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Immigration, History, Politics, and the Latino Vote
2019 Lectures IMMIGRATION AND THE LATINO VOTE January 30, 2019 4:30 pm McKee 113 WCU Humanities Initiative WCU welcomes Uruguayan-American scholar and author Jorge Majfud. In the first event, Dr. Majfud will join Dr. Benjamin Francis-Fallon (WCU History) in a panel about Immigration and the evolution of the Latino Voting Bloc in the US. Join…
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War of the Pigs and tribal politics
La guerre au cochon et la politique tribale La guerra de los cerdos y la política tribal Jorge Majfud Translated by Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي To distract attention from the global assault by 0.1 percent of the world’s population, we have a growing War of the Pig (Diary of the War of the Pig, novel by…
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The old tale of corruption
The political narrative that justifies any option as a way to end corruption is as old as politics and as old as narrative. In Latin America, it’s a classic genre. It’s only possible to repeat it generation after generation as if it were a novelty thanks to the short memory of the people. But this…
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The old tale of corruption
The political narrative that justifies any option as a way to end corruption is as old as politics and as old as narrative. In Latin America, it’s a classic genre. It’s only possible to repeat it generation after generation as if it were a novelty thanks to the short memory of the people. But this…
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Brazil: The Eternal Country of the Future Trapped in Its Colonial Past
Days before the elections in Brazil, a young Brazilian approached me and said, «God willing, Bolsonaro to win. He is a military man and will end corruption.” I did not want to answer. I esteem this boy as a good person, maybe too young to be anything else. But these two brief sentences summed up…
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Psychopolitics of the scarecrow
Jorge Majfud Translated by Fausto Giudice Фаусто Джудиче فاوستو جيوديشي President Donald Trump has just announced that, to answer the endless list of books that criticize him (especially books written by his former friends and trusted men, who by now are almost all of them), the White House will publish «a real book». Obviously, he…
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Do we really owe modernity to capitalism?
The narrature of capitalism One of the claims that the apologists of capitalism most repeat and last question is that which has been the system that has created the most wealth and progress in history. We owe you the Internet, the planes, YouTube, the computers from which we write and all the medical advancement and social and…
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Capotean Interview
by Toni Montesinos (originally published in Spanish here >>) In 1972, Truman Capote published an original text that became the autobiography that has never been written. He titled it «Self-portrait» (in The Dogs Bark, 1973), and in it he gave himself with cunning and brilliance. Those questions that serve to proclaim his frustrations, desires, and customs,…
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
Throughout the centuries, long before your grandparents arrived from Germany and had a lot of success in the hotel and brothel business in New York, long before your mother arrived from Scotland, the Mexicans had their families here and they had named all of the Western states, rivers, valleys, mountains, and cities.
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10 George Orwell Quotes that Predicted Life in 2014
Jorge Majfud’s books at Amazon>> George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’…
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What good is culture?
What Good Is Culture, Anyway? Spanish: «¿Para qué sirve la cultura?» It is understandable that in times of crisis, all sectors of a society suffer budget cuts and reduced profits. It is not totally comprehensible, but it is easy to understand that the first casualty of these cuts is culture. We accept that if we do…
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Eduardo Galeano
“The Hoariest of Latin American Conspiracy Theorists” Although I would say that the article “The Land of Too Many Summits” by Christopher Sabatini (Foreign Affairs, April 12, 2012) is right on some points, it nonetheless fails to give little more than unproved opinions on other matters — or as Karl Popper would say, certain…
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Another conservative paradox
Politicians who are the champions of private businesses as the only motor of the American (or any) economy and the best social organizers (forget F.D. Roosevelt, the 4 term “socialist” president who saved and refunded the country) always blame the government for not doing better in the economy. That is why they want to take…
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The patriotism of the rich
US Politics and Economics: the patriotism of the rich Almost nowhere in the world do the rich emigrate. They rarely form part of the armies that they send off to wars, and that they then cover with honours and applause, and they curse the state that sucks their blood. When the economy is doing well,…
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Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision
Osama y los peligros de la perspectiva cónica (Spanish) Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision Without meaning to do so, in 1690 the famous Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz demonstrated, with her life and death, that a person can be terribly censured by means of the publication of her own texts. Something similar…
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The Age of Barbaria
La Era de Barbaria (Spanish) The Age of Barbaria Annual trips back to the year 33 began in the Age of Barbaria. That year was selected because, according to surveys, Christ’s crucifixion drew the attention of most Westerners, and this social sector was important for economic reasons since trips to the past weren’t organized, much less…
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What good is literature? (II)
¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II) (Spanish) À quoi sert la littérature ? (French) What good is literature? (II) Every so often a politician, a bureaucrat or a smart investor decides to strangulate the humanities with a cut in education, some culture ministry or simply downloading the full force of the market over the busy factories of prefabricated sensitivities.…
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