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Naider

  • Ayiti- Discovering Haiti

    Within the activities scheduled for the week“Ayiti- Discovering Haiti”, of which Naider is a collaborator, a conference was held in the Bidebarrieta Library in Bilbao. The conference was entitled “Social Movements in Haiti”, the speakers were James Thégénus St. Bo Lakwa, artist and musician who has his work :“Voodoo, the illuminated look” on display at…

  • More than 60 days in the Gulf of Mexico, years in the Niger Delta

    More than 60 days ago the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, day after day, there has been a massive oil spill that has become one of the biggest ecological catastrophes of the industrial age. According to US government calculations, some 60,000 barrels a day are being dumped. Thus, from…

  • A corpse in perfect magazine condition

    I totally agree with what he tells us Carlos Cuerda in his last post Go into debt to invest or to spend ? And of course I envy you the facility you have to give soap and be sneakily acid in your comments; honestly, I am not good and I doubt more and more if…

  • Benefits of a well-managed healthcare system

    The song said that whoever had the three important things of life – health, money and love – could thank God. Leaving love aside, it is indisputable that an efficient healthcare system is good for our health and it is good for our economy. It is an essential service for citizens and it is also…

  • reverse the trend

    One of the most prestigious Basque economists, my partner Iñaki Barredo, swimming against the current, gave us some very interesting reflections on the opportunity to increase the public deficit and favor expansive public spending policies that would encourage demand and therefore accelerate the growth of the Spanish and European economies. Just the opposite of what…

  • Notice to boaters

    The editorial by P. Krugman at the NYT warns us of the dangers of restrictive tax policies that have been set Europe and that is forcing indiscriminate cuts in public spending and investment. According to the criteria of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, this will mean lower growth, lower employment and, to put our…

  • back to the old ways

    The recently published business figures and order intake by the INE could not be more discouraging. They fell by 49.6% and 67.9% respectively and could be pointing to a change in trend in the timid increases in demand that Spanish companies were experiencing; all you have to do is look at the graphs. These data,…

  • Los Angeles without cars

    I just finda curious video. Ross Ching, a Los Angeles filmmaker has managed to edit footage of the city and edit it to make it disappear from they the cars. Well, actually, people have also disappeared. It is striking to see a city like Los Angeles, an icon of what Edward Soja called postmetropolisin a…

  • Conference on Climate Change in Vitoria-Gasteiz

    Vitoria-Gasteiz demonstrated once again to world citizens its concern for sustainability and preservation of the environment with the celebration of the “Conferences on climate change Administration, citizenship and companies: Shared responsibility” which was held held at the Palacio Europa on June 3 and 4. The sessions were the result of joint work between the Vitoria-Gasteiz…

  • The Interconnection of the Potosí Principle

    A few days ago it was released in the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, the exhibitionPrincipio Potosí. One of the most important centers in the Iberian Peninsula in this field (it houses Picasso’s Guernica among other jewels) has dedicated one of the main temporary rooms (in the second quarter of the year)…