8 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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8 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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7 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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The novel coronavirus has overwhelmed public health systems and jolted economies around the world. Now it is poised to spark a global hunger crisis as well. After decades of progress in the battle against poverty and hunger, the job losses, supply chain disruptions, and other economic dislocations caused by the pandemic threaten to push millions of people from food security into food insecurity—and toward outright starvation. International institutions and their member states must act decisively to prevent that outcome. Otherwise, they risk setting in motion a costly and chaotic era of rising hunger and poverty. Continue leyendo →
7 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Tinian, Islas Marianas del Norte (CNN) — Es una losa de concreto descolorida, moldeada en la humedad tropical. Pero en esta losa, no mucho más grande que la huella de una cabaña de playa, la historia cambió. Continue leyendo →
6 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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In this edition of Wilson Center NOW we are joined by Robert Daly, Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute. He discusses the latest in U.S.-China relations and critiques the Trump administration’s increasingly fiery rhetoric against China’s communist party leadership and government. (Aug 4 2020=
6 agosto, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Early in 2019, a year before the world shut its borders completely, Jorge A. knew he had to get out of Guatemala. The land was turning against him. For five years, it almost never rained. Then it did rain, and Jorge rushed his last seeds into the ground. The corn sprouted into healthy green stalks, and there was hope — until, without warning, the river flooded. Jorge waded chest-deep into his fields searching in vain for cobs he could still eat. Soon he made a last desperate bet, signing away the tin-roof hut where he lived with his wife and three children against a $1,500 advance in okra seed. But after the flood, the rain stopped again, and everything died. Jorge knew then that if he didn’t get out of Guatemala, his family might die, too. Continue leyendo →
