A Rhapsode's journal

  Nowadays countries are split between developed and developing countries based on their economic performance. We have as an example United States, Colombia and Haiti. Being the North American country, the developed and the Latin America and Caribbean ones the developing countries. An accurate indicator to see the divergence between these three countries is the GDP per Capita. This is an indicator that allows us to compare the overall economic performance of the countries. First, we have United States which has a GDP per capita average for the 21 st Century of 2,9%. Having a cipher of 44.726 USD for the 2000 and 54.579 USD for 2018. Second, Colombia with an average growth of 6%, which is higher than the US, but the numbers are much lower. In 2000, Colombia had a GDP per capita of 4.857 USD and for 2018 was 7,691 USD. Finally, Haiti had an average growth of 3,8%. However, Haitian GDP per capita for 2000 was 467 USD and 868 for 2018 (World Bank, 2020). These indexes can give a persp...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-explained_2 Israel police officers throwing stun grenades and flashbangs to Palestinian civilians. 71 dead, which 65 were Palestinian. Another internal crisis that has shaken the news worldwide. First Colombia, not a month after, Israel and Palestine crisis reactivates again. This crisis has not been over or ease since it started. I label it as a coin conflict because is a conflict for territoy in which it is one or the other to be a winner, but not both. A fixed pie, a Paretho's Optimum. This has been latent since the creation of the Islam religion. Jews has been always around the world but have had a place that they feel they have the property, a place that are proud to call it home, and the origin of thousands of wars. Jerusalem.   I will make a little reminder of everything around Jerusalem and why it is important for Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam. All three have in common that main prophets have passed through ...

Sympathy, the word that has been in the mouth of all Colombians these last few days. Privilege, the condition that makes someone blind to the suffering of others since it has its world unaltered. These are the two words that I most see in social media nowadays and the sentence with these two words is the following: “Do not let privilege blinds your sympathy.” https://www.pulzo.com/nacion/carteles-paro-nacional-21-noviembre-PP803351 Sympathy with those who have been injured, suffered, or killed during the riots and protests these 2 last weeks in Colombia. For those who are knew to the problem, let´s recap shall we? 3 weeks ago, the government announced that a new tax reform was about to be released in a few days. A tax reform that is necessary since, the government has done a lot of spending in trying to soften the shock of the crisis and buying essential medical stuff to attend to the sanitary and health crisis. According to IMF, Colombia spent 4,1% of its GDP in measures to ...