Opinión Chile B, 25.03.2014 Enrique Subercaseaux, ex diplomático chileno y gestor cultural“Una sociedad en que cada individuo pinta su imagen y la adora”.“Una sociedad en la que los niños sean verdugos, para que ningún adulto se manche las manos de sangre”.“Una sociedad en la que no hay mierda: todo se diluye en sus cuerpos. Son gentes sin...
Turkey in Danger
Artículo Voltaire Network, 30.07.2015 Thierry Meyssan, intelectual especializado en Relaciones Internacionales y fundador de Voltaire NetworkWhile the Western Press salutes the authorisation given by Turkey to the United States, allowing the US to use its military bases in order to fight Daesh, Thierry Meyssan looks at the nation’s internal tensions. In his view, maintaining Mr. Erdoğan in...
Laudato si’: Well Intencioned, Economically Flawed
Artículo The American Spectator, 19.06.2015 Samuel GreggMost distressing perhaps is Pope Francis’ deeply negative view of free markets.In the lead-up to the release of Pope Francis’ new encyclical Laudato Si’, most commentary focused on its likely-implications for the world’s climate change debate. An effort to influence that discussion—much of which has, like Al Gore, long since faded from...
Scraping the Barrel: Will Ecuador Turn Into Latin America’s Greece?
Editorial The Economist, 01.08.2015Visitors arriving at Quito’s new airport are swept to Ecuador’s capital, 35km (22 miles) away, along a brand new six-lane motorway. Together with new hospitals, schools, social housing and benefits and student grants, the vastly improved road network is the work of President Rafael Correa’s “Citizens’ Revolution”. With his melange of technocratic modernisation...
Alemania necesita más debate interno
Opinión El País, 30.07.2015 Timothy Garton Ash, profesor de Estudios Europeos (Universidad de Oxford)La principal potencia europea se mueve con un consenso político y social excesivo sobre la eurozona. La posición del ministro Wolfgang Schäuble, una de las voces alemanas más europeístas, resulta preocupantePensar en Alemania no me quita el sueño. Pero, tras la reciente reafirmación de...
A Partnership with China to Avoid World War
Artículo The New York Review of Books, Vol.62 (12) 2015 George SorosInternational cooperation is in decline both in the political and financial spheres. The UN has failed to address any of the major conflicts since the end of the cold war; the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference left a sour aftertaste; the World Trade Organization hasn’t concluded...
China’s Global Ambitions, With Loans and Strings Attached
Reportaje The New York Times, 24.07.2015 Clifford Krauss y Keith BradsherThe country has invested billions in Ecuador and elsewhere, using its economic clout to win diplomatic allies and secure natural resources around the world.Where the Andean foothills dip into the Amazon jungle, nearly 1,000 Chinese engineers and workers have been pouring concrete for a dam and a...
L’Allemagne, puissance sans désir: Une hégémonie fortuite
Opinión Le Monde Diplomatique, mayo 2015 Wolfgang Streeck, director Instituto Max Planck para el Estudio de las SociedadesAprès guerre, la République fédérale d’Allemagne n’a jamais nourri le projet de régir l’Europe. Tous ses responsables politiques, de quelque bord qu’ils soient, pensaient que leur pays avait un problème fondamental vis-à-vis de ses voisins : il était trop grand pour...
Lecciones de la crisis griega
Columna Pulso, 21.07.2015 Mauricio Rojas, senior fellow Fundación para el Progreso (FPP)El deterioro de la situación de Grecia evidencia que los populismos no surgen de improviso y que tienen múltiples responsables.Los líderes populistas de derecha y de izquierda hicieron coro en Europa y América Latina para celebrar la victoria del “No” en el plebiscito griego del 5...
The Risks and Rewards of SCO Expansion
Análisis Council on Foreign Relations, 08.07.2015 William PiekosOn July 9–10, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will hold its fifteenth summit in Ufa, Russia. At this meeting, the regional grouping—composed of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—will start the process of expansion for the first time with the inclusion of India and Pakistan. An expanded membership will...