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A few moments with Fernando Garavito

The Colombian journalist and writer died on 28 October 2010, in the same year in which he became Deputy Editor of the online magazine Razón Pública. The writer died in an accident on the road in New Mexico, USA, the country to which he found himself exiled.   Armando Orozco […]

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Humans and objects

The idea that people use people is quite common nowadays. It seems acceptable that we are seen or we see others as objects.   Mabel Encinas   This can be such an everyday idea that it may sound familiar that you can use your colleague to convince your boss or […]

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Lord of the dogs

At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country.  He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists.  It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today.   Armando […]

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The bullying bug

I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure.   Steve Latham   This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]