Shuffle the cards
Family businesses need access to credit, not homilies on the virtues of patience
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Marijuana moments
Mexico’s Peña Nieto should take a pragmatic lead on the road to legalization
Resistance cinema
Seeing a film at home, on a TV or computer screen, is not the same thing. The big screen is a different experience, especially when the theater is crowded
The last dribble
Di Stéfano was a god to young Spaniards back in the day; now he needs all the support he can get
Rescinding the Concordat
If we look calmly at the problem of education laws in Spain, we may conclude that there will never be peace and quiet, or progress toward the necessary consensus
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Wish you weren't here
Concerts are becoming disagreeable on account of the cellphones and other wonder gadgets being raised to immortalize what is happening on the stage
Crime and punishment
What kind of responsibility is borne by politicians, and accompanying technocrats, when their mistakes generate so much suffering among the people?
Third Republic
Many of those who demand a change are playing into the hands of the far right
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Maras: a new approach
Criminal gangs will not give up their lucrative lifestyle until the state offers them something in return
Hypocritical exploitation
The Rajoy government has picked on culture, education, science and research as the preferred victims of its cutbacks
A Basque tale
Being able to walk around without fear of a bullet in the back of the head is welcome, but things are still far from normal since the ETA ceasefire
Out of the swamp
Given the paralysis over the crisis on both the left and right, it is hardly surprising that nationalist projects gain traction
Dithering Hamlet
The PP's reform has not served to stop the destruction of jobs, nor to incentivize their creation
The weight of mediocrity
In Spain, the same businessmen who find it normal to put up big money for a luxury leisure toy, are incapable of financing research or education
Wounded beauty
Why do celebrities always seem to lend their support to the same causes?
Sawn-off democracies
The European Commission is bent on imposing one strict priority on the member states: that of controlling the public deficit
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Europe leaves UK
Prime Minister Cameron welcomes the pretext offered by the rise of an anti-EU party to talk tough to Brussels
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To pay, or not to pay
Discussion on income tax is a welcome variation on the monotonous theme of public spending
Exile and empathy
The New Yorker is a dangerous publication - it robs you of hours of sleep, and of time you might devote to other reading material
Videla’s dirty war
It is imperative to remember the cynicism with which Argentina’s dictatorship dispatched its invisible victims
The Pacific Alliance and the success that countries in Latin America can have on their own
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico will meet in Cali, Colombia for their seventh presidential summit in just two years
Private Spanish spooks
The government has changed the rules so that CNI intelligence agents can be employed by companies
Credit is the new coal
Jean Monnet, the founding father of European integration, was convinced that integration had to begin with the economy, not politics
Low fiscal pressure
European countries permit tax evasion on a massive scale while asking citizens to take austerity medicine
Beckham on the turf
Perhaps he did not provide a boost to Real Madrid’s play but he honored the club and proved a wise investment
Legacy
It was the Popular Party that fuelled the property bubble
Now, Eurunemployed
If the 6.2 million unemployed Spaniards decided to set up their own state, there would be no less than 11 states dwarfed by this hypothetical Republic of the Dole
Gallardón’s cripples
The state envisaged by the justice minister guarantees the right to birth, but not to a decent life
Pottersville
The Spanish government seems to think that people who are suffering hardship are lazy or just plain dumb
A string of pearls
With a lobotomized left and a parasite-preserving right, we seem to have touched bottom