28/03/2007 |
Hugo Chávez: De presidente electo a dictador
Gustavo Coronel | El Cato
“Este país caerá infaliblemente en manos de tiranuelos casi imperceptibles, de todos los colores y razas”….
—Simón Bolívar. ...
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28/03/2007 |
The Price of Palestinianism
P. David Hornik | Front Page Magazine
"It is impossible to ignore the fact that the chairman of the PA blatantly breached commitments that he gave Israel, especially the commitment that a national unity government would not be established before Gilad Shalit was released,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet on Sunday. ...
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28/03/2007 |
Birmania capital: Ciudad Real
Rafael Poch | La Vanguardia
Siendo una dictadura que ha practicado una implacable guerra de contrainsurgencia durante medio siglo, Birmania no es un Estado policial. Aquí no se siente la inconfundible vigilancia generalizada, ni ese ambiente de sospecha y delación tan familiar en los antiguos regímenes comunistoides. ...
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28/03/2007 |
Canadá - Rechazo al independentismo en Quebec: Los soberanistas, terceros en la votación, obtienen el peor resultado de su historia
Eusebio Val | La Vanguardia
Los independentistas de Quebec sufrieron un revolcón electoral el lunes y vieron alejarse la posibilidad de que la provincia francófona pueda separarse un día del resto de Canadá. El Partido Quebequés (PQ), con sólo el 28% de sufragios, quedó en tercer lugar en los comicios regionales, el peor resultado desde que concurrió por primera vez a las urnas, en 1970. ...
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28/03/2007 |
FARC rebels: U.S. can help with hostage talks
Reuters Staff | CNN
Story Highlights
• Seven U.S. lawmakers write a letter offering to aid hostage negotiations
• Colombia, FARC welcome U.S. involvement; no terms yet on talks
• Colombia wants to exchange unspecified number of rebels for 61 hostages
• Rep. James McGovern of Massachusetts is leading offer to help with talks
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28/03/2007 |
FPIF Commentary: China's Filthiest Export
Jennifer L. Turner and Juli S. Kim | American Diplomacy
The authors point up and analyze a little-remarked byproduct of China’s remarkable industrial advances of recent times – industrial pollution. To set the burgeoning problem in perspective, China within two years evidently will surpass even the United States in the emission of greenhouse gases. The authors point up the necessity for increased cooperation between the two nations in meeting the looming difficulty.—Ed. ...
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28/03/2007 |
Into Africa: China's Quest for Resources and Influence
Jacques deLisle | American Diplomacy
Not many of us link China and Africa in conceptual terms or when discussing or pondering policy questions. The author of this essay raises related issues that clearly call for thought. He makes a case for the PRC's initiatives on the African continent ranking high on the West's list of concerns. —Ed. ...
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28/03/2007 |
Saudi Monarch Revives Middle East Peace Plan at Arab Heads of State Summit
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
Arab heads of state are today expected to resuscitate King Abdullah’s Middle East peace initiative at the 19th annual Arab League summit in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. ...
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27/03/2007 |
Waiting for Freedom, Messing It Up (East Europe)
Adam Michnik | NY Times
For many years, the term Central Europe was missing from the American vocabulary. A simple expression was used instead: the Soviet Bloc. ...
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27/03/2007 |
Mindful of Past, Clinton Cultivates the Military
Patrick Healy | NY Times
Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as more frustrating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers say. ...
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