Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Eduardo Montes-Bradley is an American writer-filmmaker born in Córdoba, Argentina, on July 9, 1960. Montes-Bradley has produced, directed, written or otherwise engaged in over forty films. He currently directs the Heritage Film Project dedicated to making documentaries on the Culture and Arts.  

Best know for his biographical works on Latin American writers and artist, Montes-Bradley as authored the yet most complete biographical research-essay on Julio Cortázar, as well as numerous articles on a wide variety of issues.

His documentary Samba On Your Feet, a study on the origins of Samba traditions in Brazil gained the recognition of the African American Studies departments in campuses across the US. Most recently Evita, a documentary on the life of Eva Duarte and Calzada, a biography on the Cuban-American artist was aired by WPBT Channel 2, PBS. Montes-Bradley was awarded a Silver Condor in 2002 for his documentary film Tells of the Helmsman.

Partial Filmography

Waissman (English) Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Produced by Soledad Liendo. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Argentine artist Andrés Waissman. TV premier November 23, 2010 WPBT Channel 2. The documentary focus on the biographica aspects of Andrés Waissman, from his early days in the late Fifties to the present day in Buenos Aires. 30 min. 16:9 HD

Calzada, (English) Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Cuban-American artist Humberto Calzada. Premiered in Miami on January 7, 2010 at the Tower Theatre, Miami, TV premier January 12, 2010 WPBT Channel 2. Featuring Humberto Calzada, his early life in Havana, Cuba before the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, the first years in exile in Miami, and details on his current life as a highly regarded visual artist in the Caribbean. Original Music by Gerardo Aguillón (violin) and José Angel Navarro (guitar). 30 min. 16:9 HD.

La Raulito: Golpes bajos, (trad. Low Blows). (Spanish) Producer. Argentina. 2009. Documentary on La Raulito, historical character, fan-nascot of Boca Juniors, popular and renowned soccer team of Argentina. First time director Emiliano Serra follows La Raulito during the last days of her life. Screened at Mar del PlataInternational Film Festival, December. 2009. Latin American Selection.

Evita (The Documentary), (English). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2007. A documentary on Eva Duarte, an influential woman in the history of Latin America. Evita, illegitimate child without social or economic standing, was determined to make it big in the world of entertainment. Her love affair with a rising political star (Juan Domingo Peron) transformed her into a vital part of Perón's plans to seduce a nation. The charming Evita became a skilled public speaker that fitted perfectly with politics in Argentina. Just imagine Marilyn Monroe with the charisma of Princess Diana, elevated by Joseph Goebbels´s propaganda machine as the indisputable Spiritual Leader of the Nation. The documentary appears to be fair, perhaps the first biography on the subject that strives to be balanced.

Deira, (Spanish) Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. EMB Entertainment, Corp, USA, 2007. Deira, a biographical documentary on renowned artist Ernesto Deira. Screened during the first retrospective of Deira’s work at the National Art Gallery, MNBA (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes), commemorating twenty years of his death. The film includes 8 mm footage captured by Deira during his visit to Belgium on occasion of a first major exhibition of his work. Deira also features interviews with Olga Galperin and Luis Felipe Noé amongst others.

Che: Rise & Fall, (Spanish w/English Subtitles). Witter, producer, director, editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2006. US released, Nov. 2008 through Westlake Entertainment. CHE: Rise and Fall, follows on the trials and tribulations of Ernesto Guevara in the words of old friends and comrades-in-arms. The film unveils a different Che Guevara, not so divine as the one often portrayed. Marcelo Schapces shot the bulk of this film in Cuba for his own documentary: Che, a man of this world (1998). The purpose of Schapces at the time was to document the moment in which the remains of Che Guevara were being airlifted from Vallegrande, a one horse town in Bolivia, thirty years after his execution, to be flow to Santa Clara, Cuba, his final resting place. The film includes the likeness and words of Dr. Alberto Granados, Che’s motorcycle companion and three surviving members of Guevara’s Iron Guard. The film is divided in three four main chapters: Infancy, Cuba,Congo and Bolivia.

El gran simulador (The Great Pretender), (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Verbum, Argentina, 2006. Released in Uruguay as "No a los papelones". El gran simulador begins with Eduardo Montes-Bradley in a quest to find Nahuel Maciel, a man who fifteen years before fooled everyone pretending to be a Native American from the Mapuche Nation in Patagonia. Disguised as the chief Nahuel sold interviews to Gabriel García Márquez, Umberto Ecco, Mario Vargas Llosa and more to El Cronista Comercial, a major newspaper in Argentina. The literary sham went even farther when Nahuel published a book with a bogus interview to the Colombian Nobel Prize of Literature preceded by a foreword by Uruguayan legend Eduardo Galeano. Eduardo Montes-Bradley finds Nahuel in Gualeguaychú, some 300 miles from Buenos Aires working close to the leadership of a group of environmentalists battling a paper-mill in the Argentina-Uruguay border. The film is witty, provocative and politically incorrect in all possible ways. El gran simulador was banned from theaters in Argentina for its politics (only to be shown at BAFICI, the Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires and later released on DVD) and it was effectively released in Uruguay (across the border) with good B.O. results.

Tango Steps, (English, Japanese, Italian, German, Chinese, Portuguese, French)Witter, producer, director. 33 min. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2006. USA, 2006. Basic instructional video on basic tango steps.

Samba On Your Feet, (Portuguese w/English Subtitles). Producer, Director, Editor. Patagonia Film Group, USA, 2005. This documentary goes behind the scenes of Samba and Carnival's world in Rio de Janeiro to reveal the cultural clash that gave birth to a new tradition in South America. Haroldo Costa (Historian-Actor-Writer), narrates how African slaves' beliefs, mixed with Spanish Catholic traditions and Native influences crafted a remarkable fusion. The film includes interviews with veteran samba performer Xango da Mangueira who recalls the early days of Carnival when he and his fellow performers sang and danced in the streets and were treated like vagrants, harassed and arrested by the police. Mae Helena D'Oxosse, a priestess in the umbanda tradition, incorporates samba in her religious practices and carries on a tradition among her working-class followers that is five hundred years old. Samba On Your Feet has been selected to participate at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival 2008, at the Rio Film Festiva 2006, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2007 and Toronto Latino Film Festival.

From Frankfurt to Humahuaca. (Spanish). Producer. Argentina 2005. Second in the trilogy of documentaries directed by Norberto "Negro" Ramírez and produced by Eduardo Montes-Bradley on the culture of the NorthWest region of Argentina known as la Puna, mainly Jujuy and Salta provinces. From Frankfurt to Humahuaca focuses on the life and works of Jorge Lovisolo, disciple of The Frankfurt School of philosophy, author of numerous essays. The film deals with Lovisolo's obsessions in a sort of self-imposed exile in Salta; his takes on religion within the local communities, the thoughts of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse,Theodore Adorno and others.

Kopla Vera, (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, c.2006. First of a trilogy by director Norberto N. Ramírez on intellectuals residing in the Northwest region of Argentinaknown as la Puna, mainly Jujuy and Salta provinces. Kopla Vera focuses on the life and works of Jesús Ramón Vera, author of numerous verses inspired in the liturgical carnival of Jujuy.

Yo y el tiempo, Producer, Argentina, 2005. Third documentary on Norberto N. Ramírez trilogy on intellectuals. Yo y el tiempo is a documentary on Juan José Botelli, poet.

Ecce Homo, (Spanish) Producer, editor. Argentina, c. 2005. Dir. Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Original Interview by Ana Da Costa from Biblioteca Nacional. The film is based on the las known interview to Juan Filloy.

Las memorias del señor Alzheimer, (Spanish). Producer. Argentina, 2004. Directed by Sergio Belloti. The film has as sole protagonist Jorge "Dipi" Di Paola, adadaist-exentric, writer-poet, an unconventional character of the Buenos Aires underground during the seventies. The film was shot in 2007, shortly before Di Paola´s death in Tandil, some 450 kilometers from the capital of Argentina. In the film, Di Paola, a disciple of Witold Gombrowicz recalls the bygone days when the polish writer and himself shared a small apartment in the city of Buenos Aires and later in Di Paola´s home-town of Tandil.

Una cierta mirada, (Spanish). With Juan José Sebreli, Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 2004. Built as a series of conversations with Juan José Sebreli (philosopher), is perhaps one of the most interesting of the documentaries on writers by Montes-Bradley. Sebreli recalls his entire life in front of camera taking the audience for a ride through timeless Buenos Aires. Sebreli´s extraordinary perception of the surroundings, the arts, the architecture and the music of the city he was born in and he loves is a constant throughout the entire film. In a way, this doc can be watch as a 20th century Tour Guide of Buenos Aires, a sketch on Peronism and yet, more.

Deliciosas perversiones polimorfas, (Spanish). With Alberto Laiseca. Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2002. The director meets Laiseca riding the oldest underground train in Buenos Aires and later at his studio. Laiseca seems an extraordinary mad-man. Some of the main issues discussed on this film are the relationship of the protagonist with his father, life in rural province of Córdoba in the middle of the Pampas, Edgar A. Poe, William Shakespeare and the imminent arrival of the Antichrist.

Testigo del siglo,(Witness Of A Century), (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2003. Montes-Bradley directed under pen name Diana Hunter. Premiered at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI). The documentary is based on the memoirs of Ismael Viñas, legendary political, economist, founder of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MALENA), former undersecretary of cuture during the Revolución Libertadora. Viñas reappears in front of Montes-Bradley´s camera after twenty six years of self imposed exile. first in Israel, then in the US. During a series of interviews conducted in Florida, USA, Viñas reflects on his youth, on his brother David Viñas, on his father, a well political character during the times of Hipólito Yrigoyen, and a Federal Judge inPatagonia during the uprisings portrayed in Rebellion in Patagonia during the early 1920´s. Viñas also recalls his imprisonment during the Peronist period, and with particular emphasis his relationship with Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salvador Allende amongst many other relevant figures of the period. On release, the film caused somewhat of a commotion. It was acclaimed and criticize by extremist elements on the right and particularly on the left where the Ismael Viñas portrayed on the documentary was perceived as a traitor to the Marxist principles he once so strongly embraced.

Pérez Celis, (Spanish) Producer, writer, director. USA 2005. The documentary, a portrait of Pérez Celis, captures the artist at work in his atelier in Little Haiti. Throughout a series of conversations with Celis, Montes-Bradley manages to capture rare moments showing the artist at work. The creative process, the brushes on canvas, the mixing of colors, and the drawing of sketches share time on the screen with the anecdotal, and traces of a political road map followed by Celis from the mid 1940´s to the present.

Le mot Juste, (The Right Word), (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 200? The documentary tracks Héctor Tizón to his hometown of Yala, Jujuy, Argentina in Jujuy, Argentina. In a series of interviews the writer refers to his early childhood and the traumatic experience on living on the edge of two extremely different cultures: the Quechua universe of his native homeland and the Spanish culture of the conquistadores.

Planeta Bizzio, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. Montes-Bradley, hires fresh-out-of-film school Nadina Fushimi to direct, and interview Sergio Bizzio, an offbeat-poet, playwright and novelist.

No matarás, (Thou Shall Not Kill), (Spanish). Writer, producer, director, editor. 2004. Biographical film on Marcelo Birmajer, a Jewish-Argentine writer, frequently at odds with the overwhelming "progressive"-minded cultural aparatik of Buenos Aires. In the film, Birmajer seems lost somewhere between his native Buenos Aires and the Middle East; holding a tight grip on the umbilical cord that his Jewish-mother preserves intact for generations to-come.

La otra orilla, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Luis Gusmán.

Saludablemente en pelotas, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 2003. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Juan Sasturain.

Crónicas Mexicas, Writer, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 200?. Montes-Bradley (as Rita Clavel) teams-up with Martín Caparrós following on the steps ofHernán Cortés from Veracruz, on golf coast of Mexico, to Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire. Caparrós becomes the omnipresent and omnis cient protagonist of this journey through geography and time. His acute sense of irony and wit becomes a permanent fixtures throughout the entire film, provoking the audience into uncharted: the politically incorrect history of Latin America.

La célula fugitiva, (Spanish). A biographical sketch of Argentine journalist-philosopher José Pablo Feinmann. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002. Dir. Mariana Russo.

Desandando el tiempo, (Spanish). Producer, editor. Argentina, 200?. Dir. Valentina Carrasco, pseudonymous of Rodolfo Durán. A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Juan Jacobo Bajarlía.

En el nombre del padre, a biographical sketch of Argentine writer Ana María Shua. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002. Dir. Ma. Andrea Dominguez.

Espléndida decadencia, (Spanish). A biographical sketch of Argentine writer Daniel Guebel. Producer, Editor. Argentina, 2002

Cortázar: apuntes para un documental, Witter, producer, director, editor. Argentina, 2002. The documentary approaches the argument dividing critics over the nature of Cortazar´s political views and perspectives. Includes previously unseen footage of Cortazar shot by the author himself in front of a mirror and other scenes of Cortázar next to his first wife Aurora Bernárde, Octavio Paz, and Carole Dunlop.

Los cuentos del timonel, (Spanish). Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 2001. The documentary deals with Osvaldo Bayer, a controversial political figure and historian. The film was shot on Bayer's residence in Linz am Rhein, Germany, were he spends six months of every year.

Harto The Borges, (Spanish). Documentary on Jorge Luis Borges. Includes rare TV footage with Jorge Luis Borges and María Kodama aired on the occasion of Borge´s 80th birthday. The film also includes interviews with Franco Lucentini, Martín Caparrós and Ariel Dorfman. Harto The Borges was shot in Milan, Rome, Paris, Geneva and Buenos Aires. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Iruña Films, Argentina, 2000.

Soriano (The documentary), (Spanish). This is perhaps the only film ever made on Osvaldo Soriano, an Best-Seller author in Argentina in the 1980´s. At least three of Soriano's best known novels made it to the silver screen. Soriano was shot in Paris, Rome and Buenos Aires following on the footsteps of Osvaldo Soriano into exile in the 1970´s. The film is not a celebration of Soriano but rather a fair and balanced approach to his life through the voice of friends and detractors. With testimonies by Rodrigo Fresán, Juan Forn, Martín Caparrós, Osvaldo Bayer, Eduardo Galeano and more. Writer, Producer, Director, Editor. Argentina, 1998.

Partial Bibliography

Books

Los dedos del huracán. Short story. Children Literature. Included on "De Ola en Ola 3" School Textbook for Third Grade. Group Macmillian. Editorial Estrada S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati. pp. 62-67

Cortázar sin barba. Madrid: Random House Mondadori. 2005. pp. 394 Hard Cover. ISBN 84-8306-603-3. In less that five hundred pages the author exposes the mechanisms used to build Cortázar: the myth, providing at the same time the tools to destroy the myth, or better yet, helping Cortázar back into his more human and trscendent dimension. 

Osvaldo Soriano, un retrato. In Spanish. Grupo Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000. In Italian by Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milan, Italy, 2001, 164pp. Collection: Continente Desaparecido, directed and coordinated by Gianni Minà. Translated from Spanish by Gina Maneri. This book summons a series of interviews in connection with the documentary film on the same subject byEduardo Montes-Bradley. The list of interviewed men and women includes the following names: Ariel Dorfman, Eduardo Galeano, Ana María Shua, Martín Caparrós, Giani Minnà... There are also a few chapters, introduction and epilogue written by Montes-Bradley with a fare amount of footnotes and references.

Journalism

Eduardo Montes-Bradley has contributed with the following: Les cinemas de la Amerique Latine, by the Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse France; Critica de Argentina; La Nación; La Jornada, México, El Amante de cine; the monthly reviewLatinoamérica e Tutto il Sud dell Mondo Rome; the literary magazine Esperando a Godot; the art-magazine Revista Lote, Venado Tuertoand Radar cultural supplement included once a week with Página/12, Buenos Aires. Montes-Bradley is a frequent contributor with "Diario Perfil".

His interventions in the media can be classified as follows: a. In-depth articles on subjects as diverse as the life of Dean Reed in theSoviet Union and the aftermath of the Battleship Potemkin; b. Sudden and brief pieces on current affairs with a particular emphasis in domestic politics in Argentina. One of Montes-Bradley´s bull´s eye of choice appears to be the National Institute of Cinematography (INCAA) a government institution repeatedly denounced for its high levels of corruption, its known arbitrary rules and censorship and the discretionary handling of public resources. c. Letters to the Editor. Probably the most curious form of interventionism. Montes-Bradley has written a substantial number of letters to the editors in the past becoming a regular de facto columnist in sections of newspapers and magazines other wise reserved for the occasional reader.

In-Depth:

One of the most relevant in-depth articles deals with the aftermath of Battleship Potemkin. According to the official story, as narrated by Sergei Eisenstein in hisThe Battleship Potemkin,1925, the ship disappears right in front of the camera after firing twice against the city of Odessa in 1905. Montes-Bradley´s questions the mutiny and the nature and proportion of the bombardment of Odessa as well as the whereabouts of the ship and her crew until the triumph of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The piece refutes Eisenstein's arguments bringing some lite to the years that followed the events of 1905 and to the truth behind the intentions of Eisenstein in his celebrated movie, a work-for-hire commended by the Communist Party long after the facts. The article was published in Página/12, on March 7, 2005. Another article worth reading isEl Elvis Rojo. The Red Elvis is the story of Dean Reed, Colorado-born country singer who became an expatriate in East Geramany in the nineteen seventies after a brief sojourn in Latin America, particularly Chile and Argentina. The story of Reed is surrounded by mystery and false assumptions. It has been said, for instance, that the red cowboy worked for the CIA, that he was a double agent, that he moved was a KGB agent of Propaganda and that he was a womanizer playing a dangerous game that ultimately cost him his own life. The Red Elvis was published for the first time in Spanish in Página/12, on January 27, 2005.

Appearances in other documentaries

Montes-Bradley appeared in Margaux Hemingway from the series E! True Hollywood Story produced by E! Entertainment Television.

As public Speaker/Panelist

Coordinator: "Film and literature". II Seminar on Documentary Film, Gijón, Asturias, Spain. June 1999

Coordinator: "Soriano: A Portrait" and "Harto The Borges". 1999: Hispanic Literature and Film at the End of the Millennium. Florida International University, Department of Modern Languages, November 1999.

Coordinator: II Annual Congress on Hispanic film and Literature. Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Americana, Miami, FL. USA. October 1999

Panelist: next to Donald Shaw y Jared Loewenstein. Screening of "Harto The Borges", fundamentals. The Latin American Studies Program, University of Virginia, November 1999

Director: of the Film Week at Casa de América: Images on Borges / Borges on Film. Casa de América, Madrid, Spain. December 1999.

Conference: The Subject on Film: “The Documentary”. Universite de Toulouse – Le Mirail, Toulouse, France. Film Department and Department of Hispanic Resources.March, 2000

Panelist: "Luis Buñuel Today". Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Americana, Miami,FL. USA. September 2000

Conference: "Las vidas paralelas de Montes-Bradley" Critic Essay by Dr. Pilar Roca. Department of Foreign Languages.

Eduardo Montes-Bradley

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Harto The Borges fue filmado en Milan, Rome, Paris, Geneva y Buenos Aires entre 1998 y 1999. Harto The Borges Borges Incaa La carpeta contiene artículos publicados con relación a las políticas de fomento cinematográfico en Argentina. Los artículos fueron publicados en distintos medios a los largo de casi dos décadas. Incaa Crónica Gorila Han pasado seis meses y la Fernández sigue firme al timón de Titanic: exuberante, alucinada. Esta chica no me gusta. En realidad no me gustan las que llevan a cuestas el apellido de casadas anteponiéndole ese de tan lujurioso. Ya casi no quedan mujeres de. Las minas modernas se perteneces a sí mismas y no traicionan al padre. Lo cierto es que a Fernández le cuesta largar el Kirchner, y como es sabido este último tiene debilidad por la tribu de los Fernández. De viudas y herederos Crónica Gorila Voto en Negro Geoff fue jefe de una cuadrilla de eléctricos y su vida estuvo ligada al poderoso sindicato IBEW (Int´l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers). Hoy pasa las horas viendo televisión en el trailer que instaló en el fondo de su casa para escapar de la plaga de nietos, yernos nueras y consuegros. Con varias pensiones en su haber el hombre se apaña a gusto, aunque por momentos reconoce que la situación es difícil y que ya no puede sacar su barco los domingos para ir de pesca porque el precio del gasoil se ha vuelto prohibitivo. Geoff dice que tampoco va con los amigos a cazar a los pantanos por la misma razón y que ahora le resulta más conveniente comprar patos de criadero y ejercitar su puntería con dardos de salón sobre un blanco descartable. Tags: Voto en Negro Dia del pendex Probablemente esté dormido cuando las galeras entren a imprenta. Los diarios se cocinan de noche, los vuelos a los EE.UU, también. Entre los pocos que amanecen con el de ayer bajo el brazo están los que subieron a un avión en Bs.As. para desayunarse, digamos, en Nueva York. Los kollas aseguran que el alma viaja más despacio que el avión y que se demora en llegar. Me cuesta creerle a los kollas. En principio no tengo suficientes elementos al alcance para verificar la existencia del alma, tampoco su refutación. Los únicos privilegiados son los demagogos Dia del pendex Duck+Cover El cetro simboliza la suma del poder, por ejemplo: el bastón de mando. Pero un bastón no es mucho más un símbolo y por más que se lo apriete, sacuda o esgrima no consigue hacer del príncipe un sapo, de la regente un sujeto de la Constitución y mucho aún doblegar la voluntad de los pueblos en caso de que tal cosa fuera posible. El cetro puede ser grande, corto, ancho, gordo, brillante, liviano o más pesado; con o sin empuñadura de plata y brillantes. Los hay de marfil, jade, carey y hasta de pino de Nueva Guinea. Algunos pueblos de la antigüedad enterraban a sus líderes con cetro y todo lo que permitía suponer el fin de un poder real. Claro que ese no es el caso de las democracias occidentales donde por más que se entierre al sujeto el objeto acaba irremediablemente pasando de manos. Una pelota también puede ser ese objeto, algo así como un bastón que es lo que, precisamente, habrá de pasarle Bush a Obama el próximo 20 de enero en una poco sencilla y seguramente muy emotiva ceremonia. Duck+Cover El ombú es yerba mala En “El Ombú”, Guillermo Enrique Hudson dice: “A veces, a mediodía, encuentro algún pajuerano descansando a la sombra, y si no está durmiendo, platicamos, y él me cuenta ‘e aquel gran mundo que estoh’ ojos jamáh, han visto. Dicen que la casa ande cai la sombra ‘el ombú a la caida’e la tarde, padece desgracias, y que, por último, cai en ruina; y en esa casa, que ya no existe, daba la sombra ‘el ombú a la caida’e la tarde toitos los días del verano. También dicen que los que se sientan mucho a su sombra, se güelven locos.” Notas sobre el ombú El ombu Sarah Palin: Flor de Iglú Alaska tiene una bandera parecida a la de la UE. Es azul con ocho estrellitas, no alineadas en círculo sino reproduciendo un asterismo: La Osa Mayor. En realidad el estandarte de la UE es parecido al de Alaska, siendo que el segundo fue diseñado por un niño de trece años, cuando los primeros comenzaban a coquetear con la idea del circulito blanco y la svástica negra del diseñador austríaco A. Hitler. Apuntes sobre Sarah Palin Sarah Palin David Viñas "Hombres de a caballo" es un artículo publicado en virtud del fallecimiento del escritor David Viñas y de consideraciones en torno al desprecio entre los intelectuales argentinos. David Viñas Un León de generosidad intelectual Algunas reflexiones y artículos en torno a León Rozitchner (1924 - 2011) Tags: rozitchner| filosofia| sociologia| psicoanalisis| uba| argentina| buenos aires| Leon Rozitchner