Archivo etiqueta «Bangladesh»
Por Jagdish Bhagwati, profesor de economía y derecho en la Universidad de Columbia y miembro asociado en cuestiones de economía internacional del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores. Traducción de Kena Nequiz (Project Syndicate, 24/03/11):
Se está hablando de la disputa que se desarrolla actualmente en Bangladesh entre la primer ministro Sheikh Hasina y Mohammed Yunus, el fundador del banco de microcréditos Grameen y Premio Nobel de la Paz, como una representación moderna de la famosa batalla entre los malvados Kauravas y los virtuosos Pandavas descrita en el Mahabharata, la gran epopeya india.
Se insinúa que una primer ministro vengativa … Seguir leyendo
Por Sanjeev Sanyal, autor de The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 18/03/11):
Hace exactamente 40 años el régimen militar paquistaní de Yahya Khan inició la “Operación Reflector” en marzo de 1971. Esa expedición militar no fue sino la última de una serie de matanzas realizadas para intimidar a la población descontenta e inquieta de lo que se llamaba entonces Pakistán Oriental, la Bangladesh independiente de hoy. Lo que siguió fue una de las peores masacres en la historia humana, hoy casi olvidada por la … Seguir leyendo
By Tahmina Anam, the author of A Golden Age (THE GUARDIAN, 31/12/08):
Something spectacular happened in a small corner of the world on Tuesday. After two years of military-backed rule, a free, fair, incident-free election was held in Bangladesh, with decisive results: a record voter turnout routed the incumbent party in favour of a secular, progressive alliance.
“Two ladies” is the phrase commonly attached to the leaders of Bangladesh’s main political parties: Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League – both women, one the widow of a former president, the … Seguir leyendo
By John Pilger (THE GUARDIAN, 12/03/08):
There is a decent, brave man sitting in a dungeon in a country where the British empire began – a country of poets, singers, artists, free thinkers and petty tyrants. I have known him since a moonless night in 1971 when he led me clandestinely into what was then East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh, past villages the Pakistani army had raped and razed. His name is Moudud Ahmed and he was then a young lawyer who had defended the Bengali independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“Why have you come when even crows are … Seguir leyendo
Por Antía Mato Bouzas, investigadora del Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 19/02/07):
Tema: Este ARI analiza el escenario político en Bangladesh tras la declaración, el pasado 11 de enero, del estado de emergencia y la cancelación de la convocatoria electoral prevista para el día 22 de ese mismo mes.
Resumen: Este análisis aborda el agravamiento de la crisis política preelectoral que comenzó a finales de octubre de 2006 y que ha terminado con la cancelación de las elecciones a mediados de enero y la instauración de un estado de emergencia. La actual forma de gobierno de … Seguir leyendo
Por Aurelio Martínez Estévez, presidente del ICO (EL PAÍS, 15/01/07):
Amanece otro día en Dhaka, capital de Bangla Desh, con su acompañamiento de ruido ensordecedor de bocinas, contaminación, polvo en suspensión, enjambres de rickshas que te asaltan por cualquier rincón, miles de pequeños negocios y tenderetes, bullicio de millones de personas por las calles, a pesar de que apenas se ven mujeres en las mismas, trabajo duro y pobreza.
La pobreza se ve, se palpa, se oye, se huele, casi se mastica en el ambiente, es una pobreza que absorbes con los cinco sentidos. Pobreza de generaciones, reposada capa … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 09/01/07):
The prospective collapse of democracy in predominantly Sunni Muslim Bangladesh is raising concerns reaching far beyond the politically divided south Asian nation of 145 million people. A state of emergency and intervention by the army are distinct possibilities if already delayed elections fail on January 22. There are precedents aplenty: two presidents have died in military coups since independence from Pakistan in 1971 and the restoration of democracy in 1991 has if anything deepened the destructive enmity of the two main party leaders.
The main beneficiaries of institutional failure could be violently militant Islamist … Seguir leyendo
By Veena Khaleque, country director for Practical Action in Bangladesh (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/06):
While the west puzzles over ways to curb future climate change, in the developing world the present climate change is being felt already, and there is nothing abstract about it. Every year an estimated 150,000 people die as a result of global warming – mainly through natural disasters, disease and malnutrition – and the toll is rising exponentially. There is much talk, but little is done.The industrialised world has pumped huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, setting us on a course where a global … Seguir leyendo
By Madeleine Bunting (THE GUARDIAN, 29/11/06):
The syncretism is also evident in the Bengali tradition of bauls, itinerant singers who came from both faiths and used the same songs, full of the yearning of the humble man for God. These songs were a great inspiration to the Bengali Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore (whose paintings are also on show at the British Museum) and expressed the same sentiments found in both religious traditions. The national anthems of the predominantly Muslim country of Bangladesh and the predominantly Hindu country of India were both written by Tagore.
The syncretism is also evident in … Seguir leyendo
Por Antía Mato Bouzas, investigadora del Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 16/11/06):
Tema: Bangladesh, a las puertas de los próximos comicios, vive en un clima de gran tensión política y violencia debido a las objeciones de la oposición liderada por la Liga Awami a la neutralidad del actual Gobierno interino y a la elaboración de las listas de votantes por parte de la Comisión Electoral.
Resumen: El texto aborda la actual situación política de Bangladesh ante la que debe ser su próxima convocatoria electoral, caracterizada por el traspaso de poderes del último Gobierno electo … Seguir leyendo
By Jeremy Seabrook, the author of ‘Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh’ (THE GUARDIAN, 07/11/06):
A country torn by a low-intensity cultural civil war has seen at least 25 people die in this conflict in the last 10 days; its capital city is strewn with overturned cycle rickshaws, rocks and broken glass. A tense and watchful calm has since returned to Dhaka, one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, although sporadic violence continues in some outlying districts.This is Bangladesh, the country of origin of about 300,000 British people, with the fourth-largest Muslim population in the world. … Seguir leyendo
Asia Report N°121 (23/10/06):
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Bangladesh faces twin threats to its democracy and stability: the risk that its political system will founder in a deadlock over elections and the growing challenge of militant Islamism, which has brought a spate of violence. The issues are linked; Islamic militancy has flourished in a time of dysfunctional politics, popular discontent and violence. The questions of whether Bangladesh’s traditional moderation and resilience will see it through or whether escalating violence and political confrontation could derail its democracy are vital ones. Serious instability in the world’s third most populous Muslim country could not fail … Seguir leyendo
By Selig S. Harrison, a former South Asia bureau chief of The Post and the author of five books on South Asia, has covered Bangladesh since 1951. He is the director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/08/06):
While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically located nation of Bangladesh into a new regional hub for terrorist operations that reach into India and Southeast Asia.
With … Seguir leyendo