desafiante el Rey Juan Carlos I a Chávez mientras éste intentaba intervenir el discurso de Rodríguez Zapatero, que insistía en el respeto de todas las ideas, aunque sean absolutamente contrarias a las
latinamerica  hugochavez  juancarlos  politics  etiquette  international  chile  venezuela  españa  spain 
november 2007 by robertogreco
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