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The results of the G20 are disappointing, no one would seek. His work has revealed the extent of disputes between countries, between Europe and the United States but also in Europe, among its various members. An analysis of the map that these discussions amid tear gas have drawn.





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What is a life in Caracas?

Graffiti representing barrios of Caracas. ( Photo: Seb )

is the kind of column that you would never have to write. Last year I published an article about insecurity in Caracas titled "The delinquency has Does the skin of the 'Bolivarian Revolution'? . "The story began with the testimony of a taxi driver, Pastor. Last Saturday he was killed, a victim, too, crime.

Pastor is a taxi driver in Caracas. He works at night to avoid traffic congestion at the entrance and exit of capital. "As I live a bit outside, I should get up every day at 4 am in order to arrive at a decent hour in the center, "he said. But night work is more risky, so he works almost exclusively with known clients:" They pass me a call and I'll get them where they are. It is more safe for me and for them, we never know who you can fall.

Despite his caution, Pastor was the victim of a robbery a few months ago, while driving a customer in a barrio (poor neighborhood). "Two motorcyclists have pointed their weapons. I could not resist, I preferred they go with the car and get out of there alive. "The incident will remain there and Pastor even find his car a few days later. But the stories of armed robberies does not always end as well. Between 1999 and 2008, nearly 22,000 people fell under the bullets of delinquency, nothing to Caracas (2 million). At the national level, a Corps document scientific investigations, criminal and criminal (CICPC), disclosed recently in the press, gives a figure of 101,141 homicides in ten years (28 million) ", explained the article published in May 2009 (1) .

Last weekend, Pastor luck has turned. While driving a client in the neighborhood of Las Mercedes (yet upscale neighborhood known as shelters among others the Embassy of France) he too eventually fell under the fire of urban violence.

During his years in Venezuela, he became my trusted taxi. I made myself some of these "known clients" with whom he worked. Last Saturday after a theatrical release, around 23:30, I decided to call to get home. But it is his colleague who answered the phone: "We killed Pastor," he said.

"We killed Pastor. Four words that seem, even now impossible to combine in my head, as if I had misheard, misunderstood. The tragedy had happened when I called. After stammering a few questions, some complaints, a long silence settled over the phone. The same silence, probably, than one who stays every weekend in Caracas, whenever a life slipping under the bullets of hate.

Pastor was killed for something stupid. A collision with a passing animal. According to the newspaper on Monday (2) , the person who accompanied the passing drew his gun and shot ... in the back. Pastor was killed instantly. The height of cowardice. The height of stupidity. The height of ignorance. On the same page of the newspaper, like every day, violence and deaths make the headlines: "Six killed in a mutiny in the prison Los Teques, "" The crime actually see all the colors the streets of Coche, "" Beware of paramilitaries ", etc..

Death prefers poor

The case of Pastor is tragically commonplace, tragically common. The civil war in El Salvador, which lasted 12 years (in a country of just under six million inhabitants) has 75 000 victims. "Bolivarian Revolution", which claims be on the path of socialism, left to die more than 100,000 people in ten years, in peacetime, unflinchingly . Violence is not the Similarly, of course. That El Salvador was political, that of Venezuela has no color, no name, anyone can qualify. Yet death prefers poor, workers as Pastor risk their lives every day to bring food for their families. "Young men, residents of socioeconomically depressed communities of large urban centers," as stated in Article 2009. The roots of violence are deep, obviously. But the answers are insufficient.

A 42-year Pastor leaves behind a wife and a baby as young as seven months. That will ensure a dignified life and a future now? The height of cowardice does not only apply to one who pulls the trigger, and this applies especially to a state unable to answer a crying need in the population. This also applies to a state unable to protect its citizens and, where appropriate, to find and punish the guilty. This also applies to a ruling class increasingly focused on partisan politics and less about the realities of the country.

The rich always like the new rich (this "bolibourgeoisie" bureaucratic caste, which is enriched through its power stations) have much less to worry violence. As in most Latin American capitals, upscale neighborhood homes are surrounded by high walls and surveillance systems. The senior officials access to private clinics and their children studying in the best schools, private as well. In Venezuela, many of whom preach socialism on the day of oligarchs and live like the rest of the time. By chance, a few days ago during a conversation with an acquaintance, it commented to me that the children of senior officials "Bolivarian" studying at the French Lycée in Caracas. Like what these people do not believe for one second to the policies they themselves contribute to to implement.

Pastor I saw just three days before his death. He complained of seeing buses softball teams (3) escorted by National Guard, while the inhabitants of Caracas are subject to curfew delinquency and serious lack of police manpower in streets. Ironically, it is itself the victim three days later.

"The crime she has the skin of the Bolivarian revolution?" Was the question posed by the article published in 2009 in the daily Le Courrier . Today to respond, as I had done so with Pastor, I'll just quote someone else encountered on the streets of Caracas. It is the vendor booth newspaper downstairs from me, which I do not know the names but that sums up the prevailing feeling in the neighborhoods, 'I am but Chavez there , really the Comandante and the government do nothing to improve the situation. "

Notes:

(1) "The crime will Does the skin of the 'Bolivarian Revolution'? " Courier, May 26, 2009.

(2) "transeunte a taxista furioso mató of a tiro," Últimas Noticias , June 28, 2010.

(3) The e Venezuela is currently hosting the XII World Championship Women's Softball.

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The World Cup has a high cost for countries that organize it. These events are built to Western television and he is not sure they relate to countries which organize, especially if they build everything, stadiums, tourist infrastructure, all they expect ...




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Pensions we'll have to adapt retreats lighter

Whatever one says and whatever is done, the pension reform will lead to lower pensions pure majority simply because it will be for many almost impossible to meet the requirements to receive a pension full. Would not that because you enter more and more active later in life and that comes out of an earlier age even though it appears possible to reverse these trends.

It will be sentenced to adapt, which will pass through contributions in complementary systems, a side job, the lifetime mortgage or a return of large families, as is already the case in popular circles in Italy.





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Sympathy for the Devil.

Through on this blog are born very diverse friendships with people who, although not necessarily shared my tastes or my ideas, have the same approach to literature and literary criticism. Of those, Juan Asensio , the owner of sulfuric Stalker, dissecting the body of literature . Sulfuric, yes, because let me tell you now: Juan Asensio would the Devil ...

mere mortal, I am seduced by the Father of Lies who was able to match the appearance of a passionate and that of a courteous man and smiling when we met in a Parisian brasserie to talk about our work, while emptying a few glasses of wine. Satan is vicious to charm me, I did, that day, a few books now. It also cultivates the irony: among these books, there were The Secret of evil Roberto Bolaño . It must be said that the Chilean is one of the few authors with Sábato , Canetti, McCarthy and a few others that we both enjoy, because, because of its ideas and its commitments, el diabolo devoted primarily to writers who, because of mine, does not interest me and in fact I never took the time to read, such as Boutang Pierre, Georges Bernanos or Leon Bloy .
As the new millennium, the Devil service abroad distinction of being Catholic and right and I, a poor leftist atheist, have succumbed to its attraction. I am not, alas, not alone because my friend François Monti (but al'excuse be Belgian) is another victim of that individual evil. This led us to accept the invitation of Juan Asensio to converse on a subject that unites all three: the literature. For weeks, we have freely expressed our points of agreement and disagreement, and despite the shortcomings related to the difficulty of this exercise, we were pleased to have such a dialogue feed .

But one issue not with impunity with the Devil and the publication of this interview has aroused so much controversy that I wish now that things have calmed down, out of my usual reserve.

With Francis Monti and other fellow bloggers, we created a literary website, the Fric-Frac Club . I was the only one to keep my blog, the others having decided to devote himself completely to this new platform. When our conversation was finished, it has seemed self-evident that, given its magnitude, it should be serialized in each of our sites, Stalker, Bartleby eyes open and Fric-Frac Club . Yes, but ... a site can safely accommodate a person as beyond the pale that Juan Asensio ? Some of my comrades FFC - which are always and that I do not blame, at least not too hard - first voiced their misgivings about it then, under the pretext of the futility of connection that we wanted, refused publication. I was shocked and dismayed. François Monti well. Juan Asensio more and yet there is always a link (and those links are not many) on Stalker to FFC, which meant if tolerance is not always the side that is believes. [1] François Monti has re-opened his blog, Tabula Rasa and maintenance was finally released, his rhetoric is so little of interest that Magazine Books asked us permission to reproduce on its website ( HERE ).
But that's nothing.
As I do all my items, I announced and posted on my Facebook page episodes of this interview. There was immediately a staggering surge in bad faith, hatred and contempt. Some of my readers who, in friendship, relayed the information in this publication have immediately lost "friends" and myself have lost a number, for most writers and editors connected and anti-Germanopratins (yet more Germanopratins that said Germanopratins) which, followed by a swarm of parasites, not out in packs in the Neighborhood Latin - pffff! they are not snobs! - But at Bastille or Oberkampf, main reservations bobos in Paris ... One of them even wrote to a friend before removing it from its list had nothing against her, but that ostracism was a "political act" . The beautiful commitment and courage that's beautiful ... The bourgeoisie - but it is not enough to have read Flaubert , it must be understood - is not a question of neighborhood, income or "look", it lies in adherence to moral principles purportedly in the gregariousness, in short, in conformity. The bourgeois is well-meaning.

This is obviously not the childishness of these defriendlisations (yes, I know ...) that shocked me, but rather the fact that some people, friends and anonymous, I was violently criticized myself down dialogue with the Devil and have thus questioned my integrity. The height was achieved when a person did not know existed wrote me to tell me she was on trial with Juan Asensio and that my name being associated with his, I might be worried because presentation to a portion of the interview in which Juan Asensio on Stalker , took them to third, also involved in this case ... I can not, alas, reproduce any part of this mail, the stranger in question like me threatened legal action if I were to do so and, given its litigious spirit, I have the cowardice to be careful. [2]
Juan Asensio Why is there evil? Because being a Catholic intellectual right, it is left for some well-meaning, necessarily fascist. Fascism is, moreover, a contagious disease and one who speaks to a fascist himself is about to become, it is a rhinoceros who does not know yet .

What is a fascist? Strictly speaking, it is one that adheres to a political doctrine advocating totalitarianism, the cult leader, a nationalism and the establishment of a police-state to ensure the physical safety and welfare of the people voluntarily submitted. In the modern sense, fascist and racist is unparliamentary. Admitting that I could be a bad player Stalker, I asked my detractors pointed out to me the slightest trace of fascism in one of his texts and, of course, none of them did ... We was telling myself that "it felt" that "was diffuse" while it was still very mysterious and for good reason: Juan Asensio is a reactionary critic, polemicist, outspoken, sometimes outrageous, but not as a fascist and that words have meaning, a fascist and reactionary are two different things. In
Literature without stomach , Pierre Jourde denounces trial of intent made Michel Houellebecq . No books Houellebecq does make it a sympathizer of the far right. I denounce the same facts for trial today because I am a democrat and a humanist. Juan Asensio Is it fascist? I do not know, I do not think so, and nothing in his writings, in our correspondence does not allow me to and so infer that nothing will allow me to do, I will continue to dialogue with him.

Where do I come? This saddens me deeply is that individuals who advocate tolerance, respect for others, critical thinking, freedom of thought can go against their principles based on vague suspicions, as if they needed to demonize a man to feel alive through their little indignation. No sooner have they found someone to hate they turn themselves in people intolerant, disrespectful, opinionated fools advocating censorship anathema to anyone who does not adhere to dogma-righteous, which is a fascist attitude paradoxically well. I hate these allegedly moral principles in whose name we judge peremptorily, without knowledge, without arguing. Intelligence is the only quality I asked a friend and I always prefer a reactionary fool intelligent left. Those gentlemen who consider my friendship with Juan Asensio as infamous make me pleased and honored to be no longer my friends.


[1] It reminds me a little story. If Claro has, I believe, make Juan Asensio , it has repeatedly targeted his work. Juan Asensio knows that this is one of our disagreements, the work of translator, editor and writer Claro me pretend to be more interesting (see Here ). Now on Facebook has existed for some time an anti- Claro. Noticing the name of Juan Asensio among the members, I wrote him a few days later to tell him my astonishment. Create a group against a person to me already seems unworthy of a schoolboy, but when it comes to adults, I feel the greatest disgust. Juan Asensio replied that he had already left the group, there was joined because he believed it would be a forum for debate and not argued that this group was a bunch of gratuitous attacks as foolish. The henchman of evil loves debate, amazing, no? [2] The chance that Pierre Jourde recently wrote an article on his blog about the case Asensio : HERE.


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TeleSUR demands the immediate release of its correspondent

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TeleSUR requires, the most energetic, the immediate release of its correspondent David Segarra who was jailed after the attack and the massacre of the Israeli army in a fleet of humanitarian aid to Palestine from the Gaza Strip.

We urge the authorities, both military and civilian, to respect their physical integrity and to guarantee its rights.

With other colleagues, David Segarra accompanied the fleet as a journalist. His reports during the previous days have demonstrated the peaceful nature of the mission.

We appeal to respect the free exercise of journalistic principles from truth and freedom of expression.

TeleSUR / Caracas, May 31, 2010

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Lower wages, they say ...

Several countries have chosen to lower the wages of their employees to repay their debts. An exceptional decision which is due to the practical impossibility to conduct a currency devaluation or a dangerous move for tax policy which does nothing it will work.



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