Archivo etiqueta «Emiratos Árabes Unidos»
By Kenneth R. Timmerman, the author of Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown With Iran and president of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 02/12/11):
It has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime. On the surface, it appeared to be a suicide. The body was arranged peacefully on the floor, with no signs of struggle, a white sheet pulled up to the neck. The right arm was wrapped around a large pillow; the left, exposed, showed a few cuts below the elbow. It was as if he had been laid out neatly in a … Seguir leyendo
By Richard A. Falkenrath, a principal of the Chertoff Group, a risk-management consultancy, is a former deputy commissioner for counterterrorism for the New York Police Department and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/08/10):
When the United Arab Emirates announced last week that it would suspend BlackBerry service within its borders starting this fall, business travelers who rely on the handheld devices reacted with understandable dismay. But the decision was greeted quite differently by the men and women who make a living hunting terrorists, smugglers, human traffickers, foreign agents and the occasional … Seguir leyendo
By Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-at-large of The Washington Times and of United Press International (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 07/03/10):
For years, the new Hong Kong was Dubai, one of seven United Arab Emirates and a one-time smuggling port on the Persian Gulf, now the latest casualty of “Wild East” casino capitalism. It was all fevered speculation, with little oil and no gas to back it up. An indoor ski slope where the outside temperature hovers above 100 all summer, the world’s tallest building – twice the height of the Empire State Building – and a downtown golf course couldn’t prevent … Seguir leyendo
Por Luis Fernández-Galiano, arquitecto (EL PAÍS, 02/03/09):
La que se ha denominado década inmobiliaria terminó el 4 de enero de 2010. Ese día se inauguró en Dubai la Torre Califa, un rascacielos cuyos 828 metros lo han hecho el más alto del planeta. Pero el evento tuvo lugar apenas unas semanas después del pánico en los mercados que puso al emirato al borde de la quiebra -rescatado in extremis por Abu Dabi, su álter ego virtuoso y petrolero del Golfo-, y el gigante vio la luz mientras descendían las sombras sobre el experimento urbano más admirado y denostado de … Seguir leyendo
By Claudia Pugh-Thomas, a writer (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/12/09):
The morning after the United Arab Emirates turned 38, the streets were deserted but for the foreign workers dressed in orange coveralls. They swept the confetti from Dubai’s beach road, wiped Silly String from the lenses of the traffic cameras and retrieved the carcasses of rockets. Long gone were the crystal-encrusted Hummers and Escalades that had paraded up and down in their finery. A cacophony of horns and cheers and firecrackers had filled the night; now everything was quiet.
Abandoned near a bus stop, one S.U.V. still bore the … Seguir leyendo
By Nesrine Malik, a Sudanese-born writer (THE GUARDIAN, 02/12/09):
Dubai is fast becoming the tombstone for capitalist hubris and exuberance, its hollow skyscrapers a poetic shrine to decadence and impunity. While this is a convenient image, like that of the humbled redundant banker with a whopping unsustainable mortgage, it is important to remember that Dubai is not a country, it is an emirate which, albeit independent in governance, is still part of the fabric of the “United” Arab Emirates.
Among the seven emirates in the federation, the classier and more sedate Abu Dhabi is better known to the tourist … Seguir leyendo
By Jo Tatchell, the author of A Diamond in the Desert (THE TIMES, 30/11/09):
Make no mistake,” a friend told me over lunch in Abu Dhabi a few months ago. “Everyone here knows Dubai’s in trouble, but this isn’t the new Lehman. Abu Dhabi will help them out but there will be a heavy price to pay. Dubai will soon be a suburb of Abu Dhabi.”
While global financial markets nervously await clarification of Dubai’s debt restructuring, the Emirates are alive with talk of political change. Abu Dhabi’s refusal to sign a blank cheque to underwrite Dubai Inc has … Seguir leyendo
By Eirikur Bergmann, a professor in political science and director of Centre for European Studies at the Bifrost University in Iceland (THE GUARDIAN, 28/11/09):
When the University of Chicago professor, Robert Z Aliber, came to Reykjavik in 2007 and saw the many building cranes rising from the tiny and northernmost capital in the world, he immediately saw that the bubble was going to burst. Like most critics of Iceland‘s economic boom at the time, his prediction was dismissed by the whole Icelandic establishment. They claimed that Aliber, as a foreigner, didn’t have a profound enough understanding … Seguir leyendo
By Ross Clark (THE TIMES, 17/10/08):
Having taken the odd nocturnal stroll along Norfolk’s beaches, I am no stranger to the sound of rustling grasses and cries of delight in the sand dunes. And I can’t say that I’ve ever suffered a Mary Whitehouse moment and fired off a missive about moral decay to the council, the local newspaper or anyone else. So long as plein-airists choose a quiet spot away from children and don’t leave behind condoms or broken bottles, as far as I am concerned, they can carry on frolicking from Bognor to Blackpool.
But not in Dubai. … Seguir leyendo
By Robert J. Samuelson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 14/03/06):
The idea of letting an Arab-owned company, Dubai Ports World, run container terminals at some major U.S. ports struck many Americans as an absurdity. Why not just turn control over to al-Qaeda? In late February a CBS News poll found that 70 percent of respondents were against the deal and only 21 percent in favor. The company’s withdrawal last week can be seen as a triumph of public opinion. Or it can be acknowledged for what it is: a major defeat for the United States, driven by self-indulgent politicians of both parties … Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/03/06):
For years now, the Republican leaders in Congress have been the Pips to George W. Bush’s Gladys Knight. He invades Iraq on shaky premises that ultimately fall apart and they sing “woo-woo” in perfect harmony. He subjects terror suspects to arbitrary, indefinite detention and interrogation by techniques most people would call torture and the congressional leadership twirls in graceful unison. He smothers the country with an unprecedented blanket of electronic surveillance and from Capitol Hill comes a sweet refrain: “You’re the best thing, you’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
But … Seguir leyendo
By David Ignatius (THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/03/06):
Officials here heard late Thursday that Karl Rove had decided to pull the plug. President Bush’s political adviser was said to have conveyed to a top manager of Dubai Ports World in Washington that the White House couldn’t hold out any longer against congressional pressure to kill the Arab company’s plan to acquire freight terminals at six U.S. ports. The initial response of one Dubai executive was: “Who’s Karl Rove?” But in the end, political leaders here recognized that it was time to fold a losing hand.
Until Rove’s decision, Dubai’s business leaders … Seguir leyendo
By C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics and a former assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs (1977-81) (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/02/06):
Nearly all objective observers of the uproar over “selling American ports to the Arabs” agree on three key elements of the situation. First, the purchase of port management operations by Dubai Ports World from a British-owned company will have no operational impact on the national security of the United States. Port owners and managers are not responsible for port security. There are risks at our ports, but they stem from the fact … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Cohen (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/02/06):
There are times when George Bush sorely disappoints. Just when you might expect him to issue a malapropian explanation, pander to his base or simply not have a clue about what he is talking about, he does something so right, so honest and, yes, so commendable, that — as Arthur Miller put it in “Death of a Salesman” — “attention must be paid.” Pay attention to how he has refused to indulge anti-Arab sentiment over the Dubai ports deal.
Would that anyone could say the same about many of the deal’s critics. Whatever … Seguir leyendo
By STEPHEN E. FLYNN and JAMES M. LOY, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a retired Coast Guard officer and a former deputy secretary of homeland security and commandant of the Coast Guard, respectively (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/02/06):
The political firestorm surrounding the takeover of five American container terminals by Dubai Ports World, a United Arab Emirates company, is a political distraction, but in many ways a welcome one. Americans are finally taking port security seriously.
Ports are the on- and offramps to global markets, and they belong to a worldwide system operated by many … Seguir leyendo