00:00For me, opinion is a vice. I've tried several times to leave it.
00:05The novels, the poetry, are those spaces where one goes
00:09collecting words that allow us to nominate emotions that are important,
00:17that allow us to build what we are.
00:21For me, the best journalism today is simply heroics.
00:27The best journalists, those who are aware of their responsibilities, are heroes.
00:34For me, opinion is a vice.
00:37I've tried several times to leave it and I haven't achieved it,
00:42because it's a way of conversation,
00:50or to comply with the essential duties of the citizen,
00:54which are the debate, the critique, the confrontation of different opinions,
01:00which I think is imprescindible in any health society.
01:05And I still do it for that.
01:07Apart from the personal satisfaction of entering a certain type of conversation with the lecturers,
01:17I think it's a sense of a need.
01:22In a healthy democracy, I think it's a need for a citizen.
01:28I think it's a need for a citizen to enter the debates,
01:30in conversations, and establish that particular way of dialogue,
01:34which is a column of opinion.
01:39There are two ways, I always say,
01:42more opposed to seeing the world and exploring it through the word,
01:46than the columnist and novelist.
01:49The novelists write from the incertidumbre,
01:53through questions, explorations of the unknown.
01:56And a columnist, on the other hand,
01:58writes, I think, from a minimum certainty,
02:01of a conviction that has arrived and wants to communicate.
02:05It's a certain act of proselytism.
02:10I have seen in Latin America a kind of a very important regression
02:16to divisions, enfrentamientos,
02:20and values that belong to another epoch,
02:23the epoch of the Guerra Fría.
02:24And what we see now in the Latin American authoritarianism
02:28is a division between the nostalgia of the military dictators,
02:34like Milley, Bolsonaro, Kast,
02:37nostalgic,
02:38of a world of military authoritarianism,
02:41especially in the 70s,
02:42and the herences distorsionated and lamentable
02:52of the social revolution of the 60s.
02:56That is what is the Venezuela of Maduro,
03:00or of Delcy Rodríguez,
03:02and that is what is the Nicaragua of Ortega,
03:06and his wife.
03:07So it's like if we come back to that division
03:13that Mario Vargas Llosa called
03:14the Sables and Utopias.
03:16And it's a regression,
03:18and it's profoundly preocupant.
03:21I think that in these times,
03:25the serious and responsible periodism is a place of resistance,
03:29resistance against the anti-democratic forces of the authoritarianism,
03:34resistance against the brutal attempts of manipulation of our reality,
03:38of our opinions,
03:40of our behavior,
03:43of our social media,
03:43of our social media,
03:44and social media.
03:45In the serious journalism,
03:47there is a fiscalization
03:50of these forces,
03:53that today is absolutely imprescindible.
03:55And that's why it's not surprising
03:56that they become the main enemy of these forces.
03:59That's why it's not surprising that Milley
04:01calls the journalists to the people
04:03and says to a multitude to call them
04:06the people.
04:07That's why it's not surprising that Trump
04:09calls them the enemy of the people
04:10and tries to protect them
04:12and minify the trust
04:16that the citizens have in the journalists.
04:17For me,
04:20the best journalism today
04:22is simply heroic.
04:25The best journalists,
04:26those who are aware of their responsibility,
04:28are heroes.
04:29And they are heroes of the resistance.
04:32And that's why they receive constantly
04:35the attacks of this conspiracy.
04:38The book also wants to be a vindication
04:41of journalism
04:42as a place
04:44in which the citizens resist
04:48to the worst impulses,
04:50the worst tendencies
04:52of the forces that govern us
04:54and manipulate us.
05:03It's true,
05:04I think that the construction of oneself
05:07is one of the great tasks
05:10that an individual
05:12individual
05:13from the point of view
05:15of the citizen
05:15and political
05:16but also from the point
05:18of view
05:19of the intimate
05:20and personal.
05:22And
05:22to build one himself
05:25implica
05:27the discovery
05:28of
05:30a series of words,
05:32a series of concepts.
05:33A American philosopher
05:34Richard Rorty
05:35called it
05:36personal.
05:37Those words
05:38that we build,
05:39that we allow
05:40to say
05:41who we are,
05:42who we are,
05:44who we are,
05:44who we are,
05:45who we are.
05:45And there for me
05:47has always entered
05:47literature.
05:49The novels,
05:50the poetry,
05:51are those spaces
05:53where one
05:53is collecting
05:55the words
05:58that allow us
05:59to name
05:59the emotions
06:00that we are
06:01that allow us
06:02to build
06:04what we are.
06:05And
06:06this is
06:07more important
06:09the more
06:13convulsive,
06:14difficult
06:15a society.
06:18registral
06:18is
06:18the
06:18the
06:18effectively
06:19of the
06:19government.
06:23The
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