MAHE, Seychelles Islands – Who hasn’t said it? “I want to be on an island with nothing to do.” I said it many times, especially in times of too much work, stress and conflict. Well, it happened to me.
TRAPPED IN PARADISE
The best of 2021, and a hopeful 2022
If 2020 was a cursed year, 2021 was one of disillusionment, because it promised more than it could really deliver. Even so, I am betting on a hopeful 2022.
THE SATURDAY FUTBOLITO
At first we didn’t even know how to greet each other. From a distance, or with a handshake? With the mask on or off? My Argentine friends, who usually kiss on the cheek, had it even more complicated.
BANNED BOOKS AND COURAGEROUS PUBLISHERS
(This is part of my speech during the ceremony for the Voltaire Prize awarded by the International Publishers Association during the marvelous Guadalajara Book Fair)
HOW TO TOPPLE A DICTATOR
Everything went wrong for the Cuban dictatorship. It thought it was going to win when it militarized the island and blocked the marches and protests scheduled for Nov. 15.
I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A METAVERSE
Mark Zuckerberg can be accused of many things. But not of timid ideas. The founder of Facebook thinks big, and has managed to get nearly 3 billion people to connect monthly to his social platform, the biggest in a planet that has about 8 billion people.
LESSONS FROM 35 YEARS ON TV: BE A SURFER, NOT AN ANCHOR
On November 3rd, I will mark 35 years as the anchorman for the Spanish-language Univision network’s daily newscast (Noticiero Univision) in the United States. That was never my plan.
THE NEW NEW YORK: CITY OF SURVIVORS
The city that never sleeps was sleeping. Or at least it looked that way at the new and magnificent terminal at the Laguardia airport after midnight.
9/11: A PUNCH TO THE SOUL
It was unimaginable.
Twenty years ago, it was a beautiful morning. I had gone out jogging and everything seemed to be in its right place.
THE SUMMER OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Something came out wrong, This was supposed to be the year when we controlled the Coronavirus with vaccines, and this would be a “summer of joy” in the United States.