My favourite Picasso Picture

This picture is called Guernica, in spite I don't like the Picasso's style of painting, this picture is an exception. I think this is one of the most expresve pictures in the world because it has many symbolism and the artists did not need the use of colours to express the things he wanted to say to the rest of the world with respect to the Spanish civil war. Where there were two politic factions, one of them representing to the old Spain, one monarchist and Catholic; and the other one representing to the new Spain, industrialist.
Republicans (also known as Spanish loyalists) received weapons and volunteers from the Soviet Union, Mexico, the international Socialist movement and the International Brigades; there were even American volunteers, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The Republicans ranged from centrists who supported a moderately capitalist liberal democracy to revolutionary anarchists and communists; their power base was primarily secular and urban, but also included landless peasants, and it was particularly strong in industrial regions like Asturias and CataloniaThe conservative, strongly Catholic Basque country, along with Catalonia and Galicia sought autonomy or even independence from the central government of Madrid. This option was left open by the Republican government.

The Nationalists on the contrary opposed these separatist movements. The Nationalists had a generally wealthier, more conservative base of Catholic, monarchist, centralist, landowning and fascist interests, and they favoured the centralization of state power. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, as well as most Roman Catholic clergy, supported the Nationalists, while Portugal provided logistical support. Ireland sent 740 men to fight for the Nationalists and was the only country where pro-Franco volunteers outnumbered the anti-Franco volunteers. Despite the declaration by the Irish Government that participation in the war was illegal, 700 of Eoin O'Duffy's followers ("The Blueshirts") went to Spain to fight on Franco's side (around 250 other Irishmen went to fight for the Republicans). On arrival, however, the Irish contingent refused to fight the Basques for Franco, seeing parallels between their recent struggle and Basque aspirations. They saw their primary role in Spain as fighting communism, rather than defending Spain's territorial integrity. Eoin O'Duffy's men saw little fighting in Spain and were sent home by Franco after being accidentally fired on by Spanish Nationalist troops.
Guernica is a small village in Basque country tht was bombed by Luftwaffe on 1937. This picture reflects all the pain of an injust attack in a cruel war.

A Site I enjoy deeply

I want to write about a site that I enjoy visiting. I like to read so much about Roman and Byzantine cultures. The first of them like the begining of the western culture, because the legacy of Rome extends directly to all the Mediterranean Sea, to the north of France and England too, and indirectly to all Europe and North and South America. The Byzantine Empire continues during nearly one thousand years the legacy of Rome on middle east. In spite of invasion of Muslim Arabs to Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Africa. And the conquer from western german kingdoms of Italia and Illyria.

The site is http://www.imperiobizantino.com/portada.html, though this was not the site I waqnted to include, it is similar to the other I wanted to include here, but for one strange reason that it is unknown for me the link is broken, but if someday the link becomes unbroken, I'll include too,http://www.ejercitosbizancio.net/, in this too sites, if avalaible, you can download files about the history and another topics about Eastern Roman Empire. the denomination Byzantine is from the western culture point of view. The inhabitants called to themselves as "Rhomioi" (Roman) and their country was called by them as "Basileia Rhomaion"(Roman Empire).

Masada, an useful sacrifice?

Once it was broadcast on television a picture whose name is "Masada", it tells about how a group of jews decides, after to having been destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem, fighting against the Roman legions, from an unconquerable place, Masada fortress. But in spite of all that Roman Army could find the way to conquer the fortress.

The said fortress was built in the times of Herod the great, at the shores of Dead Sea, and its objective was to be one unconquerable, but after two years of a hard work, the romna people were ready to conquer the fortress on the top of the rock. But when they entered, they had nobody to fight with, the jews decided immolating themselves instead to be conquered by roman army, who, for sure, would enslave and show them like triumph signal.

Today that fact is used by Israel's Army in a similar way to Oath to Chilean flag on july 10th of each year,when soldiers swear to defend a textile piece with the very life. I think ideals of a country are not flesh in what thing is or is nat a flag, but rather what thing it must be defended is the citizens' lives, democratic institutions, the freedom, and not simply a pice of textile.

The thing I can rescue here is the sentence that the personage Flavius Silva, performed by Peter O'toole, who was the roman gobernor, said in a sarcastic way, of selfcritic towards the thing he was representing, all the power of Roman Empire in Judaea, soon to watch how the jews commited suicide "We have conquered a rock in the middle of a desert in the shores of a poisoned sea" what does it mind all those things

About Chilean Educatión

The modern world has so many exigencies. For example, a person, who does not know to use a computer, is nearly a functional illiterate. The things that humankind knew only fifty years ago, nowadays has been duplicated. This real situation offers many challenges, in this sense, here in Chile, a big part of this new challenge should be mitigated by an education that be at high of every one of this new perspectives. This educational function must be a roll assumed by the State.
However, because of the politic facts of last forty years, the State renounced to its paper in primary and secondary education, and municipalities, from promulgation of the LOCE (Functional Constitutional Law of Education) on March 10 of 1990 (yes, the penultimate day of Augusto Pinochet's ditatorship), ought to assume this roll, that before it was of State and private people, and after the promulgation, it is the roll of municipalities, in the place that before occupied the State, and private people.
There are many municipalities that are very poor, they not even have money to sustain themselves, and now ought to get this additional charge. At the other hand, municipalities that have the sufficient money, select to students who can enter to one of their public schools (for example, Instituto Nacional, Internado Nacional Barros Arana, Liceo 1, Colegio Lastarria, etc.). Some private schools select their students, but not in others, it all depends of how much money holds the family of one student. There are another private school that work with money of fees and State subventions.
At the other hand, at professional Education, there are some Universities that belong to State (such as University of Chile, Universidad de Santiago, etc) and another that, in spite of being traditional universities are private (such as Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). And also are non-traditional universities (such as Adolfo Ibañez Univerity, Ucinf, etc.), they all are private.
Therefore, in conclusion, I can say that State has been very lazy with respecto to its roll in education. This has not assumed the challenges of the present world as its. And the education is one more merchandise or comoditity that only a few people may get of an acceptable quality.

History of Chilean Constitution of 1980

The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980 (Exactly seven years after chilean coup d’etat), under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, effective March 11, 1981 and amended July 30 of 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005, replaced the earlier Constitution of 1925 (Written on first Presidency of Arturo Alessandri Palma). In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power and faculties; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when this country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished. It created some new institutions, such as the Constitutional Tribunal and the controversial National Security Council (COSENA).

In its temporary dispositions, the Constitution ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta (formed by the Commandants of the Navy, Air force, National Police[Carabineros], and a representative of the Army, the Commandant of the Army being president of the republic), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta. It set the first eight year presidential term for Pinochet, with a plebiscite in the eighth year, in which only one candidate, nominated by the Junta, would be accepted or not. The candidate, as expected, was Pinochet himself. While the steps to follow in the case of a triumph of the "yea" option, which the document obviously anticipated, were clearly delineated, the steps for the "nay" triumph were less so, but still clear enough that no serious doubt emerged when the "nay" option actually was victorious in the 1988 plebiscite.

After the plebiscite, several modifications to the Constitution were agreed and subjected to referendum, among them a simplification on the mechanism of future modification.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, through law 20.050, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators (institutional senators, or senators for life) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, besides the paper that armed forces got of being guarantors of Constitution. These reforms led the President to controversially declare Chile's transition to democracy as complete. However, the anti-terrorist measures of it remained in force, and it seems that this kind of dispositions shan’t be countermanded during so much time.

The Chilean Constitutions before this last were these:

• Regulation for the amendment of Executive provisory authority of Chile 1811
• Constitutional Regulation 1812
• Regulation for the provisory government 1814
• Constitution of 1818
• Constitution of 1822
• Constitution of 1823
• Federal Essay of 1826
• Constitution of 1828 (Liberal constitution)
• Constitution of 1833 (conservative constitution), and
• Constitution of 1925

An interesting web site, where you can find all the history of Chilean Constitutions is http://www.bcn.cl/pags/legislacion/leyes/resena_const.htm, and besides you can find the official traslation of Chilean Constitution on this website http://confinder.richmond.edu/admin/docs/Chile.pdf, it is a PDF document that is the official traslation from Spanish to English of Chilean Constitution of 1980, in its original text.

My favourite song

I now a lot of songs, many of them are very beautiful, I think there are many songs that make you remember some special moments in your life. You must consider many aspects to say a songs is good or bad, but a song can be so bad musically, but it becomes your favourite. The song I want to present you as one of my favourites is this:
I Thought About You - Frank Sinatra

I took a trip on a train,
and I thought about you.
I passed a shadowy lane,
and I thought about you.
Two or three cars parked under the stars,
windin' stream.
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam,
the same old dream.

And every stop that we made,
oh I thought about you.
And when I pulled down the shade,
then I really felt blue.
I peaked through the crack,
looked at the track,
One goin' back to you,
and what did I do
I thought about you.

(Musical interlude)

There were two or three cars parked under the stars,
a windin' stream.
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam,
the same old dream.

(Musical interlude)
And then I peaked through the crack
and I looked at that track,
The one goin' back to you,
and what did I do?
I thought about you.

I share with you the link where this song was uploaded by me, it is http://www.compartelo.cl/?q=31252
Good luck

Hi, I'm Ramiro

Be welcome everybody who is visiting my blog. My name's Ramiro, I lived in Santiago, Chile. I'm 21 years old, and very soon I'll become 22 years old. I'm a student of law in the University of Chile.I was born at Santiago on July 11th of 1985. I think my life is really worthwhile, but not thanks law. This is only a very small "introducction" to my thought, and also for this is a homework for English Laboratory.
I hope after I can write more and many interesting stuffs. See you later.