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PASCUAL SERRANO
For several years, even before the start of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, the European Union has been applying economic sanctions against Russia with the conviction that, in this way, they would achieve the collapse of its economy, generate social unrest and that would facilitate achieving its great objective, the fall of Putin's government.
PASCUAL SERRANO
I don't know if we are aware, but, with the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the world is in the most warlike moment since the Second World War. It is not my statement, it is the annual study on global peace by the Institute for Economics and Peace. According to their analysis, the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine were the main drivers of the global decline in terms of peace, as battle deaths reached 162.000 in 2023, this is the second highest figure in the last 30 years, and the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza accounted for almost three-quarters of the deaths.
XULIO RIOS
Today, leaving aside Taiwan, the deterioration of the relationship between Beijing and Manila represents the main focus of tension in the South China Sea.
During former President Rodrigo Duterte's six-year term, the situation remained relatively stable and no major disputes occurred. However, since Marcos Jr. came to power in June 2022, disputes have frequently arisen, from Ren'ai Jiao to Huangyan Dao.
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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Ana Miranda is a Galician jurist and politician. She has been a deputy of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) in the European Parliament in the last legislature and is running again on the Ahora Repúblicas list for the elections that will renew it next Sunday. In 2019, this coalition - now made up of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), EH Bildu, BNG and Aramés - won three seats. We spoke with her about the main challenges facing Europe and the worrying rise of the extreme right.
RICARD GONZALEZ
In 2014, a new era began in Greek politics that seemed to bode well for the rest of the continent. Syriza, a confluence of movements and parties of the alternative left, had clearly won the elections with an anti-austerity program in the midst of the financial crisis, while the historic party of the Greek left, PASOK, collapsed, obtaining only 6% of the vote. the votes.
A decade later, that new era has turned out to be more of a mirage, and both Syriza and the entire Greek left face a journey through the desert.
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Several hundred students from Madrid universities have been camping for Palestine in the Complutense for weeks. They take turns taking their exams and also receive support from several teachers. They assure that they plan to stay there as long as necessary.
The camps, started on US campuses, have spread throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. They are the largest global student protest of the 21st century.
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In recent years, three West African countries, in the Sahel region, have experienced coups d'état with a common denominator: the national and sovereign uprising against France, its former metropolis, still dominant in the economy, defense and international relations. These are Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
We spoke with Alex Anfruns, author of the book “Niger: another coup d'état… or the pan-African revolution?”
XULIO RIOS
Lai Ching-te will assume the presidency of Taiwan on May 20. The change in leadership shows a double sign of continuity: from his party, the sovereigntist Minjindang or Democratic Progressive Party, at the head of the State, and also from the policy applied in the last eight years, during the mandate of Tsai Ing-wen. . However, there is one notable change: Lai will not be guaranteed the automatic referendum in Parliament after losing the absolute majority in the January 13 elections.
PASCUAL SERRANO
After the period of talks in Havana, the peace talks between the guerrilla and the Colombian government have entered a new phase, now in Caracas. After a first round until April 22, both parties will negotiate again in the Venezuelan capital between May 20 and 25. However, it does not seem that the road is being easy.
This is the conclusion drawn after the conversation held somewhere in Caracas with the ELN's chief negotiator, Commander Pablo Beltrán. A man who has been in the guerrilla for 54 of his 70 years.
XULIO RIOS
Probably the West's biggest misunderstanding of China is its strategic intentions. There are two ideas that sneak into any debate with hardly any discussion. The first is that China's success necessarily equals our ruin. The second is that this success leads to an exacerbation of conflicts.
CECILIA VALDEZ
Following a demand from socio-environmental assemblies and indigenous peoples, the highest provincial court of Catamarca has prohibited the delivery of new permits for the exploitation of lithium and ordered that studies be carried out on the impact of all projects in the region, which means a hard blow for the provincial government and lithium multinationals, an essential resource for batteries in electronic devices and the much-mentioned energy transition.
PASCUAL SERRANO
As things stand with the new panorama announced on April 18, the American company Chevron is the only one that is granted permission to market, leaving the Spanish Repsol, the Italian Eni and the Spanish company out of the market and under threat of sanction. the French Maurel/Prom, all of them in commercial negotiations with PDVSA.
With the alibi of pressuring the Venezuelan government to be more democratic on the eve of its presidential elections on July 18, the “American friend” whom it truly sanctions is the European oil companies, which it prevents from marketing its oil.
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