• Through the screen: Laughter’s many faces

  Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara used to tell a joke about how he got the job of Minister of Finance and National Bank President in Cuba. At a cabinet meeting to decide on a replacement of Bank President Felipe Pazos, Fidel Castro asked who among them was a ‘good economist’. Guevara raised his hand and was sworn ...

  Posted: May 29th, 2012 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Culture

• What the Twit?

  Gabriel García Márquez turned 85 the other day. In celebration, his publishers released an eBook version of One Hundred Years of Solitude (or more precisely of Cien Años de Soledad as digital rights to the English translation have yet to be approved). The news was a wonderful surprise, though mostly just a surprise. I had assumed—wrongly—that ...

  Posted: March 27th, 2012 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Outside Macondo