Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts

Saturday, January 05, 2013

No more destiny’s child

To come to power and stay in it is what the Krichners’ and their competitors need to figure out

When Argentina goes to elections on June 28, a lot would be at stake not only for the country but also for those who have been in power. If at all economic conditions of the country have not improved, it shows that the first couple, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her predecessor and husband, Néstor Krichner are losing ground. While the mid-term elections were supposed to take place in October as per schedule, the pre-ponment of the mid-term polls in all probability would spell doom for the current government. Says Jorge Giacobe, pollster and analyst, “…this is the end of the prolific cycle of the Kirchner name.”

The era which began in 2003, when Néstor came to power and tried to and to a great extent even succeeded in, controlling the tumbling economy of Argentina, appears to be nearing its end. During his rule the economy started to recover from the recession it faced during 2001-03. Néstor reduced the debt on the country, a step which worked in the beginning but failed as time went by. Yet power did not elude him as he was succedeed by his wife.

But now, things could be changing. This is more than evident since the country election has seen a heavy flow of funds. The drums are beating loud and many new presidential candidates have come to join the race.

Francisco de Narvaez, who is the closest competitor to Krichner and heads the deputies lists in Buenos Aires, is spending millions to fortify his position. Public opinion polls show that the two are close to each other as far as results go.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tango on to good health!

If you thought tango is only about passion, oomph and attitude then think again!

“Have feet, will dance” is choreographer and dance educationist Shiamak Davar’s mantra as he asserts that it doesn’t matter if you have two left feet, you can still dance! Well, now doctors will only second that in order to heal diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, various phobias, depression and marital breakdowns! Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, have reported that balance of patients suffering Parkinson’s improved considerably when they took tango lessons.

Tango was a dance form that originated in the lower class districts of Buenos Aires, sprouting from the black African cultures, as slaves from Africa were brought into Argentina. Tango then was associated with a meeting place where working as well as freed slaves came together to dance. Later in the 19th century, people from poor backgrounds who had left their families and moved to Argentina in order to earn more, would usually do tango. In fact, the passion and sexual overtones exhibited in tango today is a spin-off of the moves that suggested the separation of the slaves from their partners.

For a long time, tango was looked down upon and considered ‘vulgar and distasteful’ due to its long lost connection with poor dance venues, bars and brothels. Well, if the same notions were to be held true today, many diseases would have remained uncured. Stina Almroth, who has been teaching Argentine Tango for many years, or rather is “a tango dancer looking for other people to dance with,” says that “tango requires you to focus and concentrate, and so you develop that ability. It also helps you to balance; you tend to multi-task and do more than one thing at the same time.

Even though tango can look like it is more about steps, but more than anything it is about presence and communication. You have to be really present because socially it is all improvised, which means if you are leading, you have to be able to communicate your lead.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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