After watching a nailbiter between Argentina and Australia in the Tri-Nations Rugby Championships, the 15-15 draw turned into a sour taste in my mouth when Australian rugby captain Michael Hooper said after the game that “the Argies are a tough cookie to crack.” Was this racist term intentional or unintentional? Is Hooper a sore loser
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Liliana Belatti’s humanity in times of war
“[Leon] Trotsky once said that if the anarchists did not exist they’d have to be invented because they have done a lot of good things for humanity with their incorruptible opposition. They demonstrated having a principal that they never abandoned.”. Osvaldo Bayer (1927-2018) As the late Argentinean historian points out, social movements like anarchism in
Read on »Un golpe de estado hace 44 años que cambió nuestras vidas para siempre
Hoy, el 24 de marzo, hace 44 años que la Argentina vivió su pesadilla más larga después de un golpe de estado que cambió el país para siempre, pero que nos dió también una promesa: ¡nunca más! Uno de los héroes de la guerra sucia (1976-83) fueron, indudablemente, los padres y familiares que sufrieron la
Read on »Dos fotos y unos recuerdos de mi amigo de colimba, Marcelo Zlotgwiazda
Con tristeza leí sobre la muerte de Marcelo Zlotgwiazda en Página 12 de su amigo y colega, José Natanson. Yo me acuerdo de “Zloto” cuando hicimos la conscripción militar durante un época muy comprometida, durante la dictadura de Jorge Rafael Videla. Fue en la Contaduría General del Ejército, en la calle porteña de Piedras 141,
Read on »¡Qué vergüenza tu xenobobía y tu racismo, jefe de gobierno Horacio Rodríguez Larreta!
Se sabe ya desde hace mucho tiempo que los senegaleses que viven en la Argentina son discriminados y hasta brutalmente tratados por las fuerzas del “orden” público. Así pasó otra vez en los barrios porteños de Flores y Once donde, según Megafón, hubo más de mil senegaleses fueron detenidos. Todo esto huele a algo mal
Read on »Sono alla ricerca della sua famiglia in Italia. Era un tuo avo?*
Dante Tessieri, che era di Cecina, per ragioni politiche a fine ‘800 lasciò l’Italia per il Brasile, dove ebbe due figli da Aida Guaimonti, tra cui Nemo, mio nonno, nato nel 1899. Nel 1900 circa si trasferì in Argentina ed ebbe altri tre figli nella sua nuova patria: Sara, Iris e Carlos. Dante Tessieri fu un
Read on »Do you know who was Dante Tessieri?
Dante Tessieri, who was from Cecina, left Italy for political reasons in the late 1890s to Brazil and moved to Argentina about 1900 after the death of his first son with Aida Guaimonti. He had three children in his new homeland: Sara, Iris, and Carlos after Nemo, my grandfather, was born in Brazil in 1899.
Read on »Argentina’s issues with whitewashing and genocide. Like the crimes committed during the dirty war, they too should be addressed.
When I was young, I remember very well the racism of the Argentines. A friend of mine from Rosario highlighted this racism in the following example: An porteño (a resident of the capital Buenos Aires) told his friends that he was going to travel to South America as if Buenos Aires was surrealistically still a part of Europe.
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
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- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
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