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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27/03/2007 |
México - Menos soldados, mejores policías
Jorge Luis Sierra | El Universal
Convertir a 10 mil soldados en miembros de la Policía Federal Preventiva, como lo ha ordenado el presidente Felipe Calderón, será una de las tareas más difíciles para las Fuerzas Armadas en la primera parte de este sexenio. Evitar su deserción será aún más difícil. ...
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26/03/2007 |
Bolivia - Erosión del MAS
José Gramunt de Moragas, S.J. | La Razón (Bo)
¿Por qué hay partidos en la cambiante historia de Bolivia, que han perdurado muchos años, aunque con altibajos vertiginosos y, en cambio, el MAS, apenas salido de la adolescencia, ya da señales de disolución? ...
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26/03/2007 |
Atardecer birmano
Rafael Poch | La Vanguardia
El 'reino dorado' de Asia se plantea un acuerdo nacional con los militares para preservar la sociedad tradicional y desarrollar la educación y la sanidad. ...
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