Javier Marías (Madrid, 1951-2022), fascinated by William Shakespeare, was basically a character from Shakespeare. He was brilliant, sophisticated, obsessive, with a world of his own, somewhere between dismissive and arrogant, intelligent and, sometimes, with masked subtlety or stark nonchalance, vindictive. And at the same time, with all that psychological baggage, he was one of the … Read more
Dr. Franco Lotito C. – Academic, writer and researcher (PUC-UACh) – www.aurigaservicios.cl Already in 2009 –on September 6, 2009, to be very precise–, the Nobel Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman, accused the economists of his country of “complete blindness” in an article published in The New York Times, for having been incapable of correctly interpreting … Read more
The last stretch of the year found businessmen and women intertwining greetings from the weekend with messages loaded with pessimism. The trigger for the business malaise can be summarized in that they admit with dismay that the first concrete consequence of the political scene that emerged from December 10 until now aimed, in different ways, … Read more
First modification: 11/02/2021 – 15:14 In the framework of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, this November 2, RFI spoke with Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Interview by Frédéric Rivière. RFI: Between 2006 and 2020, more than 1,200 journalists were murdered worldwide, and nearly nine out of … Read more