Pinochet, now and forever will be a real boy
Pinochet's death has aroused mixed feelings all around, obviously divided into two camps, those who consider him a ruthless murderer and those who believe that through their actions is that Chile now enjoys a privileged location in Latin America. When I saw the news on the page of a newspaper online is not caused me any feeling at the time, was something I already knew was going to happen soon, but then I read on the Internet some opinions on the subject and try to do the exercise to clarify my own opinion. I was surprised because I really was not easy, left my heart told me that the monster died without paying for thousands of war crimes but on the other hand, the fact that he lived near the Colombian violence and growing up in a city flanked by guerrillas paramilitaries and makes it easier to understand how painful it is war, which the people of the great cities seldom understood and this is what causes me conflict because in the end the extermination Pinochet worked, today they do not have guerrillas and we do.
I remembered those times when I lived in Santiago de Chile and Chileans to my friends was not easy to discuss the issue of Pinochet to the point that was considered taboo, some with only one bothered to name him and got a few opinions of them were to heat a few drinks. More or less the situation with the Germans and the Second World War.
also remembered a movie that has much meaning in my life, "Night of the pencils" made as a documentary medium showing Argentine teenagers who struggle to change the country and which suffer the yoke of dictatorial power and that viciously murdering them under the guise of protecting the stability of the country. And I say that this film has meant so much because I have seen at different stages in my life, first when it was a leftish adolestente so I only need to find the recruiter's M-19 to have gone into the hills to fight for a better world romantically . Then I saw when I had given up my dreams, I had sold the system and enjoying the comfort of the comforts of capitalism, my political ideology had gone to the right since the guerrillas took care of me understand the point of blood Communism is just a dream, a utopia that only works temporarily in the role and made me hate the left. In season is to see the film was shocking because I thought only an "it is But give them bullet "and when the mothers were crying saying that there were only kids I kept thinking" yes, but tomorrow will be the Sureshot, Reyes and Romana. The have gone from the country and now live in a society social democrat brought me back understand that the left if it can work but otherwise, without leaving aside democracy and the last time I saw the movie just did not know what to think, killing children is not right, but having a country full of blood is neither .
All this analogy with the movie is because it is more or less the same as Pinochet wake me, I know that 3000 people have disappeared is not right, but in Colombia these are the dead of violence as 2 weeks and we 50 years therein. Anyway, the Colombian case is different because the guerrillas are already here and is going to stay, the Chilean case was an extermination of genesis. And history is not far away Argentina. Never have questioned why the revolution Che did in your country?
The only conclusion I can draw is that of two evils I prefer the less.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
What To Do After Your Cherry Pops
TLC: As we knocked Echeverry!
Despite the countless enemies who have the TLC does not understand the stubborn one who had to sign because there was another. Because although we do not put a gun to her head to sign it, but we had played because you brought us. USA us prevend intimidated to take off because we had already treaties if we did not sign the FTA and only lose what we already had by the ATPDEA would be a catastrophe for our economy because as we all know the Americans are our largest customers, for better or for worse. No longer funny that the government is proud of this great achievement for the industrial sector, about 6000 items that enter the market without tariffs gringo, this does not explain is that these 6000 items were already in and just let us keep doing it. But well, the industrial sector was one that came out medium well rid of the issue.
But the agro if he was like dogs in church. They gave us was nothing, but the Yankees if they were well able to protect the sugar and worst of all, we signed a one-way small clause that says if we do some business with another country with better conditions than those that the gringos are, they automatically receive the same conditions. That is, if you want to sell cheap potato in Venezuela we have to give it the same price to them. That if the clause only works for them, and hopefully give us automatic discounts for negotiations with third parties to us. We applied double standards. We are a country without technology and produce harm than good little something for the little bit of land and let us lie down in that sector. Other gems include
protectionism drugs which affect the production and marketing of generic drugs to which the poor will have less access to the pharmaceuticals they need. Fortunately the poor do not get sick as often.
We got another great goal with the remanufactured, who basically are nothing more than items used by the manufacturer to sell it back to polish. So hopefully we fill in the future with televisions and audio equipment used probably try to sell us as new if we open our eyes.
A Uribe can blame him for signing the FTA, the end of the day had to sign it, but if we can put the blame for having negotiated badly. And the way the government describes the wonderful achievements that remind me Pastrana gave speech on TV a few days before completing his term, was very happy informing us how our lives would change because of the achievements of international treaties, and our exports would multiply as succession that tends to infinity, such as unemployment and eventually cede our living standards soar upward. Dawned and I saw nothing.
Despite the countless enemies who have the TLC does not understand the stubborn one who had to sign because there was another. Because although we do not put a gun to her head to sign it, but we had played because you brought us. USA us prevend intimidated to take off because we had already treaties if we did not sign the FTA and only lose what we already had by the ATPDEA would be a catastrophe for our economy because as we all know the Americans are our largest customers, for better or for worse. No longer funny that the government is proud of this great achievement for the industrial sector, about 6000 items that enter the market without tariffs gringo, this does not explain is that these 6000 items were already in and just let us keep doing it. But well, the industrial sector was one that came out medium well rid of the issue.
But the agro if he was like dogs in church. They gave us was nothing, but the Yankees if they were well able to protect the sugar and worst of all, we signed a one-way small clause that says if we do some business with another country with better conditions than those that the gringos are, they automatically receive the same conditions. That is, if you want to sell cheap potato in Venezuela we have to give it the same price to them. That if the clause only works for them, and hopefully give us automatic discounts for negotiations with third parties to us. We applied double standards. We are a country without technology and produce harm than good little something for the little bit of land and let us lie down in that sector. Other gems include
protectionism drugs which affect the production and marketing of generic drugs to which the poor will have less access to the pharmaceuticals they need. Fortunately the poor do not get sick as often.
We got another great goal with the remanufactured, who basically are nothing more than items used by the manufacturer to sell it back to polish. So hopefully we fill in the future with televisions and audio equipment used probably try to sell us as new if we open our eyes.
A Uribe can blame him for signing the FTA, the end of the day had to sign it, but if we can put the blame for having negotiated badly. And the way the government describes the wonderful achievements that remind me Pastrana gave speech on TV a few days before completing his term, was very happy informing us how our lives would change because of the achievements of international treaties, and our exports would multiply as succession that tends to infinity, such as unemployment and eventually cede our living standards soar upward. Dawned and I saw nothing.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Toggle With Loaded Cheats
slot machines, magic moments were lost
Arcades The Americans call them, we called them little machine, came to Colombia in the first half of the '80s and marked the youth of those who belong to the generation of guava, were mere machines, video games and coin-operated today are almost forgotten by penetration with computers and personal systems vidojuegos bored today (Play Station, Xbox, etc).
The first machine that I saw in my life was in Barrancabermeja, was nothing more than an Atari 2600 and a TV screen all tucked inside a wooden box probably made by some village carpenter, but at that time we were all baffled, could not believe that we had to face a machine to play very similar to what went on daily TV program called Telectronico.
maquinitero
My early career was not very fruitful as a child I do not specialize in any game, that if I had fun on a combination of fun that provided the game itself but the adrenaline of doing something forbidden because our parents would not let us be closer to less than 100 meters from those places full of vague and vicious. The first serious arcades and saw that I lost a very long time were the Martians and a pacman style table and where a player to each side, the display magically turn was reversed each time the other player had his turn. I played Donkey Kong, Galaga, "Eagles" (can not remember his original name), Mrs. Pacman, Mario Bros 1 and many other games coming to the halls of slot machines of my glorious hometown. It should be noted that these panels only had 3 or 4 machines and a put his money and was awaiting trial for their turn.
In the second half of the 80s I moved to Bogota and know the sky of the machines, the UniPlay in Unicentro. A big spend afternoons there after leaving college classes and started to take seriously what the slot machines to the point that I was the king of two of them. Being the king of a little machine was like being a little god to which it played, one was the best player who frequented and had his initials on all records, others admired him a nerd. It was the king of 2 of them, the first was a game called Golden Axe Sega really was not very popular but in my opinion one of the best arcade games ever made. One was a warrior and had many adventures, maybe I'm gumming the game by the literature he read at that time and because I was making my first steps in role playing games (although fortunately never entered the gum at all). Golden Axe The machine was not like the others, did not stay very full and only played one another nerd, had the opportunity to put him another coin and continue when one is killed so it was not that people put coins way forward to take turns, everything is based on respect and a player expected to finish and release the machine, however was not as popular as usually there was no one waiting and when the person was someone I was so happy to see another player who patiently watched him play to learn new tricks or make fun of the mentally Donut rookie who was playing.
The other machine which was the king if he was very popular, a Sega game also Out Run call that practically everyone knows, that of Ferrari, very advanced for its time because not only had changes (first and second), accelerator and brake, but the steering wheel vibrates when you came out of the track. I was the god of that game, I was respected UniPlay and every time I approached the machine other nerds began to whisper and gradually came to see me play. I played so much that almost never made mistakes, crossed the entire game very quietly and with a flawless execution, controlling the spotted with his left hand and right changes, lowered the cash rate at peak times and knew just where speed had to stop and when he had to return to give fuel to Ferrari, the monkey accompanying him to a passenger flying never left the steering wheel vibrated never for more than a second that was when the wheels touched the edge of the road but my experience had allowed me to deduce that it was necessary to optimize these curves. 5 or 10 people running around looking at me as Montoya in his best days, for those 5 minutes I was in heaven. When he arrived at the end and if he had managed to break my own records put my initial FSR which there were already multiple times, sometimes one of the inexperienced nerds who was seeing me for the first time let out a "is the ..." while the friend more expert nerd you said "is the first time she sees him play?". God bless
UniPlay
Sega and thank them because I have memories of a few minutes a day where he was a hero.
Arcades The Americans call them, we called them little machine, came to Colombia in the first half of the '80s and marked the youth of those who belong to the generation of guava, were mere machines, video games and coin-operated today are almost forgotten by penetration with computers and personal systems vidojuegos bored today (Play Station, Xbox, etc).
The first machine that I saw in my life was in Barrancabermeja, was nothing more than an Atari 2600 and a TV screen all tucked inside a wooden box probably made by some village carpenter, but at that time we were all baffled, could not believe that we had to face a machine to play very similar to what went on daily TV program called Telectronico.
maquinitero
My early career was not very fruitful as a child I do not specialize in any game, that if I had fun on a combination of fun that provided the game itself but the adrenaline of doing something forbidden because our parents would not let us be closer to less than 100 meters from those places full of vague and vicious. The first serious arcades and saw that I lost a very long time were the Martians and a pacman style table and where a player to each side, the display magically turn was reversed each time the other player had his turn. I played Donkey Kong, Galaga, "Eagles" (can not remember his original name), Mrs. Pacman, Mario Bros 1 and many other games coming to the halls of slot machines of my glorious hometown. It should be noted that these panels only had 3 or 4 machines and a put his money and was awaiting trial for their turn.
In the second half of the 80s I moved to Bogota and know the sky of the machines, the UniPlay in Unicentro. A big spend afternoons there after leaving college classes and started to take seriously what the slot machines to the point that I was the king of two of them. Being the king of a little machine was like being a little god to which it played, one was the best player who frequented and had his initials on all records, others admired him a nerd. It was the king of 2 of them, the first was a game called Golden Axe Sega really was not very popular but in my opinion one of the best arcade games ever made. One was a warrior and had many adventures, maybe I'm gumming the game by the literature he read at that time and because I was making my first steps in role playing games (although fortunately never entered the gum at all). Golden Axe The machine was not like the others, did not stay very full and only played one another nerd, had the opportunity to put him another coin and continue when one is killed so it was not that people put coins way forward to take turns, everything is based on respect and a player expected to finish and release the machine, however was not as popular as usually there was no one waiting and when the person was someone I was so happy to see another player who patiently watched him play to learn new tricks or make fun of the mentally Donut rookie who was playing.
The other machine which was the king if he was very popular, a Sega game also Out Run call that practically everyone knows, that of Ferrari, very advanced for its time because not only had changes (first and second), accelerator and brake, but the steering wheel vibrates when you came out of the track. I was the god of that game, I was respected UniPlay and every time I approached the machine other nerds began to whisper and gradually came to see me play. I played so much that almost never made mistakes, crossed the entire game very quietly and with a flawless execution, controlling the spotted with his left hand and right changes, lowered the cash rate at peak times and knew just where speed had to stop and when he had to return to give fuel to Ferrari, the monkey accompanying him to a passenger flying never left the steering wheel vibrated never for more than a second that was when the wheels touched the edge of the road but my experience had allowed me to deduce that it was necessary to optimize these curves. 5 or 10 people running around looking at me as Montoya in his best days, for those 5 minutes I was in heaven. When he arrived at the end and if he had managed to break my own records put my initial FSR which there were already multiple times, sometimes one of the inexperienced nerds who was seeing me for the first time let out a "is the ..." while the friend more expert nerd you said "is the first time she sees him play?". God bless
UniPlay
Sega and thank them because I have memories of a few minutes a day where he was a hero.
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