14/07/2007 |
La sabiduría de Hong Kong
Álvaro Vargas Llosa | Diario Exterior
El gobierno comunista se conforma sólo con contener, en lugar de aplastar, las aspiraciones de los ciudadanos de Hong Kong. En esta como en otras áreas, el mérito recae sobre la madurez cívica de los habitantes de aquel territorio. ...
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12/07/2007 |
Discriminación y autismo gasolero - El caso de la multa a la empresa Shell
Gustavo Lazzari | Fundación Atlas 1853
El Gobierno de Néstor Kirchner ha impuesto multas a la empresa petrolera Shell acusándola de desabastecer el mercado de combustibles líquidos, específicamente ante la falta de gas oil verificada en algunas estaciones de expendio. ...
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12/07/2007 |
Uruguay- La injusticia de una patente única
Dr. Alberto Scavarelli | Offnews.info
La guerra de las patentes es una guerra entre administraciones con mero afán de recaudación. Como siempre no se considera el derecho del contribuyente, que debiera ser su principal responsabilidad salvaguardar y respetar. ...
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10/07/2007 |
In Brazil, Pan Am Games Gaffe Stirs Anti-American Sentiment
Larry Rohter | NY Times
The Pan American Games do not start until Friday, but the United States delegation has already found itself in a controversy after a phrase that Brazilians considered prejudiced and demeaning appeared on a message board at the American media center here.
The Pan American Games do not start until Friday, but the United States delegation has already found itself in a controversy after a phrase that Brazilians considered prejudiced and demeaning appeared on a message board at the American media center here. ...
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10/07/2007 |
Grassroots Movements Change The Face Of Power In Latin America
Nadia Martinez | Yes Magazine
As the people of Latin America build democracies from the bottom up, the symbols of power are changing. What used to be emblems of poverty and oppression - indigenous clothing and speech, the labels "campesino" and "landless worker" - are increasingly the symbols of new power. ...
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06/07/2007 |
La pelea de Chávez con el Sur
Andrés Oppenheimer | Miami Herald
El presidente narcisista leninista de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, quien hace titulares a diario tratando de provocar un pleito con Estados Unidos, ahora está en las noticias por encontrarse enredado en el mayor enfrentamiento que se recuerde con sus propios vecinos sudamericanos. ...
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04/07/2007 |
Election 2007: Argentina's Electoral Suspense Ends as First Lady/Senator Makes Bid for Presidency
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
President Néstor Kirchner will not bid for a second consecutive term, leaving his almost equally popular wife Senator Cristina Fernández seeking to succeed him to Argentina's top post. ...
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04/07/2007 |
Lynchings raise specter of mob justice in Bolivia
Helen Popper | Reuters
Dolls with nooses around their necks hang from lampposts in the Bolivian city of El Alto, but the grim warning to would-be criminals is no idle threat. ...
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04/07/2007 |
Nicaraguan leaders want more aid from Taiwan
Ralph Jennings | Reuters
Weeks after Costa Rica switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to political rival China, legislators from the neighbouring Central American nation of Nicaragua said they wanted a new package of aid from Taiwan. ...
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04/07/2007 |
Shiv Malik: My Brother the Bomber
Shiv Malik | Prospect Magazine
What turned Mohammad Sidique Khan, a softly spoken youth worker, into the mastermind of 7/7? I spent months in a Leeds suburb getting to know Khan's brother. A complex and disturbing story of the bomber's radicalisation emerged Shiv Malik is a freelance journalist. He is writing a book on British terrorism ...
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