READERS WRITE
SHAKESPEAREAN COUNTRY
Rosenkrantz? Rosenkrantz? Sounds familiar… Rings a bell… Of course! Prince Hamlet’s friend, together with Guildenstern.
Well, not true friends, actually. They were more loyal to his treacherous uncle, Claudius, than to him. Closer in time, Tom Stoppard killed both of them in his famous absurdist, existential tragicomedy: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”
Come to think of it, ours is a truly Shakespearean reality, tinged with high treason, strange deaths, greed, thirst for power, bottomless ambition, heroes with tragic flaws, very bad guys beating the good ones, struggle between good and evil. Unfortunately, there’s no “catharsis” forus, the audience; no comic relief, no poetry whatsoever.
Sorry for the comparison, William. “Mala mía.” Irene Bianchi Ringuelet, La Plata irenebeatrizbianchi@hotmail.com
THREE CHEERS
RE: “Editorial: Optimism among the pessimism?” Buenos Aires Times, Saturday, September 8, 2018.
Although I hope Yeats isn’t counted as gospel concerning the passionate intensity by Michael Soltys, his “Optimism among the pessimism” editorial is one well-written piece and full of insight.
Hats off and three cheers to the senior statesman/journalist Señor Soltys. So grateful he still can be enjoyed.
Thanks, Christopher Eames Carpenter City
INFLATION, DOLLARS
I am 86 years old. I have seen many efforts by governments trying to reduce inflation and the rate to the dollar. All have failed. Particularly when trying to ‘control’ prices: “Precios Cuidados,” “Precios Ajustados,” etc. All utterly useless.
President Macri has done a good job attracting big foreign companies to invest in Argentina. These big investments could mean aninflux of dollars that would solve the dollar problem, and start new companies that will need to employ people and therefore reduce unemployment.
But what foreign company will set up a big office in BA when they know all the employees will be late every day because of blocked streets by “piqueteros”? And then have to face the problem of their factory having trucks blocking their entrance so are left without the raw materials to work with?
It is up to the government to get rid of these problems, they have the power and the authority. And they should not try to run the companies either, for which they are not capable. Let businessmen do their job. Axel N. Hogg Via email