An invitation to return to what truly matters: when December steps away from consumerism and regains its power to heal, unite, and remind us. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – We enter this month with hope shining in our eyes, trying to illuminate our hearts. In my article “The Echo Behind the Lights,” I show how the market turns this…
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A journey to the hidden heart of violence: where absences speak louder than gunshots. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – The history of social conflicts is as old as humanity itself. In every era we have tried to understand them, repress them, suppress them, negotiate them, sometimes endure them or simply ignore them. Society is a living being created by…
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In a world that sways between the noise of the present and the shadows of the past, commemorating becomes an act of ethical resistance: a living reminder that peace is not inherited, it is built, and that each gesture —a flower, a name, a silence— sustains the fragile promise of a more humane future. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes –…
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How the media transform the Christmas season into an emotional pedagogy—and what we can still salvage from its radiance. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – Everything shines: shop windows are filled, perfect families show their faces in the streets, hugs look straight out of a catalogue, the same movies and songs are repeated, and the trees do not lose a…
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We live amid a saturation of perfect images and indifference to the pain of others. In a world where violence disguises itself as normality and well-being becomes a simulation, true resistance can be as simple —and as difficult— as learning to feel again. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes — In times when the growing threat of war wavers like a…
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Between fragility and hope: when love becomes the force that defies cancer. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – Within the body, a garden blooms — delicate flowers, beautiful even in their fragility. Where life once overflowed, now dwells a silent battle: that faceless visitor spreading like an endless winter. The skin remembers every touch, every scar that tells a story…
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Between celebration and memory: October 12 as a mirror of our shared history. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – Every October 12, Spain and much of Latin America commemorate what has traditionally been known as “Hispanic Day” or “Day of the Race”. This date recalls the historical encounter between cultures that took place in 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived on…
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Between algorithms and consciousness, an urgent invitation to regain control of human thinking in the face of accelerating automation. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – I received a comment on last week’s article in which someone spoke to me about the importance of critical thinking and how it serves as a defense against the obsolescence of thought imposed by today’s…
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When technology accelerates life to the point of vertigo, critical thinking becomes the only refuge against noise and immediacy. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – Human beings feel that reality moves too fast for our capacity to assimilate it. Probably, in every era, people have experienced life slipping through their hands and reality transforming before they could fully grasp it.…
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Between the artist’s unique imprint and the infinite circulation of its reflections, art reinvents itself with every gaze. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – Is reproduction a threat to the authenticity of the work, or could it become a way of bringing art closer to more people? This question has challenged us throughout time and has sparked intense debates around…
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