Author: Ernesto Seman

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  Photo: Knepp Timothy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2018. Salmon coho. For Mario Wainfeld I. She says it’s water, that the other day she dreamed of giant men descending streams in canoes shaped like coffins, rushing into a blue estuary. “Were they floating in the estuary?” It’s a dream, she replied, as if that was why the fate of the giants didn’t matter. “Did they fall all the time from the water in the streams?” It’s a dream. They were falling all the time until I woke up, after that I don’t know. She didn’t know if they...

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  Ernesto Semán watched the 1978 World Cup final in a Buenos Aires home with his father, Elías, and his friend, Rubén. Despite the fact that the two men were already spending their days in hiding due to the persecution of the dictatorship, they went out to celebrate in the streets. In mid-August of that year, both were kidnapped. They are still missing. This column is about memory, passion and football.   The celebrations in the streets of Argentina for the 78 World Cup I am writing this in a notebook, sitting in a cafe six blocks from the...

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