17/03/2016 | En Profundidad
America’s Role in Argentina’s Dirty War
A few months after a military junta overthrew President Isabel Perón of Argentina in 1976, the country’s new foreign minister, Adm. Cesar Guzzetti, told Henry Kissinger, America’s secretary of state, that the military was aggressively cracking down on “the terrorists.”
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21/01/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Suspicious Death in Argentina
Some Argentines are calling Alberto Nisman, the maverick prosecutor, the 86th casualty of one of the deadliest, unsolved terrorists attacks in modern history: the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
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28/01/2014 | En Profundidad
Argentina on the Brink
More than a decade after it defaulted on its foreign debts, Argentina is again facing a financial crisis caused largely by misguided government policies.
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02/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Saner Approach on Drug Laws
The Justice Department took an important step toward sanity in the enforcement of drug laws last week when it announced a “trust but verify” approach to states permitting the growth, sale and possession of marijuana.
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29/08/2013 | Frente Externo
US - The Second Dimension
President Obama has often quoted the line made famous by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” The idea is, like Mr. Obama himself, full of both caution and hope.
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05/06/2013 | En Parrilla
Getting to Know You
This week’s summit meeting between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China is an important opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to chart a smoother path and avoid the destructive conflicts that have historically afflicted relations between rising and established powers.
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16/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Bombs at the Marathon
A marathon is the most unifying of sporting events. The city that shows up to cheer on thousands of runners doesn’t really know or care much about who wins; there are no sides to root for or against. Those who stand on the sidelines — as they have done in Boston since 1897 — come to celebrate runners from around the world. The country or neighborhood of origin of the competitors matters far less than their stamina.
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03/04/2013 | Frente Externo
Cyprus Was Not an Exception
The recent crisis in Cyprus has highlighted the curious and dangerous phenomenon of banking systems that are much bigger than the economies in which they are based. One reason the government of Cyprus struggled to deal with its failing banks was that their assets were seven times as big as the country’s economy.
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18/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
About Those Black Sites
The details of American antiterrorism policies, put in place after 9/11, are still largely hidden, but more pieces of this sordid history are dribbling out.
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14/02/2013 | Economia y Finanzas
Preventing a Currency War
The Group of 7 industrialized countries appeared to tamp down talk of a currency war in a statement this week that said markets should determine exchange rates and that countries should use fiscal and monetary policies to achieve faster growth. It may help curb fears that stagnant economies will devalue their currencies to make their exports more affordable relative to competitors.
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10/02/2013 | Economia y Finanzas
India in the Slow Lane
India’s economy is about to clock its slowest annual growth rate in a decade. The government said recently that gross domestic product would likely grow at just 5 percent in the fiscal year that ends in March, a sharp fall from the 9-plus-percent growth rates of the mid-2000s.
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20/01/2013 | Frente Externo
US - The Immigration Saga Continues
President Obama and lawmakers of both parties have begun laying the groundwork for something that is supposed to be unachievable in Washington today: a bipartisan deal to solve a bitterly contentious, complicated problem in a big way.
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11/01/2013 | Economia y Finanzas
Financial Crisis in the West Bank
The Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank not under Israeli control, is in financial crisis. Its leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to pay 180,000 government employees, including security forces as well as other civil servants.
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06/12/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
US - The Next Debt-Limit Debacle
Republicans clearly sense that they are being outmaneuvered in the fiscal talks by the Obama administration, unable to stop the inevitable rise in tax rates for the rich. But they have one last card to play and they intend to use it, knowing it will endanger economic progress: They are threatening once again to default on the credit of the United States if President Obama doesn’t do their bidding.
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17/09/2010 | En Parrilla
Foreign Stimulus
THE debate over Arizona’s controversial immigration law and Congress’s passage last month of another border security bill gives the impression that the only problem with our immigration policy is its inability to keep people from entering the country illegally. Not so.
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17/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Primary Day 2010: The Tea Party’s Snarl
Democratic operatives are ablaze with excitement over the victory of two particularly dubious Tea Party candidates in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, envisioning smoother paths to victory in the races for governor in New York and United States senator in Delaware
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22/02/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
US-The Government and the Banks
Bank stocks plunged last week on fears that the government will have to take over battered institutions like Citigroup and Bank of America. That would wipe out the banks’ shareholders — hence, investors’ rush for the exits — and put the government in control of a swath of the financial system.
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03/08/2008 | Economia y Finanzas
Time, Finally, for Real Fuel Economy
The political landscape is littered with squandered opportunities to avert the $4-a-gallon gasoline mess we find ourselves in now. Americans would be using far less gas — and consumers and the automobile industry would be much better off — if Congress had summoned the wisdom and political courage 20, 10, even five years ago to impose tough fuel economy standards on the nation’s transportation fleet.
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03/08/2008 | Economia y Finanzas
Time, Finally, for Real Fuel Economy
The political landscape is littered with squandered opportunities to avert the $4-a-gallon gasoline mess we find ourselves in now. Americans would be using far less gas — and consumers and the automobile industry would be much better off — if Congress had summoned the wisdom and political courage 20, 10, even five years ago to impose tough fuel economy standards on the nation’s transportation fleet.
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02/04/2008 | Medio Ambiente
Argentina - Patagonia Without Dams
Recently, environmental activists and local residents gathered near the small Chilean town of Cochrane to protest a plan to build a series of hydroelectrical dams. Cochrane is part of Chilean Patagonia, and it would be transformed beyond recognition if the project goes ahead.
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13/12/2007 | Frente Externo
Politics, Putin-Style
The Soviet-style guessing game over Russia’s presidential succession seemed all but decided this week when President Vladimir Putin endorsed the candidacy of his loyal protégé, Dmitri Medvedev, and then Mr. Medvedev announced that, once elected, he would appoint Mr. Putin to be his prime minister.
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15/11/2007 | Economia y Finanzas
Where’s That Energy Bill?
Two months ago, Washington was filled with hope that Congress would produce an energy bill that would begin to address the two great challenges of oil dependency and climate change.
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07/11/2007 | En Parrilla
Pass the Peruvian F.T.A.
Congressional Democrats took their time, but more than a year after it was originally signed, the free trade agreement between the United States and Peru is finally due for a vote in the House of Representatives today.
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26/08/2007 | Frente Externo
Mr. Chávez’s Power Grab
Newspeak is alive and well in Venezuela. Last week, President Hugo Chávez portrayed planned constitutional amendments that would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely as a step toward “participatory democracy.”
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15/05/2007 | Economia y Finanzas
A Fresh Start on Energy
Congress’s last effort to craft a decent energy strategy, in 2005, was largely disappointing. But at the risk of getting our hopes up once again, we call attention to two promising bills making their way to the Senate floor. Stapled together, they could make a constructive start toward reducing this country’s dependence on oil imports and its emissions of greenhouse gases.
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15/05/2007 | Economia y Finanzas
A Fresh Start on Energy
Congress’s last effort to craft a decent energy strategy, in 2005, was largely disappointing. But at the risk of getting our hopes up once again, we call attention to two promising bills making their way to the Senate floor. Stapled together, they could make a constructive start toward reducing this country’s dependence on oil imports and its emissions of greenhouse gases.
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06/11/2006 | Frente Externo
The Difference Two Years Made
On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time in our memory.
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19/10/2006 | Frente Externo
US- A Dangerous New Order
Once President Bush signed the new law on military tribunals, administration officials and Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time giving Americans a taste of the new order created by this unconstitutional act.
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19/10/2006 | Sociedad
Behind the Veil
The way the issue of full-face veils has seized Britain, you would think veiled women were everywhere. In fact, one has to wonder how many are regularly encountered by Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, or any other Briton.
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03/09/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mr. Bush’s Nuclear Legacy
Unless something changes soon, by the end of President Bush’s second term North Korea will have produced enough plutonium for 10 or more nuclear weapons while Iran’s scientists will be close to mastering the skills needed to build their own.
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25/03/2005 | Frente Externo
Breakthrough in Bishkek
One more post-Soviet autocracy appeared to have crumbled yesterday as the president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, fled with his family while opposition protestors swarmed into the presidential compound in the capital city of Bishkek.
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25/03/2005 | Frente Externo
Breakthrough in Bishkek
One more post-Soviet autocracy appeared to have crumbled yesterday as the president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, fled with his family while opposition protestors swarmed into the presidential compound in the capital city of Bishkek.
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