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Beluche, La avaricia en nuestros tiempos

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La avaricia capitalista
en tiempos del COVID

por Olmedo Beluche

A la memoria del profesor Marco Gandásegui

Las epidemias siempre han existido y seguirán existiendo por dos motivos básicos: vivimos en la naturaleza y somos parte de ella, junto con las bacterias y los virus, por un lado; por otro, porque somos seres sociales, convivimos e interactuamos en colectividad, y esa es la principal característica que ha hecho fuertes a los humanos por encima de otras especies, pero, a su vez, es de donde se aprovechan virus y bacterias para transformarse en epidemias y, gracias a la globalización, en pandemias.

Frente a las epidemias son las ciencias, en particular las ciencias médicas, las que nos han dado y nos seguirán dando las armas para combatirlas y sobrevivir como especie. Lo que la medicina no puede resolver es cómo se reparte la carga social que ha significado la pandemia en el sentido económico. Eso pertenece al campo de la política y, por ende, lo deciden quienes tienen el poder, es decir, la clase económicamente dominante, y quienes desde abajo se les oponen y resisten defendiendo sus derechos, luchando por un mundo distinto. En esto consiste la lucha de clases.

Panamá: un gobierno al servicio de la burguesía

En Panamá eso se ha visto plenamente confirmado con el manejo que ha hecho el gobierno Cortizo-PRD de la epidemia del COVID-19. Nunca en la historia fue tan evidente para la absoluta mayoría de las personas en este país que el gobierno defiende primordialmente los intereses de la clase dominante, así sea a costa de la vida de las clases populares. Primero el mercado y el capital que la vida y la salud.

El capital financiero, es decir, los bancos, mejor dicho, los banqueros han sido los niños mimados del gobierno: se les permitió utilizar más de mil millones de las reservas que debían estar como garantía de los ahorros depositados; se les ha permitido, como a todos los empresarios, postergar el pago de impuestos y la cuota patronal del seguro social; les han dejado que en medio de la crisis ellos decidan la relación con sus clientes respecto a deudas e hipotecas. Y eso que los bancos, en 2019, reportaron utilidades por B/. 1,800 millones de dólares.

Pero también están contentos los especuladores financieros internacionales, pues es el gobierno que de manera más rápida ha endeudado al país: 2000 millones en bonos a mitad de 2019; otros 2500 millones en bonos en marzo-abril de 2020; 300 millones con el BID; 500 millones con una agencia del Banco Mundial; 500 millones con el FMI.

Sumados estos números a la deuda acumulada por los gobiernos anteriores, ya se superan ampliamente los B/ 30 mil millones de deuda pública, más del 50% del PIB. Si se tiene en cuenta que esta deuda habrá que pagarla en un futuro mediato contra el gasto social, tal y como sucede en otros países del mundo, es para perder el sueño. Solo este año 2020, el gobierno había presupuestado el pago por servicio de la deuda por más de 3,700 millones de balboas.

La otra gran beneficiaria del gobierno ha sido Minera Panamá, la cual siguió saqueando nuestros recursos sin control del estado, incluso cuando ya se había impuesto la cuarentena a todo el país. Y siguieron exprimiendo plusvalía a los trabajadores hasta que empezaron a morir por contagio del COVID. Solo ahí, y ante los reclamos de los sindicatos y la ciudadanía, el gobierno impuso a la minera que parara.

Mientras la clase trabajadora y los desempleados de Colón no han visto al presidente Laurentino Cortizo firmar la ley de moratoria del pago de hipotecas y alquileres, el Proyecto de Ley 287, aprobado por la Asamblea Nacional, en cambio, sí ordenó que los comerciantes que alquilan depósitos y hangares en la Zona Libre de Colón tengan una moratoria en sus alquileres. Esta debe ser la Ley del Embudo que decían las abuelas.

Para las clases populares solo hay miseria y represión

Tampoco ha querido firmar el presidente el Proyecto de Ley 295 que establece una moratoria en el pago de servicios públicos, lo cual aliviaría la presión sobre las decenas de miles de asalariados que acaban de perder sus empleos por la crisis, la de otros miles de micro, pequeños y medianos empresarios que se han visto obligados a cerrar, así como más de medio millón de cuentapropistas que viven del día a día.

Con fecha del 20 de marzo de 2020 el gobierno de Laurentino Cortizo emitió el Decreto Ejecutivo No. 81, el cual en su resuelto 2 suspende todos los contratos de trabajo de todas las empresas que cierren por la crisis del “corona virus”, con lo cual los “empleadores no están obligados a pagar los salarios”. Con este decreto el gobierno dejó en el desamparo a centenas de miles de trabajadores y trabajadoras a nivel nacional.

Hasta el momento, formalmente se han registrado en Ministerio de Trabajo (MITRADEL) la suspensión de contratos que afectan a cerca de 60 mil trabajadores y trabajadoras. Personas que tenían ingresos estables y que no contaban como pobres para las estadísticas del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (MIDES), por lo cual, en principio no eran beneficiarios del Plan Panamá Solidario.

Plan Panamá Solidario que es apenas un paliativo mínimo que no alcanza para dar sustento adecuado a una familia, menos a las familias pobres que son más numerosas: una bolsa de comida cuyo valor calculan que no llega a los 20 balboas; y un bono de 80 balboas por familia.

El gobierno sabe, porque los cálculos los hace el Ministerio de Economía (MEF), que al momento de empezar la crisis el costo de una Canasta Básica de Alimentos en Panamá para una familia promedio de 4 personas era de poco más de B/. 300.00, sin contar con los costos de las otras necesidades básicas (Canasta Básica General), que incluye: vivienda, electricidad, agua, transporte, vestido, etc.

Ya se ha sostenido que un bono de B/. 300 no es imposible, lo están pagando en Costa Rica y otros países de la región, solo hay que decidirse a tomarlos de los B/. 3,000 millones programados para pagar el servicio de la deuda.

¿Cómo las autoridades piensan que puede estar satisfecha una familia que acaba de perder sus medios de vida, empleo o negocio, con un bono y una bolsa que apenas representan la tercera parte de lo que necesitan para subsistir? Encima la distribución del paquete “solidario” es ineficiente y/o politiquero, pues no está llegando a todas las comunidades.

¿Acaso no se explican por qué en las comunidades más pobres del país, desde David, pasando por Chorrera y Arraiján, hasta San Miguelito, la gente se tira a la calle a protestar incluso arriesgándose al contagio para exigir los bonos?

En lo que sí ha sido eficientemente rápido el gobierno es en la represión. Miles de policías en las calles que, en un mes, ya habían arrestado a más de 20 mil personas por no cumplir la cuarentena; represión efectiva incluso a balazo en las comunidades que han salido a exigir su bono; compra de miles de dólares en equipos de pistolas “taser” y cámaras que no solo miden la temperatura, sino que identifican a la persona y su lugar de residencia. En fin, se ha hecho gala del lema “proteger y servir” a la burguesía.

Todos los hombres del presidente

La actuación del presidente Cortizo y sus prioridades están definidas por su “equipo económico”, al cual presentó orgulloso en televisión en días recientes. Pero no hubo sorpresas, porque todos son las caras conocidas que han dirigido la política económica durante los último 40 años.

Esos individuos son los responsables de la debacle social y económica que ha sufrido el pueblo panameño: deterioro del nivel de vida; reformas laborales; empleos precarios y mal pagados; privatizaciones; apertura de mercado, etc. Y son los responsables del deterioro de los sistemas públicos de salud y educación.

Ahí estaban todos, y todos hombres: desde sus ministros, empezando por Héctor Alexander, alumno destacado de Nicolás Ardito Barletta; el equipo de Indesa, empezando por Guillermo Chapman, responsable directo de la reforma al Código de Trabajo de 1994, en la que fueron asesinados 4 sindicalistas, de las privatizaciones del IRHE y el INTEL, y de la baja de aranceles que afectó a los productores nacionales. Estaban algunos de los “dueños de Panamá”, don Samuel Lewis Galindo y los directivos del Banco General: González Revilla y Alemán Zubieta, entre otros.

¿Qué esperanza puede haber de que algo cambie si son los mismos de siempre? Estos son los que junto al presidente están planeando el día “D”, es decir, el Asalto de Normandía a las finanzas públicas y a los derechos de la clase trabajadora, a ver si pueden exprimir aún más el limón para su beneficio.

Carlos González De La Lastra, no hace mucho condenado por apropiación de la cuota obrero patronal de los trabajadores del diario El Universal, y ex asesor del gobierno de Juan C. Varela, y al parecer aspirante a asesor de Cortizo, develó en un artículo (La Estrella de Panamá del 17/04/2020), lo que podría ser el día “D” de la burguesía panameña, más de lo mismo: apoyar el sector logístico (comercio y servicios) e inversión pública en carreteras.

Y se atrevió a sugerir reestructurar el estado, que entidades autónomas no lo financien, lo que implica despidos. Peor aún pidió liquidar la educación pública reduciéndola a algunas escuelas modelo. Por supuesto, cónsono con el modelo neoliberal se pretende un estado más pequeño y menos democrático con una Asamblea chica y manejable. González De La Lastra tiene al menos el mérito decir en voz alta lo que los otros piensan.

El diario cuyos dueños son los directivos del Banco General, apunta en el mismo sentido en un artículo reciente: “En los últimos diez años, la planilla estatal aumentó en más de 70 mil funcionarios, hasta alcanzar los 242 mil en diciembre de 2019, y el gasto anual se elevó en más de $2 mil 400 millones, hasta $4 mil 172 millones” (La Prensa 18/4/20).

¿Qué quiere La Prensa y De La Lastra, qué despidan funcionarios públicos? ¿Quién va a absorber esa fuerza de trabajo si queda cesante, la empresa privada? ¿Los salarios de los empleados públicos no ayudan a dinamizar la economía?

Lo que se viene es una política económica que seguirá beneficiando a los dueños de la banca, de los puertos y aeropuertos, de los comercios de la Zona Libre de Colón y los capos de la especulación inmobiliaria. En un marco en que, con la excusa de la crisis del COVID, han desaparecido los derechos y conquistas laborales, el despido de miles de empleados públicos y hasta una rebaja de sus salarios, todo para asegurar que el déficit no se dispare asegurando así el pago de la deuda pública y sus intereses a la banca.

Veámonos en el espejo de Ecuador, donde el nefasto gobierno de Lenin Moreno pagó en marzo 320 millones de dólares de la deuda externa, mientras los hospitales estaban sin insumos y morían en las calles de Guayaquil centenares de personas por COVID. Encima los tenedores de bonos de la deuda ecuatoriana le han dado al gobierno plazo hasta agosto para que abone otros 800 millones de dólares. ¿Y los recursos para salud? El capital por encima de la vida.

La avaricia de los capitalistas es tan grande que si pudieran se tragarían toda la riqueza nacional ellos solitos y no dejarían ni las sobras. La gula y la avaricia capitalista no les permite ver que se meten un tiro en el pie cuando pretenden achicar el estado, despedir funcionarios, cerrar escuelas, dejar que se enferme la fuerza de trabajo, etc. Al actuar de esta manera ponen en jaque el propio sistema capitalista, pues es un círculo vicioso el de la crisis sistémica: más explotación, más ganancias, lo que implica menos empleos y menos salarios, pero a su vez la consecuencia es menos consumo y por ello crisis sistémica.

Otro país y otro mundo son posibles a raíz de la crisis del COVID

Se demuestra una vez más que si queremos una sociedad donde la prioridad sea la vida de la gente, la salud pública, el bienestar y la justicia social, basados en la administración racional de los recursos naturales y económicos: NO pueden seguir gobernando los capitalistas y sus agentes. La avaricia y la gula del sistema capitalista les impide ver el mundo de una manera humana, que no tenga como centro la ganancia. Ya lo decía Marx desde el siglo XIX, y cada vez es más cierto, el capitalismo es la ley de la selva en economía.

Pero el presente y el futuro no tienen que ser esa pesada losa de explotación y miseria para las clases trabajadoras. Si nos disponemos, nos organizamos y luchamos, podemos voltear la tortilla. De la tragedia de la Primera Guerra Mundial nació el primer gobierno de obreros y campesino en Rusia y desaparecieron los imperios. De la desgracia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial nacieron los movimientos de liberación y las revoluciones en China, India, Argelia, Vietnam, etc.

Se requiere otro gobierno que no sea instrumento de los capitalistas, sino instrumento de las mayorías trabajadoras, de los sectores más pauperizados de la sociedad para que nos saque de esta crisis con un plan verdaderamente solidario y socialista.

Para hacer el cambio se requiere primero, la unidad de los sectores populares en la lucha contra la pandemia del coronavirus y del gobierno al servicio de los empresarios, exigiendo: renta básica universal para todos los afectados equivalente a una canasta básica familiar; exigir la ratificación de los proyectos de ley 287 y 295; seguridad alimentaria para todas las familias comprando toda la producción agropecuaria nacional; cese de la represión y el autoritarismo, por una gestión democrática de la crisis reactivando los comités de salud comunitaria como lo propuso recientemente el Prof. Gandásegui.

De esa lucha podrá nacer el proyecto político unitario que proponga al país otro gobierno posible.

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Marco A. Gandásegui Jr. ¡PRESENTE!

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Marco A. Gandásegui, hijo. CELA photo.

Marco A. Gandásegui Jr. dead at 76

by Eric Jackson

“The coronavirus pandemic is not the end of the world. Nor is it the end of history. We cannot say that the pandemic will liquidate capitalism.”

from Gandásegui’s last column    

Family, friends and colleagues tell us that noteworthy Panamanian sociologist, journalist and activist Marco A. Gandásegui Jr. has left the world of the living. He was 76 years old. The cause of his death has yet to be disclosed.

For many years Gandásegui was the leading light of the Justo Arosemena Center for Latin Amerian Studies (CELA) and for the last several years he wrote a weekly column that appeared in La Estrella and on the Latin America in Movement (ALAI) website. He was also editori of the scholarly magazine Tareas. His columns also often appeared in English translation in The Panama News.

Gandásegui was a tenured sociology professor at the University of Panama, where he taught research methodology. Born in Panama City on April 28, 1943, he got a degree in journalism at the University of Chile, then earned a master’s in sociology from the international Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and went on to get his PhD in sociology at New York University.

Gandásegui’s 1964 study, The Concentration of Economic Power in Panama, established his place in the front ranks of both academia and as a thinker if not organizational leader of the Panamanian left.

In the chaotic times after the 1968 coup, the University of Panama was closed for a year and there were serious purges and persecution. But within a couple of years Omar Torrijos overcame his partner in that uprising and rival thereafter, Boris Martínez, and set out in a new direction. Torrrijos offered social reforms and truces among old enemies in order to unite Panama in the effort to end the US occupation of the 10-mile-wide enclave known as the Canal Zone.

Gandásegui lent his support to that effort and thus, although not a vicious partisan on either side, by default fell onto the side of the great division of the Panamanian left that has persisted ever since, those who made their peace with the dictatorship versus those who did not. In recent years his was one of the voices on the Panamanian left in favor of moving past that divide. However, factions largely populated by people too young to have remembered either the Canal Zone or the dictatorship took on lives of their own on the separate old foundations.

In October of 1979 the Canal Zone shut down as a legal entity, although it would be another generation before the last US military bases left. Gandásegui would point out that Panama is mostly covertly still used as a center for US military operations in the region, something of which he always disapproved.

With the Canal Zone ended and especially after the 1981 death of Omar Torrijos, the coalition that came together for the treaties broke up. Business interests gained the upper hand, both in the fraudulent 1984 elections and especially after the 1989 US invasion. Gandásegui was always against “neoliberalism,” that globalized economic system on corporate terms. In his later years he frequently wrote about the decline of the United States as a hegemonic power but had few illusions about the Panamanian oligarchy and political parties adjusting their policies to that.

 

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¿Wappin? Locura / Madness

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Cualquier cosa mala que puedas decir sobre Nito…
Whatever mean thing you may say about Nito…

Napoleon XIV — They’re coming to take me away
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Los Beachers – Love in a Cemetery
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Natalie Merchant – Ophelia
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La Oreja de Van Gogh – Dulce Locura
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Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe
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P¡nk – White Rabbit
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The Who – The Real Me
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Enrique Iglesias & Romeo Santos – Loco
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Lee Perry & Mad Professor – Mad Man Dubwise
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Marianne Faithfull – The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
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Monchy & Alexandra – Dos Locos
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Bob Marley – Crazy Baldheads
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Of Monsters and Men – Wars
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The Running Mates – Wish You Were Here
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En Isla Coiba, monos bajan de los árboles y usan herramientas

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Al cruzar un tramo de océano de 23 kilómetros desde tierra firme en Panamá hasta Coiba, la isla más grande en el Pacífico Oriental, un grupo de intrépidos biólogos esperaban encontrar especies nunca antes reportadas. Pero además de descubrir nuevas especies, el equipo del Coiba BioBlitz del 2015 se sorprendió al descubrir que los monos capuchinos allí pasaban mucho tiempo en el suelo.

Monos capuchinos de cara blanca
bajan de los árboles en Isla Coiba

por STRI, fotos por Claudio Monteza

“La mayoría de nosotros hemos trabajado en Isla Barro Colorado (la estación de investigación del Smithsonian localizada en el lago Gatún en Panamá) donde los monos capuchinos están acostumbrados a las personas, pero nunca los habíamos visto pasar tanto tiempo en el suelo del bosque”, comentó Claudio Monteza, quien está haciendo su Doctorado en el Instituto Max Planck de Comportamiento Animal y en la Universidad de Konstanz. “Nunca vimos a las mamás cargando bebés bajar al suelo como lo hicimos en Coiba. Incluso los grupos más habitados en Barro Colorado son muy cuidadosos con los bebés”.

Meg Crofoot y Mark Grote, en ese entonces en la Universidad de California, Davis, estaban intrigados por este cambio en el comportamiento y la idea que podría proporcionar sobre por qué los ancestros humanos originalmente descendieron de los árboles. Alentaron a Claudio a hacer del comportamiento inusual de los monos en Coiba el tema de la tesis de su maestría.

“En el Viejo Mundo hay muchos primates que se han adaptado a la vida en el suelo, pero nadie sabe por qué este comportamiento falta en los primates del Nuevo Mundo”, comentó Claudio.

Aislada del continente, alrededor de 12 y 18 mil años, Coiba es el hogar de plantas y animales que no se encuentran en ningún otro lugar de la Tierra. Cuando los españoles navegaron por primera vez a Coiba en 1516, los cronistas informaron que la isla estaba densamente poblada por pueblos indígenas, pero para 1550, la isla había sido despoblada, dejando solo un pequeño asentamiento de colonos españoles. Y de 1919 a 2004, la isla fue una colonia penal donde se restringieron los movimientos de los prisioneros, dejando la mayor parte de la isla a sus habitantes salvajes.

Claudio sospechó que la valentía de los capuchinos de Coiba podría tener una explicación simple: Coiba carece de jaguares, de pumas, de tayras (comadrejas grandes), de coyotes, de jaguarundis y de ocelotes, todos identificados como depredadores de acuerdo con restos de capuchinos encontrados en muestras fecales. Una de las razones por las que nadie ha estudiado esto antes es porque es casi imposible para los investigadores observar los efectos de los depredadores que se asustan cuando se encuentran con científicos.

Pero el equipo de Claudio resolvió este problema usando cámaras. Instalaron cámaras trampa a la altura de las rodillas en las bases de los árboles en Coiba y en una isla cercana mucho más pequeña llamada Jicarón. El movimiento activa las grabadoras de video en las trampas. Luego compararon los videos de monos en las islas con videos de cámaras trampa en tres sitios continentales: la estación de investigación STRI en Isla Barro Colorado, la cercana Península Gigante y en el Parque Nacional Soberanía de Panamá, parte de un estudio realizado por el científico Patrick Jansen como parte de la Red mundial de evaluación y monitoreo de la ecología tropical (TEAMS por sus siglas en inglés).

“No registramos ningún depredador de mamíferos en las islas oceánicas, y había más depredadores en el Parque Nacional Soberanía que en Barro Colorado o la Península Gigante”, comentó Claudio. “Los resultados fueron los que esperábamos en ausencia de depredadores: el tamaño de las tropas de monos —la cantidad de individuos en el suelo al mismo tiempo— en la isla de Coiba era mucho mayor que en cualquiera de los sitios de tierra firme”.

Los monos en los sitios donde había depredadores también pasaron más tiempo en el suelo durante la mitad del día, cuando los depredadores están menos activos. Por el contrario, los monos en las islas del Pacífico no centraron su actividad a cierta hora del día. Las visitas más largas al terreno se realizaron en Jicarón (14.5 minutos) y las Islas Coiba (7.9 minutos).

Los primates que descendían de los árboles jugaron un papel importante en la evolución humana, pero las explicaciones aún controvertidas generalmente implican cambios en el clima o la dieta.

Hace millones de años, cuando el Istmo de Panamá surgió del mar para formar un puente terrestre entre América del Norte y del Sur, las corrientes oceánicas globales cambiaron, lo que tal vez provocó una tendencia de sequía en África y la sustitución de los bosques por sabanas, lo que obligó a los ancestros humanos a pasar más tiempo en el suelo.

Otros sugieren que los antepasados ​​humanos llegaron al suelo para buscar hongos.

“Nuestro estudio indica que los depredadores probablemente juegan un papel clave al explicar por qué no hay primates terrestres en los neotrópicos”, comentó Crofoot, quien ahora es directora del Instituto Max Planck de Comportamiento Animal y profesora en la Universidad de Konstanz. “Cuando no hay depredadores, los primates pueden volverse más terrestres, incluso si los cambios en la estructura del bosque no los “obligan”. Pero Coiba es un lugar único donde también descubrimos que estos monos están utilizando herramientas de piedra. ¿Es eso el resultado de la falta de depredadores, o la capacidad de los capuchinos de usar una nueva fuente de alimento podría ser la explicación en sí misma?

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Plague days diary 5

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Plague days diary

by Eric Jackson

“There, in the bin in Anton, just my size, was a pair of garish day-glow orange, black and green Chinese-made flip flops…”

“But Boris, what does that have to do with Moose and Squorrel?”

Read on…

April 22, Earth Day

Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 21st Century.

Were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic, Panamanians with much sense would have our attention fixed on a decades-long drying trend and how it’s affecting our principal industry, the Panama Canal, and our original industries, the fisheries and agriculture.

Yes, there are viable technical fixes and we might take some of the sharper edges off of the drought by massive tree planting and conversions to water saving farm techniques. To get to that point we probably need to slap down the eternal considerations of “Who pays?” and “What’s my percentage?” Panama needs a very Panamanian Green New Deal and part of the New Deal aspect has to be a smackdown of the eternal percentage takers.

The people who have customarily been counted as nothing are bearing the brunt of the ongoing epidemic – which is also in the grand scheme of things environmental – and would be called upon to do most of the heavy lifting in a green transformation of a Panama whose credit was maxed out before the virus hit. It’s not going to be the same Panama, or the same world, when this plague has run its course.

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Working offline now – again. Is it that the Claro system is out, or that they ripped me off again for services for which I had paid but they pulled a bait-and-switch, or…? Sooner or later I will know. I hope that it’s in time for me to upload my Earth Day playlist.

Were the country not on lockdown, the drill would be easy enough. I’d take a bus to where there is free WiFi, connect there and quickly upload stuff that I prepare offline. Now they have turned off the WiFi where I used to go because they don’t want people hanging around and browsing the web. Plus I have but four hours a week of legal time out of the house and have to do my grocery shopping in those hours.

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Extra added microbial terror today. Got up in the wee hours as usual, sat down in front of the computer, felt an itch behind my left knee, and sure enough, a tiny male tick. It was a terrible fate for him – gooshed at a young age. But did he get his revenge by passing something on to me? In the tropics there are so many tick borne diseases and the ranges of both ticks and the pathogens they carry around a moving as the climate changes.

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Shopping day tomorrow. I expect to go to Anton rather than Penonome. The default place in the latter town, Cocle’s provincial seat, is for me El Machetazo. But lines and cops create delays, distractions and bans that cut into my shopping time. The main reason I go there is because they have a Western Union counter there. In Anton there is no behemoth box store nor Western Union, but there are five smaller supermarkets situated close to one another near the town’s bus terminals on the Pan-American Highway. Need to get milk, whatever fruits and vegetables look good, dog food, cat food and new flip flops.

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The bread truck! Only bread and sticky buns today.

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Little before 7 p.m., still offline, and the robot operator says my brother’s phone in the next province over (Panama Oeste) I s out of service. Wonder if some weird or momentous stuff is coming down and telecommunications are cut for the occasion.

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So, when (if?) I get back online, how much will the anger have risen?

The anger is palpable in many sectors, for many reasons. The worst of it is contrived.

Furious speeches in the National Assembly by those who are always furious and generally point fingers in absolutely unwarranted directions.

High school in crowd snubs from gate expat enclaves via social media.

Agitation inspired from the north and often directly FROM the north – or should I say from rednecks in the US Deep South – fanning opposition to the Panamanian government’s quarantine measures.

Clashes of ideology. Much of it from Americans who know far more about the techniques of abuse than about making an argument. Some of it from Panamanians who were educated in schools where civics classes were on a continuum between atrophied and a dead letter. Then Canadians, Costa Ricans, Brits, South Africans, West Indians, Europeans and others, each without thinking much about it expressing not only a personal point of view but a cultural origin every time she or he argues.

As my Internet signal went off, there was ever more anger and defiance being expressed on the streets of the metro area and Chorrera. As in many choices for the government, one of which is the riot squad, one of which is suppressing news about whats going on. There were and are better choices, but those two have been the banal usual ones over the years.

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Thursday, April 23

Almost 3 a.m. Thursday and still no Internet connection. Go back to bed. Little after seven in the morning now, and still no connection.

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The little gray dog from down the street has my number. She walked through the bar of my external front door and came into my writing room to greet and to bum some food off of me. Half of the remaining loaf from last night’s bread truck haul for her effort. In criollo dog language, the Yoda ears folded down and back against the neck means “gracias.” Or “gotcha, chump!”

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Neighbor comes over with his toddler son, asking for an empty jar with a lid. Not a problem parting with those but I wish they would stay home.

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More sleep than usual but not a whole lot of energy. Yesterday I swept up a dry season’s accumulation of leaves and dust on the front porch – disturbing the habitat of a couple of scorpions while doing that – and distributed it into the big L-shaped planter box, onto the existing soil of which I had previously sprinkled with dried and well composted horse droppings. Then I seeded it with green beans, both the long Chinese ones and the shorter string beans. This morning I topped that off with an intermittent sprinkling of the red clay soil upon which this community rests. Still want to do a sprinkling of compost from out back, another sprinkling of red clay, and then a big flood. But not sure that I’ll get around to the tasks still to be done anytime today.

When beans start to sprout then it will be time to patch up, restore and rebuild my weird hippie trellis, allowing new vines to grow on the vines and strings of yesteryear. Part of that project combines with another. In my bamboo stand one stalk is growing off into an inconvenient direction, so on that score alone merits the big chop. Plus, the picking stick has rotted away, with the metal basket atop still usable. So, once it is felled then part of that bamboo, with the right diameter atop and the curvy and too-thick parts cut away along the shoots off of the main stalk, becomes my new picking stick. Some of the side shoots will get added to the front porch trellises, laced together with string and leaning into the detritus of previous seasons. The new growth will make each trellis look better and bind it into a new whole.

Will there be any order? First of all, aren’t hippie radicals supposed to LIKE disorder? Nevertheless, as with the universe in general, weird hippie trellises DO have a certain order. Green bean vines grow UP and TOWARD THE SUN. On the front porch that’s toward the morning sun. I am not so geeked out on ancient traditions as to make human or animal sacrifices to it, but the sun must be given its due respect.

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We probably have a new US ambassador coming. Not sure if it will be one of these interim appointments that takes effect without Senate approval, another Trump nominee jammed through with little scrutiny, or other possibilities. He’s from the worlds of business and banking, not diplomacy per se. He was the World Bank’s blockchain guy, which raises all sorts of questions in my not nearly completely enough informed mind. A sophisticated cryptocurrency hustler? A bureaucrat wise to the ways of rich Americans concealing assets in Panama? Not so much into the cryptocurrencies as in the peer-to-peer Internet documentation systems that are supposed to prevent all manner of cryptocurrency and online signature frauds? A wise guy sent by Donald Trump the con man for nefarious purposes? Shall see.

We have often had good ambassadors sent here by bad US presidents. Most of these have been career diplomats. But with all this “drain the swamp” stuff, one of the most damaged ecological niches has been the US Foreign Service.

American diplomacy will have to be rebuilt, starting with what remains. Probably there will be a dispensing with or putting back a space or more in line those junior diplomats who went along for the ride for the wrong reasons. I fear that a doddering President Biden will mostly leave it to corporate lobbyists to replenish the State Department. A lot can happen between now and next January 21.

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An hour and a half into Anton and back. Hope I didn’t forget anything too serious. It will be Tuesday before they let me out shopping again.

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Do nationality and ideology come into play on shopping day? Of course, and not just because I walked picket lines for the United Farmworkers way back when. And the way MY mind works….

I just can’t relate to the recycled Cold War memes that corporate Democrats would run against Trump on, and much less foreign policies based on those stereotypes. Not that Russia and China are not each in their own ways rival power, nor that Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi are wonderful guys.

Back in 2014 we needed a US president who understood that sponsoring a specifically anti-Russian coup in a Ukraine that was at the time nearly half ethnic Russian, and supporting “our” jihadis against “bad” jihadis and the Syrian dictator so as to threaten the Russian navy’s tenure at its old Mediterranean base at Tartus would create a strong popular demand in Russia for a ballistic response, which Putin delivered.

Long about last December, when it leaked out that there was an outbreak of a new and deadly virus in Wuhan and the Chinese authorities were punishing the physician who informed the world, we needed a US president who understood the Confucian revival aspect of Xi’s politics, the old Confucian notion that disasters could spell the withdrawal of a regime’s “Mandate of Heaven” and thus to protect itself from those sorts of public opinions the government in Beijing was likely to misrepresent the magnitude of the calamity, which it did.

As an old antiwar hippie I have usually disliked aspects of US foreign policy, under administrations of either party. Density between the ears of those in high places, hubris, the persuasive direct and indirect influence of arms merchants and the calculation that most Americans couldn’t find a place like Panama on a map combine for lots of cruel, dangerous and hyper-expensive stupidity.

But all that said, I wouldn’t want people to think that I’m a big fan of Boris and Natasha. Even if I do make sick jokes about Ypsilanti, Michigan’s squirrel molesting law.

No way, Boris and Natasha! I’m a Moose and Squirrel guy!

I needed to replace worn-out flip flops. There, in the bin in Anton, just my size, was a pair of garish day-glow orange, black and green Chinese-made flip flops bearing a moose trademark!

“But Boris, what about the squorrel?”

“Has recruited useful fool – weird old hippie wearing flip flops with image of stupid moose!”

Except at Machetazo and government offices, I am properly shod again.

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Last time in Anton, nobody had oranges but that stop was on the return from the Machetazo in Penonome, where I did manage to find a small bag of grown in the USA pink grapefruit.

This time in Anton, one of the fruit vendors did have oranges. A bag of six for a buck, but par for the course, one was going bad. That one got tossed in the back yard, perhaps to grow into an orange tree. That leaves me an orange a day between now and my next shopping day.

As a man of few means, I eat a pretty starchy diet, enhanced by fruits and veggies that I grow. I will eat some meat, fish or fowl. I mostly go heavy on the legumes for protein. But apart from that, and apart from the caffeine addiction and the condiments for that, there are three varieties of keep the doctor away staples in my diet: citrus fruit, cruciferous vegetables and the anti-oxidant garlic and onions. Essential ingredients of Purina Buzzard Chow?

~ ~

Back online for who knows how long and cooking a couple of pounds of chicken livers to share with the dogs and cats. Dinner will be a little later than usual for them, but they will like it.

MEANWHILE, I’m using the burner that leaks a little, and can smell gas. I take that as a good sign.

Thing is, in plague days hypochondria can set in. Will my temperature be slightly high, the guy at the store catching me with the thermometer and summoning the cops, and after the ordeal that might just be a few days, I will have no home or animals upon my return? That itch? Could it be the virus, or something worse like the diseases I used to look at in my dad’s tropical medicine books? That stumble in the garden? Am I getting terminally spasmodic? And so on.

I think I’ll survive.

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The rising anger? Today most especially in the National Assembly, where San Miguelito deputy Kayra Harding accused Colon deputy Jairo “Bolota” Salazar of violence against women. I’ll have to look into the particulars before even beginning to pronounce on the allegation. They’re both PRD but it looks like that party may break asunder. By and large the rest of the legislators sat through the display in stony silence, amplified by their masks.

 

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Earth Day music / Música del Día de la Tierra

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Earth Day 50 / Día de la Tierra 50




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Editorials: Skip means tests to feed people now; and An American nightmare

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Among some of  the corporate mainstream media commentariat in particular, blow-ups of the president’s screen have circulated with name tags or comments about who was at this economic strategy meeting. As in, “same old, same old.” Who was NOT there is a more telling subject. Let us hope that while Nito shows off his conference with the captains of commerce and industry, he is actively consulting with those sectors excluded from the meeting. His big failure so far in this crisis is meeting the needs of people whom those on the screen would neither know nor care to know. Photo by the Presidencia.

Set aside means testing in this crisis

The big moral issue is that people are hungry. Make it so that they are not so, and some may cheat. Keep them hungry and a lot more of them will do illegal things, some of which will pose grave health risks to entirely innocent people.

Is it that the government should save its money by only help the so-called deserving poor? That means spending public funds on hiring people to decide who is deserving.

Are these moral judges to be employed on the basis of an amoral political patronage system? Or should we use our discredited and slow moving public contracting process to hire some corporation, and then wait out the sorting out of claims by rival corporations that the process was unfair to them?

In good times nearly half of Panama’s working people live their economic lives informally. Do we only consult with the captains of industry? Even when were almost all of them were born rich and run their businesses formally with the advice of lawyers, accountants and professional managers? Most members of that crowd have little idea of how those in other circumstances live and make their economic calculations.

The better way would be for the government to just electronically deposit a sum of money into every cedula, which can be used as a debit card to buy groceries. Will people who don’t need it get money this way? Of course. But some of them may not need it now but might next month. And those who will never need it? Instead of lauding them for refusing the money, would it not be better for society and the economy to encourage them to use the money to buy basic necessities and then directly or indirectly give those to people who do need it?

Because Panama’s emergency measures were formulated by people with hardly a clue about how much of society lives, huge needs have been left unmet. Even with the best planning by a more representative and well informed sample of Panama’s population, there will be families and individuals who fall through the cracks. But if everyone with a cedula gets covered, those without, or those unable to use their national ID cards for whatever reason, would be more easily be helped by the myriad charities and social networks out and about among Panamanians and foreign residents here.

Forget the means testing. Feed everybody now. It’s actually more economical to do it that way.

  

An American nightmare

A fall campaign between an old man who is visibly and audibly deranged to any dispassionate observer, and an even older man whose health appears to be precarious and who shows alarming public memory lapses even in situations that he controls?

Donald Trump is a lifelong con man who needs to be taken away in handcuffs. The United States may have to rely on a figurehead president as the alternative. The republic has done that latter drill on more than one prior occasion.

It’s an unusual situation. For Joe Biden and the Democrats the choice of a running mate should not be about cosmetic political balance. It’s about that special basket of talents that go into the ability to run the sprawling US government. It might even entail, before the November election, a running mate who takes over at the top of the ticket to wage a fall campaign that the one who selected her can’t.

  

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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

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Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government.

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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

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Trump nominates Bethel to be US ambassador to Panama

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Erik Paul Bethel. Sina Finance Liang Bin photo.

Trump nominates World Bank exec as US ambassador to Panama

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President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate … Erik Paul Bethel, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Panama.

Mr. Bethel recently completed his term as United States Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank. In that role, Mr. Bethel spearheaded a number of initiatives, including streamlining World Bank operations and promoting new technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.

A financial professional with more than 25 years of private equity and investment banking experience in Latin America and Asia, Mr. Bethel is a recognized expert on Chinese investment and financial activities in the Latin American region. He began his career in New York covering Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Subsequently he moved to Mexico City as an investment banker and later to Shanghai, China as a private equity professional. He has served on the Board of Governors of Opportunity International, a non-profit organization that provides financial services to people living in poverty in developing countries.

Mr. Bethel is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, where he was an Olmsted Scholar, a Cox Fund Scholar, and a Battalion Commander. He earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Milken Scholar. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.

 

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Ben-Meir, Seize this moment for transformation

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Triumph of Death, an illustration from a Medieval book in the British Library.

The theology of pandemics

Sam Ben-Meir

Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, as the bubonic plague ravages the countryside. In one famous scene, a procession of zombie-like flagellants enters a village and interrupts a comic stage-show. The townspeople are present to hear the procession’s leader, a bombastic preacher who proclaims that death is coming for them all: they are full of sin – lustful and gluttonous – and the plague is God’s punishment for their wicked ways. That scene is not without historical merit: the flagellants were indeed a very real phenomenon, and with the plague, the movement grew and spread throughout Europe.

For most of us, public self-mutilation and penance is a particularly extreme and repulsive form of religious fanaticism. But in the West, we still have ways of lashing ourselves, and each other, in the face of plague, pestilence and the terror they sow; and pandemics still invariably prompt a religious explanation. During the AIDS epidemic, we were told that God was punishing homosexuals and illicit drug users. In 1992, 36 percent of Americans admitted that AIDS might be God’s punishment for sexual immorality.

The interesting question is: What is the temptation to view a catastrophe like the plague as divine punishment as opposed to a brute fact of nature? Surely at least one reason we are tempted to do so is because, if it is heavenly retribution, then the hardship still has some meaning; we still live in a world with an underlying moral structure. Indeed, to many, the idea that such a great calamity is nothing more than a brute act of nature is far more painful to contemplate than an account by which God cares enough about us to punish us.

In case you think the coronavirus is any different, it is not. On March 8, 2020, the Times of Israel reported that Rabbi Meir Mazuz “claimed the spread of the deadly coronavirus in Israel and around the world is divine retribution for gay pride parades.” By some ironic twist, the rabbi is basically in agreement with Rick Wiles, a Florida pastor who said the spread of coronavirus in synagogues is a punishment of the Jewish people. The Jerusalem Post quotes Wiles as saying, “It’s spreading in Israel through the synagogues. God is spreading it in your synagogues! You are under judgment because you oppose his son, Jesus Christ. That is why you have a plague in your synagogues. Repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and the plague will stop.”

The temptation to view catastrophes as divine punishment is nothing to scoff or smirk at: it is entirely legitimate to want to construct a narrative out of what has occurred – to find a pattern, to derive some meaning that redeems the suffering, hardship and death. What is unfortunate is the tendency to point to some perceived wickedness of which others are purportedly guilty as the justification for God’s wrath. Both the rabbi and the pastor are the same: both talk like Job’s notorious companions, those so-called friends of the unfortunate and innocent Job, who insist that he must be guilty, that he must have sinned for God to assail him with such fury. Of course, at the end of the poem, God tells the companions that they were wrong: Job was right – his suffering was not punishment for any sin he had committed. Indeed, the Bible teaches that God often sees fit to test precisely those that are good and righteous. Sadly, the pastor and rabbi entirely disregard that biblical lesson.

If a pandemic is divine punishment, then in a sense we can be at peace – inasmuch as we have provided the scourge with a theodicy, that is, a justification of God’s ways to man. Whenever we are faced with human tragedy, we cannot but question how an omnibenevolent and omnipotent deity would permit so much suffering to occur. A plague sharpens the concerns that lie at the heart of the theological problem of evil – the problem of reconciling a loving God with the reality and ubiquity of human and animal suffering. Thankfully, most religious leaders are unwilling to cast the burden of guilt on any particular group of which they may disapprove. Instead, they take a page from Job and underscore the impenetrable mystery of suffering – taking their inspiration perhaps from God’s speech to Job from out of the whirlwind, where He begins with one of the famous queries of the Bible: “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?” And He continues with withering sarcasm, “Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!” In short, do not attempt to sound the depths of God’s inscrutable purpose.

For every pandemic there is a theology; by their nature, they call forth notions of guilt, sin and responsibility. It is almost as if we cannot but view them through theological categories. Each pandemic begins with a kind of “fall,” or original sin, which we attempt to retrace with our search for “patient zero,” the individual representing the source of the calamity, the one who kicked us out of paradise as it were. The writers of the 2011 film Contagion clearly had as much in mind when they decided that their story’s patient zero (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) should also be an adulteress.

A pandemic also highlights an inescapable function of all significant human action – namely, that our actions always outrun our intentions. Everything we do has consequences that we never anticipated, wanted or even imagined. We like to think that we are not responsible for everything our actions may cause – but the reality is that we cannot dodge or entirely relinquish our responsibility even for those things we never intended. Perhaps like nothing else, a pandemic reveals the burden of human action, our infinite liability; indeed, our indeclinable responsibility.

There is a theology accompanying every plague because there is a very human need to make sense of such colossal suffering. That theology may take the form of a conspiracy theory, but it is a theology all the same. One example is the persistent speculation that the coronavirus originated in some kind of bio-weapons laboratory in Wuhan, China. This explanation, regardless of its lack of evidentiary merit, is a temptation because it offers us a story, which is but a secularized version of the fall. The essential features are there: to say that human beings deliberately created the virus is to say that this pandemic is the result of human transgression; that human hubris introduced this uncontrollable element that upset the order of things.

The current pandemic has left fear and death, loneliness and stagnation in its wake. We must start asking ourselves what it has all been for. Eventually this great tide of suffering will ebb, life will resume, the economy will reopen and pick up steam, and the coronavirus will slowly fade from our immediate view – at that point, when we think of all those many tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands who died, alone, what will we be able to point to as their legacy? What did they die for? Undoubtedly many will say only that their deaths were unfortunate – all we can do to honor their sacrifice is return to life as it was, prosper and grow the economy at two percent annually. If we allow that to happen, then we will have failed, completely and utterly.

If we do not seize this crisis as a moment for transformation, then we will have lost the war. If doing so requires reviving notions of collective guilt and responsibility – including the admittedly uncomfortable view that every one of us is infinitely responsible, then so be it; as long we do not morally cop out by blaming some group as the true bearers of sin, guilt, and God’s heavy judgment. A pandemic clarifies the nature of action: that with our every act we answer to each other. In that light, we have a duty to seize this public crisis as an opportunity to reframe our mutual responsibility to one another and the world.

Sam Ben-Meir is a professor of philosophy and world religions at Mercy College in New York City.

 

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¿Wappin? Survival sounds / Sonidos de supervivencia

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What President Cortizo is doing is a pain — but it’s also working.

Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda – Fire
https://youtu.be/JiBeeM0gg9g

Luna Lee – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
https://youtu.be/9LOHsrLWgq4

Peter Tosh – Reggaemylitis
https://youtu.be/rpsO7usXyL8

Frank Zappa – Stink-Foot
https://youtu.be/D9FBQ1O5F8k

Bob Dylan – I Contain Multitudes
https://youtu.be/pgEP8teNXwY

Joan Baez – For All The Heroes
https://youtu.be/t1a93qjf-no

Norah Jones – I Am Missing You
https://youtu.be/3kptlAtiNV8

Estercita Nieto – Mal de Amores
https://youtu.be/ac3nBW_32iw

Ana Tijoux – ANTIFA Dance
https://youtu.be/tksolV5Gkso

José Broce Bultrón, Daira Moreno et al – La Triste Vida de Un Soltero
https://youtu.be/JQ4thEEeAo4

The Temptations – I Wish That It Would Rain
https://youtu.be/Z-es4Q8AJaU

Lee Oskar – Before The Rain
https://youtu.be/3f56qh5PmUA

The Cascades – Rhythm of the Rain
https://youtu.be/iczdtVWaSHE

Denise Gutiérrez & Zoé – Luna
https://youtu.be/6W4L2O-JQ-w

Melissa Aldana Quarantine Concert
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