Archivo «Lunes, 25/Ene/2010»
By Alan Rabinowitz, the president and chief executive of Panthera, a wild cat conservation group, and the author of Jaguar: One Man’s Struggle to Establish the World’s First Jaguar Preserve (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/01/10):
Earlier this month, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would designate “critical habitat” for the endangered jaguar in the United States and take the first steps toward mandating a jaguar recovery plan. This is a policy reversal and, on the surface, it may appear to be a victory for the conservation community and for jaguars, the largest wild cats in the Western… Seguir leyendo
By Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System. This essay was translated by Virginia Jewiss from the Italian (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/01/10):
When I was a teenager here, kids used to shoot dogs in the head. It was a way of gaining confidence with a gun, of venting your rage on another living creature. Now it seems human beings are used for target practice.
This month, rioting by African immigrants broke out in Rosarno, in southern Italy, after at least one immigrant was shot with an air… Seguir leyendo
By Carl Bildt, Sweden’s minister of foreign affairs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/01/10):
A decade and a half ago, when I was prime minister of Sweden, then-President Bill Clinton and I had the first e-mail exchange between heads of state. Already our two nations were at the forefront of the technological revolution about to transform our world.
We had just left an era in which communist dictatorships had tried to control fax machines and the Moscow phone directory was a closely held secret. Today, fax machines are definitely yesterday, and classical phone directories are more or less out of business.
Since… Seguir leyendo
By Gary Bauer, president of American Values and chairman of Campaign for Working Families and Daniel Allott, senior writer at American Values (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 25/01/10):
On the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, one of history’s worst sequences of natural disaster struck Lisbon, Portugal. First, with its citizens at Mass, Lisbon was shaken by an earthquake that toppled most of its buildings. Then, an hour later, a tremendous earthquake-induced tsunami crashed into the harbor, followed by two more giant waves that rushed up the Tagus River, drowning thousands who had fled the rupturing roads for the safety of their boats.… Seguir leyendo
By Oliver North, the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel, the author of American Heroes and the founder and honorary chairman of Freedom Alliance (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 25/01/10):
“We are at war.” So said the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 7, 2010. These four words, a profound statement of the obvious, were belatedly uttered as our commander in chief transitioned from tropical sunsets on his “Hawaiian holiday” to klieg lights at the White House in the aftermath of the Christmas Day “near-miss” terror attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit.… Seguir leyendo
Por Joan Carles Gallego, secretario general de CCOO de Catalunya (EL PERIÓDICO, 25/01/10):
El dictamen de la Abogacía del Estado, en el que se deja claro que no puede denegarse la inscripción al registro del padrón a los extranjeros, modifica la decisión del Ayuntamiento de Vic de negarse a empadronar a inmigrantes no legales, pero no cierra el debate que en estos días estamos viviendo en torno a la inmigración. Desgraciadamente, hemos visto y escuchado que, más allá del hecho puntual del padrón, se abría una peligrosa vía de culpabilización de la inmigración, otorgándole responsabilidades sobre las dificultades en la… Seguir leyendo