Futuro abierto – Libertad de prensa (RNE)
25 ago 2019
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25 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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25 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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La destrucción del Amazonas
(CNN) — La deforestación del Amazonas ha aumentado más de un 60 por ciento en junio con respecto al mismo período en 2018, algo que para los ambientalistas es un ejemplo de que las políticas del presidente Jair Bolsonaro empiezan a surtir efecto.
La frecuencia de destrucción de la selva se mantuvo estable durante los primeros meses de presidencia de Bolsonaro, pero comenzó a aumentar en los meses de mayo y junio, según el Instituto de Investigación Espacial Nacional de Brasil (INPE), una agencia gubernamental cuyos satélites también monitorean el Amazonas.
El mes pasado, se perdieron 769,1 kilómetros cuadrados – un claro aumento si lo comparamos a los 488,4 kilómetros cuadrados perdidos en junio de 2018, según datos de INPE. Eso equivale a un área de la selva mayor que un estadio y medio de fúbtol es destruido cada minuto de cada día.
Más de dos tercios del Amazonas están localizados en Brasil y los grupos ambientalistas culpan a Bolsonaro, un líder de extrema derecha, y a su gobierno por este incremento, alegando que ha permitido la reducción de controles sobre deforestación en el país.
“Durante los pasados seis meses, Bolsonaro y su ministro de medio ambiente se han dedicado al desmantelamiento de la gobernanza ambientalista de Brasil y a neutralizar sus cuerpos regulatorios”. Carlos Rittl, secretario ejecutivo de la red de la ONG ambiental Observatorio del Clima, le dijo a CNN.
Greenpeace ha llamado a Bolsonaro y a su gobierno “una amenaza para el equilibrio climático” y ha advertido que a largo plazo, sus políticas tendrán “un alto costo” para la economía de Brasil.
25 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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The Dictators’ Last Stand (Foreign Affairs)
It has been a good decade for dictatorship. The global influence of the world’s most powerful authoritarian countries, China and Russia, has grown rapidly. For the first time since the late nineteenth century, the cumulative GDP of autocracies now equals or exceeds that of Western liberal democracies. Even ideologically, autocrats appear to be on the offensive: at the G-20 summit in June, for instance, President Vladimir Putin dropped his normal pretense that Russia is living up to liberal democratic standards, declaring instead that “modern liberalism” has become “obsolete.” Continue leyendo →
25 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Winning the peace in Iraq (RAND)
Foreign Affairs /Sep-Oct 2019)
For Americans who came of age near the turn of the current century, the war in Iraq was a generation-defining experience. When the United States invaded the country in 2003, toppling the government of Saddam Hussein in a matter of weeks, many saw the war as a necessary or even noble endeavor to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam was allegedly developing—and bring democracy to parts of the world that had long suffered under the weight of tyranny.
By the time U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, such illusions had been shattered. The conflict had cost the United States $731 billion, claimed the lives of at least 110,000 Iraqis and nearly 5,000 U.S. troops, and done lasting damage to Washington’s international reputation. The invasion had sparked a virulent insurgency that was only barely quelled by 2011, and which resurfaced following the U.S. withdrawal, when a vicious jihadist group calling itself the Islamic State (or ISIS) seized an area the size of Iceland in western Iraq and eastern Syria. Most Americans who have been to Iraq remember car bombs and streets lined with ten-foot-tall concrete blast walls. For those who have never been, Iraq is less a place than a symbol of imperial hubris—a tragic mistake that they would prefer to forget.
23 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Most reputable countries (2018)
21 agosto, 2019
por Felipe Sahagún
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Seven Revolutions (CSIS)
Have you considered how a global population of 9 billion people by the middle of the century will impact your life? What are the challenges for the availability of food, water, and energy resources? How will society balance the benefits of technological innovation and advanced communication with the threat of cyber security? How will global economic integration and governance affect trade, markets, and commerce overall?
To answer questions like these, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) embarked on an initiative in 1992 to address and analyze the key policy challenges that policymakers, business figures, and other leaders will face out to the year 2035 & beyond. It is an effort to promote strategic thinking about the long-term trends that too few take the time to consider. Though our research is constantly evolving, we created this guide as a snapshot for what we call the Seven Revolutions.
The key points of this research have been captured in an exciting, fast-paced, multimedia presentation that has been given around the world—from governments to private corporations to academia to nongovernmental organizations. Seven Revolutions is constantly updated to reflect the latest data analysis and available technologies. It is an effective tool for pushing audiences to think outside of their areas of expertise and beyond their familiar planning parameters.