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Escrito por Roland Alum
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Domingo 20 de Mayo de 2012 20:56 |
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On May 20, 1902 the Cuban Republic was born, following the Spanish-American War, or Spanish(Cuban)American War that ended Spain's colonial rule. Coincidentally, this May 20, the Dominican Republic (DR) is holding its 14th presidential election since the downfall of Rafael Trujillo in 1961.It behooves us to compare the trajectories of the two Hispanic-Caribbean nations in the last five decades. One, recovering from tyranny and gross underdevelopment, took the free-enterprise path while expanding its freedoms. The other one endures stagnation and deprivation under a self-perpetuating Marxist-Leninist paradigm.
Instability characterized Cuba's republican era from 1902 to 1958. Government corruption climaxed under Fulgencio Batista's authoritarian dictatorship. Still, by the 1950s, the island-nation was a hemispheric leader in agriculture, labor rights, education, healthcare, and other indices.With tremendous initial popularity, Fidel and Raúl Castro supplanted Batista in power in 1959; but the pair turned Cuba into a closed society beset by unprecedented repression and chronic inefficiency, a systemic hallmark of Soviet-styled "economies of scarcity."
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Escrito por José Sarney
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Domingo 20 de Mayo de 2012 20:54 |
España ha sido una de las grandes víctimas de esas agencias, que son la chispa que provocó el incendio
España necesita un poco de solidaridad. El país fue sometido y es víctima de una coyuntura que es casi una conspiración.
Problemas reales fueron maximizados e inflados por un ataque psicológico y por el pesimismo que agravó la búsqueda de soluciones y superaciones. Dentro de ese cuadro las agencias de riesgo cumplen con su misión de casandras.
Éstas nacieron para valorar la solidez de entidades estatales o particulares que ofrecen productos financieros, mas su influencia de actuación va más allá, direccionando los rumbos del capital.
Los historiadores económicos registran esa actividad, por primera vez, en 1833 y atribuyen su origen al francés Eugene-François Vidocq, un policía que abrió en París una oficina de informaciones y de espionaje sobre deudores.
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Escrito por Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft
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Domingo 20 de Mayo de 2012 20:52 |
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A New START treaty reestablishing the process of nuclear arms control has recently taken effect. Combined with reductions in the U.S. defense budget, this will bring the number of nuclear weapons in the United States to the lowest overall level since the 1950s. The Obama administration is said to be considering negotiations for a new round of nuclear reductions to bring about ceilings as low as 300 warheads. Before momentum builds on that basis, we feel obliged to stress our conviction that the goal of future negotiations should be strategic stability and that lower numbers of weapons should be a consequence of strategic analysis, not an abstract preconceived determination.
Regardless of one’s vision of the ultimate future of nuclear weapons, the overarching goal of contemporary U.S. nuclear policy must be to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used. Strategic stability is not inherent with low numbers of weapons; indeed, excessively low numbers could lead to a situation in which surprise attacks are conceivable.
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