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Rain, Economy and Poetry ... . December 25
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The Memory of Water By: William Ospina
El Espectador, December 18, 2010 - 9:50 pm, http://www.elespectador.com/columna-241166-memoria-del-agua
before we got here the world was water.
She sometimes agrees and returns to their former places, but we who have to understand the laws of the world, because we arrived later and it is pervasive with an arrogance that seems too out of ignorance, with a Owners airs only happen when we place claim elements and impose a real logic.
all know that in most ancient times, the savannah of Bogotá was a large lagoon. Came a god or a prophet and broke the rocks with his staff, as the Moses of Exodus, and his way to the water and became the lake in a plain astonishing fertility. Everyone should know that, after that, long held Fúquene Lake still a vast expanse of the savannah, and only in the last century progressed industrious humans flooded and dry land crops and pastures founding. Why too surprised when we see the flood waters over the savannah? This evidence is not the wisdom that guides our way of relating with nature. There
people wiser. The Zenúes, the region of La Mojana, where they join the great waters of Colombia, the waters of the Cauca and Magdalena, and a thousand years ago knew the system control of flooding and use it to convert the floodplain areas of cultivation. Five hundred thousand hectares of channels are an extraordinary testimony of hydraulic civilization, without any of the technical resources of the modern world, they created this marvel of engineering that still survives, even as a vestige of a culture specimen and passengers, the line looked at from the windows, when flying over the marsh country.
is an art to really know the territory they inhabited. The English invaders who descend from scorned the wisdom of native peoples, pretended to have a thorough knowledge of the world's most advanced logic and transplant believed that living the parched plains of Spain to a more bountiful land in water of the entire planet. A conceit of a culture that is responsible for many of our current misfortunes. How many dead we owe to the illusion that Europeans, having better weapons were superior to the refined American civilizations have always known that the most important: how to preserve the world and how to live respectfully on it.
I'm afraid my friend Alejandro Gaviria, who has long since not refute me, perhaps will say that the culture we are able to preserve the world is ours, and that the Indians were engaged in plundering and destroying the environment. But the truth is that after twenty thousand years of these lands inhabited by countless indigenous peoples, the exuberance of the American world to the arrival of Europeans was amazing.
biblical
This abundance of rainfall, water displays of wealth which is our equinoctial region, is something we live as a curse, but in other circumstances it might be our pride. Beyond empty debates, the truth is that even Alexander, a scholar and a brilliant boy, unaware that one of our problems is the lack of support in the knowledge they have here the economy and politics. Economists plan, if they do, as if we were in France or the United States, and politicians govern as if he lived in a territory subject to forces and climates, but in a harmless colorcito map. Engineers build roads that can never be completed, the architects often build buildings that can not be living. What can we say of people who have to improvise their homes or their huts where they were allowed poverty, which is another name of the flamboyant capital, its need to reverse. So grow
villages on the banks of rivers and the people living in misery waiting for the flats were for millennia the water and destroy the channels to form Zenúes estates behind the natural wealth and uncultivated pastures become land that could feed a continent. Suffice it to recall that already in the News histories Fray Pedro Simon, written in the early seventeenth century, there is a detailed description of the avalanche of Armero Lagunilla River, which occurred 350 years in identical terms before Armero take him our ignorance and our forgetfulness. Ignorance and forgetfulness in us is a sin, but government is a crime.
President Santos, that seems to go down in history, and govern for the people rather than the owners would do well to avoid being stunned by the urgencies of daily life and, without neglecting the pressing tasks of solidarity with victims of this disastrous winter, think long-term greatness, think of the enormous need for applied knowledge that these lands are ours to make prosperity the inexhaustible treasure of water should be our blessing, and that because of the unpredictability we make each year in the final trial.
Colombia can not be ordered to change constantly the subject of their complaints, the open violence, corruption in the avalanche. Colombia does not have to drag on for begging with every winter and every summer. Colombia is a treasure now entrusted to the hands reckless and foolish. Mine. Ours.
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superstitious
By: Alejandro Gaviria, http://agaviria.blogspot.com/
El Espectador, December 18, 2010 - 9:57 pm http://www.elespectador.com/columna-241176-supersticiosos
MOST Colombian commentators seem convinced that the tragedy of winter is making ours a result of our sins, our chaotic occupation of the territory, our lack of planning.
According to many, Colombian society is not a victim of a merciless and ruthless nature, quite the contrary, nature has been victimized, nearly leveled by a predatory society, irresponsible. This tragedy, it is said often paints us from head to toe, we accurately reflected in the mirror of our own faults uncomfortable.
Amid the confusion, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster, confused by a reality that literally overwhelmed us, we have revived, among others, the myth of the Indian environmentalist, if only we followed the example of our elder brothers. Expected to have fallen in another recurring myth, that of Frankenstein: nature eventually takes revenge on those who disrespect their mysterious mechanisms. Some columnists are like the priests in the days of the colony, to an earthquake or an epidemic, they claimed, convinced that the advent of tragedy was only one possible explanation: the wanderings sinful society. Religion was another. But the sermon remains the same.
generally have fallen into a kind of compulsion moralizing. The winter disaster, we say, not a tragedy: it is a deserved punishment. In our most frequent interpretations, no external causes: there is only guilty, many villains and few heroes misunderstood they preach in vain in the flood. So, the necessary debate on environmental policy arises, first, in terms of virtues and sins, as if it were a religious issue. Nobody talks about costs and benefits, the complex balance between development and environment. We have stayed in sermons, in the chest beating.
We, of course, many decades, from the Time of Cholera or more ago, clearing it in the Magdalena River basin. Our environmental authorities are examples of venality and corruption. Urban planning often due more to the interests of the owners of the land to the community. But the deception that associates, immediately, the faults of society to the human tragedy is meaningless. We have suffered the worst downpours of the last forty years. We live in a country with a geography difficult, almost impossible. The settlements on the slopes of the mountains and river banks are not new. Not going away. They are part of this country. Also, since we are almost fifty million people, a reality that has omitted almost all analysis of recent days.
"We ... we change the system as the only way to overcome the climate crisis and continue to live under the shelter of our Pacha Mama for generations to come, " wrote a columnist for this newspaper (1) this week, citing a Indian claims or something. With the tragedies, with natural disasters, increasing superstition. If only we let sin or we change the system, we could live happily and peacefully in our Pacha Mama, the new promised land.
Every day, amid floods and floods are the dead, the landless, the dispossessed, those left homeless. And nothing.
"Water tight and it hurt like a shroud in the heart," says a character in García Márquez. We have become accustomed to the official verbiage saying that tragedies winter in Colombia are cyclical, uncontrollable, it is possible to prevent shock or mitigating its effects. It speaks of tragedy foretold, what then? Where were the respective officials to do something? "This is a little Katrina," says one. "There is no way to prevent," said another.
And the victims, so much mud and collapse are the same as always. Those below who live in hills, on slopes, on the banks of streams and rivers. The robbed that winter will be more homeless. Are the same, driven by untold miseries, by forced displacement, by the desire to survive in the midst of so many shortcomings, they stay in high-risk.
Crumble houses of cardboard and zinc, and plastic table, brittle material, and with them are children, old ladies. The usual in winter. Mother is out of streams and rivers. And who are responsible for climate change? At the recent meeting in Cancun, he said, inter alia, that "the climate crisis is the fruit of the civilization of the gain and the depletion of natural resources. His true and deep solutions are to promote the civilization of life and not in the market. "
capitalism, transnational corporations, those who see the destruction of ecosystems in a way to increase markets and profits, are responsible for numerous tragedies in the world. And Colombia is not isolated from these predators. And the meeting in the Mexican city in the Climate Justice Forum, concluded, grounded after analysis, you need to change the system and not the weather. It is known that many "natural calamities" have to do with corruption, with government mismanagement, the band passed by the standards of environmental preservation. With the disrespect for life.
Now, when the mass of the Gabriela, in Bello, became a tragic symbol of winter in Colombia, would be of interest to review how some of these misfortunes had been announced. What was done for prevention? For local news Bellanita neighborhood warned of what could happen there. However, the authorities went from bending. Ah, yes, blame the poor, which, submitted by social inequities, have to build in high risk areas.
One columnist asked, about the isolation and tragedy on the roads, "who ordered the construction of these roads of crap? Who gave them a concession to before and after each collapse would have a toll? ". On the other hand, seeing the disaster, for example in the Atlantic, why were not preventive work in the Canal del Dique? Perhaps one might think that the poor have little interest. Perhaps to lure in elections. What if many of them perish in floods and landslides. From time to repeat that history, and will losing attractive. Or maybe used, for the president to put face of the Sorrowful Virgin. And pose a banker philanthropist.
Going back to Cancun, the assembled group (workers, peasants, indigenous people, social organizations, etc..) Stated that "we as part of the people who aspire to move, we have no business to do with climate change we the system as the only way to overcome the climate crisis and continue to live under the shelter of our Pacha Mama, for generations to come. "
Now, when the dead floating in the streets, it is possible to consider the need to change this iniquitous system. Meanwhile, the water we still tightening like a shroud in the heart. +++++ Friends of NTC
may not intellectuals, leaders and legislators from Colombia to accept that "We live in a country with a geography difficult, almost impossible. The settlements on the hillsides and river banks are not new. not going away. They are part of this country. ", and go to sleep peacefully in their homes and apartments "where the rain never herald of death."
would need a national debate on how to handle urban land for the growth of cities including the poorest on earth do really developable. There are some legal bases and there are proposals for construction and urban technology, but not enough to open the doors of urban land to those who inhabit the crumbly slopes and flood plains on the fringes of our cities. ----
The following poems are not listed in my two published books. I wrote a dozen years ago, ie long before the disaster Gabriela :
------- * The Poet Rodrigo Escobar Holguín is an architect, graduated from the U. del Valle, a Masters in regional and urban planning in Edinburgh. ++++++
Clouds Mild
water birds escaped from the earth.
With the rain, singing,
back ...
. RAIN
these days is no longer poetic rain.
up a gigantic rivers.
travel trees, houses
rag dolls. Move
land.
Open pits. Enlarge
seas.
untimely death.
To a place of tragedy comes
President
and speech.
ATW (2008) ------
Looking rain
By: Alfredo Molano Bravo
El Espectador. Com December 11, 2010 - 9:59 pm http://www.elespectador.com/columna-239857-mirando-llover . Printed, Nov. 12.
not stop raining. People look, run, it clears, they soak. Flooded streets, neighborhoods, villages, municipalities, departments ....
Half the country is covered by water, mostly polluted, black-and mud, fetid. The victims are added every day. 235 are dead and a million and half of those affected. Damage was estimated at two billion. The government considers the events a "national tragedy" and declared emergency economic, social and ecological. The President is removed by the ears and blames climate change, building on the subject is popular and in Cancun leaders and experts meet to see how they do for the U.S., China, Russia and India agree to limit emissions gases that poison the planet. Climate change is exacerbating phenomena like El Niño and La Niña, but not the cause. Atmospheric gas saturation contributes, via global warming and "greenhouse effect", to more rain, but not the only source of the problem.
Employers have moved winter disaster. Generous one, tied others. Also ordinary citizens, shocked, touched his pocket. The government will draw from somewhere a billion dollars and no doubt this weekend decree any new taxes or increase existing ones. Appointed notables, and Promujeres-to handle the money. There will be photos, statements and a thousand opportunities to fish in troubled waters. There will be demonstrations of solidarity and landslides moving copies. Be shared, with photos and previous statements, blankets, tents, drinking water, powdered milk, and, given the time, to parents Noel. Then sweep the mud off some streets, rebuild bridges and landslides will rise. Burying the dead, heal the wounds and within months the tears will dry. But nothing will change because the real cause, direct, unnamed, will be changed. I speak, of course, deforestation. In one year, one million hectares felled, they become ash where corn is planted to pastures for raising cattle and enhance the property. The potrerización the country is overwhelming. Descumbres and reach the division of water. In the valleys and plains are drained wetlands to plant palm, soya, sugar cane. Protective vegetative cover, which prevents collapse and retains water Rainfall in the watershed, is destroyed. They save the coffee growing areas and farmers, increasingly reduced. The sponge was our forests and mountains have been ruined. Hence, landslides, mudslides and flooding in general. The tragedy of the neighborhood's Gabriela Bello is a brutal example of the effect of deforestation on slope. Nothing stops the bare earth, once filled with water and weigh more. Simple: it collapses, throws downhill and takes neighborhoods, villages, roads, bridges.
Governments know full well that this is the mother of the calf. Illustrated how they have warned and repeated. But some say, for one simple reason: the cause of much harm is livestock: 40 million hectares, 25 million cows eating grass and making holes with their hooves and also shitting-which helps to increase gases in the atmosphere, and look like a joke. To this we must add the potato, palm, sugar cane and mining within days, which already has six million hectares concession for use and abuse. The tragedies will ever greater if radical action is taken. We must put a stop to the deforestation of the watershed for which an initial stopgap measure would be the requirement of environmental management plans, and therefore pre-license for ranching and agricultural holdings. Today undertake plans to exploit these mines and oil fields, build roads, ports and railways, because they can affect the environmental order. Does the large livestock and potato do not have, as a whole impacts? If any activity affecting national parks, by law, requires the Environmental Management Plan, why the surrounding farming and the great crops of sugarcane, potato, and palm that threatens not? The environmental permit for the farm of older properties will not be a definitive measure, but would help reduce deforestation brutal just beginning to show its terrible consequences in recent winters.
winter The current tragedy and we have seen in recent twenty years, is paradoxically associated with immense wealth in freshwater Colombia, represented by an annual average rainfall of 3,000 mm, compared with 900 mm annually at the global level and 1,600 mm per year in Latin America. And both winter periods (with the great abundance of water) and summer periods, are longer and sharper with 'El Niño' / 'La Nina'. Moreover, in so far as global warming progresses, the rainy and dry seasons are becoming more extreme and more torrential downpours.
Do the phenomena of 'El Niño' / 'La Niña' are becoming more frequent and intense as global warming effect? Science still does not know what the relationship between these two phenomena.
Whatever the case, the challenge is to reduce the country's vulnerability to these two weather phenomena, which is imperative to stop clear-cut as the destruction of our ecosystems, start the restoration of those who are critical for environmental services (such as water cycle regulation and control of erosion), relocation of human settlements in hazard and, above all, to generate policies that ensure the poor's access to suitable land for development.
Unfortunately, we are galloping in the opposite direction, as evidenced by the pathetic environmental balance of the first decade of the millennium. For example, the deforestation rate nearly tripled between 2000 and 2009, having destroyed three million hectares of forests in the period.
is a process of environmental degradation that has unfortunately been helped by high government policies, as manifested, for example, in the hundreds of mining titles granted in areas of special ecological value in the execution or announcement of works, as the Darien Gap Road and Las Animas-Nuquí are creating the inevitable loss of valuable natural ecosystems, and in promoting a model of transformation of the Orinoco that is driving the destruction of wetlands and forests. 
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Kien & Ke. January 4, 2011.
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Update January 3, 2011.
Future Winter tragedies
Update January 3, 2011.
Future Winter tragedies
By: Manuel Rodriguez Becerra
TIME, January 1, 2011. See end.
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Economics and poetry
By: Mauricio García Villegas
December 25, 2010 - 9:53 pm http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/columna-242154-economia-y- poetry
William Ospina and Alejandro Gaviria are two prominent Colombian intellectuals, poet first and an economist second.
Both have years locked in a very interesting fight on the national reality. Both are critical writers, but they at least two major differences: A Ospina you are interested in the long term and is sympathetic to the causes of indigenous and marginalized. A Gaviria, however, is more interested in this and do not like what he calls the attitude "miserabilist" of leftists, who blame them for all our ills on the rich and ruling classes of this country.
The ultimate expression of this intellectual battle took place last week in these pages about the tragedy winter. Ospina said the Colombia disaster living today is the result of the destruction of ancestral knowledge that allowed indigenous cultures living in harmony with nature. The English invaders scorned the wisdom of native peoples, says Ospina, and thence of the arrogance of the invading culture, are many of our current ills.
Alejandro Gaviria, meanwhile, said that some of our columnists (Ospina among them) are like the priests of the colony to explain the tragedies of the "sinful wanderings of our society." We have fallen into a kind of compulsion moralizing, he says, which has replaced the external causes (the current harsh winter, overpopulation, the tension between development and environment, the costs and benefits) for sermons and chest beating. I'll
get into this fight and do it with two brief comments. First, I think both have good arguments to criticize his opponent. Ospina has every reason to question the foundations of our Western civilization (something, incidentally, typically Western) and his way of thinking about development. It also has reason to disqualify the economists who reduce all the social problems to an account of costs and benefits among rational actors with conflicting interests. In addition, to a liability trial against leaders who plan evil, unaware of the history and lack of critical sense is not just something completely alien to the "compulsion moralizing priest," but indispensable in our environment.
On the other hand, I think Gavin is right to disqualify that tilt, very typical of the Latin American left to see the poor or indigenous a paragon of virtue that we can get off the hook where we are. The poor are not more good or more evil than the rich (not mention that in addition to suffering poverty, had to be good). This romantic view of the miserable will do more harm than good to the progressive causes that are fighting for their emancipation. To say that the Indians were about environmentalists is accomplished, if not an overstatement, at least a comparison impossible. I think
opposing arguments and Gaviria Ospina not necessarily cancel, but add up. We have an interpretation of national life where we learn from indigenous cultures without simultaneously dreaming of her past recovery illusory where the causes of the poor do not have to ignore the good that some governments do, and where possible accounts that may affect the economy, at least eventually, by the images of poetry.
By: Mauricio García Villegas
December 25, 2010 - 9:53 pm http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/columna-242154-economia-y- poetry
William Ospina and Alejandro Gaviria are two prominent Colombian intellectuals, poet first and an economist second.
Both have years locked in a very interesting fight on the national reality. Both are critical writers, but they at least two major differences: A Ospina you are interested in the long term and is sympathetic to the causes of indigenous and marginalized. A Gaviria, however, is more interested in this and do not like what he calls the attitude "miserabilist" of leftists, who blame them for all our ills on the rich and ruling classes of this country.
The ultimate expression of this intellectual battle took place last week in these pages about the tragedy winter. Ospina said the Colombia disaster living today is the result of the destruction of ancestral knowledge that allowed indigenous cultures living in harmony with nature. The English invaders scorned the wisdom of native peoples, says Ospina, and thence of the arrogance of the invading culture, are many of our current ills.
Alejandro Gaviria, meanwhile, said that some of our columnists (Ospina among them) are like the priests of the colony to explain the tragedies of the "sinful wanderings of our society." We have fallen into a kind of compulsion moralizing, he says, which has replaced the external causes (the current harsh winter, overpopulation, the tension between development and environment, the costs and benefits) for sermons and chest beating. I'll
get into this fight and do it with two brief comments. First, I think both have good arguments to criticize his opponent. Ospina has every reason to question the foundations of our Western civilization (something, incidentally, typically Western) and his way of thinking about development. It also has reason to disqualify the economists who reduce all the social problems to an account of costs and benefits among rational actors with conflicting interests. In addition, to a liability trial against leaders who plan evil, unaware of the history and lack of critical sense is not just something completely alien to the "compulsion moralizing priest," but indispensable in our environment.
On the other hand, I think Gavin is right to disqualify that tilt, very typical of the Latin American left to see the poor or indigenous a paragon of virtue that we can get off the hook where we are. The poor are not more good or more evil than the rich (not mention that in addition to suffering poverty, had to be good). This romantic view of the miserable will do more harm than good to the progressive causes that are fighting for their emancipation. To say that the Indians were about environmentalists is accomplished, if not an overstatement, at least a comparison impossible. I think
opposing arguments and Gaviria Ospina not necessarily cancel, but add up. We have an interpretation of national life where we learn from indigenous cultures without simultaneously dreaming of her past recovery illusory where the causes of the poor do not have to ignore the good that some governments do, and where possible accounts that may affect the economy, at least eventually, by the images of poetry.
+ + + +
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The Memory of Water By: William Ospina
El Espectador, December 18, 2010 - 9:50 pm, http://www.elespectador.com/columna-241166-memoria-del-agua
before we got here the world was water.
She sometimes agrees and returns to their former places, but we who have to understand the laws of the world, because we arrived later and it is pervasive with an arrogance that seems too out of ignorance, with a Owners airs only happen when we place claim elements and impose a real logic.
all know that in most ancient times, the savannah of Bogotá was a large lagoon. Came a god or a prophet and broke the rocks with his staff, as the Moses of Exodus, and his way to the water and became the lake in a plain astonishing fertility. Everyone should know that, after that, long held Fúquene Lake still a vast expanse of the savannah, and only in the last century progressed industrious humans flooded and dry land crops and pastures founding. Why too surprised when we see the flood waters over the savannah? This evidence is not the wisdom that guides our way of relating with nature. There
people wiser. The Zenúes, the region of La Mojana, where they join the great waters of Colombia, the waters of the Cauca and Magdalena, and a thousand years ago knew the system control of flooding and use it to convert the floodplain areas of cultivation. Five hundred thousand hectares of channels are an extraordinary testimony of hydraulic civilization, without any of the technical resources of the modern world, they created this marvel of engineering that still survives, even as a vestige of a culture specimen and passengers, the line looked at from the windows, when flying over the marsh country.
is an art to really know the territory they inhabited. The English invaders who descend from scorned the wisdom of native peoples, pretended to have a thorough knowledge of the world's most advanced logic and transplant believed that living the parched plains of Spain to a more bountiful land in water of the entire planet. A conceit of a culture that is responsible for many of our current misfortunes. How many dead we owe to the illusion that Europeans, having better weapons were superior to the refined American civilizations have always known that the most important: how to preserve the world and how to live respectfully on it.
I'm afraid my friend Alejandro Gaviria, who has long since not refute me, perhaps will say that the culture we are able to preserve the world is ours, and that the Indians were engaged in plundering and destroying the environment. But the truth is that after twenty thousand years of these lands inhabited by countless indigenous peoples, the exuberance of the American world to the arrival of Europeans was amazing.
biblical
This abundance of rainfall, water displays of wealth which is our equinoctial region, is something we live as a curse, but in other circumstances it might be our pride. Beyond empty debates, the truth is that even Alexander, a scholar and a brilliant boy, unaware that one of our problems is the lack of support in the knowledge they have here the economy and politics. Economists plan, if they do, as if we were in France or the United States, and politicians govern as if he lived in a territory subject to forces and climates, but in a harmless colorcito map. Engineers build roads that can never be completed, the architects often build buildings that can not be living. What can we say of people who have to improvise their homes or their huts where they were allowed poverty, which is another name of the flamboyant capital, its need to reverse. So grow
villages on the banks of rivers and the people living in misery waiting for the flats were for millennia the water and destroy the channels to form Zenúes estates behind the natural wealth and uncultivated pastures become land that could feed a continent. Suffice it to recall that already in the News histories Fray Pedro Simon, written in the early seventeenth century, there is a detailed description of the avalanche of Armero Lagunilla River, which occurred 350 years in identical terms before Armero take him our ignorance and our forgetfulness. Ignorance and forgetfulness in us is a sin, but government is a crime.
President Santos, that seems to go down in history, and govern for the people rather than the owners would do well to avoid being stunned by the urgencies of daily life and, without neglecting the pressing tasks of solidarity with victims of this disastrous winter, think long-term greatness, think of the enormous need for applied knowledge that these lands are ours to make prosperity the inexhaustible treasure of water should be our blessing, and that because of the unpredictability we make each year in the final trial.
Colombia can not be ordered to change constantly the subject of their complaints, the open violence, corruption in the avalanche. Colombia does not have to drag on for begging with every winter and every summer. Colombia is a treasure now entrusted to the hands reckless and foolish. Mine. Ours.
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superstitious
By: Alejandro Gaviria, http://agaviria.blogspot.com/
El Espectador, December 18, 2010 - 9:57 pm http://www.elespectador.com/columna-241176-supersticiosos
MOST Colombian commentators seem convinced that the tragedy of winter is making ours a result of our sins, our chaotic occupation of the territory, our lack of planning.
According to many, Colombian society is not a victim of a merciless and ruthless nature, quite the contrary, nature has been victimized, nearly leveled by a predatory society, irresponsible. This tragedy, it is said often paints us from head to toe, we accurately reflected in the mirror of our own faults uncomfortable.
Amid the confusion, overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster, confused by a reality that literally overwhelmed us, we have revived, among others, the myth of the Indian environmentalist, if only we followed the example of our elder brothers. Expected to have fallen in another recurring myth, that of Frankenstein: nature eventually takes revenge on those who disrespect their mysterious mechanisms. Some columnists are like the priests in the days of the colony, to an earthquake or an epidemic, they claimed, convinced that the advent of tragedy was only one possible explanation: the wanderings sinful society. Religion was another. But the sermon remains the same.
generally have fallen into a kind of compulsion moralizing. The winter disaster, we say, not a tragedy: it is a deserved punishment. In our most frequent interpretations, no external causes: there is only guilty, many villains and few heroes misunderstood they preach in vain in the flood. So, the necessary debate on environmental policy arises, first, in terms of virtues and sins, as if it were a religious issue. Nobody talks about costs and benefits, the complex balance between development and environment. We have stayed in sermons, in the chest beating.
We, of course, many decades, from the Time of Cholera or more ago, clearing it in the Magdalena River basin. Our environmental authorities are examples of venality and corruption. Urban planning often due more to the interests of the owners of the land to the community. But the deception that associates, immediately, the faults of society to the human tragedy is meaningless. We have suffered the worst downpours of the last forty years. We live in a country with a geography difficult, almost impossible. The settlements on the slopes of the mountains and river banks are not new. Not going away. They are part of this country. Also, since we are almost fifty million people, a reality that has omitted almost all analysis of recent days.
"We ... we change the system as the only way to overcome the climate crisis and continue to live under the shelter of our Pacha Mama for generations to come, " wrote a columnist for this newspaper (1) this week, citing a Indian claims or something. With the tragedies, with natural disasters, increasing superstition. If only we let sin or we change the system, we could live happily and peacefully in our Pacha Mama, the new promised land.
+++++ (1) wizard hat
raining in Macondo
By: Reinaldo Spitaletta
El Espectador, December 14, 2010 - 11:17 a.m. http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/columnistasdelimpreso/reinaldo-spitaletta/columna-240326-llueve-macondo
Increasingly worst winters and more victims. Every day in this country synonymous with misfortune, increase the flood victims, those buried in avalanches, hurt by poorly constructed roads.
raining in Macondo
By: Reinaldo Spitaletta
El Espectador, December 14, 2010 - 11:17 a.m. http://www.elespectador.com/opinion/columnistasdelimpreso/reinaldo-spitaletta/columna-240326-llueve-macondo
Increasingly worst winters and more victims. Every day in this country synonymous with misfortune, increase the flood victims, those buried in avalanches, hurt by poorly constructed roads.
Every day, amid floods and floods are the dead, the landless, the dispossessed, those left homeless. And nothing.
"Water tight and it hurt like a shroud in the heart," says a character in García Márquez. We have become accustomed to the official verbiage saying that tragedies winter in Colombia are cyclical, uncontrollable, it is possible to prevent shock or mitigating its effects. It speaks of tragedy foretold, what then? Where were the respective officials to do something? "This is a little Katrina," says one. "There is no way to prevent," said another.
And the victims, so much mud and collapse are the same as always. Those below who live in hills, on slopes, on the banks of streams and rivers. The robbed that winter will be more homeless. Are the same, driven by untold miseries, by forced displacement, by the desire to survive in the midst of so many shortcomings, they stay in high-risk.
Crumble houses of cardboard and zinc, and plastic table, brittle material, and with them are children, old ladies. The usual in winter. Mother is out of streams and rivers. And who are responsible for climate change? At the recent meeting in Cancun, he said, inter alia, that "the climate crisis is the fruit of the civilization of the gain and the depletion of natural resources. His true and deep solutions are to promote the civilization of life and not in the market. "
capitalism, transnational corporations, those who see the destruction of ecosystems in a way to increase markets and profits, are responsible for numerous tragedies in the world. And Colombia is not isolated from these predators. And the meeting in the Mexican city in the Climate Justice Forum, concluded, grounded after analysis, you need to change the system and not the weather. It is known that many "natural calamities" have to do with corruption, with government mismanagement, the band passed by the standards of environmental preservation. With the disrespect for life.
Now, when the mass of the Gabriela, in Bello, became a tragic symbol of winter in Colombia, would be of interest to review how some of these misfortunes had been announced. What was done for prevention? For local news Bellanita neighborhood warned of what could happen there. However, the authorities went from bending. Ah, yes, blame the poor, which, submitted by social inequities, have to build in high risk areas.
One columnist asked, about the isolation and tragedy on the roads, "who ordered the construction of these roads of crap? Who gave them a concession to before and after each collapse would have a toll? ". On the other hand, seeing the disaster, for example in the Atlantic, why were not preventive work in the Canal del Dique? Perhaps one might think that the poor have little interest. Perhaps to lure in elections. What if many of them perish in floods and landslides. From time to repeat that history, and will losing attractive. Or maybe used, for the president to put face of the Sorrowful Virgin. And pose a banker philanthropist.
Going back to Cancun, the assembled group (workers, peasants, indigenous people, social organizations, etc..) Stated that "we as part of the people who aspire to move, we have no business to do with climate change we the system as the only way to overcome the climate crisis and continue to live under the shelter of our Pacha Mama, for generations to come. "
Now, when the dead floating in the streets, it is possible to consider the need to change this iniquitous system. Meanwhile, the water we still tightening like a shroud in the heart. +++++
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Indians Vargas Llosa
By: César Rodríguez Garavito
El Espectador, December 13, 2010 - 10:20 pm
http://www.elespectador. com/columna-240231-los-indigenas-de-vargas-llosa
WIN A NOBEL PRIZE is to die a little, run out the peaks to conquer and acquire beatific aura of perfection that are recognized only to the deceased .
criticize a Nobel is as politically incorrect as to speak ill of the dead. And the winner is suffering the slow death of seeing his work turned in reading fashion to flatter -Those things that "must read" on holiday or mention at a cocktail party.
Fortunately, the well-deserved literary prize Vargas Llosa may be the exception. Because Peruvian author writing has always understood as an invitation to criticism, the open discussion that blooms only in democracies that have defended all my life.
Well, one of the central debates of the recent work of Peru has to do with indigenous peoples. His latest novel, The Dream of Celtic, reconstructs the atrocities committed against indigenous Amazonian Colombia and Peru. And in his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm said that "for two centuries empowerment of indigenous people is a responsibility exclusively ours and we failed. She is still a pending issue in Latin America. There is one exception to this disgrace and shame. "
Atrocities, shame, shame unlikely subjects for a beach read. Therefore, before the shipwreck in the reading discussion pop, it's worth asking some uncomfortable questions.
For example, what has been the Huitotos and other indigenous people, as told in the dream of Celtic, were killed, enslaved, mutilated, raped, robbed and branded like cattle by rubber farmers in Putumayo ago a century? Today we know that genocide was such that, between 1900 and 1912, the native population fell from more than 50,000 to about 8,000.
What few know is that the Huitotos are now so threatened and vulnerable as ever. The risk is not rubber, but the coca, the mining boom and other economies that have attracted settlers, armed groups and entrepreneurs who are behind native lands. So is one of 34 people at risk for the Constitutional Court requested special protection in 2009. So population does not exceed the left by the rubber, and today is decimated by displacement forced to Leticia, Florence and Villavicencio. And so still waiting for answers to specific government the order of the Court, or life plan submitted to the Government a few years ago.
So readers who are horrified with what Roger Casement, Celtic in the novel, seen in Putumayo, they would be horrified with what today would find there, or the status of more than 60% of indigenous Colombians that, according to ONIC, are at risk of extinction by the same combination of violence, displacement, mining and other economic projects proceed without adequate consultation with the people.
The problem is that there is a gulf between indignation over past mistakes and a willingness to not repeat them. This is precisely where Vargas Llosa is wrong. With the same eloquence that has recounted the historical abuses, the indigenous movement has been criticized for opposing the commercial exploitation of their territories. Last year came against the lance in hand Peruvian Indians to stop the legislation that opened the country's Amazon to mining. And in 2003 ruled that unfortunate speech in Bogota, in which he compared to collectivisms indigenous movement with terrorists, based on the "spirit of the tribe," they seem "a rather ridiculous anachronism" and hinder "development, civilization and modernity. "
So the "emancipation" spoken of the writer is not decided by the Indians, but the only one considered possible: the market economy and "civilization." The same is said indigenous rubber tappers who hunted in the Putumayo.
* Founding member of DeJuSticia ( http://www.dejusticia.org/ )
By: César Rodríguez Garavito
El Espectador, December 13, 2010 - 10:20 pm
http://www.elespectador. com/columna-240231-los-indigenas-de-vargas-llosa
WIN A NOBEL PRIZE is to die a little, run out the peaks to conquer and acquire beatific aura of perfection that are recognized only to the deceased .
criticize a Nobel is as politically incorrect as to speak ill of the dead. And the winner is suffering the slow death of seeing his work turned in reading fashion to flatter -Those things that "must read" on holiday or mention at a cocktail party.
Fortunately, the well-deserved literary prize Vargas Llosa may be the exception. Because Peruvian author writing has always understood as an invitation to criticism, the open discussion that blooms only in democracies that have defended all my life.
Well, one of the central debates of the recent work of Peru has to do with indigenous peoples. His latest novel, The Dream of Celtic, reconstructs the atrocities committed against indigenous Amazonian Colombia and Peru. And in his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm said that "for two centuries empowerment of indigenous people is a responsibility exclusively ours and we failed. She is still a pending issue in Latin America. There is one exception to this disgrace and shame. "
Atrocities, shame, shame unlikely subjects for a beach read. Therefore, before the shipwreck in the reading discussion pop, it's worth asking some uncomfortable questions.
For example, what has been the Huitotos and other indigenous people, as told in the dream of Celtic, were killed, enslaved, mutilated, raped, robbed and branded like cattle by rubber farmers in Putumayo ago a century? Today we know that genocide was such that, between 1900 and 1912, the native population fell from more than 50,000 to about 8,000.
What few know is that the Huitotos are now so threatened and vulnerable as ever. The risk is not rubber, but the coca, the mining boom and other economies that have attracted settlers, armed groups and entrepreneurs who are behind native lands. So is one of 34 people at risk for the Constitutional Court requested special protection in 2009. So population does not exceed the left by the rubber, and today is decimated by displacement forced to Leticia, Florence and Villavicencio. And so still waiting for answers to specific government the order of the Court, or life plan submitted to the Government a few years ago.
So readers who are horrified with what Roger Casement, Celtic in the novel, seen in Putumayo, they would be horrified with what today would find there, or the status of more than 60% of indigenous Colombians that, according to ONIC, are at risk of extinction by the same combination of violence, displacement, mining and other economic projects proceed without adequate consultation with the people.
The problem is that there is a gulf between indignation over past mistakes and a willingness to not repeat them. This is precisely where Vargas Llosa is wrong. With the same eloquence that has recounted the historical abuses, the indigenous movement has been criticized for opposing the commercial exploitation of their territories. Last year came against the lance in hand Peruvian Indians to stop the legislation that opened the country's Amazon to mining. And in 2003 ruled that unfortunate speech in Bogota, in which he compared to collectivisms indigenous movement with terrorists, based on the "spirit of the tribe," they seem "a rather ridiculous anachronism" and hinder "development, civilization and modernity. "
So the "emancipation" spoken of the writer is not decided by the Indians, but the only one considered possible: the market economy and "civilization." The same is said indigenous rubber tappers who hunted in the Putumayo.
* Founding member of DeJuSticia ( http://www.dejusticia.org/ )
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To: ntcgra@gmail.com , December 28, 2010
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These things have been happening since long ago. Molano believes it is by deforestation. Is a partial truth.
deforestation For not only is the human cause of the disasters caused by rains. Another reason, in cities, is in the pattern of land market, which prevents people without means access to areas of urban vocation, ie, those that do not flake or flood, and can be serve economically with roads, water and sewer. Our institutions have formed a market that excludes that part of the population of developable land. In contrast, that land is in oversupply for the small population that can afford. As there are many and there is excess land they need, urban land is unused, while those without money are crammed into flimsy and flood lands. Hence the so-called urban natural disasters.
At this point, after the twentieth century, I presume that there will be foolproof recipes on how to be the economic system we adopt. The longtime supporters of the so-called planned economy have seen the problems of bureaucracy, rigidity and inefficiency of your prescription, and longtime supporters of the liberal capitalist economy have seen the injustices, abuses and inequities from yours. No need much keenness to find that we must learn to combine judiciously, and according to the types of goods concerned, such systems. Urban land is a well where economic management that we are making now involves longstanding injustice and death. Since ancient times, and if we do nothing but mourn, for the foreseeable future.
deforestation For not only is the human cause of the disasters caused by rains. Another reason, in cities, is in the pattern of land market, which prevents people without means access to areas of urban vocation, ie, those that do not flake or flood, and can be serve economically with roads, water and sewer. Our institutions have formed a market that excludes that part of the population of developable land. In contrast, that land is in oversupply for the small population that can afford. As there are many and there is excess land they need, urban land is unused, while those without money are crammed into flimsy and flood lands. Hence the so-called urban natural disasters.
At this point, after the twentieth century, I presume that there will be foolproof recipes on how to be the economic system we adopt. The longtime supporters of the so-called planned economy have seen the problems of bureaucracy, rigidity and inefficiency of your prescription, and longtime supporters of the liberal capitalist economy have seen the injustices, abuses and inequities from yours. No need much keenness to find that we must learn to combine judiciously, and according to the types of goods concerned, such systems. Urban land is a well where economic management that we are making now involves longstanding injustice and death. Since ancient times, and if we do nothing but mourn, for the foreseeable future.
may not intellectuals, leaders and legislators from Colombia to accept that "We live in a country with a geography difficult, almost impossible. The settlements on the hillsides and river banks are not new. not going away. They are part of this country. ", and go to sleep peacefully in their homes and apartments "where the rain never herald of death."
would need a national debate on how to handle urban land for the growth of cities including the poorest on earth do really developable. There are some legal bases and there are proposals for construction and urban technology, but not enough to open the doors of urban land to those who inhabit the crumbly slopes and flood plains on the fringes of our cities. ----
The following poems are not listed in my two published books. I wrote a dozen years ago, ie long before the disaster Gabriela :
NOVEMBER
been raining since the origin of memory.
Nobody imagines and sounds of summer.
And the patio was populated by old feelings I:
water percussion on the new leaves,
the fragrance of old wood and mold.
I can not enjoy them.
conscience reproaches me dawns
tight
the hill districts, their vigils
uneasy, fearful roofs
weight
sandy gullies and pregnant with rain
and dew.
DECEMBER
Even under the asphalt, repressed,
prisoner complaint of the rivers will soon
presence of mud and branches in the city
ignorant and greedy.
exiles to feel
hills home on the next avalanche.
Not far away, the lights illuminate
land
cross streets where the rain never
herald death.
and populates the grass ...
Who will pay the price?
still
neither fear nor pain become hatred.
Love takes time to come.
. Video related
been raining since the origin of memory.
Nobody imagines and sounds of summer.
And the patio was populated by old feelings I:
water percussion on the new leaves,
the fragrance of old wood and mold.
I can not enjoy them.
conscience reproaches me dawns
tight
the hill districts, their vigils
uneasy, fearful roofs
weight
sandy gullies and pregnant with rain
and dew.
DECEMBER
Even under the asphalt, repressed,
prisoner complaint of the rivers will soon
presence of mud and branches in the city
ignorant and greedy.
exiles to feel
hills home on the next avalanche.
Not far away, the lights illuminate
land
cross streets where the rain never
herald death.
and populates the grass ...
Who will pay the price?
still
neither fear nor pain become hatred.
Love takes time to come.
. Video related
------- * The Poet Rodrigo Escobar Holguín is an architect, graduated from the U. del Valle, a Masters in regional and urban planning in Edinburgh. ++++++
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* Speaking of winter
(And the thing is "I-see" :)
(And the thing is "I-see" :)
Clouds Mild
water birds escaped from the earth.
With the rain, singing,
back ...
. RAIN
these days is no longer poetic rain.
up a gigantic rivers.
travel trees, houses
rag dolls. Move
land.
Open pits. Enlarge
seas.
untimely death.
To a place of tragedy comes
President
and speech.
ATW (2008) ------
Looking rain
By: Alfredo Molano Bravo
El Espectador. Com December 11, 2010 - 9:59 pm http://www.elespectador.com/columna-239857-mirando-llover . Printed, Nov. 12.
not stop raining. People look, run, it clears, they soak. Flooded streets, neighborhoods, villages, municipalities, departments ....
Half the country is covered by water, mostly polluted, black-and mud, fetid. The victims are added every day. 235 are dead and a million and half of those affected. Damage was estimated at two billion. The government considers the events a "national tragedy" and declared emergency economic, social and ecological. The President is removed by the ears and blames climate change, building on the subject is popular and in Cancun leaders and experts meet to see how they do for the U.S., China, Russia and India agree to limit emissions gases that poison the planet. Climate change is exacerbating phenomena like El Niño and La Niña, but not the cause. Atmospheric gas saturation contributes, via global warming and "greenhouse effect", to more rain, but not the only source of the problem.
Employers have moved winter disaster. Generous one, tied others. Also ordinary citizens, shocked, touched his pocket. The government will draw from somewhere a billion dollars and no doubt this weekend decree any new taxes or increase existing ones. Appointed notables, and Promujeres-to handle the money. There will be photos, statements and a thousand opportunities to fish in troubled waters. There will be demonstrations of solidarity and landslides moving copies. Be shared, with photos and previous statements, blankets, tents, drinking water, powdered milk, and, given the time, to parents Noel. Then sweep the mud off some streets, rebuild bridges and landslides will rise. Burying the dead, heal the wounds and within months the tears will dry. But nothing will change because the real cause, direct, unnamed, will be changed. I speak, of course, deforestation. In one year, one million hectares felled, they become ash where corn is planted to pastures for raising cattle and enhance the property. The potrerización the country is overwhelming. Descumbres and reach the division of water. In the valleys and plains are drained wetlands to plant palm, soya, sugar cane. Protective vegetative cover, which prevents collapse and retains water Rainfall in the watershed, is destroyed. They save the coffee growing areas and farmers, increasingly reduced. The sponge was our forests and mountains have been ruined. Hence, landslides, mudslides and flooding in general. The tragedy of the neighborhood's Gabriela Bello is a brutal example of the effect of deforestation on slope. Nothing stops the bare earth, once filled with water and weigh more. Simple: it collapses, throws downhill and takes neighborhoods, villages, roads, bridges.
Governments know full well that this is the mother of the calf. Illustrated how they have warned and repeated. But some say, for one simple reason: the cause of much harm is livestock: 40 million hectares, 25 million cows eating grass and making holes with their hooves and also shitting-which helps to increase gases in the atmosphere, and look like a joke. To this we must add the potato, palm, sugar cane and mining within days, which already has six million hectares concession for use and abuse. The tragedies will ever greater if radical action is taken. We must put a stop to the deforestation of the watershed for which an initial stopgap measure would be the requirement of environmental management plans, and therefore pre-license for ranching and agricultural holdings. Today undertake plans to exploit these mines and oil fields, build roads, ports and railways, because they can affect the environmental order. Does the large livestock and potato do not have, as a whole impacts? If any activity affecting national parks, by law, requires the Environmental Management Plan, why the surrounding farming and the great crops of sugarcane, potato, and palm that threatens not? The environmental permit for the farm of older properties will not be a definitive measure, but would help reduce deforestation brutal just beginning to show its terrible consequences in recent winters.
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By: Andrés Hoyos
El Espectador, December 14, 2010 - 10:44 pm http://www.elespectador.com/calentamiento-global/columna-240456-23032057
GLOBAL WARMING generated by man will have to stop someday. Let
, for the sake of discussion, which is on the date cited in the title and also think that there is a second important fact: the average global temperature that day, which may be shifted from today's 17 ° C to 19 8 ° C. It is invented numbers, of course. Both data call Date Omega.
not I am aware that building and then go to refine a model used to predict the date Omega is a daunting task and extremely expensive, so their clothing should be in charge of the major multilateral agencies, in particular the UN, and would to involve many of the universities in the world. The usefulness of such a model, however, seems clear to me, especially because it would calculate how much a particular activity, an invention, a political decision to fund or unexpected delays or anticipated data Date Omega and to what extent.
Apart from the constant self-correction model, it should use clear rituals. Once every three months say something, the body responsible for setting the date reveal Omega recalculations and clearly explain the main reasons that varied in those ninety days. An example: there are elections in America and the model studied in depth the environmental proposals of candidates. Surveys (or bets) say who is more likely to get elected, so once measured the impact of each of the programs, according to a formula applicable prorated quarterly disclose predefined date net effect of the electoral prospects American on the Date Omega. Or say that a treaty is negotiated major environmental and in the process are added or deleted paragraphs, with Date effects on Omega. Obviously, when the candidate elected or X out the treaty is signed, may be calculated with greater certainty of execution. Of course, if President X edit your program by the way, the rectification will have effects on Omega later date.
The model will be also an advisory role. Party A calls B or agency deemed the influence of C on the date project Omega. After careful study, the model reveals the result to consult.
model course would have to consider data that actually go outside and sometimes throwing against the theories. Some of the most important variables are obvious: the actual concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the total population of the planet, each person is born with his bit of warming under the arm, the real average temperature resulting from the measurements, the actual data deforestation and reforestation, among many variables.
One of the most beneficial effects that would bring something like that described would reduce the hysteria and put in place both complacent as the apocalypse. At the same time quickly discover what other policies are worthwhile and which are mere compliments to the flag. I am aware that this fantasy of a Third columnist will not germinate easy in the arid territory of international bureaucracies. It does not do, the ideas are for them to move, so there leave it.
andreshoyos@elmalpensante.com on Twitter @ andrewholes
By: Andrés Hoyos
El Espectador, December 14, 2010 - 10:44 pm http://www.elespectador.com/calentamiento-global/columna-240456-23032057
GLOBAL WARMING generated by man will have to stop someday. Let
, for the sake of discussion, which is on the date cited in the title and also think that there is a second important fact: the average global temperature that day, which may be shifted from today's 17 ° C to 19 8 ° C. It is invented numbers, of course. Both data call Date Omega.
not I am aware that building and then go to refine a model used to predict the date Omega is a daunting task and extremely expensive, so their clothing should be in charge of the major multilateral agencies, in particular the UN, and would to involve many of the universities in the world. The usefulness of such a model, however, seems clear to me, especially because it would calculate how much a particular activity, an invention, a political decision to fund or unexpected delays or anticipated data Date Omega and to what extent.
Apart from the constant self-correction model, it should use clear rituals. Once every three months say something, the body responsible for setting the date reveal Omega recalculations and clearly explain the main reasons that varied in those ninety days. An example: there are elections in America and the model studied in depth the environmental proposals of candidates. Surveys (or bets) say who is more likely to get elected, so once measured the impact of each of the programs, according to a formula applicable prorated quarterly disclose predefined date net effect of the electoral prospects American on the Date Omega. Or say that a treaty is negotiated major environmental and in the process are added or deleted paragraphs, with Date effects on Omega. Obviously, when the candidate elected or X out the treaty is signed, may be calculated with greater certainty of execution. Of course, if President X edit your program by the way, the rectification will have effects on Omega later date.
The model will be also an advisory role. Party A calls B or agency deemed the influence of C on the date project Omega. After careful study, the model reveals the result to consult.
model course would have to consider data that actually go outside and sometimes throwing against the theories. Some of the most important variables are obvious: the actual concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the total population of the planet, each person is born with his bit of warming under the arm, the real average temperature resulting from the measurements, the actual data deforestation and reforestation, among many variables.
One of the most beneficial effects that would bring something like that described would reduce the hysteria and put in place both complacent as the apocalypse. At the same time quickly discover what other policies are worthwhile and which are mere compliments to the flag. I am aware that this fantasy of a Third columnist will not germinate easy in the arid territory of international bureaucracies. It does not do, the ideas are for them to move, so there leave it.
andreshoyos@elmalpensante.com on Twitter @ andrewholes
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winter Future tragedies
By: Manuel Rodriguez Becerra
TIME, 7:27 pm January 1, 2011 , http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/manuelrodrguezbecerra/ the-future-tragedy-invernales_8716632-4
Colombia seems to be doomed to continue suffering and tragedies winter today. The consequences of 'La Niña' / 'El Niño', and similarity of those associated with global warming, multiply and worsen as a result of deforestation, the devastation of the moors and the destruction of the marshes, which have altered deep-water cycle in our territory and led to the aggravation of floods, which have created favorable conditions for landslides. And the effects are also dramatic aftermath of the persistent inequality that continues to bring millions of poor people to settle in areas of high risk.
By: Manuel Rodriguez Becerra
TIME, 7:27 pm January 1, 2011 , http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/manuelrodrguezbecerra/ the-future-tragedy-invernales_8716632-4
Colombia seems to be doomed to continue suffering and tragedies winter today. The consequences of 'La Niña' / 'El Niño', and similarity of those associated with global warming, multiply and worsen as a result of deforestation, the devastation of the moors and the destruction of the marshes, which have altered deep-water cycle in our territory and led to the aggravation of floods, which have created favorable conditions for landslides. And the effects are also dramatic aftermath of the persistent inequality that continues to bring millions of poor people to settle in areas of high risk.
winter The current tragedy and we have seen in recent twenty years, is paradoxically associated with immense wealth in freshwater Colombia, represented by an annual average rainfall of 3,000 mm, compared with 900 mm annually at the global level and 1,600 mm per year in Latin America. And both winter periods (with the great abundance of water) and summer periods, are longer and sharper with 'El Niño' / 'La Nina'. Moreover, in so far as global warming progresses, the rainy and dry seasons are becoming more extreme and more torrential downpours.
Do the phenomena of 'El Niño' / 'La Niña' are becoming more frequent and intense as global warming effect? Science still does not know what the relationship between these two phenomena.
Whatever the case, the challenge is to reduce the country's vulnerability to these two weather phenomena, which is imperative to stop clear-cut as the destruction of our ecosystems, start the restoration of those who are critical for environmental services (such as water cycle regulation and control of erosion), relocation of human settlements in hazard and, above all, to generate policies that ensure the poor's access to suitable land for development.
Unfortunately, we are galloping in the opposite direction, as evidenced by the pathetic environmental balance of the first decade of the millennium. For example, the deforestation rate nearly tripled between 2000 and 2009, having destroyed three million hectares of forests in the period.
is a process of environmental degradation that has unfortunately been helped by high government policies, as manifested, for example, in the hundreds of mining titles granted in areas of special ecological value in the execution or announcement of works, as the Darien Gap Road and Las Animas-Nuquí are creating the inevitable loss of valuable natural ecosystems, and in promoting a model of transformation of the Orinoco that is driving the destruction of wetlands and forests.
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To address this state of affairs, it is urgent to comprehensively strengthen environmental institutions, including the necessary reform of the Ministry of Environment and CARs and to thoroughly review the National System for Disaster Prevention and Response.
To address this state of affairs, it is urgent to comprehensively strengthen environmental institutions, including the necessary reform of the Ministry of Environment and CARs and to thoroughly review the National System for Disaster Prevention and Response.
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But these formulas are not sufficient, since what is required, in essence, is to reorient wisely-called engines of development. And, if they continue their march without solving the problems of poverty and a runaway process of environmental destruction, end up condemning the country to magnify and multiply that, increasingly, the effects of the sharp, inevitable wave of the future winter as equivalent tragedies occur, or worse, which face today. +++++
But these formulas are not sufficient, since what is required, in essence, is to reorient wisely-called engines of development. And, if they continue their march without solving the problems of poverty and a runaway process of environmental destruction, end up condemning the country to magnify and multiply that, increasingly, the effects of the sharp, inevitable wave of the future winter as equivalent tragedies occur, or worse, which face today. +++++
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updated: NTC ... / degrees. December 28, 2010. 11:35 a.m.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
What Does The Cervix Feel Like Before A Period
The 2010 and Literature in the Valley, the South West and the Colombian Pacific. As an overview ...
The 2010 and Literature in the Valley,
the South West and the Colombian Pacific.
As an overview ... (Under construction ...)
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1. The man nomad. Jacques Attali.
Physical inactivity is a brief interlude in the history of mankind. Man is born of the trip, is the career of a biped-Australopithecus-coming down from the trees, straightens and begins to walk across Africa, Europe, Asia, India, Indonesia and China. This exciting book is the story told from the point of view of the nomads.
2. Summer. JM Coetzee. What writer writes his autobiography to be stick? JM Coetzee in this autobiography does sui generis, which is not an exercise in masochism but modest: the important ones are always the others, understand that is what makes a truly great writer.
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Tonight is possible that many trees are filled with unnecessary plastic utensils in gratitude and affection, which is not paradoxical and metonymic. But anyway, those are the rules of the game. So I bet for the only object capable of locking up hundreds of thousands of lives and open doors and maybe impress or annoy the recipient. I bet these books written by Colombians.
family. In this short novel Charry managed a tone sought in his earlier books and not always achieved. This story looks at the relationship between a parent and a child the meaning of old age and death in a way overwhelming.
Doze. I do not agree that any first novel is an autobiographical atonement, as I believe all writing is, in this novel Melba Escobar manages a story that transcends the family relations from the perspective of a woman seeking her place in the world.
That silence. The transcript of this short novel by Roberto Burgos Cantor is Puerto Escondido, the heart of paramilitary wars fought in the 90's and this decade. No thesis or convoluted explanations, Burgos does a story which feels all that stress through five-minute monologues. Abraham
between bandits. This novel Tomas Gonzalez has been held by the voices that get to tell the time of the violence of the 50, but has not insisted that the writer of Antioquia, in novel after novel, has revealed a mood, a way of being and the world perhaps ultimately to understand who we are. Coda
Save me, Joe Louis. Although it was published in 2007, its author, Andrés Felipe Solano , deserved to be this year on the Granta list of the best storytellers in English, thanks to the black comedy, Written with impeccable skill, showing him as a writer and an eye on what matters: to write. Merry Christmas. +++++
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The 2010 and Literature in the Valley,
the South West and the Colombian Pacific.
As an overview ... (Under construction ...)
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Entering the final week of 2010, it is time balances. Not always exhaustive, of course. Here we show a good part of what registarmos and compiled during the year NTC ... and its complementary blogs about books published in the region or elsewhere and whose authors were born or settled there. Each person will choose "best", "his canon." We integrate this presentation some of the statements published on the subject, especially by the writer GAZETTE Fabio Martinez today in El Pais.
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In NTC ... Poetry Books , http://ntc-libros-de-poesia.blogspot.com/ . * 26 records, some on books related to the region. About these, in chronological order emphasize, among others:
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"The waiting place." Gerardo Rivera. Poetry. Anthology. , http://ntc-libros-de-poesia.blogspot.com/2010_10_21_archive.html
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"Between a rock and a hard place." Ana Mercedes Vivas. , http://ntc-libros-de-poesia.blogspot.com/2010_01_07_archive.html . While this book Cali poet published in Bogotá in late 2009, was introduced in Cali in February 2010.
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http://ntc-revistas-de-poesia.blogspot.com/2010_08_24_archive.html . Director Omar Ortiz Forero
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http://ntc-revistas-de-poesia.blogspot.com/2010/07/clave-revista-de-poesia-no-15-julio.html . Directors Ortiz and Rafael José Zuleta Escobar De Andreis. Printed and virtual.
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architrave, http://www.arquitrave.com/principal.html , Director Harold Alvarado Tenorio. No. 48 , Cartagena de Indias, June 2010. printed and virtual.
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http://plenilunio-grupo-poiesis.blogspot.com/2010_12_05_archive.html . Director Milton Fabian Solano. Published bimonthly, 6 issues in 2010. printed and virtual.
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In NTC ... Narrative , http://ntc-narrativa.blogspot.com/ . 57 records. * And other NTC blogs ... * Some of books related to the region. Above these, in chronological order emphasize, among others:
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*** "Notes on the foundation of Tulua." Jacques Aprile Gniset. Collection Canta Rana. UCEVA. , http://ntc-bicentena-independencia-col.blogspot.com/2010_12_25_archive.html
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Criticism: Essays on American Literature contemporary. Alejandro José López Cáceres. New book. , http://ntc-narrativa.blogspot.com/2010_11_29_archive.html
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http://ntc-ediciones-virtuales.blogspot.com/2010_01_19_archive.html . In late 2009, launched in Cali in February 2010.
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http://ntc-documentos.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html . In late 2009, launched in Cali in February 2010.
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VIRTUAL CENTER ISAACS (CVI) http://dintev.univalle.edu.co/cvisaacs/ . We emphasize the excellent and ongoing work of the institution of the Universidad del Valle "that seeks to harness the internet technologies for the recovery of cultural and humanistic heritage of the Colombian Pacific, for the disclosure of lost works regional literature, presentation of artists, intellectuals and researchers who have promoted the arts and culture, to disseminate cultural institutions in the region for the discovery and promotion of educational events and promoting their intangible heritage. " So Special mention the activity regarding the publication of books and documents complete virtual which have helped promote NTC ... .
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Literary Calendar the region.
Yearbooks
By: Fabio Martinez
Literary Calendar the region.
Yearbooks
By: Fabio Martinez
GAZETTE, El Pais, Cali, December 26, 2010.
No. 979 There the full special and very broad on "cultural life in Cali and the region in 2010." be the chance to acknowledge and thank GAZETTE their excellent publications this year. File them in: Gazette, http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/ediciones-impresas?pub=3 .
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The 2010 year has been fruitful for the books in the Colombian Suroocidente region. Marked by the commemoration of the Bicentennial, where Confederate Cities Cali and played a prominent role, it is worth mentioning the books of historians Alberto Silva Scarpetta, Independence Bicentennial vallecaucana and Alonso Valencia, The regional confrontation in the The independent process Colombian Southwest. But the Bicentennial celebration was dedicated not only to look into the history, in the spirit of the rescue of a culture that was invisible, the Ministry of Culture brought to light the Afro-Colombian Library, a beautiful collection of eighteen titles of authors Caribbean and the Pacific. Among the authors of the Pacific is worth mentioning the tests chosen anthropologist Choco Rogerio Velásquez, foreword by Patiño Germain ... (... continued on page 2)
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, .... first novel Arnoldo Palacios, The stars are black , stories live the co Carlos Arturo Truque, novel The Witch of mine Gregory Sanchez, selected stories Oscar Collazos the Afro Anthology of Women Poets , compilation by Guiomar Cuesta and Alfredo Ocampo, the Bedtime Stories Isabella oral tradition Afropacífica selected by Baudilio Revelo and poetry Martan Helcias of Góngora, Hugo Salazar and Alfredo Valdes Vanin.
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In the same vein, it is necessary to highlight the book of Franco-Colombian researcher, Jacques Aprile, entitled Notes to the founding of Tulua , edited by Cantarana Collection, which runs Uceva from the poet Omar Ortiz, and the historical novel writer Denise Nariño Eduardo Delgado.
In the same vein, it is necessary to highlight the book of Franco-Colombian researcher, Jacques Aprile, entitled Notes to the founding of Tulua , edited by Cantarana Collection, which runs Uceva from the poet Omar Ortiz, and the historical novel writer Denise Nariño Eduardo Delgado.
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commercial publishers, which highlight her obsession with violence and self-help books are forgetting the literature, this time they did justice to Julio César Londoño, and published his book of essays Why is black at night? (Metro) and José Zuleta, We are all the foreign friends (Alfaguara).
commercial publishers, which highlight her obsession with violence and self-help books are forgetting the literature, this time they did justice to Julio César Londoño, and published his book of essays Why is black at night? (Metro) and José Zuleta, We are all the foreign friends (Alfaguara).
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La Universidad del Valle, for its part, through its publishing program, which runs Víctor Hugo Dueñas scholar, published this year sixty-six reissues and seventeen new titles, among which are two beautiful picture books that are a tribute to the landscape: Trees Valley University of Professor Stella Herrera Hurtado and wildlife in the campus of the Universidad del Valle Jaime Cantera Kintz biologist.
La Universidad del Valle, for its part, through its publishing program, which runs Víctor Hugo Dueñas scholar, published this year sixty-six reissues and seventeen new titles, among which are two beautiful picture books that are a tribute to the landscape: Trees Valley University of Professor Stella Herrera Hurtado and wildlife in the campus of the Universidad del Valle Jaime Cantera Kintz biologist.
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It is worth noting in this imprint, books radical revolution in Antioquia Jorge Isaacs (published jointly with the U. Externado) The legacy of hermeneutics Dolphin Thick Artificial neural networks, a practical approach Eduardo Caicedo and Jesus Alonso López, a better childhood Carlos Patiño and salsa disc The usión Alejandro Ulloa, now in its second edition.
It is worth noting in this imprint, books radical revolution in Antioquia Jorge Isaacs (published jointly with the U. Externado) The legacy of hermeneutics Dolphin Thick Artificial neural networks, a practical approach Eduardo Caicedo and Jesus Alonso López, a better childhood Carlos Patiño and salsa disc The usión Alejandro Ulloa, now in its second edition.
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School of Literary Studies, directed by Professor Julian Jimenez, published for its part, Latin American Poets Carmina Navia, Each His story Maria Eugenia Rojas, the Gender Perspective Latin American literature and Cristina Valcke Passion criticism, a selection of essays by Latin American authors , the young writer Alejandro López Cáceres.
School of Literary Studies, directed by Professor Julian Jimenez, published for its part, Latin American Poets Carmina Navia, Each His story Maria Eugenia Rojas, the Gender Perspective Latin American literature and Cristina Valcke Passion criticism, a selection of essays by Latin American authors , the young writer Alejandro López Cáceres.
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Finally, our two best selling books for this year are: Santa Cruz de Mompox with excellent photographs of Silvia Patiño and plastic A perspective: The man and machine (Feriva) of University of Westminster, under the editorship of Omar Díaz Saldaña. In this latest book of art, the diligent reader will delight in the stories and paintings by Edgar Negret, Alejandro Obregón, Omar Rayo, Pedro Alcantara, Maria Theresa Negreiros, Diego Pombo, Gilberto Cerón, Chalo Rojas, César Santafé, Vivian and Cesar Monsalve Correa, among others.
Finally, our two best selling books for this year are: Santa Cruz de Mompox with excellent photographs of Silvia Patiño and plastic A perspective: The man and machine (Feriva) of University of Westminster, under the editorship of Omar Díaz Saldaña. In this latest book of art, the diligent reader will delight in the stories and paintings by Edgar Negret, Alejandro Obregón, Omar Rayo, Pedro Alcantara, Maria Theresa Negreiros, Diego Pombo, Gilberto Cerón, Chalo Rojas, César Santafé, Vivian and Cesar Monsalve Correa, among others.
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In this past year, we can say we had a rich and varied literary bestiary. Memory literature that allows us to say with joy that in Cali and the region, not all salsa and control. 2010 Happy reading! +++++++
In this past year, we can say we had a rich and varied literary bestiary. Memory literature that allows us to say with joy that in Cali and the region, not all salsa and control. 2010 Happy reading! +++++++
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"Notes on the foundation of Tulua." Jacques Aprile Gniset. Collection Canta Rana. UCEVA. , http://ntc-bicentena-independencia-col.blogspot.com/2010_12_25_archive.html
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Top 10 yearbooks
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY crisis felt this year in the publishing market, which declined his offer. However, no shortage of good books. Luis Fernando Afanador , literary critic WEEK, choose the best and favors non-fiction.
WEEK, Saturday December 18, 2010. Http://www.semana.com/noticias-cultura/10-libros-del-ano/149180.aspx (there pictures of the covers)
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY crisis felt this year in the publishing market, which declined his offer. However, no shortage of good books. Luis Fernando Afanador , literary critic WEEK, choose the best and favors non-fiction.
WEEK, Saturday December 18, 2010. Http://www.semana.com/noticias-cultura/10-libros-del-ano/149180.aspx (there pictures of the covers)
1. The man nomad. Jacques Attali.
Physical inactivity is a brief interlude in the history of mankind. Man is born of the trip, is the career of a biped-Australopithecus-coming down from the trees, straightens and begins to walk across Africa, Europe, Asia, India, Indonesia and China. This exciting book is the story told from the point of view of the nomads.
2. Summer. JM Coetzee. What writer writes his autobiography to be stick? JM Coetzee in this autobiography does sui generis, which is not an exercise in masochism but modest: the important ones are always the others, understand that is what makes a truly great writer.
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3. There is silence that never ends. Ingrid Betancourt. It has been said that this witness has a great literary quality. And it is true, if we understand literature as something that makes us experience a others. Here we are with Ingrid in the jungle, we suffer with their abortive attempts to escape. The triumphant story about the narrator.
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4. Celtic's dream. Mario Vargas Llosa. The Irish patriot Roger Casement was a hero who exposed the world the shame of colonialism and the exploitation of rubber in the Congo and the Amazon. It was the thorn in the side of Leopold II and Julio Cesar Arana. Vargas Llosa claimed step fairly and reminds us that all heroes have feet of clay.
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5. Against the north wind. Daniel Glattauer. Exciting love story that was born and raised in virtual space. Emmi and Leo are known to be wrong emails and develop their relationship in that way, that obviously engages with the contemporary reader. But that's not all: the story and characters are very well made. 6. The idea of \u200b\u200bjustice. Amartya Sen. Instead of looking for perfect justice, will never exist, we must focus on clearly correct injustices remedied. That's the interesting thesis that develops the Nobel Prize in Economics, an academic grounding and social sensitivity.
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7. Pets . Antonio García Angel. In this book of good stories there is an extensive, almost a short novel that stands out especially. Is what gives the book its title and its theme is the monotonous life and alienated from a Colombian maid in Miami. The life of this "simple heart" is in memory thanks to his writing.
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8. Club lizards. Daniel Samper Ospina. Too crude, mocks personal shortcomings, say detractors. "I do a cartoon written," says the author. What you need is a new type of humor to criticize the elite and the political class. Is hyperbolic but not literal, there's the secret: careerism, corruption and impunity are huge and gross.
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9. Colombia in Colombian poetry. Several authors . Can you tell the story of a country through his poetry? Sure. Shown in this poetic journey through the history of Colombia since pre-Columbian times to the present. Poetry is singing, but also counts.
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10. There to say. Florence Thomas. This book, which delves into the debate on abortion in Colombia, appears at the right time: the Constitutional Court Attorney reminds its legal duties and raises the fundamental right to abortion, on the other hand, the Conservative Party without the intention to penalize exceptions.
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the best books of 2010, according ARCADIA
Once more, Arcadia choose the best books of fiction and nonfiction of the year. Novels, short stories, essays, history books and the poetry ... best recommendations for the holidays.
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EYE TO THE BLADE. DAVID CORREA JUAN
El Espectador, December 24, 2010. (Scanned NTC .... So far in December. 27, 2010 - 6:34 am - not on the website of the newspaper)
EYE TO THE BLADE. DAVID CORREA JUAN
El Espectador, December 24, 2010. (Scanned NTC .... So far in December. 27, 2010 - 6:34 am - not on the website of the newspaper)
Tonight is possible that many trees are filled with unnecessary plastic utensils in gratitude and affection, which is not paradoxical and metonymic. But anyway, those are the rules of the game. So I bet for the only object capable of locking up hundreds of thousands of lives and open doors and maybe impress or annoy the recipient. I bet these books written by Colombians.
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Three white coffins. Antonio Ungar accomplished in his third novel to get a sober balance between the public and private sectors. and how. In this satire of a country called Miranda, a tragicomedy of entanglement in a country very similar to this, one feels the work and dedication of the writer, winner of the Novel Herralde 2010.
Three white coffins. Antonio Ungar accomplished in his third novel to get a sober balance between the public and private sectors. and how. In this satire of a country called Miranda, a tragicomedy of entanglement in a country very similar to this, one feels the work and dedication of the writer, winner of the Novel Herralde 2010.
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The Triumph of Death. Mauricio Bonnett recently published novel on it, a thriller refined and worked as a moral novel, manages to reveal the twists and turns of a few characters lost in London and joined by an infamous death. Ruins
The Triumph of Death. Mauricio Bonnett recently published novel on it, a thriller refined and worked as a moral novel, manages to reveal the twists and turns of a few characters lost in London and joined by an infamous death. Ruins
family. In this short novel Charry managed a tone sought in his earlier books and not always achieved. This story looks at the relationship between a parent and a child the meaning of old age and death in a way overwhelming.
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. Antonio García got a story book balanced, well written, follow your intuition to find the particular speech of his characters. The last story that gives the book its title is the best.
. Antonio García got a story book balanced, well written, follow your intuition to find the particular speech of his characters. The last story that gives the book its title is the best.
Doze. I do not agree that any first novel is an autobiographical atonement, as I believe all writing is, in this novel Melba Escobar manages a story that transcends the family relations from the perspective of a woman seeking her place in the world.
That silence. The transcript of this short novel by Roberto Burgos Cantor is Puerto Escondido, the heart of paramilitary wars fought in the 90's and this decade. No thesis or convoluted explanations, Burgos does a story which feels all that stress through five-minute monologues. Abraham
between bandits. This novel Tomas Gonzalez has been held by the voices that get to tell the time of the violence of the 50, but has not insisted that the writer of Antioquia, in novel after novel, has revealed a mood, a way of being and the world perhaps ultimately to understand who we are. Coda
Save me, Joe Louis. Although it was published in 2007, its author, Andrés Felipe Solano , deserved to be this year on the Granta list of the best storytellers in English, thanks to the black comedy, Written with impeccable skill, showing him as a writer and an eye on what matters: to write. Merry Christmas. +++++
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For Patiño Germain.
El Pais, Cali, December 27, 2010
http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/opinion/columna/german-patino/libros-0
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In these days of year end, suitable for meditation and relaxation, there's always a few books that we reconcile with the finer things of the human condition. I think of the following:
1. 'Dublinesca' of Enrique Vila-Matas. In my opinion the best novel published in Castilian in the current year. An ode to good literature. Vila-Matas leads to an extremely risky idea that good fiction does not depend on the plot. Here there are no complicated plots or exotic adventure stories, and descriptions that seek to become screenplays. There are other, creating complex characters, recreating memories, reflections and a steady turn to the literary experience. The centerpiece of the novel is about a journey made by friends of James Joyce's Dublin, which actually does not happen more thing worth mentioning. But between travel planning, fulfillment and returns, witness a fascinating display of literary inquiry and the spectacle of a brilliant intelligence navigating through the maze of human nature. Vila-Matas fly higher and farther than any writer in today's Castilian and shows a novel that generated in the same literature, must use an artistic language that movies will never come, and that takes the banalities the texts which follow exactly the canons of contemporary best-seller.
2. "Three white coffins' by Antonio Ungar. a surprise year-end, award-winning novel Herralde, one of the most prestigious in English. Surprising for several reasons: there are echoes in the pages of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole, the ability to romanticize the recent events in Colombia and the well-crafted literary. A devastating critique of Uribe in power, a joke no concessions to careerism and hypocrisy of the Colombian elite, keen sense of humor and a good dose of philosophical skepticism, so necessary in these times of illusions made from power. Although international criticism has been noted that may relate to the status of any country in Latin America, it is clear that its referent is the Colombia of the Uribe administration and Ungar tells you when reproduced on page 154 letter the song 'Noches de Cartagena' and tells us that it was composed by a compatriot of President Thomas of Pito-fictional name of Alvaro Uribe, referring to Jaime Echavarria Antioquia. Certain excesses of language and the ability to mock everything and everyone, make this novel a good example for Colombian writers, especially for those who are engaged in national reality fictionalizing and are not able to let go of his fascination violence. Ungar goes stomping on the literary scene in English.
3. 'The Cemetery of Prague "by Umberto Eco Nothing is what it seems in this provocative novel. Some of hedonism with respect to the fine French cuisine and a nineteenth century French challenges to contemporary European conventions. Politically incorrect, is literature at its best: writing as a work of art.
Unfortunately, these three gems are not very visible at the National Library, as usual. Their shelves dominates fashion, not literature. --------
In these days of year end, suitable for meditation and relaxation, there's always a few books that we reconcile with the finer things of the human condition. I think of the following:
1. 'Dublinesca' of Enrique Vila-Matas. In my opinion the best novel published in Castilian in the current year. An ode to good literature. Vila-Matas leads to an extremely risky idea that good fiction does not depend on the plot. Here there are no complicated plots or exotic adventure stories, and descriptions that seek to become screenplays. There are other, creating complex characters, recreating memories, reflections and a steady turn to the literary experience. The centerpiece of the novel is about a journey made by friends of James Joyce's Dublin, which actually does not happen more thing worth mentioning. But between travel planning, fulfillment and returns, witness a fascinating display of literary inquiry and the spectacle of a brilliant intelligence navigating through the maze of human nature. Vila-Matas fly higher and farther than any writer in today's Castilian and shows a novel that generated in the same literature, must use an artistic language that movies will never come, and that takes the banalities the texts which follow exactly the canons of contemporary best-seller.
2. "Three white coffins' by Antonio Ungar. a surprise year-end, award-winning novel Herralde, one of the most prestigious in English. Surprising for several reasons: there are echoes in the pages of 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole, the ability to romanticize the recent events in Colombia and the well-crafted literary. A devastating critique of Uribe in power, a joke no concessions to careerism and hypocrisy of the Colombian elite, keen sense of humor and a good dose of philosophical skepticism, so necessary in these times of illusions made from power. Although international criticism has been noted that may relate to the status of any country in Latin America, it is clear that its referent is the Colombia of the Uribe administration and Ungar tells you when reproduced on page 154 letter the song 'Noches de Cartagena' and tells us that it was composed by a compatriot of President Thomas of Pito-fictional name of Alvaro Uribe, referring to Jaime Echavarria Antioquia. Certain excesses of language and the ability to mock everything and everyone, make this novel a good example for Colombian writers, especially for those who are engaged in national reality fictionalizing and are not able to let go of his fascination violence. Ungar goes stomping on the literary scene in English.
3. 'The Cemetery of Prague "by Umberto Eco Nothing is what it seems in this provocative novel. Some of hedonism with respect to the fine French cuisine and a nineteenth century French challenges to contemporary European conventions. Politically incorrect, is literature at its best: writing as a work of art.
Unfortunately, these three gems are not very visible at the National Library, as usual. Their shelves dominates fashion, not literature. --------
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-> works 50 years . By: Editorial Cultural, El Espectador. Com December 30, 2010 - 10:00 pm http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/cultura/articulo-242866-obras-de-estos-50-anos . Printed December 31. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Violence' by Alejandro Obregon Bovea music and Vallenatos and show 'Guadalupe years without account', the Teatro La Candelaria, are works that survive their owners. ... The objective of this special is to pay tribute to our artists and remember those works that reflect and paradigm of our contemporary cultural identity. .. .
... In Colombia 50 years passed from the literature representative of the Latin American boom that brought the world and brought to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize with the work that no critic or reader would dare take on this list, One Hundred Years of Solitude, to stories rebels as urban and live music! , a work that is just now receiving worldwide recognition it deserves, since the work of Andres Caicedo had limited distribution outside the country until a few years ago.
While those two books and some other voices joined in, find only 10 books representative or emblematic of our time was really difficult because the list included many authors. Some poetical works mentioned were: Leon of Greiff: Complete Works, Poems major, Jaime Jaramillo Escobar, Poetry, William Ospina, Duration and legend, Giovanni Quessep, the love, 1982-1987 and Ceretano Triptych, Raúl Gómez Jattin.
Top 10 of Colombian literature
'One Hundred Years of Solitude ", Gabriel García Márquez. (1967)
'Long live the music! "Andres Caicedo (1977).
'Forgetting that we will', Hector Abad (2007).
'No choice', Antonio Caballero (1984).
'The Autumn of the Patriarch ", Gabriel García Márquez (1975).
'Summa de Maqroll the Gaviero ', Alvaro Mutis (1948-1988 poetry, published in 1997).
'The Lady of the Assassins', Fernando Vallejo, 1999.
'The Weaver of Crowns' Germain Espinosa (1983).
'Esther' relatives', Luis Fayad 1978.
'History of Horace', Tomás González (1997).
While those two books and some other voices joined in, find only 10 books representative or emblematic of our time was really difficult because the list included many authors. Some poetical works mentioned were: Leon of Greiff: Complete Works, Poems major, Jaime Jaramillo Escobar, Poetry, William Ospina, Duration and legend, Giovanni Quessep, the love, 1982-1987 and Ceretano Triptych, Raúl Gómez Jattin.
Top 10 of Colombian literature
'One Hundred Years of Solitude ", Gabriel García Márquez. (1967)
'Long live the music! "Andres Caicedo (1977).
'Forgetting that we will', Hector Abad (2007).
'No choice', Antonio Caballero (1984).
'The Autumn of the Patriarch ", Gabriel García Márquez (1975).
'Summa de Maqroll the Gaviero ', Alvaro Mutis (1948-1988 poetry, published in 1997).
'The Lady of the Assassins', Fernando Vallejo, 1999.
'The Weaver of Crowns' Germain Espinosa (1983).
'Esther' relatives', Luis Fayad 1978.
'History of Horace', Tomás González (1997).
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SOME ADDITIONAL BLOGS AND DERIVATIVES
ntcgra@gmail.com . Cali, Colombia. NTC
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NTC ... Documents , http://ntc-documentos.blogspot.com/ (31)
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NTC ... Poetry , http://ntc-libros-de-poesia.blogspot.com/ (26)
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NTC ... Narrative , http://ntc-narrativa.blogspot.com/ (57)
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NTC ... Poetry , http://ntcpoesia.blogspot.com/ (33)
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Literature in the Valley. Debate , http://literaturaenelvalle.blogspot.com/ (2)
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NTC ... virtual editions , http://ntc-ediciones-virtuales.blogspot.com/ (1)
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NTC ... Documents , http://ntc-documentos.blogspot.com/ (31)
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NTC ... Poetry , http://ntc-libros-de-poesia.blogspot.com/ (26)
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NTC ... Narrative , http://ntc-narrativa.blogspot.com/ (57)
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NTC ... Poetry , http://ntcpoesia.blogspot.com/ (33)
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Literature in the Valley. Debate , http://literaturaenelvalle.blogspot.com/ (2)
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NTC ... virtual editions , http://ntc-ediciones-virtuales.blogspot.com/ (1)
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OPEN OTHER BLOGS AND "Manage" FOR NTC ...
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Each blog is regularly updated and the link to your files is in the relevant page in the left column. +++++
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Story "Nest of Vipers" published in Icarus Fireproof No. 8:
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Difference Between Mpc 2000 And 2000xl
We shall leave every day,
lies on the table, mine
tied with a pink ribbon embarrassing
dread. Yours Free
, sound, molded
patience
determined on the anvil of indifference
scented.
© 2010 M. Sonseca
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