Estados Unidos ya era la primera economía del planeta a principios del siglo XX. ¿Cómo lo ha hecho? No hay otro secreto: se trata de un país de leyes e instituciones y no de personas. La nación independiente surgió con la revolución industrial y ha crecido y se ha expandido poco a poco. hoy son 50 estados y cuentan con 327 millones de personas desigualmente repartidas en un territorio que es 6 veces mayor que el original.
China is not the same as Russia although both share similarities. China is an economic superpower that through trade has penetrated large parts of the world. It is technologically advanced and is the fastest growing economy despite the fact that the majority of its economy still belongs to the public sector.
China is not the same as Russia although both share similarities. China is an economic superpower that through trade has penetrated large parts of the world. It is technologically advanced and is the fastest growing economy despite the fact that the majority of its economy still belongs to the public sector.
The political system has been shocked by the discovery and prosecution of corruption; the disruption of the presidential term of Dilma Roussef and the escalation of the attack of organized crime against political institutions. Brazilian people have thus launched themselves in search of a rescuer.
Two historic events that have marked the 21st Century happened on 11 September of 2001. The terrorist attack against the United States by the Al-Qaeda network (9/11) and the signing, in Lima, Peru, of the Interamerican Democratic Charter (IDC). Seventeen years later, the challenge is to revert the negative effects of 9/11 and end dictatorships.
Dos hechos históricos que han marcado el siglo XXI sucedían el 11 de septiembre de 2001: los atentados terroristas contra Estados Unidos por la red Al Qaeda (9/11) y la suscripción de la Carta Democrática Interamericana (CDI). Después de 17 años el desafío es revertir los negativos efectos del 9/11 y terminar las dictaduras.
Politics is an activity inherent to democracy, the IDC establishes in its Article 4 that “transparency in all governmental activities, probity, the government’s responsibility of all public administration, respect for all social rights and freedom of the press, are fundamental components in the exercise of democracy”.
This incomprehension of who the friends and enemies are gets a third world war much closer. Not to understand the value of a united and democratic Europe together with the United States, and to stimulate the impulses of ruptures, like the Brexit, is to know nothing of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Esa incomprensión de quiénes son los amigos y enemigos acerca mucho más una tercera guerra mundial. No entender el valor de una Europa unida y democrática junto a Estados Unidos, y estimular los impulsos de rupturas, como el Brexit, es no saber nada de la historia de los siglos XIX y XX.
Politics is a public order activity in which citizens have the right to participate as electors or as elected. Therefore, among the essential elements of democracy are “respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms”,
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