Entrevista [Henrique Capriles, ex candidato presidencial venezolano] La Tercera, 01.12.2015 Fernando Fuentes
- En esta entrevista con La Tercera, Capriles plantea que después del domingo, Maduro deberá reconocer sus errores.
Big Polluters, Pay Up
Opinión Project-Syndicate, 21.10.2015 Stephen Leonard, presidente del Climate Justice Program (Australia)Earlier this year in Myanmar, torrential rain caused mudslides that wiped out hundreds of houses and caused large-scale crop destruction. More than 1.3 million people were affected, and over 100 died. In Vietnam, the same deluges caused toxic slurry pits from coal mines to overflow and run...
Europe’s Challenge: Strangers in Strange Lands
Editorial The Economist, 12.09.2015The world’s institutional approach to refugees was born in Europe seven decades ago. The continent must relearn its lessonsIN 1951 a group of diplomats in Geneva committed their countries to absorbing huge numbers of refugees from a region plagued by ethnic hatred, fanatical ideologies, and seemingly interminable war: Europe. The second world war...
Ukraine’s Turmoil Is a Gift for the Last Dictator of Europe
Artículo Foreign Policy, 16.10.2015 Amy MacKinnon, periodista independiente escocesaThe wily president of Belarus is secure at home and newly prominent abroad. Here's how he exploited Ukraine's revolution. [caption id="attachment_15519" align="alignnone" width="3272"]
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What Happened to Brazil?
Columna Foreign Policy Observer, 23.09.2015 John Feffer, autor y director de Foreign Policy ObserverLatin America's largest country once looked ascendant. Now it's been laid low by widespread violence, structural racism, endemic corruption, and external economic shocks.In the 2014 World Cup, Germany not only ousted Brazil from the semi-finals. It gave the legendary team a drubbing, 7 goals...
What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?
Artículo The Guardian, 17.09.2015 Chris McGreal, escritor seniorFrom Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmetsRwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
The Crisis of our Crises
Opinión Project-Syndicate, 07.09.2015 Jeremy Adelman, director del Global History Lab en la U. de PrincetonAt first glance, today’s major international crises seem to have little in common. Some, such as Greece’s debt drama, are economic disasters; others, like Syria’s implosion, are characterized by brutality and political chaos; and still others, most notably Ukraine’s predicament, fall somewhere in...
Crisis de refugiados sirios
Carta La Tercera, 28.08.2015 Fernando Orrego Vicuña¿Cómo no compadecerse al ver a los miles de refugiados de Siria e Irak en Grecia, Macedonia y otros lugares de Europa?¿Y los centenares de ahogados en el Mediterráneo? ¿Y los 300 mil muertos en la guerra civil en Siria?¿Y los más de tres millones de refugiados en Jordania, Turquía o...
El dracma griego
Columna Pulso, 09.07.2015 Iván Cachanosky, investigador económico Fundación para el Progreso (FPP)Es importante destacar que el problema de la moneda en Grecia es secundario. Euro o no euro, si no hay austeridad fiscal continuarán los problemas económicos. Bancos sin operar, límites de extracción en los cajeros con un límite a €60 diarios, salarios que solo pueden pagarse por...