This Sunday, the kiosk on my street closed. The owner, Jorge, had been saying for months that the situation was getting worse. He recently told me that it will definitely close within a year. Accounting didn’t go well. His kiosk next to Madrid’s Berlin Park was stocked with books, CDs, videos, bags, lighters, T-shirts… “One day I’ll buy bread and milk here,” I told him. Your customer is (was) an elderly person. and they bought most reason and ABCbecause in this region they vote to the right. Very next to the kiosk trendy. I have never seen a young person buying a newspaper there and enjoying it with a cup of coffee. On Sunday, when I asked if I could kiss him goodbye, Jorge started crying. He told me he had been selling newspapers for 32 years. Now he’s back to his first job, a butcher shop. He was lucky to find another job. On the other hand, I am surprised every time I see someone holding a newspaper on the street. It is already a symbol of scarcity, but also of identity. We are the remnants of the Gutenberg era. We are digital people, yes we are not all digital, but paper reminds us that there was a time when a paper newspaper defined you and made you part of a community.
Aurora Minguez Santos. madrid
respect the presumption of innocence
Some prosecutors seemed to agree with the People’s Party’s personal accusations and were so angry that they tore their clothes. They believe that the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, intervened in the judiciary by declaring before the verdict that Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz was convinced of his innocence. And they declare without blushing or realizing (an inexcusable oversight) that the state attorney general is innocent unless and until proven guilty. This is the right to the presumption of innocence, but this right does not seem to exist for both his accusers and those who want him to be convicted. Do they also believe that declaring innocence before sentencing is a threat? Isn’t it the other way around?
Maria Teresa Caravaca de Juan. seville
Where has romanticism gone in soccer?
In my opinion, men’s professional soccer lost all ethics a long time ago. Even if you’re not a fan of these teams, there were only two debts the soccer world had to settle. The World Cup in the Netherlands and the European Cup in Atleti. Today, one of the two has distanced himself emotionally from me in the face of the news that the fund will invest billions of euros in that club. In fact, in my opinion, the only tournament that represents the most honest definition of soccer is the Copa del Rey. A tournament where anyone can beat anyone. Apart from the abuse of the ball, it is a treasure trove of emotions. Of course, money and business existed before, but they were too far gone to reach the level of economic absurdity that prevails today. Some of us say enough is enough, but in men’s football we want the Copa del Rey to take us back to a time when something was worth something.
Juan Luis López Perez. Totana (Murcia)
About The Author
