Literature and Books

To introduce this subject I can say that I read very much because of my career, and because I love literature. I don´t love “read” because this is an exercise, I love read some things, some world built by the authors. In fact what I love of literature is not reading in general, but some worlds or ideas contained in books. Because of that I don´t know actually how many books I have read in my life, I don’t count them. I usually read but I’m not a compulsive reader because I prefer sometimes to go out there and live my own experiences. So to read a text it has to be more interesting than that. Beyond the books  about my discipline, I love poetry, stories, and “microcuentos”. I’m not a fanatic of novels, because they usually are an escape from our own reality, of course not all. There are some novels that impressed me because of the atmosphere created by the author, and some new and interesting sensations. A novel like this is Narciso y Golmundo from Herman Hesse, Pedro páramo from Juan Rulfo, or Cien años de soledad from García Marquez which is the most typical. My favorite poets are Juan Luis Martinez, Jaime Sabines, Nicanor Parra, and some others who are not exactly poets like Cortázar, and Marcial Souto. To conclude, I could say that I love literature but to be sincere I love some voices, I mean that the important, and what I like from literature, or books, is what they say, no matters how they say it.

Summary from an article

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/

Police report 100 arrests after violent clashes with protesters.

Last Thursday in Santiago thousands of high school and university students marched to express their frustration because the government doesn’t give an answer to their demands. Similar protests happened in cities like Concepcion and Valparaiso. This protest was organized by the Coordinating Assembly for Secondary Students (ACES), the National Coordination of Secondary Students (CONES) and supported by the umbrella organization the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech).

 Students estimate 70 000 protesters for the education in Chile. Indeed they protest to be heard by the congress, because of  the congressional debate over the 2013 budget witch students insist must have a special focus on education. By the other hand the administration has said it plans for education spending to reach a record of twenty percent of the budget in education.

 Anyways after a while the violence broke out and the police engulfed the crowd by a medley of tear gas and water cannons. Heated interchanges continued for several hours. After that the crowd was dispersed along side streets because they couldn’t continue along the designated route.

 Many humans rights observer like Elisa Disqueto were present and denounced many abuses. Another humans rights observer Javiera Campos Menendez  said that there were three completely illegal arrest of protesters for no motive.

To conclude the police have arrested 106 protesters and the majority of them were minors, so in the most cases it was unfair.

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