22/01/2006 |
Annual Forecast 2006: The Year of Great and Near -Great Powers -- Part I
Stratfor Staff | Stratfor
The year 2005 was forecast as the year when "Other Things Start to Matter." What we meant by that was that it would be the year in which other things, aside from the U.S.-jihadist war, would shape the international system. The rebirth of Russian assertiveness and increased Chinese nationalism certainly showed us that other things were starting to matter. We will name 2006 "The Year of Great and Near-Great Powers." ...
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22/01/2006 |
Split Loyalties: The Evolution of U.S.-Latin American Relations
WMRC Staff | WMRC
The year 2006 will see few changes in the economic priorities of U.S. president George W. Bush as far as Latin America is concerned, despite some notable setbacks in 2005. Latin American-U.S. relations have been very much focused on trade in the last year, reflecting Bush's aspirations to close a range of ambitious deals. Another perennial issue in north-south relations is the war on drugs, where controversial U.S. policies are unlikely to shift. Relations with the region will essentially hinge on two key factors. The first is the outcome of a raft of elections, many of which may produce leftist governments with anti-U.S. tendencies, and the second the approach adopted by the new U.S. chief envoy to the region. In essence, 2006 will see the consolidation of trends that emerged in 2005, with a fragmentation of the hemisphere around free trade issues and the relative distancing from the United States of regional powers such as Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Brazil and Argentina are set to continue hopping between the antagonistic administrations of Venezuela in Caracas and the United States in Washington, without alienating either of them. Leaving aside Washington's commercial ambitions in the Americas, Southern Cone countries will press for South American integration, while U.S.-Central America relations will be fortified with the advent of a regional trade deal. The two divergent dynamics reveal split loyalties vis-à-vis the superpower, amid a rising Latin American suspicion of the role of the United States in the region. ...
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21/01/2006 |
Falta de desarrollo y violencia: combinación letal - PDF
Mariano Aguirre | FRIDE
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20/01/2006 |
Assunto: Declaração Conjunta - Encontro dos Presidentes Lula, Kirchner e Chávez - Brasília, 19 de janeiro de 2005
De Nuestra Redacción | Offnews.info
Para aprofundar o diálogo político trilateral, os Presidentes da Nação Argentina, Néstor Kirchner, da República Bolivariana da Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, e da República Federativa do Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, mantiveram novo encontro presidencial, em Brasília, no dia 19 de janeiro de 2006. ...
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20/01/2006 |
Panorama Político y Económico de Argentina
BL Asuntos Públicos Y Parlamentarios Staff | BL Asuntos Públicos y Parlamentarios
Más tranquilidad para Felisa Miceli por la evolución de los precios. En enero el incremento sería de nuevo 1,2%. No está mal si se lo comprara con el 1,5% de enero de 2005 pero lo concreto es que se va a una inflación anual de 12%. ...
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20/01/2006 |
Kirchner, Rosas y Perón
Carlos Alvarez | CADAL
Uruguay está siendo objeto en estos días de una de las mayores agresiones que haya recibido de un país extranjero a lo largo de su vida independiente. Y como en tiempos de Rosas o de Perón esa agresión proviene de la Argentina. ...
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19/01/2006 |
«Ben Laden era tímido y se convirtió en un ser vanidoso. Trató de reclutarme para su causa»
Macarena Gutiérrez | La Razón
Robert Fisk lleva más de 30 años cubriendo cada rincón de Oriente Medio. ...
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19/01/2006 |
La guerra nuclear no es imposible
Darío Valcarcel | ABC
A veces las situaciones endemoniadas son, además, particularmente movedizas. Los asuntos difíciles crean interminables matices. En el caso del presidente George W. Bush, su norte en 2002 era invadir Irak. ...
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19/01/2006 |
The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented
Niall Ferguson | Telegraph
Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East: ...
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15/01/2006 |
Días perros - Crónica de un viernes 13
De Nuestra Redacción | Offnews.info
"Que en un día cualquiera –como en definitiva son todos- México y la Argentina vivan espirales de crimen y violencia como las del pasado viernes 13 nos provocan diversas reflexiones, a partir del sencillo ejercicio de comparar y distinguir." ...
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