Columna OpinionGlobal, 25.08.2017 GalileoImpresionante. Uno creería que la Presidenta (Bachelet) sólo esperaría que termine la pesada carga de llevar las riendas de la Nación lo más luego posible. Pero no. Uno creería que con los proyectos que está enviando al Congreso en los últimos meses de su mandato bastaría para que el país se enfrasque en discusiones interminables...
Otro fracaso (olvidado) de la izquierda: África
Columna El Líbero, 24.08.2017 Roberto Ampuero, escritorAyer hubo elecciones en Angola, un país que gobierna desde hace 38 años José Eduardo dos Santos, sucesor de Agostinho Neto, líderes históricos del Movimiento para la Liberación de Angola. El MPLA, fundado para liberar al país del dominio portugués y construir el socialismo, tomó en 1975 al poder y derrotó...
Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Get Rid of African Refugees
Artículo Foreign Policy, 27.06.2017 Andrew Green, periodista independiente
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They were promised asylum somewhere closer to home. Then they were discarded — often in a war zone
El infierno en Sudán del Sur: ‘Matad a las madres. A los niños. Quemadlo todo’
Reportaje El Mundo, 14.05.2017 Alberto Rojas
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Las matanzas y atrocidades se multiplican en la limpieza étnica que arrasa el hambriento Sudán del Sur
Political History of Uganda – Kingdoms and Wars that helped shape Ugandan History
Reportaje Keen History, 22.02.2017 Kim Scholtz[caption id="attachment_46975" align="alignnone" width="384"] Kabaka Palace in Kampala[/caption] From the very start, much of Africa was inaccurately mapped out by European invaders. They proceeded to trade and negotiate tracts of land they had marked out for themselves, with no regard for the numerous chiefdoms and kingdoms...
History of South Africa – Apartheid
Reportaje Keen History, 22.02.2017 Syed Waqas Ali
1948 – 1994 AD
[caption id="attachment_46981" align="alignnone" width="378"] African National Party[/caption] Large scale urbanization and economic growth during the Second World War fueled fears within the white Afrikaner population that the country’s existing racial barriers would collapse. This reinforced support for the severely conservative National Party’s...Why Congo’s Election Tug-of-War Just Got Even More Complicated
Artículo World Politics Review, 07.03.2017 William Clowes, periodista radicial y de prensa en KinshasaSince the Democratic Republic of Congo secured its independence in 1960, its people have become accustomed to living under unstable or dictatorial governments, but they entered 2017 especially unsure of where their country stands. At the...
The Birth of the SAS — How a Paralyzed British Officer Dreamed Up the Elite Commando Unit from a Hospital Bed
Extracto de libro Military History Now, 05.02.2017 Ben Macintyre, historiador británico
“The commandos were intended to be Britain’s storm troops, volunteers selected and trained to carry out destructive raids against Axis targets.”No Allied commando unit in World War Two could match the record...
Tyranny in the 20th Century
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 15.01.2017 Diego Solis (ingeniero comercial-U. Aeronáutica Embry Riddle/geopolítico-U. de Londres) y Stephen Rakowski (master en gobierno-Centro Herzliya de Israel/RRII-U. Franklin de Suiza)[caption id="attachment_43447" align="alignnone" width="442"] Cuba's Fidel Castro (top) and the Congo's Mobutu Sese Seko (bottom) are just two of the many dictators to arise in Latin America...
Uncovering the Brutal Truth about the British Empire
Reportaje The Guardian, 18.08.2016 Marc Parry