{"id":599,"date":"2006-12-26T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=599"},"modified":"2006-12-26T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T14:40:32","slug":"lucas-morando-and-the-opinionated-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Morando And The Opinionated Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I was interviewed by Lucas Morando, of Perfil, the second largest Sunday Paper in Argentina. Yesterday the interview came out in print. I can\u00b4t link to it cause it\u00b4s not on line.Unfortunately, Lucas Morando is one of those poor journalists who uses interviews to justify his opinion. In this case that Educ.ar<\/a>, a program started by my foundation<\/a> in 2000, is a failure. <\/p>\n

Lucas Morando\u00b4s technique is simple. Conduct a one hour interview and then use only a few random phrases from the whole interivew to justify your (incorrect) view. Of course, anything in life can be seen as a success or a failure, but Lucas Morando\u00b4s view is just not sustainable. <\/p>\n

What was clearly a donation of mine, in which I donated $11.2 million dollars to the Argentine Education Ministry to create the education portal and raised around $100 million more from many sources to connect Argentine schools to the interne,t Lucas calls a loss and compares it to a true business loss I had when I lent $6 million to a defunkt Argentine airline called Southern Winds and lost half of that money. <\/p>\n

Well Lucas, donations are not losses. Donations are actually made knowing that you will “lose” the funds, but personally I think that Educ.ar is the best investment I could have ever done for the future of my country, Argentina. This year alone millions of student used Educ.ar, 11,000 teachers were trained, half a million educational CDs were destributed to teachers around the country and 65,000 computers were installed. Hardly a loss….<\/p>\n

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