Paris hastens his steps in a winter that does not stop smokers from sidewalks driven by new rules against snuff. Strikes by railway officials and teachers seek to stop the change proposed by a government determined to build a new French production, which to face the challenges ahead. Sarkozy confirms there is no better kind that comes out of the same wood and the best attacks with weapons of socialist rhetoric.
No time to analyze the cynicism and inconsistencies give way to a pragmatism that gets even colder in this becoming itself long European winter.
In Brussels, the integration process has more questions than answers. More uncertainties than certainties. At the severe impact of financial crisis adds labor mobility between the 27 member countries that exacerbates social problems and begins to question fundamental values such as the common currency and the feasibility of an integration project that for many it has left a mother. Old Europe has seen too much to believe that this is the end. He knows from experience that is part of the dynamics of an unperturbed region attending the growth of China and India and with some guilt takes its colonial past in Africa, that began to change exactly 50 years ago.
Migrants constitute a sixth of the world’s population (one billion human beings) are seeking refuge in ghettos, where the smell of spices life becomes more tolerant. Outside, the immigration control movement seeking to deter even those who have permission to reside in some countries like the case of a Mexican forced to have to take a flight from Greece to France because the Italian ship captain prevented him from taking the ferry to Bari. Paraguayans are surviving everywhere they can earn 1,200 euros a month doing odd jobs, as the construction work is severely affected by the financial crisis.
Spain continues to attract but you can find our compatriots in Brussels or Paris doing what they do in the Iberian Peninsula: survive and send something to the family. Paraguay is a utopia that is off to the tropical rhythms on some weekend nightclub.
Latin America has lost interest in the decision-making groups in Europe and it is clear that the eyes moved first to the East and then to Russia, China and India. We remain the reference of the sun, beaches and opportunities squandered. There are more than tourism to East to South America, where the only positive stories are those successful players till they play in European teams. The rest: almost nothing. Nobody today would be manifested by a political thing happened to us, and even Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution not only arouse interest, but the support of intellectuals, as Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, who has no shame in praising the virtues (?) the Venezuelan president. In the past, that would be reason for derision and contempt. Today nothing happens … total for the old Europe that happens to us every day is so like the same old thing they have lost the romantic and rationalist view that encouraged so many to come to this part of the world and develop their skills.
Today, we are just where once were the grandparents to forging a future stolen by this and the occasional visit from a Paraguayan president when asked why he wanted the presidential meeting said tickets for the Barcelona-Liverpool final was played this night in Paris.
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