Post-Truth: Constructing Realities

https://www.voanews.com/a/in-haiti-slight-progress-for-lgbt-rights-is-seen-as-victory/4528161.html It's always going to be hard for me reading about discrimination and harassment, no matter where is happening. I'm a straight guy who could be qualified as cis-gender. I need to be clear on that because I'm not going to talk about my sexuality or my identity. It's necessary for all of us to think in the people on their coindition: human-beings. The LGBT situation in Haiti is the living proof that the whole world needs to change its mind, because we are constructing our society on discrimination and we are normalizing it. The story the author wrote on the news talks about a transgender woman who basically lived on hell due to her own identity. It confuses me all the time when there's discrimination and people who practices it forget about the person that they're messing with, because it's a person, and no matter what he or she is feeling or what he or she wa...

https://www.voanews.com/a/scattered-protests-heavy-security-presence-across-iran-after-new-sanctions-take-effect/4519000.html In this new we can look the parhesia is in the minister of international relations of iran when say  that sanctions of usa is because usa have other interest and all the persons know that donald trump is not the most intelligent president to have reltions with others country he has very dificult to have relations because think that all that he said is the true and all countries need to think like usa.

Juan Pablo Ocampo Correa

Andrés Benjumea David Lujan Sara Mora Osorio Camilo Buitrago

by: Maria Fernanda Carvajal, Paula Giraldo, Julio Bohórquez

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentine-senate-rejects-legal-elective-abortion/4520024.html Argentine Senate Rejects Legal, Elective Abortion When we are talking about abortion, we should to know that is a community problem, education problem, medical problem, but in countries like Colombia, Argentina, Chile that conform South America (which supposed to are non-secularize) it’s a Religion problem as well. The political decisions should be taken by congressmen, politics, and people who are able to make the answers for this kind of problems. In Argentina the Catholic Church has lost influence and moral authority, why? Apart from the secularization, they are in a clerical caste and avalanche of sex abuse scandals that makes impossible to bring a correct opinion about this reform. For another way and wrapping in what it’s important to us, i n Argentina, abortion is only allowed in cases of rape and risks to a woman’s health  what the constitution want to do is allowed to the wome...

By Luisa Fernanda Alvarez Gaviria, Mariana Gaviria Perez, Carolina Giraldo Vergara, Mariana Yepes Velásquez.

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentine-abortion-campaigners-brace-for-crucial-senate-vote-/4519275.html the truth is the society  feels fear  when  a person get opossed to conservative ideology that has been protected by the church and  other conservative institutes. A controversial theme is abortion which has divided Argentina in two groups :  those who  defends the abortion,  that includes politicans,students,doctors , and those who dont. Its important to say that both decisions has consequences , for one side if the abortion is aproved , it will become a bussines for the health guild, it means an increment in number of abortions, and for the other side is the number of ilegal abortions that are made. But if the abortion its not aproved, the reality will not change, the ilegal abortiong it will get stronger and also the number of deaths moms. As we feel fear to express our thoughts against , in this case the church, they also have fear of this sit...

Mexico´s new leader: "Nobody will threaten us" with wall. So recently, Mexico´s president made a ´comeback´ to the America-Mexico boarder wall conversation. This theme started when Donald Trump said that if he ended up being electec president, he would build a wall boarder between  USA and Mexico. Lopez Obrador´s opinion and speech is really similar to what Peña Nieto said in the USA election season, but thats nos the problem. The problem begins when we see Trump´s opinion about this situation. In my opinion, and probably the moayority of the latin america comunity agrees, is that when Trump says that Mexico is going to pay all the costs that would come with the wall iniciative is a really unfair and unreal proyect. First of all, the wall is his idea, his proyect, so is his responsibility to talk with all the parts that have something to do with this, in this case, Mexico´s people and goverment. Then he justifies his desition by showing all the stadistics and proves th...

https://www.voanews.com/a/colombia-s-santos-set-to-leave-office-proud-yet-frustrated/4507980.html  Opinion Nowadays, we are in a polarized country where telling the truth is so hard, just being honest about your politics beliefs means that you are going to be on the battle field. That is why the people find ways around the truth, like me. I do not tell the truth all the time about how I feel regarding the Santos's administration just because I am going to be call “Castro-Chavista" ( a made-up word that they use to underestimate ideas), so most of the people like me have to hide from the truth. Don´t take this the wrong way, is not that I do not see the problems on him it´s just that after all he leave a legacy ending a five-decade war.  Now is the time to be brave and speak our minds and stop thinking about the consequences of it, because if we do, we never going to see the country that we want and we deserved. With that I don´t mean that they are wrong about him, I ju...

https://www.voanews.com/a/donald-trump-robert-mueller-interview-still-being-negotiated/4519240.html " News reports Wednesday quoted the president's lawyers as saying they are trying to narrow the scope of Mueller's questions by declining to allow the president to answer questions about possible obstruction of justice." " In an interview with CNN, Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's lawyers on the case, said the team is sending a new letter today with a counteroffer. Giuliani declined to describe the counteroffer." "Mueller has been seeking to interview the president for months. Trump has repeatedly urged his legal team to allow him to be interviewed, believing it will give him the opportunity to clear his name. Trump's lawyers have advised him against it, citing the fear of a "perjury trap."" Questions: 1. what's the main obstacle within their lifes to practice through parrhesia? 2. concept 3. what is the consequence f...

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentine-senate-rejects-legal-elective-abortion/4520024.html The main obstacle to apply the concept of  pharresia on this context is the fact that post-truth is to much implicated, everyone have their own truth and is difficult to know who´s right. In my opinion  people are born   to learn how to be free and once that freedom is achieved comes with a huge resposability, get to the point of needing an abortion its a result of being irresponsible with that freedom, however, if the mother is unable to provide her child of optimal living conditions, it's unfair that the baby has to live paying for the parents' mistakes, so in this case the abortion  should be considered as the last alternative to prevent it.     1. What´s the main obstacle within your life to practice pharresia ? 2. What are consequences of practicing pharresia? 3. What are the consequences for you not telling the truth?  4. What can you do ...

https://www.voanews.com/a/kids-screen-time-dry-eyes/4520074.html Opinion The news talk about how k ids are addicted to cell phones, tablets, games  anything with   an electronic screen. The problem is, it’s bad for their eyes.    In this times we have to be really careful about how we manage our time, or analize if we are doing a good work , cause now its being such a problem more for our health. We are going to be addict with technology, and we can´t take a rest  about that, and more than that we are  creating a permanent eye damage,  With the popularity of video games and online activities, dry eye is becoming increasingly prevalent in children and teens glued to their screens. “When you concentrate very hard on a task such as on a computer screen, you blink less, and also instead of fully blinking you partially blink and so what’s happening is damage is being done to the front of the eye,” Wolffsohn said. When tears aren’t be...

    https://www.voanews.com/a/ebola-vaccinations-expected-to-begin-in-congo-s-north-kivu/4517235.html The confirmed and probable cases of Ebola are 43, including 34 deaths, these infection is transmitted by direct contact with the blood, body fluids, and tissues of infected animals or people. Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. In my opinion the vaccinations are really important because can prevent the infection of a lot of people, and directly it can save lives, also something important about the new is that was clear the order of vaccinations, so all everybody will respect the turn and will wait with patient. The new is saying the true but is not using parresia, i think that they give the correct information but the words that were used were perfect because didn't alarm the society, just invite them to prevent. also they talk about all the efforts of  The World Health Organization and tells that they will have to w...

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-declares-california-wildfires-as-major-emergency-/4514369.html OPINION It's very sad what is happening in California, the biggest fire in the history, because with the laws that the government create about the water, it becames very dangerous for the people that lives in CA and also it's very hard to stop the fire (it's a very dry state), so how it's possible that Trump said that in the USA they don't have any environmental problems, and now one of the states more affected is California. How the situation is going to affect Trump's and USA business? If in the USA they don't have environmental issues, what is the government going to do with the fire and the water restriction?

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentine-abortion-campaigners-brace-for-crucial-senate-vote-/4519275.html The woman is responsible for her and her children’s welfare and support. If she cannot support a child, for whatever reason, it is her duty to act responsibly and not bring it into this world to burden others. Only the woman can know all the details of her life. Even the most loving of partners are separated at times, and people protect those they love from pain (a loving wife may not tell a husband she was raped, for example, for fear of the pain it would cause). As a fully capable, reasoning adult, she is the only one with both the information needed and the personal risk of life inherent in pregnancy. No law can account for all exceptions that can occur, and no court (with appeals) can act fast enough to rule on new exceptions. Just as with an end of life healthcare proxy for someone in a coma, she holds the healthcare proxy for her fetus so long as it is within her body. And j...

https://www.voanews.com/a/argentina-s-former-vp-boudou-convicted-of-corruption/4517781.html Opinion: In the actuality, politics is a very difficult topic and where the truth is never told completely. Here is a case were a politic steals from the people of Argentina thousands of money when he worked with Kitchener’s government. The stealing and hiding all this money is just a huge disappointment in the people that has their trust in them. There are just a few of politics that do or at least try to do things right and try to say the truth to the people. However, in the other hand there are a lot that just want to work in the government to steal and think in their wellbeing and not the countries. The truth in these cases is not complete and told to the people.  parrhesia in the goverment would be something so important for al the people that belong to the country because we would know what they are doing with our money and all their buissness. But it could be complicated w...

https://www.voanews.com/a/new-colombian-president-promises-corrections-to-peace-deal/4518269.html QUESTIONS 1. What is the main obstacle within this new to practice through parrhesia? 2. Concept 3. What is the consequence for the writter not telling the truth? 4. What can you do about it? 5. Do you think Duque is going to do everything that Uribe ask him to do? 6. Do you thin Duque is going to continue with de peace deal? I think that this topic it is very controversial, it depends on your political view, so I will try to think in an impartial point. Yes the majority of the Colombian people thinks that Duque is going to do everything that Uribe ask him to do (in any political point, even they agree with Uribe or not, people thinks that). I think that we have to wait and see how he is going to govern Colombia. And i hope that if he is going to make corrections to the deal peace (that i hope he does), those corrections will be for the better of the victims.