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day had begun with a story irritating, when I wake up first thing I heard were statements of Vázquez admonishing the right-wing press for being more right to criticize him and to some extent or a minister, as if this is not the duty of right-wing press. What happens is that it's unrequited love: TV has made every effort not to look like a leftist president and the bad press does not support it, whether they will be rotten. Okay, I will not be me who defend The Country , Canal 4 or Radio Sarandi, but at the same time I think the president-elect on behalf of a leftist coalition that gave him his first live interview (in office) to repeat as anti-union Fasano -something have earned the unanimous rejection of the PIT-CNT and APU , but apparently were too busy, should refrain from talking about the media. Forever.

irritant But almost immediately came as it emerged that the driver of a bus CUTCSA had been killed in the morning while driving his vehicle. After hearing the news I went out and the consequence was already visible, hundreds of people thronging the stalls, running aground in unexpected action by the clause of the transport union has decided to cases where one of its members dies or is seriously injured while working: unemployment instant without warning .

Those who read this blog often know that I have a tendency, say, the unions and a favor to union strength measures that hurt. Maybe that's why the bastardization of them, converting them into corporatism blind, irrational, in a host of measures aimed at conserving fascist privileges unsympathetic to the rest of society bothers me more than anything in the world. And these months have been brave to be on the side of the unions: the reversal of 180 degrees of SUNCA to exploit the jobs Botnia happened to boycott the local ophthalmologists to prevent Cuban colleagues conducted free of postponed operations by which they intend to charge thousands of dollars or condemn the sick to blindness, the infamous trial won by ADEOM the rest of the Montevideo (and a trial that celebrate ADEOM thought) to keep their exclusive privileges salary adjustment will happen the craftiness of Sudamtex workers (now Dancotex ) to ignore a situation in which, beyond motherfucker what it Soloducho , the owner of the company, have no reason for any side that looks at them and threatening the same labor supply. They are not happy days for union sympathies, and not by anti-occupation hysteria that water every day the mass media, whether right or left, but to glut oriented not to a change of system but a change in patterns and sources of coercion.

The Transport Union has that kind of measure-trigger that fires automatically when one of them is immediately attacked and forcibly socialized, one may be the worst misanthrope Uruguay and three turds to mind the death of a driver collective or taxi, but when you are stranded without notice for five or six hours at a bus stop you hurt his death, when one has to walk four or five kilometers to go home after a day of work you hurt. It may not be sympathetic pain, it may be just the opposite and be a nasty pain, sore pure rage free from aggression that hits laburante class, which has no cars or own transport, but it hurts it hurts. The union leaders and related CUTCSA have no problem saying: this is not a move aimed at pressuring their employers or the state, this would make it exactly the same thing the other day when transport dependent measures had been taken to ensure that, for example, daughters are not left to weather a winter night for four or five hours. No, it must be immediate and without prior notice to his pain socializing force. As the mob bosses who do mourn the neighborhood when one of them falls. And a mourning often multiplies the dangers to those neighborhoods, as some lines several times unilaterally decided to stop for weeks to come whole villages, housing projects often difficult but largely inhabited by workers, where there was a crime, forced to walk blocks and blocks exposed to weather and thousands of fellow crime. Divisive demands of solidarity to the force.

insecurity laburante to handle any cash on the street is evident today, a time in which, beyond the paranoid fantasies that Shakes the right and the doctrine of security at any price you feel intoxicated any lumpen with the right to remove any person for 200 pesos. That's true and that is something that requires measures to reduce these risks and protect people's lives. But the transport union had these measures in hand, stood to accept the program offered by the companies and the state to replace the management of money on buses, using either a ticket machine or buy passes that are outside the themselves. Carriers declined to these systems even though it was proposed a system to gradually decrease the number of guards without firing anyone. Why is denied? Because in the long run it would eliminate jobs that keep the guards thought for their children and relatives.
One might think a while about what kind of society makes the work of bus saves a precious inheritance that a parent wants their child as if the kingdom of Avalon, but it is an idle question that answers itself when compared the salary of one of the guards with, say, a university professor. I do not know if the public transport service is the worst Montevideo the world, I can assure you it is the worst, most insecure, slow and expensive of all the ones I used, which were more of several countries, but apparently the highest paid in proportion. Perhaps there is some connection between this and their quality, but that's another problem. The point is that union decision impossible until now charging systems that would make the groups ceased to be a tempting prey for criminals who in fact shot dead a driver or save one every two months. But retained jobs for these unionists inherited as a solution requiring that each vehicle has a kind of special police guard to protect them even at the cost of neglecting entire neighborhoods, even if economically feasible, even more dangerous for passengers. Although the minister

Diaz stir up statistics that say more or less what he wants to say, Uruguayan society is disintegrating and violent, and every day there is a worker died in a criminal act. But one only learns when one dies of transport, because the city, a city of nearly two million people forcibly stopped by his death. The Montevideo are sensitive to death without anyone compels them to it, is a feature that neither the brutal decades we've been through has made clear altogether. But if the union leaders of CUTCSA or transport cooperatives were able to lose a minute of their vehicles and spend an hour a parent's hand trembling with rage, far from his home in the deserted bus stop, beside her child cold shivers, possibly not hear expressions of solidarity and empathy with the pain of dead comrade. Hear an "I hope they kill them all."

But today the issue was a small degree of absurdity, of abuse. When I ran the afternoon it was learned that the killer had been arrested and that the driver had not been murdered to steal, but had merely been the victim of a crime of passion, a husband decided to revenge horned horns dead. Ie something terrible, I will not be me who disagree with to kill a man for a woman to fuck someone is your sole proprietorship, but hard to socialization and quite unusual. Upon discovery that union leaders did an assembly to discuss its action and refused to talk about the special circumstances of the crime to the press (Vázquez, owner of at least one car, it was time to send his condolences to the guild something I do not remember having done so with the other guilds that had killed dozens since taking) and end the strike without offering the slightest apology to the thousands of workers taken hostage by a passionate issue one of its affiliates. Amazingly, the drivers line of the deceased had decided to continue the strike, I guess until they confirm that all the husbands of all women who fucks in recent years are under surveillance. When leaving the day it was learned something that would be the finishing of the absurdity: the murderer was a former employee of CUTCSA, ie, a former member of the guild. Well, if one thinks in detail the reasons why cash is still driving the bus and its consequences, the truth is not the first time this has happened. This is probably the last time you import.

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All I have to say about Pepsi Bandplugged

six years ago Naomi Klein published the No Logo, a book rather journalistic in nature but which became the bible of anti-consumer movement to put the item on the "t" of "synergy" and correctly identify that it may be the main engine of neoliberalism fierce current, the omnipresence and omnipotence-to-consumer stimuli. It took six years and the diagnosis of Klein does not seem to have aged but have fallen short.

few days ago marked a Osvaldo Bayer global scandal, at least in these latitudes, had gone unnoticed. As is known the main sponsor of the championship World Cup is Budweiser beer , make wise those beer drinkers who despise the Germans for queer and indistinct. Well, apparently, eight fans decided to go to court, for money or not is irrelevant, with a pair of pants with the logo of another beer brand, so they were arrested by security forces and forced to stage enter without pants, is in his underwear, or not watch the game for which they had taken the entrance. Ie a brand and is able to decide not only that the product is exposed in every corner of what is essentially a sports-with little to do with beer but can and will force you to views according to their commercial interests, or you have to see the almost-naked sporting event not to contribute your effort to its advertising.

there in the world a number of music competitions that use the system discussed in other comments to turn the process of preparing and selecting a singer in the same part of the product, optimizing production costs and oriented to the maximum possible consumers, which involves giving something of fictional office human resources manager and a small portion of the power of choice "at the bottom illusory and can only choose from among a group already. Through a combination editing, direct participation of the official jury and audience surveys permanent, they also get to conduct the voting producers who prefer a priori . Like those card games with magicians that convince you that you chose the card they chose.

But these programs rather abject have an advantage: they are explicit, no one expects to emerge from them something more than the next Chayanne or next Diego Torres, or even less, because while the emphasis (and profit) put in the selection process mind then little if the winner has continued success as a pop star or raped by an orangutan dies. In fact the latter can be assumed that it is preferable to the producers, because the continued success ends up back capricious and independent people. Worse still end up becoming valuable, and justice because it is almost impossible to maintain a long-term success without talent (remember I said "almost" before crap to examples). Pepsi

Bandplugged is something else, is a competition of similar characteristics (combined vote of the public and a jury, continuous television coverage), but that is not shaped by Idol but by a tradition of rock competitions in Uruguay tradition inaugurated by contests festivals organized by the City but was continued mainly by Channel 10 and its competitions organized in conjunction with Remote Control (rock channel program prior to going X Vos of Noelia Campo ) X FM and Pepsi , of \u200b\u200bcourse. In the competition became known bands like Peyote Murderer and La Vela Puerca , winners of the editions of 1995 and 1996 respectively. In 2002 the competition was definitely identified with its main sponsor and became Bandplugged Pepsi won by Lapse and Psimio (split decision) in the first edition and Dobermann in the most recent.

The problem is not actually participating in a contest organized by a multinational soft drinks, not the amount of free publicity that participants are somehow forced to do or the quality of the bands, where it has been around - nor the questionable selection process, not the jury, which sometimes seem to have been chosen by the sworn enemies of the music in general. That's not even a moralistic attack to forget that $ 1,500 in tools is a worthless prize for any of the bare local bands. Bandplugged Pepsi's problem is that it works, which legitimized and, in doing so, to oblige.

That's not a problem of the participants, among which been many friends and many non-friends that respect, and not even the contest, is a question of your amplifiers: the moment when even the most secretive collective performances, even the most reluctant to spread radio national music, is leg open to display the new wonder produced by the competition-be it Pepsi Bandplugged Plugged Nix, is the same thing, and since the public has even refused to relativize a triumph of similar characteristics, and Pepsi is a serious matter Bandplugged should not be. The reason is simple communicators and lazy: the selection official in a somewhat ridiculous saves the infinite anguish of having to evaluate - or worse, search-something for themselves. The reason for the fans is another hindrance to the rock futbolización: soccer what matters is winning, no matter how, no matter if the only beneficiary is Paco Casal, no matter if you're seeing is empty and sad spectacle. What matters is the end, what matters is the cup full of Pepsi, of course.

If we add the two of the most influential bands in rock history of Uruguay, the aforementioned Peyote and La Vela, made his debut in the competition, it is understandable that a young musician competition passage through the has become a litmus test that can decide the future of the band and their success. The way the competition is ugly and you have to drink lots of Pepsi on camera and smile at many jokes about Noel, but other paths are very long and sometimes are closed for the competition itself and its consequences. In the previous post I laughed a little of the fact that 3 of 5 bands were being presented to the PB for the second time, but that's not their fault, blame the PB remains the best option for a career in music .

rock contests are, I suppose, unique and exclusive to Uruguay, but I doubt that in another place, take them too seriously. The reason is simple: there is nothing less than rock a rock contest. In a Uruguay that has managed to regulate by contests the space of control that is supposed to Carnival, it seems logical that no one grit. But Carnival has yet been able to generate their anti-bodies with respect to the last contest and has succeeded in establishing this great alternative that is, or was, Murga Joven.

The 2004 edition was presented to contest one of the best, perhaps the best local rock bands, a band really shocking to see. Did not pass either the first round. It was looking pretty thoroughly absurd but logical, because every year the quality of bands has been decrecente and the last was, with one exception, a hard rock kind of nightmare and gives the impression, I have hope "that his dynamics will end up being a close. Meanwhile it is a freeway that blocks, suppresses short and delicate creative ways neighborhood, art projects made concert after concert, freight shipping, slum to slum. That is where there is life, there is the place to make room to breathe.

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read with concern, and some indignation, what of the "Mothers of the Plaza Fabini, a group of mothers addicted to cocaine base which seems to have decided to meet once a week in this space (which some ignorant knew only as "the Entrevero") to require greater repression to the mouths of pasta.

The truth seems to me a lack of respect the other mothers, the Plaza de Mayo. Do not want to diminish the trance painful it must be to have a teen to a drug addict ugly as pasta at home, but I think that, not only to them-the whole society has been the bike in relation to this drug . Undoubtedly, a young man smoking can kill paco paste or once every six months passed, but all weekend three or four were killed by a car cut in coastal and never saw a group of mothers protesting against the dealerships.

But anyway, the problems are far from our pain and understand that for these women at this time has not increased despite the lack of control of voluntary of their children, but you have to least in public image perspective of the problems. No matter how ugly it is an addiction to a drug Berreta have to be very old thread to present the issue as a comparison of the disappearance, murder and torture of a relative. Not that there's pain with coronet, in fact I think that, before the movement was co-opted by the most repellent groups Argentina right-left was wrong to rush to reject the parents of children killed by crime or parents of the boys burned in Cro-Magnon, as if her pain was qualitatively different than the parents of the boys killed for political reasons. Pain is pain and not know a hell of parties and causes of death known only spaces impossible to fill.

But an addiction is something else, although it is considered a living death living factor is still stronger than death, whatever they say the voices of Revelation, "and is a complex problem that may have more to do a social vacuum with a reckless drug dealer Berret fouling a noble profession. That may persist even if all drugs of the universe disappeared in a fateful day. That probably has more to do with what happens inside homes than outside. But it's easier to ask for repression.



*** I just saw Spun (Jonas Akerlund , 2002), Trainspotting kind of bum on addicts speed (amphetamines, Joseph, not energy drinks), and spent more than unnoticed at the time of release. A film that has everything I hate in a movie-clip video editing, animation MTV the saint fart, young actors and clean making traps, music by Billy Corgan , cameos to the holy rock button famous meaningful silences about stories just outlined ... in order. And guess what? But I liked it, I liked it, because despite all this nonsense is a film with heart, something that I apologize to explain.

But what I wanted to point out this was not the same but I make a horrific discovery: the current Mickey Rourke, something old and huge cowboy suit is the doppelganger of Jorge Nasser . It is not a joke, watch it and tell me. ***



I am sad, no matter what, but it is an ugly time of year to grieve. You go out to the promenade and fucking cold, going bowling and no one, call an ex to tell and it has a new boyfriend.



*** Because of work, and the vagaries of Tenfield fucking, I have seen little of the tournament. A pity, I'm not a big football fan but I like to see the world, especially Argentina and Brazil play well he plays badly. But the madness unleashed by the arbitration Uruguayan Larrionda -only at the world-record-breaking pathos of the unhinged and manic-depressive Uruguayan. A dozen journalists lobbying and singing the praises of the performance of a referee ... And also officiated as the ass and made absolute sacapartidos Italy-USA.!

When you think you hit rock bottom, there are always someone to stand next Tenfield a shovel. ***



Of the many things that annoy me Danilo Astori, the worst of all is his insistence to convince those suffering from its economic measures of the moral virtues of them. I think this is what makes it really a right-wing politician, but this desire comes from a custom left.

me explain and exemplify: When defending Astori swashbuckling foreign investment (and privileges), the pseudo-tax income and obligations with multilateral lending agency, is not satisfied with them from a pragmatic point of view. No, the guy has to talk about it as the best and most fair, passing over the fact that things are fundamentally unfair for any of the governed. We know that man is an apostle of the unique path of the economy (theory that each day I have more questions), but not enough to explain that if not things will still be empirically worse, but they need to make clear that any other circumstances could be better. And if one establishes different rules (Sepoys) to foreigners is doing well . And if you pay on time the interest on a debt incurred in an illegal manner, sacrificing for this money for teachers, retirees and doctors, is doing something decent .

is something that hits me a lot, because I'm willing to be convinced in a pragmatic way (in that respect, the Pepe Mujica is impeccable, although occasionally exaggerate, or lie-about the inevitability of some measures), and there are principles that are worth immediate misfortunes of people with less protection. But I think Astori, as Vázquez, Rubio, Korzeniak and many of the leading figures in the FA, have been trained in rhetoric in which the must be is the main reserve and strength of a position , appropriately trained to read both the left and the idealistic "culture of moral opposition, so they can not afford to do what is necessary, or what they see fit and you need to convince that is just . As in the 1984 of Orwell, say.

is an interesting exercise to deconstruct each of these measures fair to its most vulgar materialism, until the regulation is bare, one can arrive at startling conclusions about the morality of our leaders.



*** I had the dubious pleasure of seeing the first five groups in the new edition of Pepsi Bandplugged , this unique competition in the world in which a multinational bubbles legitimizes a rock band. Give me some chills when I see that five bands at least three have already participated in the contest in the previous edition. I guess passing through all that ridiculousness and losing, and reapply next year to lose (at least two of the three bands will inevitably lose), the truth must have tenacity. And here come a paragraph about how sick she is a scene in which the most desirable goal is to win a cocarde of Pepsi, but you can write it for me.

strikes me, however, that being the singer of Banda Riverock Tabaré on the jury, two of the songs submitted to waste a worthy misogyny Whitehouse without grace. One of the themes, the band The Flanders, was called 'Degenerate ', and letter the singer charged with contempt to be a girl, of course, degenerate. Miss coming out with that boy impressionable and moralistic, it is time to change the environment, there is less prejudiced bands out there spinning.



*** I have the impression, or hope, that the generally very pleasant British newspaper The Guardian have shed Philip French, film critic worst I've read in my life and unfortunately and being in half prestigious, is the first one to jump when you dig the " external reviews" of IMDB. French (surname that stimulates my little regard to the Gauls) has all the scrolls and awards that can have a critical and terminal is a jerk or if I'm feeling generous, a critic Senile should be devoted to criticizing the mashed potatoes be given at the home. T Guardian I had it as "bad cop" to make the counterpart Peter Bradshaw bland, but the accumulation of derogatory adjectives always headed for the same thing: all that was violent, have sex, drugs and fun. Philip French bitter this does seem by comparison to Roger Ebert , usually a grandmother scandalized, the king of transgression. The last thing was when I read French destroyed the interesting The Devil's Rejects of Rob Zombie , without the slightest fucking idea what he was talking and concluding menacing "do not think I can tolerate the company of someone who has enjoyed seeing The Devil's Rejects" .

Ma, Franchute yes, go to make you give, and I have friends.



*** Going to the bakery I pass a blind girl, but not a lot I think I look a little disoriented. At that time passes a lady at his side, blind listening (I guess) and asks something. When I passed him the lady is saying no, I told him wrong. I still long and walk about three blocks to bakery, while I am there I pass across the glass to the blind, accompanied by the lady who takes her arm and walks with her in the direction exactly opposite to that when the blind had interrupted his journey. The face of resignation of this good woman is remarkable. Like my amazement at this little secret of such solidarity.

Another day I'm waiting for the mini boy, a nice guy so that he can forgive his usual sweatshirt Vengaran Trotsky, end of meeting a girl who is ahead of me. They're talking about something that is not my problem, but I hear that he says " ah, must have some nineteen years, "adding factly" like you. "She gave him a huge smile, pay and leave. It's attractive, but has at least ten years of speculation that gratuitous generosity Skinny , with a simple phrase gallant show me how beautiful it deserves to having wedding asshole. I would have to practice a whole week to say something without sounding ironic or stupid.

There are people who will teaches people kindness and teaches you to class.

***

And there are days when you start to write a post and this drag anything.

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Doom, integrated and in third place Questions

In the ever delicious online magazine Perfect Sound Forever I find a interview to Lenny Kaye, a man of many artistic activities but remembered mostly as a guitarist and co-founder of the Patti Smith Group . Although it is clear that Kaye has issues to talk a while, the interview focuses on something he knows first-hand and that something is early days of the legendary CBGB , where none actually began his musical career (the Patti Smith Group joined a few months of delay the move generated essentially Television) and owner Hilly Kristal .

entire interview is a pleasure as Kaye is a type rather than articulate and, judging by his statements, and just a gentle spirit that hints at something that all the bands 'classic' of CBGB have insisitido but it is difficult to perceive the light of time: the will be massive to have all these bands. The image of intellectual elitism and avant-garde New York punk bands have today if it is not without foundation, was a post-construction and, more educated and risky they were, the rockers of the first generation of CBGB (not thus the second, those in the no wave , who were deliberately and radically anti-popular) relied almost blindly as they were about to steal the scepter of power of Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin , and of course were far from it.

That's the great sadness that pervades the documentary End of the Century on Ramones. When you see him can innocently ask, "Why all the bitterness with the reception of each disk? Were the Ramones, a band known to Uruguay!" Yes, but they thought to be a band that knew even in Burundi, and the truth is that never came to sell even a tenth record, say, Green Day ( Adding insult to injury ).

When you hear the first Ramones records of the Dead Boys, the Talking Heads in the bottom one should be surprised that there have actually been giants of his time (the only exception was the one that really hit the scene all regarded as the poorest band: Blondie), as the potential "business" of them all was enormous. No wonder Clive Davis (Arista ) or Seymour Stein (Sire ) have jumped over them, were bands charismatic and potential hits cars, manufacturers of songs accessible to any listening environment, and were ignored because of a timing disaster that proves the importance the time and the unfairness of the rules of distribution: all these bands pique paddled against the fact that New Yorkers, a city whose residents often find it very unfriendly to other Americans, but were cleared just because your label of "punk" , a term that immediately ostracized from the radio after the disastrous U.S. tour of the controversial Sex Pistols .

The PSF interview , Kaye is a bit shit in the mystique of the first "homes" of weeks of concerts (in which almost all those bands learned to play) and rescues the later time when there were many more bands and left the scene the inner circle to become something greater, something that allowed them to dream of walking on air and even greater triumphs that never came, or who came when it no longer worthwhile.

In an interview with Mike Watt I read recently, the bassist of the Minutemen says they were "the last generation that believed it could be the new Beatles " . And you say, shit Watt, what you were badly advised, how three types would be ugly and fat as the Minutemen, and worse singing communist songs on guitar modeled very strange, new Beatles? In another world, such time.

But then you think about it and say, why not? They had seen four ridiculous hairstyles English get to the top of the world had seen a big-nosed Jew from Minnesota to become the leading bard of the West despite his shrill voice, had been drug addicts climb like squirrels terminal the social ladder, get married with royalty, hairy unpresentable become revered idols, outcasts become role models. Why could not a son of workers of San Pedro, obese but talented as D. Boon become the new Lennon? Listening to their albums one believes that music is the size of dreams authors.

It's amazing what has been lost over the decades miserable. ***



The Gap number today, Christian Font interview, among the avalanche of letters that have been given in recent days - the most insular of the members of Cuarteto de Nos . Riki Musso , of \u200b\u200bcourse. The interview and starts to Riki when the guy reveals Font, and the rest of the readers, that the formidable guitar solo from his song 'New Car ' is not a guitar solo, but his own voice saying " relief "and treated with a lot of effects. But

most interesting interview is the total indifference of Riki to the commercial aspects of the same (in terms of promotion of Rare , the latest album of the Quartet). While there seems to be unhappy with the hard-as it was with the release of Cortamambo - makes it quite clear that his work was limited and it is much, much more interested in talking about his upcoming solo album Servo (which apparently belongs to the superb 'New Cars', included in Rare at the request of producer Juan Campodonico ), says that her favorite songs are never played by the Quartet (including' The Guardian Zoo ', a song whose goodness we have insisted sigmur me and on several occasions), and talks about the strange things that interest you.

One of the most noticeable features of Riki, and very surprised to know, is his brutal honesty, but perhaps the word "brutal" fall short of total freedom of opinion tends to prove, "but no longer someone to do amazing show of this feature in the middle of a re-promotion of his band, and without having the slightest cynicism involved. Not necessarily humor, because what the guy claims is just the dark side, always there but sometimes attenuated, El Cuarteto de Nos. And it makes clear at the end of report " Now come and say 'Bo, how good this album, I screwed up with laughter'" And what do I care? Are we clowns or musicians? . "

I have to admit that after a weak first impression, I Rare has improved over the ears to make me admit that it may be a very good album. But obviously what I'm hoping will be in Servo album that has to come and destroy the Uruguayan rock once, or at least make you shit on the legs.

Riki, you're a bastard, sabelo. Yesterday

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Vázquez gave a rare interview hand in hand with Aldo Silva in Country Code. However the title of this post does not refer to the questions that it made him the first president but a couple of questions I ask myself: Why

coveted give interview to a private and not to shabby Channel 5?

Why Channel 12?
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Why not something understandable answers when asked about the whore reelection?

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cops Emulating courses (for) telos

As is well known blog called courses (for) telos has become a real police errors, especially the daily The Observer, which would make the nightmares of any editor so meticulously that fell under magnifying glass. Is far from my intentions that Fuck You Tiger engaged in something similar, but we found a curious bug, and not collected by that blog-it's worth pointing it out.

In its Tuesday edition of the newspaper subscription 6 The daily published an interview with the former director of prisons, Enrique Navas, who turned on the fan and made a series of statements that were quoted in many other ways. The prestigious What Happens supplement of El Pais was no exception and on their front pages, citing egregious statements and phrases heard in week, reproduce, not one of the explosive answers but one of the questions Mariano Tucci, the author of the interview, he made to Navas.

The question, according to Que Pasa is " What can you tell the (blank) not have told you otherwise? "

Oh, how funny I said, ask a question self-referential and no means self-referential issues, what did The Daily newsprint, so I quote in the Que Pasa. But then I noticed that my number of daily and it appears that the question posted is: "What can tell The Daily that he has not told otherwise? "

What has happened then?" I can think of three options:

a) There was the typo / correction / armed with my copy of The Daily and appeared strangely alert corrected by a dealer who had a box of movable type on the bike.

b) selective A mysterious virus was introduced into the armed machines Que Pasa and specifically erased the only mention in large print (under the declaration is the source, in lowercase) to a daily competition .

c) What Happens When someone or The Country does not like it, nothing mentioned otherwise appear on their pages.

occurs to us, pure evil intentions we have, which was the third option, namely, an attack of paranoia a bit excessive especially considering that the mention of the phrase Tucci was there just because its formulation it was funny or ridiculous to some of the makers of the supplement. The problem is exposed and it seems they were rescuing it, exactly, otherwise an error, error which of course did not exist, and what there is that messy antiquísma and editorial policy of never mentioning Uruguayan competition in a highlighted. We

strange that old in a modern environment led by Leonardo Haberkorn , whose generous pen is always ready to give lessons in ethics, aesthetics and static journalism.

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The mark of the beast

international litigation in Hague court has caused on this side of the pond some of the most heinous journalistic caps that I remember. Apparently hardly anyone was able to resist the temptation to make any legal paralelisimo between conflict and the World Cup which the pathetic selection of Tenfield-Uruguay was deservedly removed, and the two court sessions were presented as two times of a football game. That is, a deep and complex conflict can bring untold consequences on the lives of two countries that should be one, he was treated from the covers of many as the revenge of the Chinaman, as a substitute healer of national pride, hurt by the absence of the biggest football event in the world. It is understandable to the simultaneous start of both events, many journalists have been tempted by comparison, but the real problem associated nations most disgusting and superficial patriotism-the association of it with a dirty shirt that wins or lost - as if it were a conflict that political and environmental, is difficult.

But this is not what worries me, nor much the trial itself, on which I have feelings instead found, on one hand the International Court at The Hague is a respectable body, and even necessary, something which proves that the U.S. government unknown what the other hand it seems as sepoy of the world South America to settle a conflict in Europe, using European or Anglo-Saxon lawyers and relying on a panel of members of the EEC, which has obvious interests in common with the companies involved in the litigation. Either way I will not talk about the roles and discourses of the parties in conflict, as vi-return later on "what I saw" - it seemed just a simplification to the world, the divergent points view of both countries. That is, a succession of irrefutable facts and do not allow the slightest doubt once exposed and do not recognize opposing views. As in all trials, how to fuck.

What interests me is the small Chicano self-mailer made by the Uruguayan defense chief Hector Gros Espiell when referring about that in Uruguay there is "widespread corruption", a strange statement to come from who a skilled diplomat and wise-in fact the best that the country-and can be interpreted without much trouble as a new entry in the book "Argentines are all a bunch of thieves (first to last)." I forgot to say "not as some" moving eyes and eyebrows at the bank of the Argentines, but we must not be very likely to understand what he meant.

I'm not getting to argue about whether Uruguay is a corrupt country, corruptísimo, corruptito or incorruptible, because it is a bit long as a topic and should mention the infamous Red Crab case, the judicial scandals that have been happening for some time, sequences of nepotism in the Municipality of Canelones, BHU etc scandals. etc. etc. I think that Uruguay is a country that has a lot of bureaucratic corruption, institutionalized and surrounding it with a ring of legal impunity, thus avoiding excessive lack of control and wild but widespread in small doses throughout society. Either way in the sea of \u200b\u200brelativity guess Uruguay may be considered a less corrupt than Paraguay or Argentina in Menem times, which is also a relative merit. However, this incorruptibility is another characteristic self-attributed by the Uruguayans, or at least its government, which, along with humility, solidarity, high culture and faith in democracy are part of that pantheon of "we what we say we are "I would call" Uruguay Natural. "

But this also is long and controversial, what I want to go is to a certain point. I said above I had not seen the statements of The Hague rather than a very partial and limited. This was not simply a lack of time but because the rights to broadcast the trials, obviously a matter of national interest, were acquired by VTV , we assume that the most legitimate, making the sessions could be seen only by subscribers to that cable channel. That of course is none other than the property of Francisco "Paco" Casal , owner of the monopoly on football broadcasts in Uruguay, the transimisones Carnival of the souls of many of the local sports journalists and lives 90% of local soccer players. And besides, one of the most emblematic of corruption and Uruguay because of its murky but not very black handling contracts directly related to the sport of soccer,.

One could argue that everything was done just to be in tune with the futbolización of this litigation, but listening to Gros Espiell talk about Uruguay as a country without "widespread corruption" in the right corner watching the TV the logo superimposed VTV seems above all a joke. It's like watching a priest say Mass with a t-shirt Anton LaVey. To see boys, some seriously.

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All I have to say about the case Z

Because they feel like talking about it a week, talking about the theme of the week.

Once I was handcuffed before a judge, an extraordinarily young for his position. I was lucky and I was wrong because, despite my total inexperience criminal declared reasonably well so I walked out of court along with three friends without more damage than an ugly statement in my file. Four other friends were in the same trance not so lucky and were prosecuted for possession and supply of estupefaccientes and sentenced to one to three years in prison. They had seized approximately 45 grams of marijuana, ie, a negligible amount. It was all they had between three and to take charge of their membership terminated incriminating each other by mistake.

lawyers, one public and one hired, were pale. They just could not believe it, could not believe that a court shall apply the maximum penalty for supply and possession in a first offense. First offense that was obviously not a case of traffic but just a group of young students, barely adults, who were vacationing in a remote resort that had been an insignificant amount of pot for personal use.

One of the lawyers, shaking with rage, he explained that the judge was making a substitution of summer, and wanted to score some prosecutions to give him a hard image to his superiors. Nothing more than that, and three types whose greatest criminal act had been so far playing football in the street went to prison with a penalty, which by luck (or rather because it came from wealthy families) was appealed, reviewed and minimized to a month a few weeks later, worthy of a robbery or takeover. As we waited outside the judge dismissed with a sentence similar to three other assholes that had been stolen underwear from a neighbor's tent to make a joke. Seven young people in jail for nothing, seven notes to a judge novel but "tough." Not bad for a substitution of a morning.

previous days had learned much about the police, that day I learned a lot about justice. I also learned to hate and wish for death and horror of others with an intensity that did not know.

(A few days ago a friend told me an identical case happened in Montevideo Rock 2, and rock this party democracy, only with a sadder end, while my friends were placed in relatively friendly Rocha prison, those she went straight to the casualty Criminal Libertad)

All this comes, of course, a suspense account processing counter Eduardo Zaindenstat for daring to say that if all judges were like the dubious judge Eguren , Uruguay would be a banana republic. For me Zaindenstat was very bad; banana republics are far more serious than Uruguay and does not deserve to be put as examples of corruption. A few days before the journalist Gustavo Escanlar had deserved a similar fate when he came to say, not as a journalist but as an interviewee, who Federico Fasano -that kind of Citizen Kane without grandeur that has become the self-proclaimed spokesman left while crushing any attempts to unionize their amarillísimo diary was a "son of a thousand whores," seem to share the opinion that almost all the people who worked for him.

Uruguayans have the usual thoughtless and coerced to believe in immortality and infallibility the judiciary without any real evidence of any of both. In fact it is the judiciary itself to pass a law unconstitutional and contrary to all international human rights treaties by which it saw as the amnesty law. It is the same judiciary that has tilted toward the direction in which the Executive is blowing for years, said the same res judicata if Bordaberry , the more obvious criminal crimes of all history of the country and but was never prosecuted for them.

The judiciary itself has exonerated traffickers caught in fragranti (but with good links in it), which has maintained totally irregular meetings with operators of the political apparatus in flirty coast clubs, whose prisoners without trial and without a process worthy of the name to about half the population of prisons, which voted itself an exception to the retirement pensions that was imposed on all other Uruguayan beyond what they had made in his working life, which kept all its members elected at-et de la dictatorship. The same one that put all the sticks in the wheels possible to lawyers during the same trying to defend the rights of prisoners, which still does not recognize the labor rights of hundreds of prisoners and exiles because of the dictatorship, who prosecuted four assholes graffiti for "sedition" under democracy, which he sent to the prison of Liberty, also in full democracy, a wretched singer who came up bawling "cagaremos us in parliament" in a song. The course has built a corporate relationship between prosecutors and judges who protect each other makes with the brutality that one would assume that should stand equal before it. The unquestionable. The judiciary itself. This guarantee, that sucks. Z

The case may have its good side, it is clear that for people all this was too much, too absurd. When is exempt from punishment for a group of evaders from about $ 50 million and is punished Who says that's not right, you can not talk about democracy, or freedom of speech, or of both simulations to which we are accustomed. No one can speak of nothing, which is too much for an administration with so little love for freedom like this. Journalists have been since the end of the dictatorship victims of extension through the laws of contempt, from shame and damage to reputation. Maybe now that the victim was a valuable pawn in the political apparatus, to a legislator comes to mind to leave such weapons of legal oppression of opinion in the hands of one person, whether a plaintiff or a judge, is an atrocity or absurd can this country forward.

hope that people realize the difference between talking and doing, and start opening their eyes about the monstrous bureaucratic apparatus of corporate power in the event that became the guarantor of our rights. If that occurs at least in part, then this may have been positive. Seek justice would be too.