The Cosmopolitan Conscience

  2020, was meant to be one of the most amazing and spectacular years in history. All the people around the world were expecting greatness and incredible situations to be happened, but this year has started with some difficult news. A "new" virus was discovered in Wuham, China. Actually this virus was discovered over the mid's 60's and it was named as "Corona", since if someone looks carefully at a microscope, the virus has a interesting form. This form is related to a crown. So that´s how they named it Coronavirus. But back at the time there were not cases heard about this lethal virus. Right now, there is a big amount of  difficult situations around the world related to the virus. There are more than 500 cases around the world. That is a very big number, because at the beginning of the year there were not more than 50 cases around the world. All the people are understandably very nervous about this virus, because of the number of infected people. T...

El día de hoy 14 de enero del año 2020, ha sido una fecha muy especial, ya que gracias a Dios, si gracias a Dios, el nuevo presidente de Guatemala ha tomado posesión. Sí a las 14:00 horas del día 14 de enero, Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla tomó posesión como Quinquagésimo primero presidente en la historia de la Republica de Guatemala, siendo el noveno presidente de Guatemala en la época democrática. La verdad ha sido un acto simbólico e histórico para Guatemala, como se ha explicado anteriormente, se espera que el nuevo presidente haga impacto en la República, y reestablezca nuevos regimenes económicos, sociales y culturales en el país centroamericano, Guatemala. A la espera de nuevos cambios en los próximos días... Imágen: elPeriódico Guatemala

  Hoy once de noviembre del año 2019, es un día totalmente histórico. Evo Morales ha renunciado y "exige" que se elaboren nuevas elecciones para elegir a un nuevo presidente en Bolivia. Este es totalmente el comienzo de una nueva era democrática. Varios ciudadanos de Bolivia están totalmente felices por lo acontecido el día de hoy. Muchas personas entrevistadas, solieron estar muy agradecidos especialmente con Dios, por darle la oportunidad a todos los habitantes del país, por fin de salir adelante, con la salida de un "dictador" que realmente así lo fue para todos los bolivianos por bastante tiempo, desde que asumió su cargo como presidente de la República Boliviana a principios del año 2006. Detrás de la renuncia de Evo Morales, se tiene que mencionar, el gran golpe de estado que estuvo detrás de todo, ya que la fuerza militar, y la presión de todos los habitantes Bolivianos que estuvieron en las calles protestando de una forma intensa y demandatnte para un...

The german tourist aged 26 years old, named Maximilian Negl, 3 days ago sent a message to one of his friends, asking for help at Facebook.  All the rescue and security organizations were advertised of the unbelievable case of Negl. Yesterday, November 4, He was finally found, after all the hours of work, trying to search him. All the authorities and  the German Embassy in Guatemala intensified the search with walking tours, around the Fuego and Acatenango Volcanoes, in order to increase the possibilities to gain more information and maybe find the easiest and fastest way to look at the German guy. The tourist, as it was stated before, was found, and he was treated in a good way, he received first aid paramedics, then a helicopter transferred him to a soccer field in San Juan Alotenango, after that he was brought to a hospital in Guatemala City. "They did a good job, trying to find me" said the German, who also explained that he did not take the right way to descend f...

The Bantu Education Act of 1953 was a law passed by the Malan Government one year before his retirement. The Act made it mandatory for all school in South African territory to admito students from only one race. In other words, the Bantu Education Act stopped interracial education and founded the basis for the sustainability of the Apartheid System. The Bantu Education Act also changed the way African people were educated. The new system left the non-Whites education in the hands of the Native Affairs Department, separating African education from the Ministry of Education. It is very important to note that the Minister of Native Affairs during that time was HF Verwoerd himself (the architect of Apartheid). Here is his speech as the Minister of Native Affairs regarding Bantu Education (7 June, 1954): "It is the policy of my department that education should have its roots entirely in the Native areas and in the Native environment and Native community. There Bantu educa...

In the previous entry, Apartheid was defined as a system of institutionalized segregation against the non-whites in South Africa, and it was mentioned that it was divided into two phases: Petty Apartheid and Grand Apartheid. Now, a big of what the term "institutionalized" englobes are laws (institutionalized can be defined as establishing something as part of an official organization, and in this case that organization was the South African Government). Apartheid was able to affect the South African population through its laws, that ranged from simple everyday things like having separate amenities to more regional and territorial segregation. There is a quite big list of laws that enforced Apartheid, but only the most significant ones will be mentioned, and in this entry, only the Acts passed during the DF Malan Government would be included. In 1949, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was passed by the Malan government, becoming the first Apartheid law in the countr...

DF Malan  1948: a year remembered by all South African people. The year where D.F. Malan and the National Party won the elections to the shock of the whole country. It was the year where Apartheid appeared to oppress the non-whites; it was the year where the battle against discrimination officially began. Before looking back at the past, and revisiting the Apartheid era, it is of utmost importance to fully understand what the term "apartheid" means. Apartheid, according to the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, was " the former political system in South Africa in which only white people had full political rights and other people, especially black people, were forced to live away from white people, go to separate schools, etc." To put it simply, Apartheid was institutionalized segregation against the non-white population of South Africa.  Apartheid was divided into two different stages: Petty Apartheid and Grand Apartheid. Petty Apartheid basically consi...