hoy empezamos una aventura sin igual. hace un tiempo escribi mi primer libro mas alla de los viajes experiencias emocionales, hoy estoy escribiendo el segundo y hare reseñas de libros importantes
I was thinking of doing a review but… This news is important and what I want is a restart for the new year 2024.
This restart is so that you and I can start this year with all the possibilities, with the development of creativity and that a common dream and purposes can be fulfilled.
I am realizing all the possibilities and when I started I didn’t think I would be clear about it.
I think I’ll start first by saying that you liked the idea of creating a creativity course and I’ll do that. I saw that there is a demand and that you like the idea of developing creativity, so I am going to start working on the idea of creating a course on Udemy to study a lot and create this first course (I am excited because I had always wanted to teach and even more so when my spirituality and my creativity are almost merging)
The other is that I will start with a course on how to work with your shadows (it is necessary to know yourself) and I will also be talking about it during 2024.
I will also be doing courses on alternative therapies such as Bach flowers and also reading letters and if you like the idea I will be developing all this during 2024 (and as I said before. Creativity and spirituality for me are twinned and close).
(At least I have placed it on my vision board) and also promote my store on Patreon, the Patreon (for those who are interested in being patrons of my content) and my books that are on Patreon, authors editors and joyread.
And I join Best novel (a novel app and I will be putting my recent novel Pascal there)
I will also be posting my book new beginnings and true loves (these books are part of the war saga. I will be talking a lot about the saga and it excites me because it is a world where everything has the aesthetics of the second world war, that is, retrofuturistic.) right where I just told you.
In addition to the reviews and books I will be reading and if possible join a book club, great!
So I will start doing all this from this month since 2024. Wish me luck!
Hello. This blog and Instagram account was originally to showcase my first nonfiction book.
I started self-published with my first book beyond travel and it’s in publishing authors.
Then I wrote Marianne (my first novel) and now I’m going for Pascal (Marianne’s grandson) in the midst of the Black Death.
On patreon I will be posting content about Pascal.
In July I will pass it on to a publisher so that they can already work with my manuscript and I hope they like my new book.
The next news is that the next book (it will be called war) I will write with my husband. He gave a twist to the story. And war will be a series of books. That’s what I’ll tell you.
I’m going to see if my husband and I will do war in English.
Hello, Welcome to the book of the month for September 2022 and today we will review the book of the month for September.
the writer is the creator of a Travel Blog (I’ll leave it in the synopsis) for you to take a look at and she started traveling when she was 15 years old. By the time s.l giger wrote the book she had quit her job and was pursuing her passion which is travel and literature.
She self-published the book on amazon (the most important online bookstore for electronic books) and she also wrote many more books with the theme of a travel guide.
To make a key summary of the book, it is about the writer’s journey through Colombia, the key points where she was traveling: Medellin, Bogota, Cartagena, Santa Marta, the Amazon jungle, Cali and the border with Ecuador.
She has technical data on which routes to take, how much a bus costs (indefinite and urban) as well as important points about the points detailed in the previous paragraph. (If you are a fan of detailed books and what to do in your destinations, you will love this book).
Here is the synopsis of the book:
★★★Why should I buy this Colombia travel guide instead of any other?★★★
The most important reasons:
In this book you will find all the information you need for your two or three week compact trip in Colombia. You will not need another source of information and you can plan your personal route full of Colombian highlights.
I tried all the activities and visited the sights myself. I describe in great detail how you can get there or do it yourself. and therefore you can save a lot of money.
It’s lightweight as you can carry it on your phone or e-reader. It will inspire you and tell you about secret places that you don’t want to miss.
It is cheaper than other travel guides.
It is the best DIY travel guide for Colombia.
This guide is not for you if you don’t like texts written in the style of a travel blog. In addition, all the images are in black and white to reduce costs and to be able to offer the travel guide at such a low price. If that bothers you, you should find a different travel guide for Colombia or write me an email to get a pdf with the color images.
★★★ What “I love Colombia” offers you:
If this isn’t your first «I love…» travel guide, you know what to expect. I mainly travel as a «solo traveler» and with my travel guides, I want to make the most beautiful places in that country accessible to individual travelers. All this in an affordable way. Thanks to «I love Colombia» you should be able to travel to Colombia with no worries, lots of positive anticipation and a good plan.
After reading my travel guide, you should have a clear vision of your trip and how to get to the sights you want to see for yourself. For example, what is the easiest option to get to the spectacular Valle de Cocora? Or how are they not going to rob me in Colombia? Where can I have the best coffee and what are the must-sees in Cartagena, Medellín and Bogotá? «I love Colombia» will answer those questions and many more.
It’s lightweight as you can carry it on your phone or e-reader. It will inspire you and tell you about secret places that you don’t want to miss.
It is cheaper than other travel guides.
It is the best DIY travel guide for Colombia.
This guide is not for you if you don’t like texts written in the style of a travel blog. In addition, all the images are in black and white to reduce costs and to be able to offer the travel guide at such a low price. If that bothers you, you should find a different travel guide for Colombia or write me an email to get a pdf with the color images.
★★★ What “I love Colombia” offers you:
If this isn’t your first «I love…» travel guide, you know what to expect. I mainly travel as a «solo traveler» and with my travel guides, I want to make the most beautiful places in that country accessible to individual travelers. All this in an affordable way. Thanks to «I love Colombia» you should be able to travel to Colombia with no worries, lots of positive anticipation and a good plan.
After reading my travel guide, you should have a clear vision of your trip and how to get to the sights you want to see for yourself. For example, what is the easiest option to get to the spectacular Valle de Cocora? Or how are they not going to rob me in Colombia? Where can I have the best coffee and what are the must-sees in Cartagena, Medellín and Bogotá? «I love Colombia» will answer those questions and many more.
In «I love Colombia» you find all my personal experiences from my trips to Bogotá, Salento, Cali, Cartagena, Medellín, Jardín, Guatap, and much more. Enjoy spectacular views, colorful houses, salsa dancing, drink delicious fresh fruit juices, hike in green valleys and learn about the history of Colombia.
I planned all my trips carefully with ideas from all the good guides I could find, so you don’t have to spend this money anymore. Also, I used TripAdvisor and many helpful blogs. If you want to have a more personal experience than the usual tourist and have some real explanations of how to have the best possible (and safe) experience in a place, this guide is definitely for you.
More information about other countries can be found on my blog:
Here are some key phrases about the book to teach it here:
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” robin yong
in Spanish it would be the translation: «We do not travel to escape from life, but so that life does not escape us.»
This guide will help you really focus on the must-sees of Colombia. Another important phrase.
Do you want to plan your own quiet trip in Colombia? Key phrase.
Do you want to travel alone and plan to book your trip to Colombia? It is the essence of this book. It is a delicate balance between what the writer experienced on her trip to Colombia and the data (not like what happened to me with a trip to Portugal that had no history) doing this is not easy at all and s.l giger did it very well.
That’s why I give this book a 5 out of 5. Very interesting.
by the way, the news i have for you is about marianne my novel. If you want to read it by chapters, I will place them on the fizzo.org platform, just as I am writing chapters of a spin-off work of my first book beyond travel, emotional experiences.
If you are interested in reading them, you can enter the platform and read them because with this I have decided to become a more serious bookstagramer and a writer who is about to settle.
2020, the year of the pandemic, has brought about a radical change in consumer behavior. In 2019 GastroActitud focused on the importance of the conscious consumer. When we analyze the trends in gastronomy 2020, we point out the entry into the scene of ethical thinking regarding food.
Gastronomic trends continue to be marked by polarization and focus on the two factors that mark the new reality: health and economy. Faced with the interest of part of society in increasing well-being through food, the large fast food chains are experiencing dizzying growth, as Kim Severson of the New York Times points out, while independent restaurants are not able to survive the debacle of the sector.
It is not easy to envision what we will eat, nor how we will eat. Many factors are at play. Will the hotel industry return as we knew it? Will the new business models take root?
How will society fight hunger in big cities? Will the pandemic serve to transform chefs into managers? Is there room for creativity and innovation? Society must answer many questions in a time full of changes, marked by uncertainty.
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A high percentage of consumers are concerned about the quality of the food they eat and its relationship with health and well-being. Especially since scientific studies indicate that a good diet favorably influences the quality of our immune system.
According to the annual report of the British company Waitrose «half of consumers plan their food better and 70% of (British) consumers make an effort to cook different dishes during the weekend».
There are no miracle foods, but there are beneficial eating habits. Diet and the way we eat influence our mental and physical well-being.
The rise of functional foods, formulated to solve deficiencies, is not strange; superfoods; probiotics, which thanks to their bacteria help our body; nor the predilection of consumers for products to which healthy qualities are attributed, such as ginger, citrus fruits or garlic.
Other habits have also changed: drinking yes, but drinking better. New drinks are reinforced that are no longer isotonic, or energetic, but healthy.
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The dark side: dark kitchens
The so-called ghost kitchens or dark kitchens are kitchens without a restaurant. They work for gastronomic brands that only exist on delivery platforms. In them, anonymous chefs prepare hundreds of portions that they identify with the stickers of the corresponding brands and that the user receives at her house as if she had left a restaurant, but the restaurant does not exist, only the kitchen.
Travis Kalanick, the ousted co-founder of Uber, has seen the opportunity and has invested $130 million in CloudKitchens, a company that rents commercial space and turns it into shared kitchens for delivery brands.
Nextbite is a portal for restaurant brands exclusively for home delivery and that only exist on UberEats, DoorDash and Postmates, delivery platforms that work in the United States.
The phenomenon of ghost kitchens is one of the most important gastronomic trends.
It will affect the hospitality sector in the short and medium term, despite the fact that in Spain and Latin America the home food market (delivery and take away) is much less developed than in other Western countries and its growth contracts when restrictions cease of mobility and hours, as confirmed by Kantar in its report on hospitality and consumption.
dark kitchen
Food is said «food»
Globalization has promoted the professionalization of the hotel industry in many countries, including Spain. Restoration has become a large multinational business dominated by international chains (not only fast food), investment funds and the Anglo-Saxon media that support its expansion and create appropriate trends that are assimilated by the rest of the world as their own.
Some of those that are collected in this article respond to that pattern. It is a new type of food colonialism, disguised as sustainability, solidarity and other beautiful words.
It is significant that in the western environment, the countries in which food has historically had social relevance (France, Italy, Spain…) are being relegated.
Their old food customs (cooking at home, respecting the seasons, using local products, etc.) are presented as discoveries of emerging gastronomic countries (USA, UK, Australia), which are the ones that direct the food industry and international hospitality.
The penetration of words in English because they stick more, the rise of certain chefs endorsed by communication platforms, the promotion of specific foods (avocados, quinoa, etc.), the assimilation of business models (cereal bars), etc. , are elements that point to a new and sophisticated form of social manipulation based on the control of data and information, which until now had not shown interest in the gastronomic field.
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identity and nationalism
The pandemic has made us aware that globalization may not be as good as we thought. The shortage of essential goods for survival at critical moments (masks, respirators, vaccines), logistical difficulties, border closures, etc., have made society reflect on the need to promote local consumption.
This feeling also extends to food. According to the Kantar COVID-19 Barometer “65% of consumers prefer to buy products and services from their country”. This represents an opportunity for producers, industrialists and artisans to reconnect with their national markets. This point is also included in the Mintel Trends report.
Other feelings of identity have also been reinforced, not only the national one. Minority groups such as vegans grow strongly, protected by attitudes typical of the society of the offended.
The industry pays attention to them and takes advantage of their claims to grow. Burger King has included a vegan burger and Taco Bel, vegetable tacos. According to the Global Vegan Food Market forecast report, the global vegan food market is projected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 9% between 2021 and 2026. (and with rising prices for meat and many other things including Latin America is claiming the trend this year of 2022).
nationalism
digital gastronomy
The first confinement made us experts in Zoom and since then we have taken a liking to the screen, on the phone or on the computer. Not moving from home has some advantages that have also been transferred to gastronomy.
Never before have we attended more cooking classes, participated in more tastings or attended so many conferences… We have left a little stuffed, but we have discovered the comfort of teaching online and all the advantages that the virtual world offers us.
None of this was new, but the acceleration has been such that, according to all the consultants, it has become a trend for the year that we have just launched. Virtual training accelerates and cooking schools sign up for distance classes.
online training
lant based fish: let’s farm the sea
The concern for healthy diets led to the emergence and rise of plant-based diets: food options based on greater consumption, although not exclusively of plant-based foods (vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts, legumes, oils).
Now this concept is extended to the world of the sea and plant based fish or aquaculture has become a powerful alternative. Another trend that the industry will exploit to get closer to all consumers who are concerned about the sustainability of food.
However, not all plant-based foods are sustainable (not even those that show ecological labels), nor are all fish from aquaculture healthy and respectful of the environment. Contradictory realities are often hidden under these labels. The consumer must be cautious and not be confused by the songs of sirens.
In this line, Ángel León, with his eyes always on the oceans, anticipated and is already cultivating a «marine cereal» in the Bay of Cádiz. I hope that this project marks a true sustainability trend.
plant sea
Gastronomic kits: haute cuisine in a box
With their restaurants closed due to the pandemic, chefs around the world have seen food delivery as a way to save their businesses. This year, instead of innovating in the letters, it will be necessary to innovate in the mailings. What to send and how to send it? Haute cuisine does not withstand transport very well, which is why some have chosen to put the most traditional dishes on offer in a box.
Nacho Manzano has packaged his famous rice with pitu so that the consumer can finish assembling it following some simple instructions. Marcos Morán also sends his fabada to the entire peninsula.
Mario Sandoval has done the same with his famous suckling pig, which arrives in perfect luxury packaging. The Torres brothers have prepared kits that simulate airplane trays but with quality as a flag.
Dabiz Muñoz has blown up the Madrid and Barcelona markets with his Gotxo. And Ricard Camarena was the first to inaugurate the haute cuisine section of the Glovo platform last week. The path is clear.
gastronomic kits
From head to tail, everything is eaten The obsession to reduce waste is still present in cooks and consumers. It is no longer about reducing packaging, eliminating plastic or recycling everything. The challenge is to eat the whole foods, not to waste anything.
Take advantage of skins, bones, bones, fat. The dissections of animals become exhaustive, the presentation by Josh Niland and Dani García at Madrid Fusión 2020 marked a before and after.
But now they extend to the plant world, taking advantage of skins, leaves and stems, but also ugly fruits and vegetables that large retailers reject because they do not conform to their canon of «commercial beauty».
Rafael Monge, a farmer from Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cultivo Desterrado) has launched the hashtag #verdurasfeas to draw attention to this phenomenon. He works hand in hand with chef Luiti Callealta from the Ciclo restaurant on a project to make full use of vegetables.
To start with, a dish that is a declaration of intent: Navazo vegetables from Sanluque in sobrehusa.
The digitization of hospitality and commerce is growing at breakneck speed. We don’t just reserve a table through an application or order food from another.
We also pay with our cell phones, read the menu, buy food and drinks and little by little we are getting used to using the devices as if they were an extension of ourselves: transhumanism is getting closer.
The phenomenon of food delivery has brought restaurants closer to homes, but has it distanced the customer from the premises? Delivery is an emerging sector in Europe. In countries like South Korea, 99% of those under 50 use it daily, while in Spain it barely reaches 36%.
According to the study carried out by Kantar, «food deliveries at home have grown especially in takeaway shops, where sales have multiplied by three.
In urban settings in Spain, only 45% of consumers have used a food delivery service in the last year, and only 7% do so once a week, which shows that delivery has space to expand its offer.
What has also grown is the shipment of fresh food directly from the producers. Cheesemakers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers will continue to make efforts to break the traditional distribution channels and reach the consumer directly.
The challenge will be the organization of the transport and logistics sector that is in full conversion. The business possibilities are such that Correos woke up from its secular lethargy and set up a market place.
According to Morgan Stanley’s report, Restaurant Trends in the Time of Coronavirus, «Total food delivery business through online platforms and restaurant delivery will reach $45 billion in 2020 versus our previous estimate of $41 billion.» million dollars in 2021, reaching 13% of the market share this year and 16% in 2022 vs. 2025 in our previous estimate.
This means that consumer spending is nearly three years ahead, fueled by the accelerated growth of delivery platforms.”
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Tableware «to go»
Another field of innovation will be the containers used for home delivery of food. Some companies such as Klimer from Madrid, which works with Dabiz Muñoz and other prestigious chefs, have already set to work.
Beyond the hermetic plastic lunch boxes, the arrival in the delivery channels of businesses far from fast food means that they are looking not only to transport the food but also the experience, and the tableware is an important part.
Compostable materials and efficient packaging are promoted, but also design, color and the possibility of customizing everything. In short, move the restaurant home.
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alfresco dining
It does not matter if it is sunny or rainy, the terraces have taken over the situation. They spread over sidewalks, boulevards, gardens, rooftops, balconies… whatever it takes to eat ventilated, the only guarantee when we take off our masks.
There are no signs of change, quite the contrary, the City Councils continue to provide licenses. In the cold winter, restaurants have erected windbreaks, installed stoves, spared no plants, and some even offer disinfected blankets to customers. Who would have thought that we would end up eating -not singing- in the rain?
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Foodies in Colombia
In Colombia, 59% of foodies consider themselves to be foodies and enjoy cooking, which is why they fall within the Foodie Cooks category.
Foodie nerds also stand out, those who know about trending processes and ingredients; these represent 30% of those surveyed. 11% are outgoing foodies, those who like to go out to discover new restaurants.
The interests that these consumers have for gastronomic activities are varied: 53% of those surveyed highlight trying new styles of food, followed by living new experiences, with 29%, and discovering local emerging chefs, 9%.
Another noteworthy fact is that 91% of those surveyed have shown great interest in attending exclusive culinary events.
now the trend towards 2030 is to grow and multiply due to the country’s economic conditions and economic development to decarbonize the economy with tourism.
This is a short book about how to implement a strategy for profiles necessary for a buyer person.
I am going to describe the people to whom this new tourism should be directed and why these buyer personas are so important.
The first is bleisure (it is the combination of business and leisure) and it is important for organizations to adapt to the needs of this new buyer persona.
the second is the foodie traveler (if you have seen instagram accounts about food you can see that this is the type of foodie traveler)
the other buyer persona is the knowmads person who is also known as the digital nomad and it is very interesting that organizations dedicate themselves to digital nomads.
and finally it is the person who is dedicated to sustainable tourism travel and that makes sense or a trip that gives meaning to his life.
For this reason, I give it a 5 out of 5.
I have two important news for you: I am going to create an account on patreon to show exclusive content to you (even those who support me can read my books) and I started writing a story on the fizzo platform (based on my first book from beyond journey)
Thanks a lot. I will leave the link here and in a tab.
It was officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, it was an agreement between the United Kingdom and France to define proposed spheres of influence and control for these two countries to control the territory after being controlled by the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
it was signed in 1916, it was shown to the public in 1917. when the middle east wanted to make a muslim country, the middle east was configured until now. they were shown in iraq and syria and even the country of israel and the palestinian people (many people say that it had to do with the fact that this war is based on the bible and the torah, but it is already known that it is from this agreement)
As I told you before, the settlers wanted a country for Muslims and the West did exactly the opposite. (for example, in syria they wanted to make a country called the great syria, for having opposed the ottoman empire).
the geopolitics founded by sykes picot that give rise to the protection of religious and ethnic minorities in the middle east and are reasons for conflict.
Control of areas from the Mediterranean Sea coastline to the Jordan River, Jordan, southern Iraq, and a small area including the ports of Haifa and Acre were allocated to the British to allow access to the Mediterranean. Control of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon was partitioned to the French.
The Russian Empire was to receive Istanbul, the Turkish Straits and Armenia. Powers were left free to decide the borders within their own areas. Further negotiations with other powers including Russia and Husayn ibn Ali, Sherif of Mecca were expected to determine international administration.
Given the eventual defeat of 1918 and the subsequent partition of the Ottoman Empire, the agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottomans outside the Arabian Peninsula into areas of British and French influence and control and proposed an «international administration» for Palestine. .
The British formed the British Mandate for Palestine between 1920 and 1948 and the British Mandate for Iraq from 1920 to 1932, while the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon lasted from 1923 to 1946.
British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot negotiated the terms of the agreement. The Czarist government in Russia was a minor party to the agreement and when the Russian Revolution occurred, it was the Bolsheviks who published the agreement on November 23, 1917, with the result that «the British were ashamed, the Arabs were dismayed». and the Turks rejoiced.»
What happened in the Middle East was that the worst thing that happened to them was moving away from the Ottoman Empire because we have had 150 problems in the Middle East due to this geopolitical problem (including Israel and Palestine, as well as many things like wanting to have their country in the ideal of Daesh or Islamic State. I will explain that in these posts).
Fascism wreaked havoc in Europe in the 1930s, and when World War II ended in 1945, remnants of far-right parties reappeared on the fringes of the political scene.
In the 1980s, when all that had begun to fall into oblivion, some of those parties began to feed on protest votes when the controversy around immigration broke out, fueled by the sensationalist press in search of easy news.
the traditional right-wing fascist parties have chosen to moderate their message and the profile of their sympathizers and profess a «sweetened fascism». What were once purely fascist parties are now right-wing populist parties whose adherents constitute a diverse flock that ranges from people of fascist ideology to racists, xenophobes and alienated working-class whites.
They are now expressed in terms of nation, tradition, sovereignty, and community, instead of eugenics, extermination, and homeland. Third, these parties deliberately try to reduce the differences that separate them from the traditional democratic parties by toning down their speech, while the traditional parties appropriate these expressions of great effect for electoral purposes and thus encourage the new language racist slips into moderate speech.
Fueled by the expansion of Europe to the East, which has not contributed to fostering tolerance, the prejudices repressed for decades by the communist regimes have resurfaced and serve as an argument for new and outlandish politicians and parties with racist, xenophobic and intolerant ideologies.
An example of the success of these new strategies in Europe is the promulgation of laws to guarantee tolerance in a continent that previously lavished it.
Another is that the extreme right now has sufficient numerical support and confidence to officially constitute a political group in Europe. The creation in 2007 of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) Group in the European Parliament allowed the extreme right-wing and racist parties of Austria, Belgium, France and Italy, as well as Bulgaria and Romania–the last two countries to join the the European Union — , joined by an independent MEP expelled from the United Kingdom Independence Party not for his ideas but for being accused of fraud in receiving social benefits.
The fact that among the current 785 MEPs there are more racist politicians than representatives of the 15 million people who live in countries of the European Union who belong to ethnic minorities or are nationals of third countries and who, taken together, would constitute the eighth » country» with the largest population of the 27 countries of the European Union, is indicative of prevailing trends.
The 19 members of the ITS Group include some of Europe’s leading far-right party figures, and despite the rhetoric, their true views are quite apparent.
The leader of the ITS Group is the French MEP Bruno Gollnisch, number two of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National, prosecuted in January 2007 for denying the Holocaust.
Andreas Moelzer was responsible for the success of Jörg Haider’s Liberal Party of Austria (FPÖ), the same Haider who refused to condemn a terrorist attack that killed four Roma.
Frank Vanhecke is the leader of the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, which advocates that immigrants must fully integrate into Western culture or be repatriated.
However, the three are trying to reposition the ITS Group and ensure that it is part of the mainstream of European politics.
An indication of this change of image is that they finally decided to reject the name «Europe of Fatherlands», which evokes Hitler and the Nazis, for their group, despite the fact that they used that name in the newsletter published jointly by the majority of its current members.
The makeover was engineered in the wake of the success of far-right parties in Austria, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands, where moderating public displays of intolerance has paid dividends at the polls and in terms of acceptability as coalition partners. for traditional parties.
At the European level, two parties have managed to ignore their neo-fascist history and roots to such an extent that they are even part of the more acceptable and less controversial Union for Europe of Nations (UEN) Group in the European Parliament.
The UEN Group is an incoherent hodgepodge of far-right parties and moderate right-wing parties in a marriage of convenience, trading respectability for influence.
Part of the group is what used to be the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) party, founded by Giorgio Almirante, former Chief of Staff of the Minister of Propaganda of the Republic of Saló, infamously renamed Alleanza Nazionale, as well as the profoundly homophobic Liga Polskich Rodzin (LPR) or League of Polish Families, the anti-immigration Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People’s Party) and Ireland’s Fianna Fáil.
Europe is a reflection of the good results obtained at the national level. In 2002, Le Pen, who believes the Nazi occupation of France was «essentially beneficial» despite the deaths of 70,000 French Jews in concentration camps, came second in the presidential election.
In the 2007 election, his support fell by almost half, not because of his blunder but because of his success in 2002. The other candidates usurped his rhetoric and his voters, were tough on immigration and crime, though not with their causes, and indicated by their opposition to Turkey’s entry into the European Union that Europe’s future borders would be religious and not geographical. (It talk a lot Diana Uribe in this book and the fascism was the first cause of wwII)
The leader of the Vlaams Belang, Filip Dewinter, proudly announced that his party was Islamophobic, which did not prevent him from almost taking control of Antwerp, Belgium’s second largest city, in 2006, or from increasing his electoral support in the 2007 national elections and won 17 seats, only one less than the Flemish Liberal Party, the leading political force in Belgium.
In Italy, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was keen to include his country’s far-right and fascist parties in his electoral coalition to try to stay in power. It was hinted that Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and founder of the neo-fascist party Azione Sociale, would have a ministerial portfolio.
Mirko Tremaglia, who had proudly fought in the ranks of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana–the Italian version of the Waffen SS–was already a minister. In the end, Berlusconi lost the elections to Romano Prodi by only 26,000 votes, that is, 0.1% of the total.
In Austria, the split in Haider’s Liberal Party seemed to herald its demise, but in the 2006 national elections the two resulting formations won 15% of the vote, while the neo-Nazi Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands won in local elections in Germany. votes at the expense of the ex-communist party Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus.
The rise of the extreme right is not limited to «old Europe». One of the three parties that make up the current Slovak coalition government is the Slovenská Národná Strana (Slovak National Party), whose leader, Jan Slota, is in favor of expelling the Hungarian minority, which makes up 10% of the population.
The Hungarian Truth and Life Party, chaired by Istvan Csurka, is anti-Semitic and anti-Roma. Still, he is seen as part of the moderate opposition to Hungary’s socialist government, despite helping organize riots in an attempt to topple the democratically elected government. (The same situation like turkey in this date, the rise of nacionalism in turkey is very high)
In Poland, the ruling party, Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc (Law and Justice Party), has since 2005 formed an unofficial coalition with the LPR, which has poisoned the political environment with its Catholic fundamentalism and extreme nationalism.
the infamous Radio Maryja, with its ultra-nationalism, homophobia and anti-Semitic reputation, has become a semi-official herald of the government. (In addition to Ukraine supporting a neo-Nazi army and goverment)
What can Europe’s democratic parties do to start bringing extremists back to the fringes of the political scene, where they belong?
In the first place, all the parties have to impose a principle of restriction on themselves and not play into the hands of the racists by echoing their message in order to obtain electoral benefits in the short term and, secondly, measures must be taken at the level of the European Union.
Although all the Member States of the Union are obliged by their laws to combat racism and xenophobia, in practice the degree of implementation varies considerably from one State to another.
More rigorous and comprehensive anti-racism legislation would be desirable. The real challenge is to ensure that the laws in force are enforced in each country, so that all residents of Europe have the same rights and duties and are not divided by sex, race or nation. In addition, the welfare state that was in Europe until the 90s and 2000s returns. (I will also talk about it later).
this book is incredible. speaks from the historical part of the development of Europe, the Middle East, refugees, China and Russia, as well as how we can advance in this contemporary world.
the explanation of europe, how women in turkey were the first to vote in europe, how europe developed with its colonialism and racism (for example how it took turkey to be part of the EU because it represented the muslim world and there europe showed its racism , in addition to the right-wing and xenophobic movements in Europe and how it has been growing)
As in the Middle East, what the Sikes Picot Agreement did is arbitrarily define the known countries in the Middle East and one of the solutions was Pan-Arabism (later I will explain what it is) and as the United States was in charge of devastating the countries and Pan-Arabism, That is why the growth of movements such as the Islamic State or Daesh (makes more sense to them) in addition to what is happening in Israel and Palestine. In addition to something important, the lack of legislation of the word terrorism and its lack of definition (also as Saudi Arabia is the promoter of these forms of armed struggle such as alqaeda or daesh).
The issue of refugees is an extremely sensitive issue that we have, to some degree or another, some responsibility for. and how we can help break down the stigma around refugees.
Finally, they talked about the solutions for this new world that is being formed and climate change (how it is affecting the issue of refugees).
For a masterful explanation of these key concepts in this contemporary world, I give it a 5.
– The Diada de Sant Jordi returns this year with parades of roses and books without capacity restrictions or the mandatory use of the mask.
– The weather is uncertain and unstable, with intermittent showers in many Catalan regions.
– Barcelona will have a record number of stops and its epicenter will be the ‘literary superblock’ on Passeig de Gràcia.
– Sant Jordi 2022 will have Eixample, Ciutat Vella, Gràcia, Les Corts, Poblenou, Sant Andreu and Sarrià professional spaces.
– The Cambra del Llibre hopes to be able to match the figures for 2019, when 1.6 million books were sold. The Floristes Guild anticipates a sale of six million roses.
The work of Santiago Posteguillo Roma soy yo, the first of the six with which the author will novelize the life of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, has been the best-selling book in the fiction genre in Spanish.
Empar Moliner, on his side, has prevailed in Catalan fiction with his book Benvolguda, while Toni Cruanyes and Ángel Martín have been the best sellers in non-fiction.
The day of Sant Jordi 2022 has been run over by the rain and the strong gusts of wind that have been registered throughout the territory, where five people have been slightly injured due to the impact of the tents detached by the wind.
The return of the dyad without any restriction due to the pandemic has experienced several altercations due to the irregular weather that has been experienced this Saturday throughout Catalonia.
Intermittent showers, storms, hail, rainbows and strong gusts of wind have been the protagonists of the day and have made booksellers and visitors run to avoid getting wet.
Empar Moliner, Toni Cruanyes, Santiago Posteguilo and Ángel Martín have been the best-selling authors in fiction and non-fiction, in a day where some vendors have seen how a large part of their books for sale got wet.
The sale of roses has had a very good day, and in the absence of the final count, sales numbers similar to those before the pandemic are expected. There were a total of 6 million roses for sale, most of them red, but also blue, yellow or orange.
The Catalan writer Empar Moliner was surprised by the announcement of being the best-selling author in the fiction genre in the Catalan language for her work Benvolguda (Column), and she wanted to send a message of thanks to booksellers, publishers and readers.
«We Catalans are very strange: it rains and we are with an umbrella so that a ‘scripter’ signs a book for us,» Moliner joked.
The writer has not denied her «emotion» of her to be the best-selling author of Sant Jordi, but she has recognized that her true aspiration is to make a ‘longseller’, a book that lasts in bookstores.
The journalist and presenter Toni Cruanyes, author of La vall de la llum (Destiny), has been very happy with the announcement that his book has been the best seller in the non-fiction category this Sant Jordi.
Cruanyes welcomed the news, which he is still assimilating, and sent a message of thanks to «everyone».
He has celebrated that the readers have remained faithful to the date despite the unstable weather conditions that have been experienced this Saturday in Catalonia, which has made many people have to run to avoid getting wet.
With his family work oeuvre, the release believes he has managed to find the «nostalgia point» that many readers were looking for. «The loss of relatives and the reunion, this has connected a lot,» he said.
The best-selling books in the children’s and youth literature category have been Catalanament, by La Incorrecta, and Las Perrerías de Mike 1. Mikecrack y la Estrella Maldita, by ‘Mikecrack.
In the Catalan language, after La Incorrecta, La princess, the dragon and the disarmed cavaller, by Joan Turu and La meravellosa i horripilant casa de la iaia, by the author Meritxell Martí Orriols, have stood out.
In Spanish, Mikecrack has been followed by Before December, by Joana Marcús and El semen mola (but you need to know how it works), by Anna Salvia and Cristina Torrón ‘Menstruita’.
In fiction, the work Roma soy yo, by Santiago Posteguillo, tops the list, followed by The black book of hours, by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, The map of desires, by Alice Kellen and Violeta, by Isabel Allende.
In the non-fiction genre, the best-selling book is In case the voices return, by Ángel Martín, followed by How to make good things happen to you, by Marian Rojas Estapé and Death told by a sapiens to a Neanderthal, by Juan Jose Miles and Juan Luis Arsuaga.
In the fiction genre, the best-selling books have been, in order of best sales to least, Benvolguda, by Empar Moliner, El monstre de Santa Helena, by Albert Sánchez Piñol, Mamut, by Eva Baltasar, and Quan s’esborren les paragraphs, by Rafael Nadal.
In non-fiction, he heads the list La vall de la llum, by Toni Cruanyes, followed by L’alegria de viure, by Sílvia Soler, and
and Violeta, by Isabel Allende.
In the non-fiction genre, the best-selling book is In case the voices return, by Ángel Martín, followed by How to make good things happen to you, by Marian Rojas Estapé and Death told by a sapiens to a Neanderthal, by Juan Jose Miles and Juan Luis Arsuaga.
In the fiction genre, the best-selling books have been, in order of best sales to least, Benvolguda, by Empar Moliner, El monstre de Santa Helena, by Albert Sánchez Piñol, Mamut, by Eva Baltasar, and Quan s’esborren les paragraphs, by Rafael Nadal.
In non-fiction, La vall de la llum, by Toni Cruanyes, heads the list, followed by L’alegria de viure, by Sílvia Soler, and Crims. Llum a la foscor, by Carles Porta.
The sales numbers are expected to close in a couple of days, but the president of the booksellers’ union, Carme Ferrer, predicts that similar pre-pandemic numbers will be reached.
«What I see for Sant Jordi does not happen anywhere in Europe. It is the most impressive book festival”, explains the fascinated Greek writer Petros Márkaris, who is celebrating the rose and book festival for the fourth time in Barcelona.
“It was necessary to recover this contact. I missed it”, says the Swedish writer Theodor Kallifatides, who made his debut this year in the Catalan capital with signatures of his work Timandra.
Another of the internationally renowned writers who has toured the streets of Barcelona has been the Norwegian Jo Nesbø, considered one of the best of his generation. «I love this party, it’s impressive that so many people come even if it rains,» said the author, present for the third time in the city.
This is proof that the day of Sant Jordi is an international benchmark in terms of book festivals, where millions of people take to the streets despite the bad weather to make a cultural gesture such as buying a book and a rose or just stroll.
It would also be interesting to be in Sant Jordi promoting my books.
if you are interested you can see it in get my books here.
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