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The Ukrainian war is the elephant in the room. Formally, it is not part of the agenda of the Ibero-American summit that is being held this Friday and Saturday in Dominican Republic. Nor in the previous Business Meeting that closes this Friday. But without being there will condition everything. Spain sends its highest representation to this forum. The King closes the business meeting. And he participates in the plenary session of the Heads of State and Government, where the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will also attend, who will arrive directly from the European Council held in Brussels. In the Government they recognize that "the war in Ukraine is going to fly over" the debates, but that it is not on the agenda. The increase in prices, raw materials or increases in...

Updated Friday, March 24, 2023 - 00:04The Argentine writer presents 'Fortuna', a choral novel about loneliness where four texts by different authors are interspersed that complement and contradict each otherThe writer Hern Díaz.Javier BarbanchoHe was born in Argentina, grew up in Sweden and was educated between Buenos Aires, London and New York, where he arrived 25 years ago to do a doctorate in comparative literature and attend Jacques Derrida's seminars. Today, cured of the virus of theory and the "intentional obscurity" of academic writing, Hernn Diaz (1973) lives in Brooklyn, is a professor at Columbia and directs the Revista Hispánica Moderna of the Hispanic Institute, the former Institute of Spain founded at the New York university 103 years ago. And he is also a successful wr...

Miño, Ebro, Duero, Tagus, Guadiana, Júcar, Segura and Guadalquivir. A refrain that most Spanish students have repeated in school classrooms and have written dozens of times in exams. To these must be added the tributaries such as the Sil, the Pisuerga, the Jarama, the Genil or the Segre and thus a list of names that "make more than 35,000", answers Ramón J. Soria, anthropologist and author of the book 'Spain does not it is country for rivers'. Soria, from Extremadura by birth, in his last essay he travels through the Spanish hydrography through 40 rivers, although if he has to choose one, the chosen one would be the Tagus. "It represents the biggest problems of Iberian torrents," he explains. Pollution, overexploitation and barriers that can be observed in most rivers throughout th...

TO male student who was being patted down in a routine safety check shot two faculty members at a Denver high school early Wednesday, police and school officials said.The suspected shooter, identified as 17-year-old Austin Lyle, was at large, and the weapon was not found at the school, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said in a news conference. He was wanted for attempted murder.The Denver Police Department said in a tweet at about 6 pm that the suspect's SUV was located in Park County. The Park County Sheriff's Office later said officials found a body in the woods near the vehicle but did not say whether the body was identified as the suspect. A shelter-in-place order was lifted, the county said.The two school administrators were taken to a hospital, Thomas said. One was in serious b...

The XXVIII Ibero-American Summit will be held on the 24th and 25th in the Dominican Republic with the challenge of finding consensus in the midst of the ideological frictions that can arise from authoritarian countries and even dictatorships sitting at the same table. The Ibero-American Secretary General, the Chilean Andrés Allamand, considers that dialogue among all is a greater good and an example in the commitment that regional integration can be decoupled from political waves. And he warns that the political polarization in Spain should not distract Spaniards from their involvement in the Ibero-American Community, whose general secretariat is based in Madrid. — Among the 22 countries of the Ibero-American Community there are some non-democratic ones. Doesn't your presence hinder...