00:00Hello, two headlines from two publishing houses made faces at us, well, let's just say at my eyebrows.
00:06But yes, we did get a rather discreet reprimand, which was dealt with immediately because it was
00:12indefensible, and another one that is highly promoted and viral on social media, very, very debatable,
00:19and it seemed more like one of those political strategies to leave conspiracy theories hanging in the air.
00:26The first one was really a commonplace that we use, which explains its use, but of course does not excuse it.
00:35Very early in the morning, a reprimand arrived via direct message from a columnist at the publishing house.
00:43by Piedad Bonet, one of the most outstanding poets in this country, who was recently awarded a prize,
00:52And I confess that I felt an immediate electric shock. Piedad was quite rightly complaining that in the
01:00title of our much-discussed editorial in which we demanded that former President Petro offer
01:09concrete answers to the recent accusations from some very prominent members of his cabinet,
01:17or of his government, instead of spouting his usual verbiage, since we would have called
01:24poems to his rhetorical flourishes in that title.
01:28Oh, Fidel, he wrote to me, today's editorial title is "Painful." It perpetuates the idea that poetry is synonymous with
01:37Sweet words, useless, powerless. What Petro says is empty rhetoric. Poetry is something else entirely.
01:47A profound and revealing word. Nothing to discuss, I rushed to change that headline and offer apologies in the
01:56digital version, of course, because in the printed version the former president was indeed awarded the title of poet without actually being one.
02:05The second reprimand came on social media, with a public statement that served to awaken the winery workers.
02:14It went viral, but in this case it generated more surprise than embarrassment.
02:22It was a quick read, not of the editorial itself, but of its title, and on social media as well. The ambassador
02:30Before the UN, Mauricio Gaona accused us of misrepresenting it because he assumed that our editorial position was
02:38We were attributing it to him. That headline said, Ambassador Gaona, the peace agreement is indeed a model
02:46for the world. That emphasis on the accented "yes" was itself a sign that he was contradicting himself.
02:54Something that had been said. Everywhere, even in the social media post that the ambassador retweeted with
03:02Their statement said it was the newspaper's editorial and not a news item that had already been published.
03:10The previous day, with the headline, in quotation marks, "The peace agreement is not a model for the world,"
03:17Or, to quote, Gaona before the United Nations. In fact, those same quotation marks appeared
03:24cited in the editorial. That is to say, even without reading the editorial, it's clear that he didn't read it.
03:31Before the ambassador launched his accusatory rebuke, all those signs made it clear that
03:40It was a rebuttal to his words, directed straight at him. However, the ambassador,
03:47I prefer to assume that, in good faith, he decided that the title was a quote of his and then accused us of
03:55To distort it. Amidst the political shouting from the wineries, on both sides, it must be said,
04:01I found the linguistic discussion that emerged from using the colon, and not the colon, more interesting.
04:09a comma to separate the ambassador's name and our message to him.
04:17The Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts in this case actually absolves us, and in fact,
04:24The Anglo-Saxon custom of using a comma instead of a colon in these sentences discourages the use of Spanish.
04:32health formulas. The only slip-up there is that it also says that after the colon,
04:39It should be capitalized, and we write it in lowercase, but that's a tiny slip-up there.
04:46Yes, it doesn't change the meaning at all. When it's used for a quote, it's also necessary to include
04:55that quote in quotation marks, and in this case obviously it didn't have them because it wasn't a quote, but our
05:02message for him.
05:04In short, I think what happened was more of a misreading, or rather a lack of reading, in
05:11the scandal
05:13What a senseless setup they tried to pull on us. And I'll end with the ear-pulling from @Oscar ND Martínez.
05:20He had his story, although not enough to immediately submit it for the La Pulla awards.
05:27Guillermo Cano is turning in his grave this year. And it was for having called the defeated [man] an exile.
05:35Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro upon arriving in the United States.
05:41Good point, but I don't think we'll qualify for the prize because, although it certainly came out
05:49fleeing Brazilian justice, that does not change his status as an exile.
05:55How he entered and was received in the United States. We can discuss whether or not the judicial process is fair.
06:02in Brazil, but the United States has also received him as an exile. In fact, many
06:12from the examples of Latin American exiles, which was what that article was about,
06:19which, by the way, is originally from the New York Times, and was titled exactly like that in the service
06:26regarding the licensing of that content we have with them. Well, those examples of exiles have
06:32They arrived fleeing justice in their countries. Well, see you later. Well, bye.
