Ana Gómez -- Why Alberto Núñez Feijóo is so successful
Galicia celebrated last Sunday the most atypical electoral event in its history. For the first time, Galicians went to vote in the midst of a pandemic and with unprecedented security measures. That is why the participation was one of the lowest in the history of the autonomous community, raising the abstention around 5 points and [...]
Politics, an Auction
All living beings are still here because very soon, from their early stages as unicellular organisms, they had to learn to distinguish the good from the bad. In human beings, this biological archaism is also transferred to their minds, and if education, training, and other characteristics that make them human are not developed, they do not discriminate, […]
Repetition (II): Side B
Another article about electoral debates on television? Another article about the six debates broadcast, two from RTVE, two from La Sexta, one from TVE-3 and one, the first to be held, from Barcelona Tribuna-La Vanguardia? I prefer to read them, some may say, rather than watching them (as a diet for a single week is […]
Arsonists and Rapists
We are surprised that a crocodile is so tender as to transport the eggs from one place to another until their young are born, or that a panther is loving and takes great care of its young. In another scene, we will see both with unusual ferocity. That is how all brains function and […]
Let's Talk About Politics
All living creatures, and even some viruses, live, like us humans, in groups. We are able to refer to you by your individual identity and we can think. But we all have experiences that, according to the group in which we exist, aspects, resources, qualities and even defects that are set in motion, which individually […]
The Drug of Power
Our political leaders are repeating the same news. The mediated dramatism keeping us hostage daily to tighten their negotiations makes the last weeks since the elections seem years. But what happens to these figures when they come into contact with power? This week Antonio Garrigues released his new poetry book, «Living Loves, Dead Loves.» It [...]
Dick Cheney, the last politician in the shadows
A few days ago, at the pre-release screening of Vice in Spain organised by the journalism forum Conversaciones con, Pablo Pardo, correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo in the United States, characterised the almighty Vice President Dick Cheney's relationship with the press, noting how «Cheney decided to elude the press, did not talk to the [...]