The tentacles of power include the Italian boot Berlusconi whole and across borders. The concentration of power in one hand is something that goes against the most basic principles of democracy. Now we will see one of the consequences of the absence of plurality. Einaudi is an Italian publisher and Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, is the owner. The publisher did not publish the last work of Nobel Portuguese The Notebook, for criticizing the Italian Prime Minister a'll Cavaliere. " Saramago said no one has asked him to delete any passage about Berlusconi and said that after living censorship during the Portuguese dictatorship achieved no "to amputate one's own work." The Nobel Prize concluded that "it must be hard to live when political power and business meet. I do not envy the fate of the Italians, but in the end is in the will of the voters to maintain this status quo or change it. " The Notebook, which has just been published in English (Alfaguara) and Portuguese (Caminho), contains reflections that Saramago has posted on his blog http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/ . Every day should remind us that democracy is a starting point and not a point of arrival. Watch out for the puppets.
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