La Pistola y El Corazón de Los Lobos

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In English:

The Gun and The Heart
by Los Lobos

I don't know how to tell you
I don't know how to explain
That here there's no remedy
For what I feel
For what I feel

The moon tells me one thing
The stars tell me another
And the light of day sings to me
This ...

El Otro Yo de Mario Benedetti

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The Other Me

by Mario Benedetti

He was a normal boy: his pants were baggy, he read comics, ate noisily, picked his nose, snored during naps, he was called Armando Normal in all except for one thing: he had Other Me.

The Other Me had poetry in his eyes, fell in love with actresses, lied cautiously, ...

Soneto XXX de Garcilaso de la Vega

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En Español:

Soneto XXX

de Garcilaso de la Vega

Sospechas, que en mi triste fantasía
puestas, hacéis la guerra a mi sentido,
volviendo y revolviendo el afligido
pecho, con dura mano noche y día;

ya se acabó la resistencia mía
y la fuerza del alma; ya rendido
vencer de vos me dejo, arrepentido
de haberos contrastado ...

¿Vale la pena estudiar? (2) Datos básicos

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Is studying worth it? (2) Basic facts

by Samuel Bentolila

Apparently, many youths in this country think that “studying is a scam”, according to an article in El Confidencial. True or not, if young people believe it, we would be facing a serious problem. So, today I address once again last week’s question answered by Florentino ...

Medicare I

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Medicare I

by Juan Rubio-Ramírez on 1 October 2010

One of the most important consequences of the recent crisis is that markets and rating agencies have shown themselves to be very sensitive to public deficits of western economies. Spanish debt has been downgraded from its highest rating and the same thing has happened with many economies ...