Archivos de Categoría: Gran Bretaña

Will Brexit reopen old wounds with a new hard border in Northern Ireland?

Reportaje
The Observer, 23.04.2017
Sean O'Hagan
  • Our writer, who grew up in County Armagh, travels the the Irish borderland and talks to those who live there
The motorway from Dublin to Belfast crosses the Irish border just south of the town of Newry. The only clue that you have moved from one country and jurisdiction to another is...
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Theresa May’s vision for Britain comes into focus

Editorial
The Economist, 19.04.2017
  • The cautious, promise-keeping plodder turns out to be no such thing
Before her bolt-from-the-blue announcement that she was calling a general election, most Britons had Theresa May down as an honest plodder: a safe pair of hands who kept her promises and did her homework....
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America’s First World War

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 06.04.2017
[caption id="attachment_47819" align="alignnone" width="442"] An English girl shakes the hand of an American solider as U.S. troops march through London on their way to France, Aug. 15, 1917. Just months before, Washington had declared war on Germany. (A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)[/caption]  

Analysis

As winter ended...
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The Temptation of Theresa May

Columna
Project-Syndicate, 31.03.2017
Robert Harvey, ex miembro del Comité de RRI de la Cámara de los Comunes
The three great Theresas in history are all saints. The most recent to be canonized was Mother Teresa, a tireless charity worker and controversial campaigner for the poor; the first was Teresa of Ávila, one of the Catholic Church’s most dynamic...
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Fallece Martin McGuinness, figura clave del proceso de paz en Irlanda del Norte

Reportaje
La Tercera, 21.03.2017
Redacción (EFE)
  • El histórico dirigente de Sinn Féin, junto a Gerry Adams lograron la firma del acuerdo del Viernes Santo en 1998 y la formación de un gobierno de poder compartido entre protestantes y católicos
[caption id="attachment_46740" align="alignnone" width="400"] EFE[/caption] El nacionalismo radical irlandés perdió hoy a una de...
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Do your homework

Reseña de libro
London Review of Books, Vol. 39 (6) 16.03.2017
David Runciman, profesor de Política (U. de Cambridge)
  • Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince Biteback, 402 pp.
This is a dry and dutiful book which reads like a ghost story. The person being haunted is David Cameron. Theresa May grew up in a Cotswolds village called Church Enstone, where...
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Churchill en ‘The Crown’: un político fuera de serie

Blog
La Tercera, 26.02.2017
Héctor Soto, abogado y periodista
Es efectivo -como se ve en la serie The Crown– que al momento de retirarse de la política, las facultades físicas y mentales de Churchill estaban declinando. Ya había tenido dos accidentes cerebrovasculares. Si bien logró reponerse, finalmente tuvo que aceptar a...
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The Casablanca Conference – Unconditional Surrender

Artículo
The National Archive, 10.01.2017
Paul M. Sparrow, director
In January, 1943, President Roosevelt embarked on a secret mission that would determine the course of World War Two, and ultimately the world we live in today. His destination – Casablanca, Morocco. His goal – to finalize Allied military plans with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. It was a...
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