Nestor Fantini

Cuando un escritor se va, queda un vacío intelectual que no se puede llenar. Nada más cierto con la pérdida de Carlos Fuentes, el escritor mexicano que era un grande entre los grandes de la literatura latinoamericana y mundial.

"Lamento profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro querido y admirado Carlos Fuentes,...

El partido republicano sigue en las marañas de los extremistas de la derecha conservadora. El último ejemplo quedó ilustrado en Indiana en donde el legendario senador Richard Lugar fue derrotado por un candidato del Tea Party. Un evento que, como sugieren algunos republicanos como Arnold Schwarzenegger, refleja la crisis del...

El escándalo entre una prostituta colombiana y los agentes del Servicio Secreto estadounidense, que tuvo lugar en vísperas del arribo del presidente Barack Obama a la VI Cumbre de las Américas en Cartagena, Colombia, no solamente desplazó de la primera plana una importante decisión sobre Cuba tomada por varios países...

The Republican candidates have made outrageous comments during the campaign, but none seems as dangerous as Newt Gingrich's statement that if he makes it to the White House he would essentially ignore Supreme Court rulings that may conflict with his views.

This is an outrageous suggestion made by the former...

There is a saying that the third time is the charm. For presidential candidate Herman Cain it is not the third but the fourth time that he has stubbornly denied accusations of sexual harassment and refused to give up his political ambitions.

For a proud liberal like...

On Saturday, a few hours before a constitutional deadline, Governor Jerry Brown had the political courage of signing Assembly Bill 131 that grants undocumented immigrants the right to apply for college tax-subsidized scholarships. While many Californians will celebrate the approval of the California Dream Act, surely no one will express...

For many who have arrived from countries south of the Rio Grande, it is not complicated at all to define themselves as Latinos. Their references are thousand-year old civilizations such as the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. But there are some Latin Americans who, on the other hand, do not want...

When the Hawker Hunter jets shot their missiles, Dr. Jose Quiroga was on the first floor. President Salvador Allende was on the second floor with some of his ministers and his security staff. It was September 11, 1973 and the Palacio de la Moneda, in downtown Santiago de Chile, was...

This week Damian Martin departed in his humble Nissan, that was loaded to full capacity, towards Washington, Indiana. A small town of only 12,000 souls in a unassuming corner of the American Midwest. He leaves behind two decades with his family in cosmopolitan Los Angeles and heads alone towards an...