Archivos de Categoría: Guerra Civil

Eighty years on, Spain may at last be able to confront the ghosts of civil war

Reportaje
The Guardian, 29.05.2016
Julian Coman
  • The conflict between Republicans and Nationalists that erupted in 1936 was distorted by Franco and largely neglected by later governments. Now a campaign is under way to open the first international museum telling all sides of the story
On a sunny morning earlier this month, a small group gathered at the entrance to...
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North Korea (5): The Cost of Intervention

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 27.05.2016
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Summary

What North Korea lacks in sophistication it makes up for in guile. Its answer to any attack would go beyond conventional means to include its experienced commando force, cyberwarfare capability and submarine force, at the very least. Though North Korea has chemical weapons,...
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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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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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Crisis de Ucrania: los origenes del caos

Reportaje
Jot Down, marzo 2015
E.J. Rodríguez
[caption id="attachment_25902" align="alignnone" width="1094"]Soldado de las fuerzas separatistas en Donetsk, este de Ucrania (foto: Corbis) Soldado de las fuerzas separatistas en Donetsk, este de Ucrania (foto: Corbis)[/caption]

El laberinto ucraniano

«Si crees que has entendido la mecánica cuántica, es que realmente no entiendes la mecánica...
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Siria o la manera de destruir un Estado

Columna
El Líbero, 26.03.2016
Juan Salazar Sparks, cientista político, embajador (r) y director ejecutivo de CEPERI
En marzo del 2011 se iniciaron las primeras protestas contra el gobierno del Bashar al-Asad en la localidad sureña de Deraa (Siria), que fueron reprimidas sangrientamente y originaron un levantamiento popular. Al cabo de cinco años, la guerra civil ha evolucionado hacia...
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Bashar Asad, el monstruo sin dictadura

Opinión
El Mundo, 12.03.2016
Rosa Meneses
  • Occidente pensaba que era un cadáver andante desde que estalló la guerra, pero ha logrado evitar la suerte de Ben Ali, Mubarak o Gadafi
[caption id="attachment_23761" align="alignright" width="328"](Ulises) (Ulises)[/caption] Si Siria fuera ese país sin nombre que el gran Abderrahman Munif describe en su novela...
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In Chechnya, an Unmovable Leader Moves On

Análisis
Geopolitical Diary, 01.03.2016
Just when a clear picture of the Kremlin seems to emerge, something happens to shake it up again. Over the weekend, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he would not seek re-election this year. He refused to name a successor and added that he was leaving politics altogether, not seeking a federal position as...
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