Archivo etiqueta «Vietnam»
By Nguyen Dan Que, a physician and head of the Non-Violent Movement for Human Rights in Vietnam. He has been imprisoned three times, for a total of 20 years, for expressing his democratic beliefs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/02/11):
While the world’s attention is riveted on the Middle East, democracy continues to struggle to take root in other regions.
Only last summer, Vietnam and the United States celebrated the 15th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations. The resumption of ties has proved profitable for Vietnam: The United States is its largest foreign investor, the countries have more than $15 … Seguir leyendo
Par Philippe Delalande, économiste, membre du groupe d’étude prospective, Asie 21-Futuribles et l’auteur de Vietnam, dragon en puissance, L’Harmattan, 2007 (LE MONDE, 09/02/11):
Le Vietnam a souvent mauvaise presse en Europe : un pays de régime communiste totalitaire qui fait peu de cas des libertés. Les chroniqueurs négligent ce pays pauvre dans le sud-est asiatique. Les instances financières internationales lui reprochent son secteur public important qu’il se refuse à privatiser, sa monnaie non convertible, ses entraves aux règles du marché. C’est en train de changer.
Parmi les pays émergents, les BRIC (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine) étaient objet de toutes … Seguir leyendo
By Rufus Phillips, the author of Why Vietnam Matters who served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and as assistant director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Saigon mission (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 30/04/10):
Vietnam wasn’t a short-term proposition for me. I first arrived in Saigon in 1954 as a 24-year-old Army second lieutenant assigned to the joint American-French training mission. As a result of peace talks, the Vietminh were to evacuate territories in the South to regroup in the North, while French and Vietnamese forces were to evacuate south.
President Eisenhower wanted to help the Vietnamese save South … Seguir leyendo
By Linh Dinh, the author of the forthcoming novel Love Like Hate (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/04/10):
Depending on which side you were on, Saigon either fell on April 30, 1975, or it was liberated. Inside Vietnam, the day is marked as Liberation Day — but outside, among the Vietnamese refugees, it is called Deep Resentment Day. (The resentment is not just over losing a war, but also a country.)
On April 21, 1975, I was 11 and living in Saigon. I turned on the television and saw our president, Nguyen Van Thieu. He had a high forehead, a … Seguir leyendo
By Phan Thanh Hao, a poet and translator (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/04/10):
At noon on April 30, 1975, when news that the liberation forces had captured Saigon spread to the North, we thought: “The war has ended. Now happiness will immediately arrive.” All of us, the youth volunteers of Hanoi who were digging a big lake in the suburbs, were allowed to go home, and the next day was May Day, a holiday.
I was so thrilled to head home and enjoy my afternoon off. National flags were flying everywhere. Young people cheered and chanted, “Vietnam, Ho Chi … Seguir leyendo
By Roger Mitton, a former senior correspondent with Asiaweek and a former bureau chief in Washington and Hanoi for the Straits Times of Singapore (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 29/04/10):
It is sad to witness the unrest on the streets of this city but even sadder to see how Thailand’s ‘fraternal’ ASEAN partners are trying to exploit its troubles. Consider Vietnam. Its ruling Communist Party is openly using the political crisis in democratic Thailand to shore up ebbing support for its own authoritarian one-party regime.
Journalists in Hanoi confirm that the government-controlled press has been instructed to give prominent coverage to … Seguir leyendo
By Nguyen Dan Que, a doctor in Vietnam who has been imprisoned three times (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/10):
It was back in the 1970s, when I was doing diabetes research in Britain, that I first learned of the political drama surrounding Nelson Mandela. At the time I never would have predicted that one day I, too, would be imprisoned by a repressive regime for advocating human rights and democracy.
By the time of his release from prison many years later, I had already spent 10 years in many labor camps and prisons in Vietnam, and was under house … Seguir leyendo
Por Jorge Castañeda, ex secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México, y profesor de Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Nueva York (EL PAÍS, 18/08/08):
Hace unas semanas, el flamante Emerging Markets Forum, dirigido por Harinder Kohli y The Centennial Group, una especie de Davos de los mercados emergentes, organizó una reunión de alto nivel en Hanoi, después de haber hecho lo mismo en España, en Uruguay y en Marruecos. Dicha reunión permitió a varios participantes, incluyendo al que escribe, formarse una idea, sin duda inicial y superficial, pero no por ello menos fascinante, del “modelo vietnamita”. Se trata, como es … Seguir leyendo
By Harold Meyerson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/07/08):
Doing business in China is beginning to cost real money. Not that Chinese workers are buying second homes or anything like that: Their average wage is still a little short of a dollar an hour. But so many Chinese have now left their villages for the factories that the once bottomless pool of new young workers is beginning to run dry, and the wages of assembly-line employees are rising 10 percent a year.
Worse yet, new labor laws are making it harder for employers to cheat their workers out of their wages and … Seguir leyendo
By Kathryn Cameron Porter, president of the Leadership Council for Human Rights (THE WASHINGTON POST, 18/11/06):
The American president who has spoken more forcefully and persistently about the world’s need for democracy than perhaps any other elected leader in U.S. history finds himself this weekend in one of the few remaining communist capitals: Hanoi. With the weight of last week’s election outcome and a string of security concerns glowing like lights on a Christmas tree, his main preoccupation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is likely to be boosting U.S.-led consensus on North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear adventures and … Seguir leyendo