The (second) death of Strauss-Kahn policy

Communist youth, Dominique Strauss-Kahn softened his speech after going through the economic power in order to enter the French socialist political landscape. A meteoric media rise, colorful covers, positive future, catapulted him to the ministry of economy and finance in the plural left government of Jospin.

This "cluster" that he promised the social rise of a France tired of conservatism, crashed in 2002, but DSK (initials with which the French media today labeled the covers dyed black background) was no longer there. Political setback that left plural Jospin had set years earlier amid corruption scandals and legal charges of influence peddling.

Ecuador votes for the ban on bullfighting

This Saturday is held new elections in Ecuador. The Government proposed ten questions (five amending the Constitution and five on various topics) for the public to give its approval or not the government's proposals. The heart of the matter lay in giving or not the government led by Rafael Correa the power to lead a process of profound renewal of the judiciary, public sector perhaps the most retarded, most accused of corruption and less trust from the public.

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Northern Japan facing the other faces of tragedy

350 kilometers from Tokyo to Sendai are full of stories and postcards that reflect the consequences for the 8.9 degree earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, the resulting tsunami that devastated an entire village and generate vandalized much of the Pacific coast, and the latent threat of nuclear catastrophe product damage Fukushima nuclear power plant.

No chance of reaching the area on commercial flights, and the Shinkansen (or bullet train makes the journey in half an hour moving at 300 km / h) is still down. Major highways are only enabled for rescue missions, military troops or humanitarian aid. The only way up north on their own is taking internal roads extending the mileage between the capital and the north.

America is back to normal after tsunami alert

Readers correspondents residing in the area of \u200b\u200btsunami alert us informed of how it has developed a state of alarm the different countries of the West Coast. Although some situations "rare", the sea has remained calm, there have been ups and generally few evacuations of the coastal population have occurred without incident.

However, Chile still remains on alert. "They breathe the same time calm and uncertainty," explains Peter Giménez. According to records obtained by the Navy (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy), the Government decided to evacuate the people living on the coast and found in potential flood areas.

Obiang's son is building a super luxury yacht

It is quite possible that the brazenness, stupidity, greed and arrogance of the son of an African despot would have gone unnoticed in South Africa today is not being heard anything that could become the straw that makes the glass overflow. It is also possible that the son of the despot who I mean, having already made their mark in this country, is a subject more interesting to the general public.

Arab revolutions views from UAE

On 26 January, just a day after the demonstrations began in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the Egyptian poet Hisham Al Gakh appeared on television in the program 'Prince of Poets', a kind of Pop Idol organized by the government Abu Dhabi in the competing poets from all over the Arab world. With his controversial poem "Al Ta'asheera (Visa), Hisham shocked the public to express their desire to travel freely between all Arab countries because Arabs are all brothers and all Arab countries are considered our home.

Mexico, under the scrutiny of the United States

In recent days, several members of the U.S. government have expressed openly and plainly, without shame, desires and intentions and expansionist power from Mexico. The vast majority of Mexicans are convinced that is the beginning of a strategy of the United States intended to justify in the eyes of the world the beginning of an onslaught of interference and intervention in Mexico.

First were the statements of undersecretary of the U.S. Army, Joseph Westphal, who said that Mexico had "a form of insurgency led by the drug cartels that could potentially take the Government, which would imply a U.S. military response." Westphal also said the United States is concerned particularly Latin America and Mexico on the same level of a strategic flank similar to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Alexandria, the day after

"Better than a thousand soccer world cup, better than fasting in Aid, best of all. This is not a victory, it is much better: is change." Tomorrow? "We're in the morning. Since we are building" said a young Egyptian. "No to 80 million Egyptians," says another on the day after the day on which anything is possible.

Something wonderful happened, almost magical: the people have won the battle, his strength has expired. A unique moment to savor the beauty of what happened, what is happening. Surely many colleagues who like myself, have spent years working to understand that separates us, problems, values, what happens to us in the Mediterranean, now we are surprised and disrupted many of our preconceptions.