Month: March 2012
March 25, 2012
The Chicken or the Egg
A person’s perspective on public affairs determines the way of acting. Joseph de Maistre, a strategist and critic of the French Revolution at the end of the XVII Century, wrote:...
March 18, 2012
Victims
One would think that victims would be the first to be interested in what is referred to as “due process” of law. In essence, the concept implies that the procedures...
March 11, 2012
Mexico vs. Brazil?
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself,” said physicist Richard Feynman, “and you are the easiest person to fool.” This is how our perception of Brazil seems...
March 04, 2012
False Solutions
Would it be possible for a solution that appears to be perfect in concept to be nothing more than a false start, a chimera? Einstein affirmed that “we can’t solve...