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Argentina has been both applauded and criticized for proactive and severe action amidst the corona crisis. As a dual Argentine-American citizen, I was able to go home to Buenos Aires and…
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I am not a hypochondriac. Nor a fatalist. No matter what my sister says. Yes, I know already, she is a nurse. An excellent nurse whom I have seen in action: efficient, quick and friendly. But she’s wrong. Her opinion, I suspect, is more related to the numerous board games…
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El 10 de marzo de 2020, mis compañeros y yo recibimos un correo electrónico del presidente de Harvard, Lawrence S. Bacow, anunciando que debido al COVID-19 las clases se moverían a instrucción virtual…
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I look out from my balcony onto the streets of the Casco Viejo, the colonial section of Panama City. I can hear only an occasional fragment of conversation carried by the breeze or infrequent passing of a car. Panama’s second greatest tourist attraction after the Canal is…
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When I was in prison under the Stroessner dictatorship (1988), I developed the capacity to survive under dramatic conditions, breaking up my memories into fragments to distract myself and to spark my creative energy. I got used to living in isolation…