Word: ibero
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...blends fact and fiction in movies that not only challenge the viewer’s conception of reality and truth, but also his conception of a movie itself. Guerín screened his films in person as a part of the HFA’s “Ibero-American cinema” series, which began last year. A non-fiction filmmaker and professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Guerín is one of the most significant figures in Catalan cinema today. Guerín’s films can be described as “environment...
When Spain's King Juan Carlos verbally slapped down bad boy Hugo Chavez at the Ibero-American summit, it came, to say the least, as a surprise. For a man who normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos' retort to the Venezuelan president - "Why don't you shut up?" - seemed shockingly uncharacteristic. But a statement from the Palace on Tuesday may have offered a bit of context on the royal mood: the king's eldest child, the infanta Elena, was separating "temporarily" from her aristocratic husband, Jaime de Marichalar. Could His Majesty - coolheaded impeder of military coups, tireless...
...that sense, it seems appropriate that King Juan Carlos - head of a nation with major investments in Latin America - got snippy at the Ibero-American Summit. The annual gathering was started in 1991 by then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who at the time was trying to convince the U.S. to sign a free-trade agreement, as a way to make Mexico and Latin America look like global players. Latin leaders still use if for that purpose - but this time the Spaniards may have been less willing to play along. Their frustrations with Latin America, and those...
That's why Chávez seems less than ruffled at being told by King Juan Carlos, "Por qué no te callas?" - Why don't you shut up? - over the weekend at the Ibero-American Summit of Iberian and Latin American leaders in Santiago, Chile. The king got fed up when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy...
...Ibero-American world, problems of syntax too often translate into human rights violations, accompanied by aristocracy or autocracy. But rather than more semantics professors, these countries need leaders willing to sacrifice their ambition by supporting the democratic outcomes even when they lose...