Roque Dalton: Poetics of Tenderness

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Journalism and literature will be found again in Guatemala this Monday during the Central America Counts festival, the bet of Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Sergio Ramírez Prize to boost the lyrics of a region oppressed by dictatorships and authoritarianisms. Dozens of journalists and writers will gather for a week in the capital of the Central American country to discuss literary creation, how to tell a region that once repeats its mistakes an…

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It's not revenge I want, but to leave a flower where they hid the bones of a hero of El Salvador. Silvio Rodríguez Defining tenderness is a challenge because it is symbolic and linked to everyday actions or events. We could say that it is a full, unconditional affection free of attachment toward a person, whether singular or plural (human, animal, or plant), although conditional affection is also considered when it comes to a mother toward her c…