Luis Vilchez Venezuela’s men’s national soccer team spent much of its history in obscurity. Indifference and unfamiliarity were its constant companions throughout the 20th century. Until Richard Páez, the father of the “Vinotinto Boom,” arrived, the team inspired little passion. From that moment on, it became a social phenomenon and a symbol of unity in […]
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Luis Vilchez The clash of ideas has always shaped human history. The early 20th century witnessed World War I—and, decades later, World War II—against a backdrop of ideological and political conflict. Economics has long divided followers of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Psychology has its own rivalry between Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and B.F. Skinner’s […]
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AFP.— Players, officials, and fans observed moments of silence before Friday’s World Cup matches to honor the victims of the deadly earthquakes that struck Venezuela earlier this week. Both the France–Norway and Senegal–Iraq matches—the first two of six games on Friday’s World Cup schedule—began with the tribute. Stadium announcers in Foxborough, near Boston, and Toronto […]
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