Something from Nothing! The Art of Rap

After our professor  Nirit, showed this movie in class this week, the first I did: Google!

For me google is my rap hero, there I can find any rap lyric that I want, and analyze. Rap is a world, that I used to feel that I was never invited.

I couldnt ever understand what were the lyrics saying, but after the movie I decided its about time to catch up. I set and I think read about 30 lyrics from different

artist that the professor presented in class, I can say that after 10 I started to understand. Although in class in learnt that music, HipHop, Rap its a way of expression as any other, and the best part its a play of sarcasm, I need it to sit and read every lyrics.

Its pure FLAVOR! 

I think I fall in love with the rap lyrics that laugh on politicians, its just amazing how they find the way to show you a point of view and laugh at the same time.

The movie is narrated by the famous rapper ICE T. The movie had one goal, interview big names! lke Dr Dre, Eminem, Melle Mell, and many others that I discover in that movie. What I liked about the movie, thats its not a show off movie, the plan was only to show how this business moves everyday. 

And thats its the interesting role of the movie, to show how it really works, how they admire each other and the only thing that they want its to keep this art industry growing. 

Are you still thinking that Rap its just vulgarity?

Gospel, Jazz, motown, soul music and R&B get together with RAP to combine a music genre. When we talk about RAP, we talk about elements that can make music even more spicy or controversial that they are. You need to see Rap as a tool, as the spicy element that the genre needs. In all the world, we tend to see rap as representing a point of view, as a representing voice. There are many factors such us cultural issues, different generations, different countries, languages new artist that shape this type of music. And never stop changing.

 Street art-NY.

Rap tells stories, Rap shows a lifestyle, but also raps can "offend" other group of people, and some can take is as an aggression  or vulgar. Because the Rap never stop changes, because there are always new artist, rap also can tent to be less or more vulgar for other people. Rap see them self as artist, as a way of expression. Rap in can represent  expression of emotions, looking for peace, looking to express some anger and pain. But Rap has his own magic that we tend to see in Art: Sarcasm.

Yes, rap specially with HipHop we tend to see it as a way of expression of the emotions, to represent injustice, anger and to show difficulties in people lives, but with an amazing twist: They laught about it!

This artist the play with it, yes they say, yes this the life that we have, but we need to be sarcastic, we need to make it art we need to use it! 

Thats why sometimes you can think that there is a lot of vulgarity, or representing an expesive life, and funny clothes! Because they learnt to laugh such as any other art! 

"what you want me to do with it?"don't matter just don't bite itshe swallowed it ..suck this dick for daddyshe swallowed it ..usin' that lipsshe swallowed it ..it's the world's biggest dick"what do you want me to do with it?"don't matter just don't bite it
: NWA - SHE SWALLOWED IT

A Mover El Culo!

I as an Argentinean, I grow up listing to the best band:

Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas 

Anywhere in Argentina if you will sing this song, people will follow you with an: "JENNIFER LOPEZ NANANA, ABRIO LA HELADERA NANANA". This 90s band rocked our world, and they still do! But more impressive is that I been listing to their songs for years! but I never new that it was HIP HOP until this week! how is that even possible? Well I always thought they were more funk jam, and rap! but I didnt know that is all part of HIPHOP jam! 

Dante Spinetta, Emmanuel Horvilleur the gods of the argentinean hiphop brought us some Rap, some funk, breakdancing and even some Beat Boxing!

As we talked in class, Hip Hop started in the bronx, NY. Since 1948 the freeway Cross Bronx Espressway, that connects the traffic between the Bronx and Manhattan, was been built. When a freeway is constructed in the city, there is always people who are affected by it. In this case all the  neighborhoods in the South Bronx making people forced to be relocated, and making all the house lowered property value. Which meant that most of the people that needed to live in low rent would live in this Slum Lords. Criminality, gangs, drugs started to be the main ingredient of the Bronx.

In the 1997-1998, Illya Kuraki and the Valderramas, recorded their fifth album, "Versus" where!? in the Battery Studios, New York! With some sould, funk, rap combined! I imagine as a rapper, as Hip Hop Artist its an honor to record in the homeland of the Hip Hop culture! The first cut was "Expedición al Klama Hama", one of the most beautiful songs of the band.

  

Come with me, and free your find, try to enjoy la mejor musica Argentina!

A mover el culo!!!!! 

ZTB.

The Hip Hop ABC

First Hip Hop song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqvPJ3cbUQ 

The song ranked #248 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

September 16, 1979

Today: November 2012.  

33 Years of Hip Hop!! How can we not celebrate this with a good Chimichurri!??

This first 30 years of the best components! 

@Rapping!! 

@Break dancing

@Djing

@Graffiti!

and even Beat Boxing!

I am a pure Graffiti fanatic, and  its an honor to present to the world this side of the story!

Hope you enjoy this super style of music, direct from the Bronx, NYC to the world!

 Bronx,NYCBerlin, Germany

ZTB 

Rescuing the Hispanic JournalismIn times of rapid and brief writing, a book defending the chronic Villoro the genre called "literature under pressure". Editors, writing in the bowels, seeking escape from the trivial, the urgent and the aseptic


   These two books in one actually, because this anthology of contemporary Latin American Chronic Dario Jaramillo Agudelo (see important points) consists of a first part chronicles compiled by different authors can be read as stories. And a second presentation made by the compiler itself (Collage on twentieth-century Latin chronicle) plus a series of trials in which these same writers reflect on their craft. Answers to chronicle what is it, that they may serve as a manual for aspiring journalists.
 The whole book is a tribute to the journalism of "immersion" that needs to escape the relentless deadlines to produce a material that, well done, reflecting the reality beyond the news. A subjective journalism, but not so dishonest, written with the perspective and the personal stamp of an author who, though not to use the first person, is a reporter present, contrary to the usually prescribed supposedly objective news journalism.
 Jaramillo Agudelo acknowledges a Parnassus of authors who are referenced in this type of writing, as Tomas Eloy Martinez, Carlos Monsivais, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Elena Poniatowska, among many others. The Argentina, for instance, Homer had Alsina Thevenet, Henry Raab and Rodolfo Walsh, but also the Etchings of Roberto Arlt and, going back even further back, Sarmiento's Facundo or an excursion to the Indians ranqueles, Lucio Mansilla that although literature or testing, are also chronicled his time.
 Colombia says Jaramillo Agudelo, Daniel Samper Pizano has and Alfredo Molano Bravo, Puerto Rico, Ana Lydia Vega and Luis Rafael Sanchez and, similarly, every country in Latin America has given exalted representatives of this genus that the brilliant Mexican writer Juan Villoro compared with a platypus, that oviparous mammal duck-billed, beaver tail and legs in otter.
 The "platypus of prose," says Villoro, draws on several genres of the novel, takes the subjectivity of the report, the data, the story, the dramatic sense in short time and actually made the story; of the interview, dialogues, the theater, the multiplicity of parliaments and their assembly; the test, the argumentation of autobiography, memory and personal reworking the facts.

 A boom, in spite of everything
 Jaramillo Agudelo continues to Norman Sims, author of literary journalists (or the art of the staff report) to highlight the four fundamental forces of the chronicle: immersion, voice, accuracy and symbolism.
 The first takes time, so the vortex information and the requirements of the closures conspire against him. Just as the widespread idea that Leila Guerriero discusses-in on some lies of journalism, one of the essays in this anthology-that people do not read or only read the brief and leads to condemn the texts only "long" .
 Still, says Jaramillo Agudelo, Latin America is "a narrative journalism boom" and "today there are very good writers in our continent because there are very good magazines chronic collect their works (see related photos) Black Label ( Peru), Leopard (which began in Colombia and now exists in Argentina and Mexico), El Malpensante and Soho (Colombia), and Orsai Lamujerdemivida (Argentina), Left foot (Bolivia), Pacemakers (Venezuela), Letras Libres (Mexico) The Clinic and Paula (Chile). "
 The Chronicle claimed the first-person voice, the recognition of the impossibility of neutrality, which does not involve deception, by contrast, can be much more honest than the proclamation of objectivity impossible. Whenever you follow a few rules that Jaramillo Agudelo making Mark Kramer, "Do not make scenes, not to distort the chronology, not invent quotations, not to attribute ideas to the sources, unless they (the have expressed), and not dealing undercover involving payments or editorial control. "
 This list does not define what should be the accuracy of the chronicle, which, unlike literature, staged characters and real events.
 As for symbolism, that the above: the chronicle must answer the question of "what lies beyond the facts, and what lies, what does history tells you that your observation?"
 To quote from Martin Caparros, another of the writers invited to this book, "information (as applicable) is to tell many people what happens to very little: the one with power. (...) The Chronic rebels against this when he tries to show, in their stories, the lives of everyone, either: what happens to those who might be his readers. "

 Prohibited bore
 Despite an unnecessary digression to clarify that, when he says "great writers" refers to "them" as "them", the introductory notes of Jaramillo Agudelo are an excellent reflection on the work as a journalist and a good presentation and defense of a genre which, when well made, high honor of Woody Allen: "All styles are good except the boring."
 His criteria for selecting the chronic form the book was, he says, Caparrós (for whom the compiler does not hide his admiration, citing it several times, including four of his writings): "The magic of a good story is to get a reader interested in an issue that, in principle, no interest at all. "
 The result is a selection that reads like a compilation of gripping stories, only that it is not fiction. The authors - Juan Jose Hoyos, Pedro Lemebel, Carlos Martinez D'Aubuisson, Josefina Licitra, Frank Baez, Hernán Casciari, Alvaro Sierra, Juan Pablo Meneses, Jose Navia, Juan Forn, Julio Villanueva Chang, among others (see related photos) - lead the Pinochet coup in Chile in the fifth of Pablo Escobar at the height of his career as head of a powerful drug cartel, the Carnival of Rio to the kidnapping of undocumented Mexican border, a classic-Mouth River at swinger clubs of Barcelona, ​​through-known portraits of Carlos Gardel, Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca or Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, or not, a fighter, a magician, the mother of Hugo Chavez ... In short, a tour of Latin America, history and, above all, the human soul. Especially compelling is the story about the murder of Monsignor Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, Carlos Martinez D'Aubuisson, a relative of Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, the mastermind of this political crime.
 In others, Jaramillo Agudelo gives them the consolation prize of place in a list of excluded from the book, although they expressed their admiration and ensures that there will be room for them at a later complication; dubious honor, if we also consider that some chroniclers included more than one job.
 But we must recognize that, given the abundance of good writing that this book points out, the selection is not easy and surely leave unhappy. But the texts included are high quality, like the chapters in trial. Among them, the soon to be a classic article by John Villoro (The Chronicle is the platypus of prose) retain this genre "practiced an artifice: it transmits a real person" in his "attempt to give voice to others." De Julio Villanueva Chang that "a writer has the privilege of not only what happens, but above all it seems that does not happen." Similarly, Caparros proposes "to tell the stories that taught us not to consider news." Leila Guerriero says "worst sins" of a journalist: "make boring texts, monotonous, without weather or nuances." Boris Muñoz claimed the chronicle as "being of being of Latin American literature" from the Royal Commentaries of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to the authors of today. And Alberto Salcedo Ramos argues that "fiction writers are not more important, per se, than those of non-fiction, just because they imagine their arguments literally instead of sticking to the facts and characters from real life."
 Indeed, this genre, well practiced, it is worth aspiring to literary range. In the words of Gabriel García Márquez, "a chronicle is a true story," and in John Villoro, "a chronicle literature is achieved under pressure."

A friendly: With Messi's magic, Argentina gave a bad day to Brazil (4-3)

On the day of South American football, Lionel Messi with Argentina and Brazil gave a show full of football and goals.

                              

 The Barcelona star was again the great figure by scoring three of the four Argentine goals. The other did the defender Sebastian Fernandez. Brazil scored for Romulus, Hulk and Oscar.
The Brazilians, led by Mano Menezes, comes from losing their second friendly match online, after the loss to Mexico 2-0 on 3 June.
A "vs Messi. Neymar" version selections
It was the second time that Messi and Neymar were found in the same field, both favorable for Rosario. The first was in the final of Club World Cup Japan 2011, in which Barcelona beat Santos 4-0.
The party was a great show scoring by both teams, who delighted the more than 81,000 spectators filled the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford (New Jersey), which gave everything a recital Messi and Brazil striker, despite playing with U-23, was the one who put the best football.
Brazil went ahead in the score at minute 23 when Neymar took an indirect kick and Argentina's defense stood claiming offside which did not exist and Romulus scored the 1-0.

Appears Messi in action
When Brazil was playing better, a turnover in midfield was used by Gonzalo Higuain, who gave a perfect pass to Lionel Messi deep, so far gone, and scored for 31 minutes under the tying goal.
Three minutes later, at 34, again Messi, the star, this time with a pass from midfielder Angel Di Maria, Real Madrid also, stood before the Brazilian goalkeeper Rafael Cabral when he left on the road and marked left foot to empty net 2-1.
Brazil reacts
The tying goal came at minute from Brazil 56 to finish Oscar from inside the box a great combination between Neymar and Leandro Damião.
The "Canarinha" got back to the lead after 72 minutes with a goal from Hulk topped left-footed from close range, but at 76, head, tied Federico Fernandez and 85, another genius of Messi with individual play and spectacular left-footed shot marked the final 4-3.
The ball was always in Brazil, which did better football and deserved not go into the break with the disadvantage of 1-2, but the class and figure of Messi again made the difference for Argentina.
In addition, the Albiceleste, that at no time was his best game as a team, was also found in the goal with the figure of goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who like Messi was instrumental in getting Argentina consiguiese victory.
Then came the figure of Messi again and completely changed the history of the party, which again also left the worst image in the rivalry between both teams with 90-minute expulsion of defender Marcelo, Real Madrid and Argentina's Ezequiel Lavezzi, Napoli Italy, which had entered two minutes earlier by Higuain.

Argentina 4: Sergio Romero, Pablo Zabaleta, Federico Fernandez, Ezequiel Garay, Clemente Rodriguez (m.88, Ezequiel Lavezzi), Jose Sosa (m.57, Pablo Guinazu), Fernando Gago, Javier Mascherano, Angel Di Maria (m.74 , Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain (m.88, Campagnaro). Coach: Alejandro Sabella.
Brazil 3: Rafael Cabral, Rafael Da Silva (m.80, Danilo), John, Bruno Uvini, Marcelo, Sandro, Romulo (m.74, Casemiro), Oscar (M.60, Julian), Leandro Damião (m.68 Alexandre Pato), Neymar and Hulk. Coach: Mano Menezes.
Goals: 0-1, M.23: Romulus. 1-1, m.31: Lionel Messi. 2-1, m.34: Lionel Messi. 2-2, m.56: Oscar. 2-3, m.72, Hulk. 3-3, m.76: Federico Fernandez. 4-3, m.85: Lionel Messi.


Referee: Jair Marrufo (USA) Marcelo expelled from Brazil, and Ezekiel Lavezi (90 minutes both) of Argentina. He showed yellow card to the Brazilian Rafael Da Silva and Casemiro and Argentines Fernando Gago and Javier Mascherano.
International friendly match was played at the MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford (New Jersey), with over 81,000 spectators.

Summary Qualifiers: Chile at the top

South American
A double date, the fifth and sixth of the playoffs was very positive the 'Red', who after defeating Bolivia and Venezuela was first with 12 points. Uruguay and Argentina remain on the lookout, while the surprise is Paraguay, which is next to last with four units.

                                     

FIFTH DATE.
Bolivia 0-2 ChileGoals: 47 'Charles Aranguiz (CH), 83' Arturo Vidal (CH).South American Qualifiers | the 5th timeSiles EstadioHernando | La Paz | BoliviaReferee: Alfredo IntriagoRed Card: 54 'Luis Gutierrez (B).Bolivia: Daniel Vaca, Christian Vargas, Luis Mendez, Ronald Rivero and Luis Gutierrez, Alejandro Chumacero, Walter Flores, Pablo Escobar (73 'Alcides Peña) and Jhasmani Campos (58' Rudy Cardozo), Juan Carlos Arce and Ricardo Pedriel (69 ' Augusto Andaveris).DT: Gustavo Quinteros.Chile: Claudio Bravo, Osvaldo Gonzalez, Jose Rojas and Pablo Contreras, Charles Aranguiz (88 'Braulio Leal), Marcelo Díaz, Arturo Vidal and Eugene Mena, Matias Fernandez (73' Luis Pedro Figueroa), Alexis Sanchez and Humberto Suazo.Coach: Claudio Borghi..
Argentina 4-0 EcuadorGoals: 19 'Sergio Aguero (A), 29' Gonzalo Higuain (A) 31 'Lionel Messi (A), Angel di Maria (A)Qualifiers Brazil 2014 | 5th DateMonumental Stadium | Buenos Aires | ArgentinaReferee: Victor Rivera (Peru)Argentina: Sergio Romero, Pablo Zabaleta, Ezequiel Garay, Federico Fernández, Clemente Rodriguez, Javier Mascherano Fernando Gago, Angel Di Maria (82 'Maxi Rodriguez), Sergio Agüero (62' Jose Sosa), Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain (73 'Ezekiel Lavezzi).DT: Alejandro Sabella.Ecuador: Alexander Dominguez, Jorge Guagua, Walter Ayovi, Jairo Campos, Gabriel Achilier, Luis Saritama (39 'Javier Ayovi), Antonio Valencia, Pedro Quinonez, Cristian Noboa, Cristian Suarez (46' Jeferson Montero), Cristian Benitez (84 'Renato Ibarra).DT: Reinaldo Rueda.

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Venezuela 1-1 UruguayGoals: 38 'Diego Forlan (U), 83' Salomon Rondon (V)Qualifiers Brazil 2014 | 5th DateEstadio Centenario | Montevideo | UruguayReferee: Antonio Arias (Paraguay)Uruguay: Fernando Muslera, Diego Godin, Diego Lugano (77 'Sebastian Coates), Martin Caceres, Maxi Pereira, Alvaro Pereira, Diego Perez (74' Alvaro Gonzalez), Egidio Arevalo Rios, Diego Forlan (85 'Sebastian Abreu), Edinson Cavani Luis Suarez.DT: Oscar Washington Tabarez.Venezuela: Renny Vega, Fernando Amorabieta, Gabriel Cichero, Vizcarrondo Osvaldo Roberto Rosales, Giacomo di Giorgi (71 'Yohandry Orozco), Juan Arango, Luis Manuel Seijas (88' Grenddy Perozo), Tomas Rincon, Frank Feltscher (54 'Nicolas Fedor ), Salomon Rondon.DT: Cesar Farias.

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Peru 0-1 ColombiaGoals: 51 'James Rodriguez (C)Qualifiers Brazil 2014 | 5th DateNational Stadium | Lima | PeruReferee: Nelson Pitana (Argentina)Peru: Diego Penny, Christian Ramos, John Galliquio, Jesus Alvarez, Carlos Lobaton (58 'William Chiroque), Luis Ramirez, Rinaldo Cruzado, Renzo Revoredo (69' Raul Ruidíaz) Yoshimar Yotún, Andre Carrillo (85 'Jefferson Farfan) Paolo Guerrero.Coach: Sergio Markarian.Colombia: David Ospina, Aquivaldo Mosquera, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado (72 'Aldo Ramirez), Luis Perea, Mario Yepes, Pablo Armero, Carlos Sanchez, Freddy Guarin (87' Alexander Mejia), Dorlan Pabon, James Rodriguez (90 'Jackson Martinez ), Radamel Falcao.Coach: Jose Pekerman.

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DATE SIX.


Venezuela 0-2 ChileGoals: 85 'Matias Fernandez (C), 91' Charles Aranguiz (C)Brazil Qualifying 2014 | the 6th DateEstadio Jose Anzoategui | Puerto La Cruz | VenezuelaReferee: Jose Buitrago (Colombia)Venezuela: Renny Vega, Roberto Rosales, Oswaldo Vizcarrondo and Gabriel Cichero Grenddy Perozo, Julio Alvarez (63 'Juan Guerra), Di Gioacomo Gorgi, Luis Manuel Seijas (81' Yohandry Orozco) and Juan Arango, Nicolas Fedor (63 'Yonathan Del Valley) and Jose Salomon Rondon.DT: Cesar Farias.Chile: Claudio Bravo, Osvaldo Gonzalez, Jose Rojas (30 'Marcos Gonzalez) and Pablo Contreras (64' Luis Pedro Figueroa), Charles Aranguiz, Arturo Vidal, Eugenio Diaz and Marcelo Mena, Matias Fernandez, Alexis Sanchez and Humberto Suazo (78 ' Sebastian Pinto).Coach: Claudio Borghi.

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Bolivia 3-1 ParaguayGoals: 10 'Alcides Pena (B), 69' and 80 'Pablo Escobar (B), 82' Cristian Riveros (P)Brazil Qualifying 2014 | the 6th DateEstadio Jose Anzoategui | Puerto La Cruz | VenezuelaReferee: Roberto Silvera (Uruguay)Bolivia: Sergio Galarza, Christian Vargas, Luis Mendez, Gabriel and Jose Valverde Beard, Walter Flores, Alejandro Chumacero, Gualberto Mojica (72 'José Luis Chávez) and Alcides Pena, Pablo Escobar (85' Rudy Cardozo) and Marcelo Moreno Martins (84 'Augusto Andaveris).DT: Gustavo Quinteros.Paraguay: Justo Villar, Ricardo Mazacotte, Adalberto Román, Paulo Da Silva and Aureliano Torres, Eduardo Aranda (74 'Hernan Perez), Cristian Riveros, Osvaldo Martinez and Eric Ramos (57' Edgar Benitez), Nelson Haedo Valdez and Pablo Zeballos (68 'Luis Caballero).DT: Francisco Arce..
Uruguay 4-2 PeruGoals: 15 'Luis Suarez (U), 30' Maxi Pereira (U), 41 'Diego Godin, against (P), 48' Paolo Guerrero (P), 63 'Cristian Rodriguez (U), 92' Sebastian Eguren ( U).Brazil Qualifying 2014 | the 6th DateEstadio Centenario | Montevideo | UruguayReferee:Uruguay: Fernando Muslera: Maximiliano Pereira, Sebastian Coates, Diego Godin and Martin Caceres, Egidio Arevalo Rios, Diego Perez and Alvaro Pereira (60 'Gaston Ramirez), Diego Forlan (60' Cristian Rodriguez), Luis Suarez (89 'Sebastian Eguren) and Edinson Cavani.DT: Oscar Washington Tabarez.Peru: Diego Penny, Christian Ramos, Jesus Martin Alvarez, John Galliquio and Yoshimar Yotún, Antonio Gonzales (Carlos Lobaton), Rinaldo Cruzado, Luis Ramirez and Luis Advincula (69 'Christian Cave), Jose Carlo Fernandez (76' Andre Carrillo) and Paolo Guerrero.Coach: Sergio Markarian..
Ecuador 1-0 ColombiaGoals: 53 'Cristian Benitez (E)Brazil Qualifying 2014 | the 6th DateAtahualpa Olympic Stadium | Quito | EcuadorReferee: Wilson Seneme (Brazil)Ecuador: Alexander Dominguez, Juan Paredes, Jairo Campos, Fricson Erazo, Walter Ayovi, Antonio Valencia, Cristian Noboa, Segundo Castillo, Jefferson Montero (Luis Saritama, 77 '), Joao Rojas (Edison Mendez 71), Christian Benitez.DT: Reinaldo Rueda.Colombia: David Ospina, Luis Perea (Camilo Zuniga, 34 '), Mario Yepes, Aquivaldo Mosquera, Pablo Armero, Elkin Soto (Luis Muriel, 72'), Carlos Moreno, Freddy Guarin (Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, 66 '), James Rodriguez, Dorlan Pabon, Radamel Falcao.Coach: Jose Pekerman.

Rescuing the Hispanic Journalism
In times of rapid and brief writing, a book defending the chronic Villoro the genre called "literature under pressure". Editors, writing in the bowels, seeking escape from the trivial, the urgent and the aseptic


   These two books in one actually, because this anthology of contemporary Latin American Chronic Dario Jaramillo Agudelo (see important points) consists of a first part chronicles compiled by different authors can be read as stories. And a second presentation made by the compiler itself (Collage on twentieth-century Latin chronicle) plus a series of trials in which these same writers reflect on their craft. Answers to chronicle what is it, that they may serve as a manual for aspiring journalists.
 The whole book is a tribute to the journalism of "immersion" that needs to escape the relentless deadlines to produce a material that, well done, reflecting the reality beyond the news. A subjective journalism, but not so dishonest, written with the perspective and the personal stamp of an author who, though not to use the first person, is a reporter present, contrary to the usually prescribed supposedly objective news journalism.
 Jaramillo Agudelo acknowledges a Parnassus of authors who are referenced in this type of writing, as Tomas Eloy Martinez, Carlos Monsivais, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Elena Poniatowska, among many others. The Argentina, for instance, Homer had Alsina Thevenet, Henry Raab and Rodolfo Walsh, but also the Etchings of Roberto Arlt and, going back even further back, Sarmiento's Facundo or an excursion to the Indians ranqueles, Lucio Mansilla that although literature or testing, are also chronicled his time.
 Colombia says Jaramillo Agudelo, Daniel Samper Pizano has and Alfredo Molano Bravo, Puerto Rico, Ana Lydia Vega and Luis Rafael Sanchez and, similarly, every country in Latin America has given exalted representatives of this genus that the brilliant Mexican writer Juan Villoro compared with a platypus, that oviparous mammal duck-billed, beaver tail and legs in otter.
 The "platypus of prose," says Villoro, draws on several genres of the novel, takes the subjectivity of the report, the data, the story, the dramatic sense in short time and actually made the story; of the interview, dialogues, the theater, the multiplicity of parliaments and their assembly; the test, the argumentation of autobiography, memory and personal reworking the facts.

 A boom, in spite of everything
 Jaramillo Agudelo continues to Norman Sims, author of literary journalists (or the art of the staff report) to highlight the four fundamental forces of the chronicle: immersion, voice, accuracy and symbolism.
 The first takes time, so the vortex information and the requirements of the closures conspire against him. Just as the widespread idea that Leila Guerriero discusses-in on some lies of journalism, one of the essays in this anthology-that people do not read or only read the brief and leads to condemn the texts only "long" .
 Still, says Jaramillo Agudelo, Latin America is "a narrative journalism boom" and "today there are very good writers in our continent because there are very good magazines chronic collect their works (see related photos) Black Label ( Peru), Leopard (which began in Colombia and now exists in Argentina and Mexico), El Malpensante and Soho (Colombia), and Orsai Lamujerdemivida (Argentina), Left foot (Bolivia), Pacemakers (Venezuela), Letras Libres (Mexico) The Clinic and Paula (Chile). "
 The Chronicle claimed the first-person voice, the recognition of the impossibility of neutrality, which does not involve deception, by contrast, can be much more honest than the proclamation of objectivity impossible. Whenever you follow a few rules that Jaramillo Agudelo making Mark Kramer, "Do not make scenes, not to distort the chronology, not invent quotations, not to attribute ideas to the sources, unless they (the have expressed), and not dealing undercover involving payments or editorial control. "
 This list does not define what should be the accuracy of the chronicle, which, unlike literature, staged characters and real events.
 As for symbolism, that the above: the chronicle must answer the question of "what lies beyond the facts, and what lies, what does history tells you that your observation?"
 To quote from Martin Caparros, another of the writers invited to this book, "information (as applicable) is to tell many people what happens to very little: the one with power. (...) The Chronic rebels against this when he tries to show, in their stories, the lives of everyone, either: what happens to those who might be his readers. "

 Prohibited bore
 Despite an unnecessary digression to clarify that, when he says "great writers" refers to "them" as "them", the introductory notes of Jaramillo Agudelo are an excellent reflection on the work as a journalist and a good presentation and defense of a genre which, when well made, high honor of Woody Allen: "All styles are good except the boring."
 His criteria for selecting the chronic form the book was, he says, Caparrós (for whom the compiler does not hide his admiration, citing it several times, including four of his writings): "The magic of a good story is to get a reader interested in an issue that, in principle, no interest at all. "
 The result is a selection that reads like a compilation of gripping stories, only that it is not fiction. The authors - Juan Jose Hoyos, Pedro Lemebel, Carlos Martinez D'Aubuisson, Josefina Licitra, Frank Baez, Hernán Casciari, Alvaro Sierra, Juan Pablo Meneses, Jose Navia, Juan Forn, Julio Villanueva Chang, among others (see related photos) - lead the Pinochet coup in Chile in the fifth of Pablo Escobar at the height of his career as head of a powerful drug cartel, the Carnival of Rio to the kidnapping of undocumented Mexican border, a classic-Mouth River at swinger clubs of Barcelona, ​​through-known portraits of Carlos Gardel, Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca or Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, or not, a fighter, a magician, the mother of Hugo Chavez ... In short, a tour of Latin America, history and, above all, the human soul. Especially compelling is the story about the murder of Monsignor Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, Carlos Martinez D'Aubuisson, a relative of Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, the mastermind of this political crime.
 In others, Jaramillo Agudelo gives them the consolation prize of place in a list of excluded from the book, although they expressed their admiration and ensures that there will be room for them at a later complication; dubious honor, if we also consider that some chroniclers included more than one job.
 But we must recognize that, given the abundance of good writing that this book points out, the selection is not easy and surely leave unhappy. But the texts included are high quality, like the chapters in trial. Among them, the soon to be a classic article by John Villoro (The Chronicle is the platypus of prose) retain this genre "practiced an artifice: it transmits a real person" in his "attempt to give voice to others." De Julio Villanueva Chang that "a writer has the privilege of not only what happens, but above all it seems that does not happen." Similarly, Caparros proposes "to tell the stories that taught us not to consider news." Leila Guerriero says "worst sins" of a journalist: "make boring texts, monotonous, without weather or nuances." Boris Muñoz claimed the chronicle as "being of being of Latin American literature" from the Royal Commentaries of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to the authors of today. And Alberto Salcedo Ramos argues that "fiction writers are not more important, per se, than those of non-fiction, just because they imagine their arguments literally instead of sticking to the facts and characters from real life."
 Indeed, this genre, well practiced, it is worth aspiring to literary range. In the words of Gabriel García Márquez, "a chronicle is a true story," and in John Villoro, "a chronicle literature is achieved under pressure."

Riots shook claims the Labor Day events in Latin America
Concentrations were in the main cities of the region. In some demonstrations, clashes and violence. Politics, in some cases, and apathy in others, marked the day
Photo credit: Reuters

 Tens of thousands of workers in Latin America endorsed the streets to voice their demands again and in many cases, to express their discontent with the measures taken by governments.
 In Chile, the march was held in the capital, Santiago, culminating in serious riots clashes between police and masked. The demonstration, organized by the Confederation of Workers (CUT)-the main union of the country, began in the downtown Central Station, where the columns moved peacefully through the emblematic Avenida Alameda, operating under tight control. The violence reached the end and the authorities still did not give casualty figures or arrested. In cities such as Valparaiso and Concepcion were minor incidents.
 Also there were riots in Bogota. Security forces arrested 70 people in Bogota for possession of dangerous elements, Caracol Radio reported. Explosives and one wounded completed the temporary part. Was expected to meet main event some 10 thousand people.
 In the Bolivia of Evo Morales, the commemoration of this day came amid a series of protests that affect the popularity of the Government, with claims of various kinds. The demonstrations, which had thus a more political aspect, lost prominence by the president's announcement of the expropriation of the Spanish Electricity Network subsidiary. In addition, the governor was preparing at least four bills that benefited the workers, though hardly help them cope with the discontent generated by the application, from Tuesday, a new minimum wage that has not stopped according to the unions.
 Although peaceful, the demonstrations in Ecuador and Venezuela were marked by social polarization promotes the style of their presidents. The followers of Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez made his calls with the explicit purpose of highlighting the achievements of their efforts, while opposition groups organized their own setbacks with claims and complaints about the shortcomings of these socialist governments.
 Doomed to treatment being conducted to overcome the mysterious suffering from cancer since 2011, Chavez said his references to this day. Before leaving Cuba for a new series of radiation treatments, the president issued on Monday the new Labour Act, calling it "historic." Since Tuesday was limited to sending messages of support to the "working class" through his Twitter account.
 In Peru, Labor Day was the setting for a political dispute. Ollanta Humala president announced a second minimum wage increase, with news that tried to appease the emerging social conflicts that have been awakened. However, the General Confederation of Workers (CGTP) claimed that his government remains "the same system of exploitation" of the time of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
 Perfect socialism was the call that led the celebrations in Cuba, at a time when the reforms adopted by Communism in recent times begin to alter a system that ruled for decades. The dictator Raul Castro led the massive but short memorial with calls for national unity and called for support for the changes.
 In Paraguay, the labor unions and unions held protest marches in Asuncion to demand better working conditions and repudiate a law regulating small and medium enterprises.The demonstrations highlighted the disagreement that exists right now between the government of Fernando Lugo and the guilds, which launched strong criticism.
 Were also loaded with political content demonstrations in Mexico. There, the Labour Congress made a strong appeal to the executive and the party to assume power after the presidential election in July to take the steps necessary to stop the violence.Independent trade unions, in turn, directly urged their members to vote for the leftist candidate Andres Lopez Obrador and punish the ruling Autonomist Party (PAN) and the traditional favorite and PRI.
 The opposite occurred in Uruguay, where the single federation of workers expressed PITCNT matches with the government of José Mujica, but also showed some differences. The president attended the event, although he was not. Another demonstration was called by a group of more radical unions who disagree with the current line of the labor confederation.
 The differences within the labor movement were also evident in Argentina. There, the General Confederation of Labour, led by Hugo Moyano, now estranged from the government of Cristina Kirchner, had no demonstrations. They were the opposing faction of the Central de Trabajadores Argentinos and leftist movements who staged the day with events in the capital.
 In Brazil, the slogan was "development with lower taxes and wages and jobs." In the main event in the Piazza Campo de Bagatelle, San Pablo, were united the unions General Workers Union, Forza Association, Central of Workers of Brazil (CTB), Nova Trade Union of Workers and General Confederation of Brazilian Workers. According to reports, the merger brought together more than a million people.
 The streets of the Central American capitals were the scene of the traditional marches of the public and private workers, accompanied by students and farmers from different points. Multicolored flags, clowns, masks and music troupes gave cheerful note to the day, which led unions in different sectors.
 In Honduras, at least 30,000 people marched through the capital, headed by former President Manuel Zelaya and his wife Xiomara Castro, who seek the presidency in the elections of 2013.
 In Guatemala, the veteran trade union leader José Pinzón said that "problems (labor) remain the same for 136 years, so can not give up our struggle." The demonstrators, about 8,000, also expressed opposition to the open pit mining in the country and announced an increase in electricity rates of between 6% and 15%.
 About 4,000 people protested in El Salvador by the lack of jobs, the high cost of living and low wages and proximity criticized the government of Mauricio Funes with the United States. "The workers are convinced that this government is more right than left right," he told AFP the general secretary of the General Public and Municipal Employees, William Huezo. "They have become rich while the people are starving, is not enough money, the taxes go up, wages are not increased and that must end," he complained.
 In Costa Rica, unions pointed their batteries for the defense of the Social Security Fund, CCSS, which runs through unprecedented financial crisis. About 7,000 demonstrators, including educators had a strong presence, walked about 15 blocks and planted at the headquarters of the CCSS, in the heart of San Jose, for shouting slogans against the government.
 Meanwhile, the Nicaraguan government suspended the march for workers to visit the place where the remains are being blurred by Tomas Borge, the last of the founders of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which until now has been alive and died Monday at age 81. However, opponents marched in the east of Managua to demand more government jobs, price controls on basic food products, job security and fair wages.