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days ago, unfortunately, is confirmed. You do not ever want to talk of death, but this is determined to be friends. Now it was Ted Cordova Claure, journalist of the first order, legendary in Bolivia and Latin America. Not that Teddy would not have lived his life well lived, but it is pain that is gone, but it really was when he wanted.

"He died in his chair, asleep," she tells me her daughter Pia in Havelock, North Carolina, accompanied by his wife Mary Boylan. He chose to die for the Journalists' Day, Tuesday May 10, but had been announcing since five years ago he left and he prematurely circulated the news of his own death when he was 70 years old.

Paste to a wheelchair since 1996, settled permanently in the United States, where he wrote the notes of his "Global Column" sending to friends and that were published on pages and newsletters on the net . They mentioned his ill health and death vision on the horizon: " So I say this because I feel that soon I will," wrote in December 2005:

"However, as a writer and journalist I've been all my life, it is interesting to be lucid in the final process, despite the pain. Curiously, one ends up getting used to pain. Becomes a familiar routine because, well, you know that after the spasm of pain, in my case in my left arm and leg, is a relief, a relaxation enhancer, a drug that invites further forward lucidly. And writing is a way to ignore and endure the ills that afflict me. And so today, I said cartesian in the last seven years who want to read me or hear me: I write. Then, I am. "

Teddy supported me in my early days as a journalist. To remember this stage I do a back flip and I go back to 1970, shortly after the coup that led to the presidency of Bolivia to the progressive military Juan Jose Torres, with critical support from social movements were clustered in the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) . Workers initially supported Torres, who had just cast the ephemeral power triumvirate of right-wing coup overthrew another progressive, Alfredo Ovando.

Journalists will also provide support to the government of Torres, who created El Nacional, under the direction of Ted Cordova, who also ran the canal state television. The newspaper was drafted in the Plaza Murillo in front of the Chancellery, and shared printing with Jornada and Vanguard, where he wrote weekly MIR René Zavaleta.

I remember the first conversation I had with Ted, he did not know until then, when I heard about the upcoming appearance of El Nacional. I introduced myself to ask for work, and I did raise demands: "I want to make the cultural site, but have provided a full page every day, without publicity." Teddy laughed in my face, but I got the job, and gave me his novel "Appointment in Earth courage" (published by the extraordinary Camarlighi Pepe), with a dedication that I do not remember now but one sentence caught a lesson in ethics to a young journalist.

The months that I served in El Nacional, until shortly before the coup of Banzer in August 1971 were the most rewarding in my early work as a journalist. On my site cultural and weekend supplement published every day interviews with artists and writers, and reviews of exhibitions, films and books. They shared the job with more experienced colleagues. Managing Editor was Canabrava Paulo Filho, a Brazilian exiled by the dictatorship, and were on the ground Chichi Solíz, Victor Hugo Carvajal, Coco Manto, and Uruguayan Alvaro Barros-Lémez, also in exile.

A couple of times, following my articles were published incomplete (I attributed it to political censorship), I faced Teddy and "threatened" with my "resignation" of the newspaper (as if That would have been able to import anyone at all). Ted smiled at me funny and asked me not to take it to heart, because they were part of the job as a journalist.

When the blow came from Colonel Banzer, 21 August 1971, Ted Cordova was "stitched" with machine gun fire by the paramilitary called "Fly" Monroy, but survived and continued his combative journalism from exile in Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires and then Caracas. Martin tells me, one of the sons of Teddy: "My father beat him seven shots, I keep some of the bullets that you removed in Chile. The same Mosca helped save once recognized him, and if I remember correctly said, 'uuy brother, that you get for being a communist'. "

Alfonso Gumucio, Loyola Guzman, Pierre Kalfon and Ted Córdova (1995)

went back from exile at the time, I in 1978 during the mass hunger strike that precipitated the fall of the dictator Banzer. Teddy returned to Bolivia in early 1990 to lead Ultima Hora newspaper and new projects. Ovejuyo lived in and we were little.


When my friend came to visit Pierre Kalfon, French writer and journalist who was preparing a monumental biography of Che, I organized my home on April 11, 1995 a meeting with some friends who had had more or less directly, with Che's Bolivian stage. There were Ted Cordova Claure, Loyola Guzman, Carlos Soria Galvarro, Marcelo Quezada, Amalia Barron and Freddy Alborta.

's been 75 years since Ted Córdova was born on April 24, 1936 in the mining sector Catavi, in northern Potosí. He lived an intense life and had a career in journalism in Latin America that many would envy. He was a columnist for week (Colombia) of Today (Ecuador), magazines Authentic (Venezuela) and Cambio 16 (Spain), and correspondent of many media. He published several books: "Appointment in Earth Courage", "On the Edge of Revolution", "Farewell to the sybaritic", "Spain, the Uncover" "New World Disorder," among others.

Writing became a complex task for Teddy, because he did it with one hand in tight paragraphs with no spaces, all capitals as in the days of the telex. I read and sometimes commented on my notes, and I theirs. Their messages came to me as I transcribe this so:

HOLAOTRA LaOtra VEZ.ABRI DIRECCIONDETUBLOG AND ARTICLE ON ORTEGA LEIEL. AHORANTIENDOMAS. CIERTASRESERVAS TAMBIENPERCIBO MILLION ON ALINEFABLEEVOO.PERO OTROSNUEVE DUDA.DISCULPA ARE ALSO THE SAME inthe MAJDERIA BUT WAS SOLOASUNTODE BROWSEARCONMASCALMA TUBLOGSPOT.AHORA TUOPINION ASK ME ABOUT THE FILM "Apocalypto", DE MELGIBSON. SLDSY PATIENCE, TED

Ted Cordova in the Associated Press

Earlier, in October 2006 to read my note recording 25 years after the death of my father, I sent a message offering generously to write me a biography. I transcribe this time eliminating errors, "Interesting, real and touching. I was a young reporter for AP, then PL, when I met him. He was one of the pillars of the constructive side of the national revolution. The 'skinny' deserves a good book, if you want, I'll help. It would be the best monument to his memory. Unfortunately, the original and medialunística Bolivia today, few remember his work, beginning with the cambas, for which both made, and will embrace it ... "

Ted, who was a pioneer in the use of new technologies, would have liked to know that his death was "a symbolic funeral in line" as Pia tells me, his daughter. Colleagues and friends scattered around the world exchange in these days many memories of his life. Perhaps he is still receiving our messages tedcordova@hotmail.com

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Finally. Gone are the classics. No more controversy, and endless hours of debates, and century duels or anything like that. After 4 classic

between Barcelona and Real Madrid, has lived all served to lay the foundations for coexistence sports model where the non-sporting, conflict and dialectical disputes have been over the purity of the game.

Football is more than that . It is played on the pitch for 90 minutes, which should be what it is above all, and that it should be discussed, mainly football.

I tend to like statistics to show symptoms or feelings, but in situations like this, I use them for everyone to draw their own conclusions. Apparently seeing and hearing what is heard, no choice but to try to objectify what has occurred in the field.

Systems used:

Barcelona - 1433 and Real Madrid

14231 - 14141, 1442, 14231

Tactics used :

Barcelona - possession dynamic pressure after loss withdrawal half after overflow or pieces, combined attack from within, breaks per band Real Madrid

- fold intensive hustling inside, marking outstanding individual players, counterattack after theft, take the offensive set pieces

Players used in the past 3 classic (most important):

Barcelona (15 +2) - Valdes, Alves, Adriano, Maxwell, Piqué, Puyol, Mascherano, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, keita, Afellay, villa, messi, (Robert and Abidal sergi testimonial)

real Madrid (18) - Boxes, Arbeloa, s.ramos, carvalho, Garay, Albiol, pepe, marcelo, lass, x.alonso, Khedira, di maria, barn, kaka, Ozil, ronaldo, adebayor, higuain

Statistics (source: sports world, uefa.com, marca.com, as.com )

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RM

CUP 2011 - Goals: 0 B, 1 RM

- Shots: 13 B, 10 RM

- Stops: 4 B, 5 RM Fouls: 24 B, 26 RM

- Cards: 3 B, 5 RM

- Ownership: 70% B, 30% RM

- Real Time of game: 72 min of 124 (40% stopped the match)

- Corners: 12 B, 4 RM

Champions League IDA

- Goals: 2 B, 0 RM

- Auction: 8 B, 6 RM

- Interventions: 5 B, 2 RM

- Fouls: 25 B, 21 RM

- Cards: r B 2 +1, 3 +1 r RM

- Ownership: 73% B, 27% RM

- Real Time of game: 60 min (43 min from Barcelona!) 34% stopped

- Corners: 1 B 1 RM

Champions League BACK

- Goals: 1 B, 1 RM

- Shots: 12 B, 3 RM

- Stops: 0 B, 6 RM

- Fouls: 10 B, RM 31

- Cards: 1 B, 5 RM

- Ownership: 67% B, 33% RM (1 º t 72-28)

- Real Time Game: 1 t 28 min, 2 º t 20 min (off 50% of the party)

- Corners: 3 B, 2 RM

- Passes (good ) 734 (645) B, 367 (276) RM

- Races: 21 B, 16 RM

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After a certain age, my father read newspapers with apprehension, fearing to find news about the death of his friends and acquaintances. Starts to happen the same with websites, the bad news on the Internet are like a virus, nothing stops them.

is how to open "La Jornada of Mexico my first reading on Monday morning, May 2, I hit a headline announcing the death of Raúl Leis at 63 years old, on Saturday 30 April, just two days before the end of the anniversary of the disappearance of Paulo Freire.

As I write these lines there is still nothing on Raul on the website of the Council for Adult Education in Latin America (CEAAL), and ironically a Google search is the first thing on your profile in the " Directory of Panama living writers ." Still alive.

Raul I have not seen it many years, so they trample on the memory of memories, blurred or crisp, brief meetings in Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua or Mexico.

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Raúl was a sociologist and university professor, prolific writer, journalist, promoter of popular education, human rights defender, citizen political participation. It will be remembered for all these aspects but much more. Along with Carlos Nunez and Oscar Jara Alforja group, Raul was one of the three musketeers of popular education from which we draw so many in Latin America in the 1980 and 1990. He was president of the Center for Social Assistance of Panama (CEASPA), Chairman of CEAAL, driver of the Citizens Alliance for Justice, and candidate for Congress in 1994 by the group Egoró Pope presiding Rubén Blades.

Among his works of short stories, drama and stand trial: Notes on methodology and practice of change, Voices of struggle, Machi: a Kuna in the city, the bow and arrow, The Bridge, Remedies for grief and Do you want me to tell you again?, Bridge, Macuá The Nest, Panama, lights and shadows . Leo won five National Book Award Ricardo Miró.

My memories of that big man with a prematurely bald, deal with events on popular education and communication in which we participate. We were in the assembly of CEAAL in Guanajuato, in November 1987, when Mario Kaplun was coordinator of the Popular Communication Network. On another occasion, in June 1988, we were at a meeting in Cuba, organized with the support of Casa de las Americas in an isolated hotel in Machurrucutú, with participants from throughout Latin America.

Invasion of Panama, in 1989

Kaplún Mario Raúl replaced in the coordination of the People's Communication Network in September 1989 organized the Latin American Meeting of People's Culture and Communication, in Panama City. We met at a retreat in the Chorrillo neighborhood just two months later, on December 20, 1989 (eight days after birthday Raul), the 417 was destroyed by U.S. bombs during the invasion of Panama, under the guise of removing Noriega from power, as now happens in Libya on the pretext of eliminating Gaddafi. Required reading on this subject: "What we really want Uncle Sam" by Noam Chomsky.

remember that meeting in Panama City the fellowship, good humor, optimism (the shirts bore the phrase "Do not worry, ne happy"), and the commitment of all participants, including which was Eduardo Galeano.

Raul fought throughout his life all just causes, and did so with honesty and integrity at all costs.

In his latest column published two days before his death in La Prensa with the title "The heads of the Hydra", Raúl addressed the issue of corruption:

"To the beat Heracles hydra with a sickle, but we need to create a new principle of legitimacy that goes beyond the idea that democracy is only electoral majorities emerged in the heat of election time, for active and everyday citizens guards government leadership that cares about tackling corruption, social deficits, environmental degradation and predation, breach of human rights, with the same care that drives economic growth. "

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After 3 classics, and without going into a detailed analysis of the non-football included the loss of roles and sporting values \u200b\u200bthat have brought about the clashes. Details unworthy, immoral and dishonorable for a game, as it is football not forget, that ultimately lacks the famous fair play should prevail at any sporting event.

The anything goes at any price has to end , because football, especially the performing or attempting to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bshould be above any attempt to destabilize the good manners, respect and honesty.

But leaving aside what is not football (remember that the programs most used by the social mass are controversial and dotted with pink) and is taking over our sport, I shall go pin with helmets and details caught and targeted tactics to try to explain unusual circumstances of play and competition, the usual projections that we all observe. Because mortals also aim to learn and improve things.

1, classical league match : love without friction. Do not underline anything, because nobody wanted to do anything or reveal future plans, or tactics in games more transcendent future.

2 nd classic cup match : lovingly rubbing. It was a game where the intensity and concentration exceeded to anxiety and stress. A management team with solvency mood tempos, and one could not control. Piqué losses in pipes and turnovers to the cave hustling Madrid are craftsmen of the 2 best chances of Madrid, Pepe and Christian. Pepe takes the individual marking the player who tries to create the Barcelona game on home soil. Small amplitude and movement of the ball in the development of the club. The ball stopped Madrid created danger, the boat does not work at all, of what Madrid is used to create dangerous cons. The success of Mascherano and central, to make game creation Blaugrana in Busquets. In the 2 nd time, changing Guardiola loading the game right, with village-centered, a success. Quarterback Christian, is preceded by the loss of messi individual action in the danger zone of midfield, with the extraordinary wall marcelo, excellent shopping and great auction end. Playing with a central spread the final minutes of precipitation to the team.

3 º classical way Champions: touch without affection. and unleashed the mother of all battles. There was everything, excessive voltage and current, you could tell that they played more than a party. Struggle and contrasting ideas, both sporting and non-sporting. Tactically, countered the danger barcelona Madrid counterattack with a change of system (14 231) and axfisiante intense pressure after turnover. Villa turned their backs on marcelo, with Pedro on the other end, getting the desired amplitude to allow clearances to Xavi. Barcelona is not far behind and comes into play when you are asking. The mourning star, so intense and even, it staged DiMaria and Alves, with a clear advantage for the Argentine. Pepe played with fire too often and ends up burning. The live game that had to rely on the good pressure madrid Barcelona (on Adebayor and Cristiano). The quick take out the faults, especially Xabi Alonso back hurt culé. Marcelo spills over to make room inside out.

too, because there was too much to analyze. For coaches, a great pleasure to see and analyze everything that happened, I hope that several times, also the football win in all aspects

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Peace Testimony

I have three or four friends throughout their lives have shown an admirable passion and infinite patience in the work of rescue memory of our contemporary history, so that Bolivians learn to remember and characters and historical events leave an imprint cyclical Blizzard can not take away more.

Eduardo "Pachi" Ascarrunz is one of them, and after many years of accumulation, published The Word of Peace: a man, a century (Plural, 2008), testimony about his relationship with Victor Paz Estenssoro, by far the most important statesman who has been in Bolivia in the last century.

As the same "Pachi" he says, the book is "something closer the craft of literature, as did my grandmother Rita: make a quilt from scraps left over from other clothing, in this case with remaining pieces of fragments of memory that ultimately make up the puzzle is this work in whole. " The quilt is woven around an historical event: the 1985 general election in which Paz Estenssoro qualified to be elected president of Bolivia for the fourth time. Pachi conducted a creative and ingenious campaign that contributed to the victory of the historic leader of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) and the repositioning of its public image, damaged as a result of its support Colonel Banzer military coup in 1971.

Sum of interviews, conversations, comments and observations, the book redeems the human dimension of Víctor Paz Estenssoro, is a "glimpse of the soul" of man and of itself gave little cryptic and open to other facets intimate. His reluctance to interviews was well known, not just those on politics, especially about his personal life.

Victor Paz in the magazine "Zeta", 1979

Perhaps because of the special relationship of friendship my father was Paz Estenssoro, I could talk to him several times, the last shortly before his death in his home in San Luis, Tarija, but this episode save that for another time.

Years before, when I was in the mid 1970's and asked him about the story "secret" of the MNR, he said he still could not talk about it because he believed he would still have involvement in politics Bolivia, as indeed had it for many years.

In 1979 I interviewed for one of many projects being undertaken by Pachi Ascarrunz, the magazine "Zeta" in which 6 or 7 numbers (not remember) collaborated. Paz Estenssoro received me at his apartment in the building Isabelita, on Avenida Arce in La Paz, and I talked about the political price he paid because of his alliance with Banzer in 1971. However, he defended the decision taken then because it allowed the military to lift the veto hung over the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement since the military coup of Barrientos:

interviewed by Alfonso Victor Paz Gumucio in "Zeta"

"We enter into this conspiracy for two reasons. A general value: the country was in a chaotic situation, the worse day by day, could have unforeseen consequences for the very existence of Bolivia. Another, from the standpoint of the MNR, because he had established a miliary veto for political action. (...) As head of the party I had a vital interest for that veto would disappear. "

Pachi also devotes two pages to the political relationship and friendship between Alfonso Gumucio Reyes and Paz Estenssoro. In a conversation he had with him in May 1985, Peace rescues what he said about my father (who played in another occasion.)

Pachi seems to say at all times in his book: "I was there, I saw, I heard ...", as if to underscore the story first hand and your own voice, that of a journalist at the same time that it makes a great testimony to the character of contemporary Bolivian politics, offers his own life in turn to the relationship with the person-not just with the character, Victor Paz Estenssoro.

The "ninguneo" which is performed with relish in Bolivia ignore criticism makes written and published many books with great effort. Told myself at the wrong book (New Chronicle September 2010), two years after being out of print, despite the value that is testimony of our contemporary history as a product of the will of a reporter who works for the memory, a concern that has always characterized.

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Football is a indefinite game, unpredictable and highly uncertain. Everything is based on Rule 10 of Rules, which reads " win the team that scores the most goals ." The game and the approach is based on achieving overcome the opponent, getting goals and not fitting.

Yesterday I heard a word worthy of reflection: ALTERNATIVE

A football team is based on a style and philosophy of the game system of its own, well-crafted and based on the players who make it up, and group cohesion, work and strong psychological resistance to maintain a collective spirit and competitive day.

alternatives (both system, positioning, set pieces, of approaches to match different players ...) are a cornerstone to build a team capable of overcoming all circumstances that arise in every game .

We define them as footballing specific options other than the approach, style and overall philosophy of the game, worked to solve the adverse and unpredictable circumstances of a party to adapt to uncertainty and overcome the opponent .

These alternatives can be technical, tactical, strategic, psychological, such as playing with extremes, namely a line beyond playing offside, or play with 10 against 10, to overcome the pressure at the outlet of the ball, controls short certain areas, direct play early pressure against ...

The team with more options worked, will be able to overcome adversity and uncertainty of the game with greater ability to both adaptation and implementation and effectiveness.

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weeks ago, when it was published in New Chronicle 76 my review of the book Vesty Pakos and Tiger's smile that he wrote his friend and fellow naturalist Carlos Farfán Capriles, I remembered the extraordinary personality of Sylvester and I decided Pakos Sofra visit, after many years, the zoo he designed shortly before his accidental death and premature.

Well Pakos Vesty would shudder in his grave if he knew that the zoo of La Paz that bears his name suffers the greatest neglect. Not well understood what the hell do the sixty people on the payroll - "are more employees than animals," said my brother Peter eye peeled because it is clear that the place, Mallasa Park does not receive less attention for a long time.

I have no doubt that the excuse for so procrastination is the lack of budget for the municipal government of La Paz. But if true, the sixty employees should be on all fours cleaning the place and cutting the weeds that invade both cages and gardens. Is a case in an intelligent response attributed to Pope John XXIII when he was asked: "Holy Father, how many people work in the Vatican?" And he answered gravely: "Less than half." In the case of Zoo Pakos Vesty, it seems that the only ones working are the ones who charge the tickets. But surely the sixties receive their full salary to make ends meet.

My brother Peter, who Vesty was very friendly, publicly in the presence (6 of junio1993) the most complete but tight-biographical sketch that I know, where among other things talks about his extraordinary generosity and altruism and a charisma that everyone recognized immediately.

I had not happened before nickname Vesty associate your name, Silvestre, his parents gave him as having been endowed with clairvoyant powers, as wild is the word for nature that grows wild and free, without permission or obligation, and he was well, a free man in a nature that it welcomed fraternally. These are traits that my brother underlines text.

same Vesty got caught in an act of love with a giant boa, who stroked the fur of a tarantula on your shoulder, or melted into hugs with a lion who behaved like a kitten in need of affection . From childhood he showed no fear of snakes or spiders. What many are vermin that goose bumps just see them close to him were cherished friends and let your body take a quiet tour. Minor bugs, he ate: protein ...

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coral snake between teeth and the grin that always characterized it appears on the cover of the book Capriles that recalls their friendship and remember the adventures that ran together in the jungles of the Beni and the trips were made from La Paz to San Borja, in that narrow road that descends from the peaks to the sub-tropical Andes. From the first tour of the dangerous "path to the mystery, the way to glory with which the book begins, hovers over the reader a harbinger of fatal outcome, because there Vesty died in an accident in late 1993.

Pakos Vesty, photo by Fernando Arispe

I read the story of Carlos Capriles with familiarity you feel when the events described are confused with personal experience. As teenagers, I Vesty we inhabited in the same neighborhood Obrajes, our houses were three blocks away. The neighborhood was still a relatively isolated area of \u200b\u200bthe city center. Just follow up on the street 5 the bed of a creek surrounded by fruit gardens (from which we drew to hondazos) to reach the plateau of High Obrajes where there was not one building was a plain open for tours and discovery before becoming the "neighborhood of teaching" in the late 1960's and today a citadel populated together with the city of La Paz.

Vesty and I were "lazy", the club district was funny Obrajes motto "If the job gives health, to work sick." On 1 May 1962, International Workers Day, the lazy unveiled in the main square of Obrajes a plaque with that slogan. The carnival that organized the lazy lasted two weeks and were proverbial, more entertaining than the Splendid or Country, the clubs of the neighborhood pitucos Sopocachi or Calacoto. It was a time of mischief but not malice, we were a united community that enjoyed healthy.

Doña Hilde's mother, Vesty, attending a block from the church Obrajes a small grocery store with cheeses, cold meats, and some tin cans. Everyone in the neighborhood knew and liked. Always welcomed us with a melancholy smile. His eyes light condensed memory of his past in Serbia and the paths of no return that he had passed along his life. After Yugoslavia and Austria (where he was born Vesty), Bolivia became the first of January 1950 with a four year old son and a husband who died three months later in an accident.

Capriles devotes several chapters to the Biological Station of Beni (EBB), near San Borja, which he ran a time on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences, where Vesty was countless times, so that knew all the roads and all the people loved him for his treatment always affable and optimistic. At the same time I visited the EBB, my children were still very young, and spent several days there mixing business with pleasure, fear, suffering enjoy biodiversity.

For us city dwellers, as Macedonio Fernández (cited by Cortázar in "The Book of Manuel"), "the field is that awful place where chickens walk around uncooked" but for those who worked at the Biological Station of Beni, the almost virgin forest was a paradise of endless diversity of fauna and flora.

Vesty designed the habitat of the tenants of the new zoo of La Paz, for everyone to enjoy space and natural landscape features of ecological zone from which they came. ; But what remains today is lamentable: the ponds and ditches have no water, spectacled bears, jaguars and condors are hidden behind a bushy network of bars, poorly painted and awkwardly placed, which prevents to see the animals, immersed in an indescribable sadness.

In other zoos around the world, led by intelligent people, glasses are placed to avoid blocking the view, but here are dedicated to building thick metal vines so they do not see anything. The snake, which plays elongated body of a boa, it seems that it was changing its skin, peeled and aged on the outside, inside and very poor in many species. In a country as large biodiversity, it is incomprehensible that the zoo La Paz is limited to a few cats, monkeys, llamas and snakes.

paraphrase Diogenes (and Lord Byron and Groucho Marx), Vesty used to say "The more I see the politicians, the more I love my boa." And that sentence is appropriate for the bureaucrats who have left the zoo.

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Museo Soumaya

One night in late February, three hundred guests could admire the inside of the new museum building Soumaya and valuable content, but then closed its doors until now that has just opened to the public on March 28, to show the private collection of Mexico's most important art.

I had the opportunity to be on opening night when the workers are still working around the clock to finalize the details of fine work of the museum that belongs to the founding of Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, owner Telecommunications in Latin America (an expensive and poor service in Mexico) and so much more, currently embroiled in a pitched battle against the media power of Televisa. But that is another story.

The building of the Museo Soumaya, which is named after the late wife Slim, initiator of the art collection "is a bare metal structure that stands as a glowing sculpture in the urban complex of Plaza Carso (the name of the business group), a vast area where the buildings now sit offices Slim's companies, a recent development in the northwestern district of Polanco, adjacent to the railway railway Cuernavaca.

In architecture as in art, comparisons are inevitable. Thus, the Museo Soumaya is inspired by great artists of organic architecture, for its internal spaces, its twists, curves and its coating, has some of Frank Lloyd Wright Santiago Calatrava, Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Gehry. Inside, a ramp can move from one level to the next, recalls the similar design of Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York, while outside the building designed by young architect Fernando Moreno, is covered by 16 000 hexagons metal which refer to the visual effect of Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

The structure is a challenge to the force of gravity. Sitting on 28 columns tubular perimeter, is projected as a big wave suspended by tension and torsion effect of the materials used. Some say it is also similar to the chimney a nuclear plant.

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Beside Carlos Slim, at the opening, were not only the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon but close friends of the tycoon, as the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and American journalist Larry King, who in his opening remarks, then shed the coat to show their symbolic ties, "she said in English:" Never have seen art like this , shown in this way. " Carlos Slim announced the Soumaya Museum admission is always free.

The 16 museum collections are spread over six floors have 7,517 meters of exhibition square. It displayed the opening night was a preview of the wealth that holds the stock. The 66 thousand pieces of art that represent collections of painting and sculpture, both Mexican and European correspond to the eclectic tastes of a private collection, which therefore has the advantage of covering a wide range of art disciplines and many expressions of creativity popular.

Juchitán Rio (1956), Diego Rivera

Miniatures and Shrines, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Fashion from the XVIII to XX, Photography, Printing Commercial Art, European Sculpture Auguste Rodin and nineteenth and twentieth century, European Old Masters, Twentieth Century Mexican Portrait, Landscape of Independent Mexico, Twentieth Century Mexican Art, and Prints Devotional, are some of the libraries. On the ground floor exhibits a work so far known by very few, "Rio Juchitan (1956), a small mural mosaic Venetian the last one that made Diego Rivera, transferred on loan to the Museo Soumaya and the Suarez family.

On the top floor, the exhibition of sculptures by Auguste Rodin is considered the second largest in the world after the one that exists in Paris. Along with the works of Rodin, are those of Salvador Dali and other great artists.

The European painting collection includes works like "St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy" de Zurbarán, a "Immaculate Conception "of Murillo, or" Sacred Family "by El Greco, among the English, but also abundant emblematic works of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rubens, Titian, Bruegel, Frans Hals and Van Dyck.

Mexican painting is represented by the largest, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José María Velasco extraordinary landscape, and several foreigners who painted Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I have not seen another museum in this country so rich and with a variety of works by such prominent authors. With more than six centuries of art available to the Mexicans, the museum is undoubtedly the most important in Mexico, where oddly places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo Tamayo, do very little to show significant works that maintain most of the time in the shadows of their warehouses.

my turn to return the Soumaya Museum to view calmly, without all the excitement and the deployment of security that touched me the first time that night in late February. I appreciate each work without trouble, just enjoying "aesthetic joy," as Sartre.

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Carlos Fuentes, Bolivia on the map

Nobody is a prophet in his land, but in the case of public figures on the size of Carlos Fuentes, the desperate flapping of ninguneo and are canceled diatribe against the strength of a monumental work. It is true that some in Mexico do not want their greatest living writer, and try to disqualify him for his political views, but the names of those opponents will not stand the time, but instead his work is already history.

I had to participate, as an envoy of the DPA at a press conference and book signing session in the flagship Librería Gandhi Mexico. As journalists we met with Fuentes, more than 500 people waited their turn to enter the auditorium, mostly young readers who did not live like us during the "boom" of Latin American literature, but recognize the greatest writer in Mexico, the eternal candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but no journalist raised the issue.

"There are more journalists than readers," commented Carlos Fuentes slyly not knowing that their readers were waiting outside in a long line around the store and disappeared into the darkness of the cobblestone streets of Chimalistac.

television cameras and flashes Photography cornered the author of "The Air Is Clear", but during the press conference most reporters' questions addressed political issues: drug trafficking, the PAN government, corruption, violence. Shortly literature, it is believed that any public figure is required to position itself politically.

"I can ask a question about literature? - I tried to get their attention. "There are writers who write books and publishers, and other writers who write with a plan to develop a complete work. You're one of these past. When concludes that plan? " did not hesitate a second:" In death. I hope to write to the end, I have nothing else to do. A work never completes. Balzac not completed yours, why I'm going to complete. Always get things in the pipeline. "

The hackneyed question of a reporter is not left waiting, when he says that "books are like children" and asks you to name your favorite work. "I can not because all are equal for me. Some are one-eyed, some are tall, some are short ... does not matter because they are all my children, I love them all. "

Fuentes lives and writes in London, and spends only a portion of his time in Mexico. "Are you a modern man?" A English journalist asked, to which responds: "I feel very old, I am of the Roman Empire."

it survive the book? How does it feel to young Mexicans? What about the presidential race? What is your diagnosis of Mexican politics? Will there be a third world war? The questions flow one after another, some of them have heard thousands of times. What is your next book, what are you writing now? "That does not speak, otherwise I do not."

When questions begin to repeat Fuentes becomes impatient and asks readers to let go, but first, the journalists also have books to sign. I held a copy of "All happy families", that strange book of stories about characters that includes "choirs" written as poems.

"Who? She asks. "For Bolivia," I reply. In hand, a representative of the Editorial Santillana said: "For the whole country ..." while sources drawing a map of South America and Bolivia exactly situated in the heart of the continent. "Do you like my map?" He tells me to return my book.

minutes before I asked if his love for film, shared with García Márquez had influenced his narrative: "Has not felt the absence of the image to write? Is it enough poetic metaphor of writing? "

exhaustively answered: "I love movies, I know the time of the 1930 to 1950, but I think that literature is an end in itself, the literary image is more powerful than the film, because it allows the reader to imagine, while in the film the viewer is bound to see what is on screen. " He adds: "Unless a director like Bunuel that puts players looking out of the screen. That is, there is a world outside the screen. "

When they entered his readers signed for three hours at least a thousand books, each one carrying two or three copies. A woman came with a dozen first editions, of those that still have in my libraries scattered or boxed.

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Luis Rico and the sea

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confess to La Paz is always a traumatic experience. I depressed the city of El Alto, one of the ugliest in the world and down the urban agglomeration clinging to the hillsides, where the landscape is a city in ruins, like a half-long project, with the unfinished houses ( for not paying taxes)-each a monument to ugliness, the concrete beams and brick walls without reversing.

But then friends, cultural activities, discussions always passionate about local politics, and recognition of the spaces that somehow belong to me, often relieves the sensation of breathlessness that "the hollow" I produce. Previously, four decades ago, you could see the splendor of Illimani from anywhere in the city is quietly circulating through the streets and there was less trash and odors.

Among the activities this time I witnessed, at least one interesting every day, enjoyed the concert offered public my friend Luis Rico in the Plaza Abaroa, the district Sopocachi occasion of a new remembrance of the loss of Bolivian territory in the Pacific War (1879-1883), who described to date, the landlocked country. For younger people, or one that has no access to books, this educational and artistic overview of our history was very appropriate in circumstances in which diplomatic negotiations between Bolivia and Chile are a dead end.

Although the Bolivian government has put forward continuously and the demagogic way that "we are close to reaching an agreement," in particular there has not been absolutely no progress with the socialist government of Michelle Bachelet, let alone with Sebastian Piñeira. Chile is willing to cede any territory with Bolivian sovereignty. Perhaps this made recently President Evo Morales launched the awkward phrase "not on the sea, is the day from hell." Nothing unusual in it, which is the author of an extensive anecdotes Pachot.

Luis Rico and Alfonso Gumucio asylum in the Embassy of Mexico in 1980

Lucho With Rico have a friendship of those who are sealed in both social struggle and exile, as in creative work for culture, from popular music, and I from literature and cinema . Inmates were first and then exiled in Mexico, and our paths have crossed casually in other continents. So when I met him now and he invited me to his concert, I decided that I was going to lose.

experience was both artistic and educational for all who gathered at the Plaza Abaroa, because Lucho offered a long cantata with text by Eduardo Galeano and his own music, in which recounts the historical events that led to war between Chile, Bolivia and Peru, which ended with the victory of the former and English interests in the region.

Four days after the concert, on March 23, in the Plaza Abaroa, President Evo Morales surprised everyone with a speech that throws overboard the five years of "success" in negotiations with Chile . Read-this is unusual for him a text announcing that Bolivia rejects bilateral talks and instead will now submit its application in international courts. A notable change of direction, but no change helmsman ... After five years of deception and demagoguery, we are in square one. As we did not know at the outset.

Put aside the outbursts of the first Bolivian president to return to the concert. Galeano texts, adapted and recited with the powerful voice of Luis Rico, tell the story in a way that not only penetrates through the ears, but by the middle of the chest.

Beyond the patriotic speeches, the cantata highlights the responsibility of the military rulers, Melgarejo, among others, that led to Bolivia to disaster. Manipulations England to take over natural resources in what is now northern Chile are very similar to those now implement modern powers to seize the oil from Libya on the pretext of protecting the people of that country. The same cynicism of Europe and the United States to achieve its economic and political objectives.

undoubtedly more important than five years of speeches by Evo Morales are the words of Eduardo Galeano and the voice and music by Luis Rico, to remind us that culture is ultimately what unites us and what builds our identity.

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local Radio, the book

I was in La Paz does little to present the book to coordinate with Karina Herrera-Miller: "Policies and legislation for local radio in Latin America", published by Plural Editores , which brings in 474 pages twenty texts of the most distinguished authors on the subject, and other documents.

The presentation was sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) , best known in Bolivia as ILDIS (Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales). In addition to the opening words of the director of the FES, Kathrein Hoelscher, and the presentation of the book that made my colleague Karina Herrera-Miller, the event was attended by Erick Torrico Villanueva, Director of National Media Observatory (ONADEM) Vela and Andres Gomez, National Executive Director Radio Education in Bolivia (ERBOL) as speakers of the roundtable "Considerations for communication policy in Bolivia."

The book, which took two years to be published reflects the content of the papers presented and discussions held during the international seminar l " The local radio in Latin America: policies and legislation " with the same Karina Herrera-Miller, as well as Erick Torrico Villanueva, José Luis Aguirre and Cecilia Quiroga, organized in late 2008 with the aim of encouraging reflection and discussion on Latin American experiences.

Alfonso Gumucio, Karina Herrera, Edgar Davila, Kathrein Hoelscher, Erick Torres and Andrés Gómez

Both the seminar and for the book had the blessed with a select group of 15 international experts, including Rosa Maria Alfaro (Peru), Nestor Busso (Argentina), Gustavo Gomez (Uruguay), José Ignacio López Vigil (Ecuador), Aleida Calleja (Mexico), Jeanine El'Gazi (Colombia ), Omar Rincón (Colombia), Cicilia Peruzzo (Brazil), Oscar Perez (El Salvador), Carlos Cortes (Colombia), Carlos Rivadeneyra (Peru), Braulio Ribeiro (Brazil), Thomas Tufte (Denmark), Manuel Chaparro (Spain) , and Christoph Dietz (Germany), all with extensive experience and intellectual heritage.

They were joined by Bolivians Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Sandra Aliaga, Gastón Núñez, Carlos Arroyo, Andres Gomez, Carlos Soria Galvarro, Fernando Andrade, Guimer Zambrana, Ana Limachi, and a hundred representatives of local and community radios all over the country.

The book contains almost all the papers presented, now corrected and expanded. Self-excluded only the authors who did not respond to our call to send their texts, but we added a chapter on Carlos Camacho who could not attend the seminar.

Both the seminar, which I Referee timely a previous note , as the book, want to be a contribution to a discussion that seems to find many obstacles. Two years ago we launched into this adventure, we thought it would serve to stimulate debate on the need for legislation that would protect the local radio stations that serve their communities with content that promote issues of education, health, agriculture and development in general.

Our main objective was to promote the right to communicate with all people, not only freedom of expression to defend journalists and media owners information, self-appointed "intermediary" between citizens and political power.

Today, two years later, it seems that a thick glass separates aspirations they have much in common, since no one denies the need to strengthen human rights and in particular the right to communicate, but some think regulation is not the best way to do it.

Paradoxically, in the field who claim that "the best law is that there" are not only the owners of media, radio or television (who prefer to operate without accountability social), but the associations themselves, journalists, timid or caring for their jobs, defending employers' interests. This is de facto alliance other curious if we consider the countless studies and analysis show that commercial and private media, most do not contribute to education, culture or the development, but rather degrade their contents purely commercial vocation and his eagerness to profitability, the profession of journalists, and of course the imagination of the citizens who consume these products.

in the field who are better prepared to make proposals on policies and laws governing the field of communication and telecommunications, there are some important organizations such as UNITE and Network Foundation ERBOL (Radio Education in Bolivia), but struck by the timidity of the careers of university communication, and own Bolivian Association of Communication Researchers (ABOIC), the expectation remains no specific proposals and without jumping to the forefront of the discussion.

Within the state, which takes the initiatives to be taken by civil society, the contradictions are more acute, because the state officials strongly the Government of Evo Morales does not intend to propel an act of communication, a group of renowned specialists in the field develops proposals, more discreetly in the shadow of the Vice-Presidency.

So it is possible that the proposal for a government sector is very good, as that sheet is rejected by media owners, journalists' associations, and all opponents who do not need to know the details speak out against. In such an absurd degree of polarization we have, that any initiative from the state runs the risk of be a face against a cement wall, regardless of their content.

Undoubtedly

MAS government itself is responsible, as it promotes the disqualification of all opposition, not just right. The government vilifies those who were his allies on the left and all who would contribute to the process of change from a progressive perspective.

It would have been a process like that of Argentina, where civil society organizations undertook a hard work of reflection and discussion to reach consensus, then, the proposal Communication Services Act Audiovisual was debated and passed in parliament in that country, despite the furious attacks of certain groups of power that affected the economic and political interests had been able to strengthen the shadow of military dictatorships.

The book "Policies and legislation for local radio in Latin America" \u200b\u200bonly addresses the so-called "third sector", ie a part of which should cover a broad communications law, but it is a contribution and I would like to see soon other similar contributions relating to other sectors, not only in relation to public and private media, but with a comprehensive view of the right to communication.