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Mozambique’s Invisible Civil War

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 06.05.2016
Tom Bowker, Simon Kamm y Aurelio Sambo
  • The government says everything’s fine. But that’s not what we heard from its victims.
1 On April 28, local and Portuguese news outlets reported the discovery of a mass grave in central Mozambique containing some 120 bodies. A hasty inspection by local...
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Croatia’s Far Right Weaponizes the Past

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 06.05.2016
Paul Hockenos
  • The new government includes an outspoken apologist for the country's World War II-era fascist regime.
Picture1 The European Union’s newest member, Croatia, has an unabashed and strong-willed fascist in its new cabinet — one who makes the right-wingers in power in Hungary and Poland look like wimps....
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The World’s Next Country

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 21.01.2015
Christian Caryl, periodista, columnista y escritor norteamericano
  • The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
1 As you walk around the streets of this city of 500,000, you could be forgiven...
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How the World’s Hardest-Working Dictator Won Re-election

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 05.05.2016
Siobhán O'Grady, periodista norteamericana
1 In 1979, Francisco Macías Nguema was enjoying his 11th year in power as president for life in Equatorial Guinea — a tiny, former Spanish colony in central Africa. All in all, things had been going well for the merciless dictator, who...
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Europa Central: miseria, tragedia y otra vez miseria

Columna
El Confidencial, 04.05.2016
José Zorrilla
  • La mitad derecha del Viejo Continente parece sacudida de nuevo por las viejas enfermedades de antaño. Las causas nunca han sido erradicadas
[caption id="attachment_27117" align="alignnone" width="747"]Veteranos del Ejército Insurgente de Ucrania (UPA) junto a la estatua de su fundador, Stepan Bandera, en Lviv, en mayo de 2010 (Reuters) Leer más

Death and Destruction: Bin Laden’s True Legacy

Análisis
Security Weekly, 05.05.2016
Scott Stewart
Osama bin Laden (© AP file) May 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In the wake of that operation, we noted that while bin Laden's death fulfilled a sense...
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La foto robada que hizo historia

Reportaje
La Nación, 02.05.2016
Héctor D'Amico
  • Un oficial argentino fotografía el hundimiento del crucero General Belgrano y entrega las fotos a su superior. Cómo después esas imágenes fueron primicia del New York Times, cuando aún acá no se conocía la noticia, fue un secreto militar que esta investigación descubre por primera vez
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The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 02.05.2016
Josh Cohen, ex funcionario del Depto. de Estado en la URSS
  • Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
[caption id="attachment_27079" align="alignnone" width="720"]When it comes to politics and history, an accurate memory can be a dangerous thing. Leer más

On the Ground in Syria: Bloodshed, Misery and Hope

Reportaje
The New York Times, 30.04.2016
Declan Walsh
On the edge of Aleppo’s ancient citadel, Zahra and her family squatted in a once-grand apartment, now facing rebel lines. Plastic sheets covered its tall windows to shield the space from a sniper’s view; shelling boomed in the distance. Zahra, 25, who gave just one name, flicked between two photos on...
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Who Is Xi?

Reseña de libros
New York Review of Books, Vol.63 (8) 12.05.2016
Andrew J. Nathan
[caption id="attachment_26866" align="alignnone" width="624"]Xi Jinping Xi Jinping[/caption] More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening...
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