Jueves, 4 de agosto de 2022 (Continuación)

Campaign posters for various candidates on a wall in Nairobi.Credit...Simon Maina/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

MundoÁfricaMundoAméricaReflexionesDemocracia,

A Kenyan friend of mine who graduated from Harvard Business School recently told me that the United States is a good place to get an education, but “it is no longer a leading light”.

“We are looking elsewhere, not just the West”, she said. “Democracy? I don’t believe in it”.

She made the comment at a dinner party I attended in the garden of a gated neighborhood in Karen, a wealthy Nairobi suburb earlier this summer, as Kenyans were preparing to elect a new president. Nearly everyone in attendance was a Kenyan who had graduated from a top American school and gone on to an impressive career in finance, business consulting or government service.…  Seguir leyendo »

Taliban security in the neighborhood where a U.S. drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 31. EPA, via Shutterstock

InternacionalTerrorismo Internacional,

When President Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last year, one of his main justifications was that Al Qaeda had been so “degraded” that the United States no longer needed to maintain a military presence in a country once used as a Qaeda sanctuary. Mr. Biden also vowed to hold the Taliban to its pledge not to allow terrorists to threaten the United States from Afghan soil.

Yet less than a year after the Taliban completed their recapture of Afghanistan, the head of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, was hiding out in a house in downtown Kabul, where he was killed in an American drone strike on Sunday.…  Seguir leyendo »

Pelosi no podía retroceder ante China

MundoAméricaMundoAsia, , ,

La visita de Nancy Pelosi a Taiwán acarrea riesgos indiscutibles.

Pekín podría responder hostigando a los barcos y aviones de la Marina estadounidense en el área, con un claro potencial de choque o confrontación. Podría apoderarse de la isla taiwanesa de Kinmen —en buena medida desmilitarizada, y más conocida por los entusiastas de la Guerra Fría como Quemoy—, que se encuentra a solo unos cuantos kilómetros de la costa de Fujian. Podría ayudar a Moscú en la guerra en Ucrania, tal vez al venderle el tipo de municiones de precisión que, según los informes, se están agotando en el ejército ruso.…  Seguir leyendo »