“Famiga”: adjetivo que describe relación que nace de dos personas cuyos lazos sanguíneos no existen, pero su afiliación va más allá de una amistad.
Deborah Dixon, for ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, Rome 1962 by Frank Horvat
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#lasmaspasadas live
Hacerse amigo de un clochard (que bebía vino, comía queso y jamón, después de un café en St. Michel), que te regala cigarrillos después de una amena conversación, C’EST LA CLASSE!
La France et la greve!
“Les chanteurs du dimanche” cantan sobre las huelgas… en el país de las huelgas.
ELLOS, SON UNOS PASADOS.
El otoño murió.
Photos: Andrea Idiáquez. 2011
No Country for Innocent Men
Texas has exonerated no fewer than 56 people. All had served years, sometimes decades, in prison; five were on death row. As Perry sees it, these exonerations don’t suggest a problem with the system—they demonstrate that it’s working. “We have a very lengthy and methodical process of appeals,” he said in March 2010. “And that is a great and good mark for Texas.”
Perry made those remarks during an extraordinary ceremony in which he handed down the first posthumous pardon in Texas history. Timothy Cole, imprisoned while a 26-year-old student at Texas Tech University, had been failed by the justice system at every turn. But what makes his story particularly gut-wrenching is that he perished in prison even as the real rapist, Jerry Johnson, tried repeatedly to confess to the crime. By the time Johnson’s story was heard, Cole had been dead nearly a decade.
(via the-feature)
A Massacre in Jamaica
The trouble that led to the Tivoli Gardens deaths began in August, 2009, when the United States government requested the extradition of Christopher (Dudus) Coke. In the U.S., Coke stood charged in federal court of trafficking in narcotics and firearms; in Jamaica, he was known as the country’s most powerful “don,” a community leader who also runs a criminal enterprise. He lived in Tivoli, where everyone called him “president,” and, since 2001, Jamaican police had not been able to enter the neighborhood without his permission. Coke was so powerful that Prime Minister Bruce Golding spent months resisting the extradition order. But in early May, 2010, under heavy international political pressure, Golding authorized Coke’s arrest. In response, Coke converted Tivoli and nearby Denham Town into a personal fortress. Barricades of rubble and barbed wire sprang up across major intersections. Armed sentries took up posts around Tivoli’s perimeter. It looked as though Coke were preparing for war with the Jamaican state.
(via the-feature)
