November 2009
25 posts
NYT: Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India...
BARSUR, India — At the edge of the Indravati River, hundreds of miles from the nearest international border, India effectively ends. Indian paramilitary officers point machine guns across the water. The dense jungles and mountains on the other side belong to Maoist rebels dedicated to overthrowing the government. “That is their liberated zone,” said P. Bhojak, one of the officers stationed at the...
October 2009
52 posts
El País: Violenta protesta sandinista contra EE UU
La tensión volvió a las calles de Managua, esta vez por unas declaraciones del embajador estadounidense en Nicaragua, que levantaron ampollas en el Gobierno que encabeza Daniel Ortega. El embajador Robert Callahan criticó un fallo emitido la semana pasada por la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Nicaragua, que dio vía libre a la posibilidad de reelección de Ortega en las elecciones previstas para 2011....
Bancos elevam juros cobrados ao consumidor após 10...
A possibilidade de o Banco Central (BC) elevar a taxa básica de juros (Selic) em 2010 já começa a se refletir no bolso do consumidor. Divulgado ontem pelo BC, um levantamento preliminar referente aos primeiros dias de outubro revela que os bancos estão pagando mais para obter dinheiro no mercado e passaram a cobrar mais dos clientes. É a primeira vez em dez meses que a taxa sobe. Ao mesmo tempo,...
NYT: "Don't Build Up"
It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here’s my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies, the domestic support, the financial resources or the national interests to justify an enlarged and prolonged nation-building effort in Afghanistan. Continua…
El País: "Alcorconazo"
Hay partidos que invitan a reflexiones esenciales. ¿Qué es el fútbol? ¿Qué significa jugar bien? ¿Cuándo estamos ante un gran equipo? ¿Qué es el poder? En ese viaje traumático a las profundidades del Sur suburbano, el Madrid se descubrió a sí mismo y lo que encontró no le gustó nada. El equipo que le expuso a sus miserias fue el Alcorcón, un grupo armadito y alegre que salió a divertirse....
NYT: German Limits on War Face Afghan Reality
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Forced to confront the rising insurgency in once peaceful northern Afghanistan, the German Army is engaged in sustained and bloody ground combat for the first time since World War II. Soldiers near the northern city of Kunduz have had to strike back against an increasingly fierce campaign by Taliban insurgents, while carrying the burden of being among the first units to break...
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Obama: "Decidle a Raúl que si él no da pasos...
-“¿Cómo ves la situación de América Latina?
-Desde mi punto de vista, la situación de la región gira en torno a dos ideas principales. Primero, está resistiendo la actual crisis económica mejor que en ocasiones anteriores y mejor que otras zonas del mundo. Segundo, con la excepción de Honduras, los demás países disfrutan de un periodo de estabilidad política, con la consolidación de...
El País: La CIA entró en la familia Castro -...
Juanita Castro siempre fue la hermana díscola y contraria a sus hermanos Fidel y Raúl. Exiliada en México en 1964, pasó después a Miami, donde hasta hace dos años tuvo una farmacia. Hoy se ponen a la venta sus memorias tituladas “Fidel y Raúl, mis hermanos. La historia secreta”, publicadas por la editorial Santillana. Ayer, en la cadena Univisión, reveló lo que se venía anunciando...
Xinhua: DPRK makes reconciliatory move toward S...
PYONGYANG, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has sent a series of tension-easing and reconciliation-seeking signals toward South Korea over the past months, which helped alleviate tensions between the two countries. Both sides were in great disputes since South Korean President Lee Myung Bak took office last year. The Korean peninsula had been...
NYT: Michael Moore Irks Supporters of Chávez
CARACAS, Venezuela — Michael Moore, the filmmaker who is a bête noire of conservatives in the United States, now appears to have made some enemies among the leftist supporters of President Hugo Chávez. During a recent appearance on ABC’s late-night program “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Mr. Moore gave an account — apparently tongue in cheek — of how he drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Mr. Chávez at...
NYT: A Place Where Cancer Is the Norm
HOUSTON — M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has a mission statement, and everyone who works there, from the president to the cleaning crews, can state it like a catechism: to “eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation and the world.” For the nearly 90,000 patients who will go to the center in Houston this year, that mission cannot be fulfilled soon enough. They and their families arrive at the world’s...
NYT: Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy
WASHINGTON — The bad economy is good for President Obama and Democrats as they try to reinvent the health care system with scant Republican support. That is the conclusion of many Congressional Democrats, who say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans. Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of...
NYT: Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt
MAISONCELLE, France — The heavy clay-laced mud behind the cattle pen on Antoine Renault’s farm looks as treacherous as it must have been nearly 600 years ago, when King Henry V rode from a spot near here to lead a sodden and exhausted English Army against a French force that was said to outnumber his by as much as five to one. No one can ever take away the shocking victory by Henry and his “band...
NYT: NATO Defense Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan...
BRATISLAVA — NATO defense ministers gave their broad endorsement Friday to the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan laid out by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments to commit more military and civilian resources for the mission to succeed. Continua…
Reuters: Iran fails to endorse U.N. nuclear deal
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran declined on Friday to endorse proposals by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to help reduce Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium. It said it was awaiting a “positive and constructive” response from world powers to its proposal on providing nuclear fuel for a Tehran reactor producing medical isotopes, state television reported. “Now we are awaiting a...
NYT: A Lone Cleric Is Loudly Defying Iran’s...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A short midlevel cleric, with a neat white beard and a clergyman’s calm bearing, Mehdi Karroubi has watched from his home in Tehran in recent months as his aides have been arrested, his offices raided, his newspaper shut down. He himself has been threatened with arrest and, indirectly, the death penalty. His response: bring it on. Continua…
Esta é boa -> Economist: Resilient wreckers. The...
BUSINESS schools have been widely accused of fashioning the wrecking balls and training many of the demolition crews that have wreaked such havoc in the economy over the past two years. And the crisis, whether it was forged in business schools or not, is undoubtedly making it harder for students to afford their fees, or to get jobs when they graduate: in America only half the class of 2009 had...
Christian Science Monitor: Who will rein in...
As Congress grapples with how to rein in the high cost of healthcare in America, the option of outsourcing hard decisions to a new, independent commission is gaining momentum. Backers say a commission with a mandate to improve America’s healthcare delivery system and rein in unsustainable costs could be a game-changer. At a time when lawmakers are getting hammered by interest groups, it’s also a...
Página 12: “Sendero Luminoso rompió el tejido...
Hace 27 años, cuando Sendero Luminoso se infiltró en el pueblo Lucanamarca (Perú) fue bien recibido por parte de la población local y contó con su apoyo. La organización armada nombró líder de Lucanamarca y autoridad del pueblo en 1982 a Olegario Curitomay, un joven estudiante de una escuela secundaria. Meses después, la población de Lucanamarca comenzó a reaccionar ante los abusos, la...
NYT: Karzai Agrees to Nov. 7 Runoff in Afghanistan...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai conceded Tuesday that he fell short of a first-round victory in the nation’s disputed presidential election, and agreed to hold a runoff election with his top challenger on Nov. 7. Continua…
Xinhua: Chinese president, premier stress energy...
XUZHOU, Jiangsu, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — President Hu Jintao congratulates Sunday on the 100th founding anniversary of the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in a letter, urging more talents in the country’s energy resource industries. Xinhua: Hu said in the letter that energy resources are the basis and guarantee of the country’s economic and social development. As a...
Kindle llega con EL PAÍS
El libro electrónico de Amazon, Kindle, acaba de llegar a España y los contenidos de EL PAÍS, As y Cinco Días están ya disponibles en Amazon Store. Con el lanzamiento del Kindle Internacional los usuarios de España y otros 100 países más pueden tener acceso, previa suscripción, a los contenidos de los citados diarios, del Grupo PRISA, con un periodo de prueba gratuito de 14 días. El suscriptor...
El País: Nicolas Cage está arruinado
Nicolas Cage está arruinado y tiene abierta una investigación de Hacienda. Para intentar salvar esta situación, el actor ha puesto a la venta sus propiedades, entre ellas el castillo que posee en Bath (Reino Unido), y ha interpuesto una demanda contra su administrador, Samuel Levin, al que acusa de haberle llevado a esta situación. El actor pide a Levin una indemnización de 20 millones de dólares...
STF: CNA pede edição de Súmula Vinculante sobre...
A Confederação Nacional da Agricultura e da Pecuária no Brasil (CNA) apresentou Proposta de Súmula Vinculante (PSV 49) ao Supremo Tribunal Federal para que seja pacificado o entendimento de que os incisos I e XI do artigo 20 da Constituição Federal (são bens da União as terras tradicionalmente ocupadas pelos índios) não alcançam terras de aldeamentos extintos antes de 5 de outubro de 1988, ainda...
Novosti: New Russian nuclear doctrine to reflect...
RIA Novosti interview with Pavel Zolotarev, deputy head of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, president of the Fund for Supporting the Military Reform. Continua…
NYT: Stanley McChrystal’s Long War
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town. He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama has asked him to save. McChrystal pulled off his flak jacket and helmet. His face, skeletal and austere, seemed a piece of the desert itself. He was surrounded by a clutch of...
NYT: Deficit Hits $1.4 Trillion, Complicating...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday the deficit for the fiscal year just ended was $1.4 trillion, the largest relative to the size of the economy since 1945, underscoring the challenge to shrink the fiscal gap even as the White House and Congress consider further steps to stimulate a slow recovery. Continua…
NYT: Swine Flu Shots Revive a Debate About...
People who do not believe in vaccinating children have never had much sway over Leslie Wygant Arndt. She has studied the vaccine debate, she said, and came out in favor of having her 10-month-old daughter inoculated against childhood diseases. But there is something different about the vaccine for the H1N1 flu, she said. “I have looked at the people who are against it, and I find myself taking...
NYT: Afghan War Debate Endangers U.S. Troops -...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. veterans criticized President Barack Obama’s lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation’s defense. The head of Veterans of Foreign Wars, a group representing 1.5 million former soldiers, issued a tersely worded statement urging Obama to follow the advice of his...
Clarín: El kircherismo aprobó la ley que le da al...
El Gobierno de los Kirchner ya tiene la Ley de Servicios de Comunicación que pretendía y que le otorga un mayor poder sobre los medios. No hubo sorpresas en el Senado, donde el kirchnerismo impuso su mayoría para sancionar el texto tal como había llegado de Diputados, sin incorporar ninguno de los cambios que reclamaba la oposición para modificar sus artículos más polémicos y mejorar la norma....
El País: Cameron asegura estar preparado para...
“Los británicos me van a examinar y estoy preparado para ello”, ha asegurado este jueves un optimista David Cameron, líder del partido conservador, durante el congreso de su formación en Manchester. El dirigente, que se perfila como ganador de las próximas elecciones nacionales en mayo, ha explicado a sus fieles que reúne “el carácter, el temperamento y el criterio”...
The New York Review of Books: Something New on the...
We have never seen, at least in the modern history of the United States, a right-wing street-protest movement. Conservatives who oppose Roe v. Wade march on Washington every January 22, the anniversary of that 1973 decision; but aside from that single issue and that single day, the American right over recent decades has, until this summer, carried out its organizing in a comparatively quiet...
Barbra Streisand, Paramore beat out Mariah Carey...
Barbra Streisand proved her prominence once again this week by beating the sales of Mariah Carey, despite having nearly three decades on her competition. The 67-year-old Streisand bagged the No. 1 spot on the latest Billboard Top 200 Album chart with sales of 180,415 while Carey, 39, landed at No. 3 with her new “Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel” (based on 167,912 purchases). The emo band...
WatchTensão em Washington sobre a estratégia para o Afeganistão (CBS)
WatchInteressante comentário de Sérgio D’Ávila no UOL
Washington Post: Obama's Busy AfPak Week
President Obama gave a brief nod to health care reform Monday with a Rose Garden rally for doctors. But he’ll spend most of his week on the most potentially far-reaching foreign policy decision of his administration: what to do in Afghanistan. Late Monday afternoon, Obama is scheduled to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who earlier in the day appeared to tacitly rebuke Gen. Stanley...
Valor: Bolívia fica sem alternativas claras de...
A Bolívia está sem uma alternativa clara para o seu principal recurso natural. Três anos e cinco meses após a nacionalização do setor de hidrocarbonetos pelo presidente Evo Morales, o que gerou muita incerteza no setor, o país não tem hoje para quem vender mais gás - além daquilo que já exporta aos clientes atuais. A Bolívia produz hoje cerca de 40 milhões de m3 de gás natural por dia. Entre 21...
Valor: Twitter em português chega até o início de...
A primeira reação do americano Evan Williams é a de um certo desapontamento ao saber que o Rio de Janeiro acabara de ser escolhido para ser a sede dos Jogos Olímpicos de 2016. Mas, logo em seguida, o fundador do serviço de microblogging e rede social Twitter abre um largo sorriso. “Você sabia que eu já estive uma vez no Brasil, quando ainda estava à frente do Blogger?” O Blogger, para...
Telegraph: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have...
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his...
John Podesta: "Los progresistas en Europa ganarán...
John D. Podesta (Chicago, 1949) es el perfecto eslabón de la cadena que une -ocho años de George W. Bush en medio- la etapa demócrata de Bill Clinton con la nueva Administración: fue jefe de gabinete de Clinton y ha sido jefe del equipo de transición de Barack Obama. Podesta apoyó a Hillary en las primarias -fidelidad a muerte al clan- y no quiso ningún puesto en el nuevo Gobierno. Prefirió seguir...