Rwanda, the new Fachoda complex between France and Great Britain

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.

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Palestinians, close to deportation, far from the state

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The first step for Jewish repopulation is to completely or partially empty the Strip of the Palestinian population, something that the army is already doing following the instructions of political leaders. The military has pushed more than half of the population towards the border with Egypt, and there are currently close to a million and a half people there waiting for what is decided to be done with them.

At the moment, Egypt does not open the border, but if necessary, if the Israeli army continues to push, deportation could be inevitable. It may not affect the entire population of Gaza, but it will affect a good part of it.

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Alejandro Horowicz: Milei was left with the most degraded of the caste

CECILIA VALDEZ
Doctor in Social Sciences, teacher and journalist, Alejandro Horowicz is the author of "The Four Peronisms" (1985), his most notable work and with numerous reissues.

Critical and provocative, Horowicz has written a latest book: 'Kirchnerism unarmed, The long agony of the fourth Peronism' (2023), in which he addresses the future of this force that emerged after the 2001 crisis (explosion/corralito), and whose main references were Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

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Elections: More PDP in Taiwan, more tension in the Strait?

XULIO RIOS
What can be expected from Lai Ching-te as president is an intensification of the projections recorded in the last two terms of the PDP with Tsai Ing-wen at the helm. That is, a firm commitment to political rapprochement with the United States, also economically, defensively and strategically. Lai's Taiwan reaffirms its validity and importance as a pivotal point for the US in Asia.

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COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

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Celac silenced the drums of war that the US wanted to sound between Guyana and Venezuela

KAREN MENDEZ
Peace won, at least for now, the commitment to dialogue won, Latin America and the Caribbean won, our people won, and today they can sleep in peace and hug their families without the fear of being overwhelmed by a war that they tried to impose. from outside.

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When “internationalism” becomes a dirty word

DANIEL LARISON
As long as the world's leading power refuses to respect the limits of international law, it will always be a destabilizing force in the world and will contribute to future conflicts. A principled, internationalist approach to the world requires that the United States not only respect the laws it expects others to respect, but also hold itself and its customers to the highest standards. Any attempt to establish exceptions or create loopholes for the US and US-aligned states will serve to undermine international law and encourage further violations.

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Joe Biden and Chinese culture

JOHN HOPKINS
Joe Biden's recent comment that Xi Jinping is a dictator and his linking this assessment to the fact that China's system of government is different from that of the United States is revealing. It seems a manifestation of the Eurocentric thinking that has dominated the world in the last 200 years and the unwillingness to recognize cultures outside the Western sphere. This practice not only denies the validity of other people's experiences, but also the opportunities to learn and seek solutions to the problems we face.

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Biden–Xi: an anti-cyclonic summit

XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.

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In Argentina, the 'everyone leave' of 2001 is the 'don't fuck with me anymore' of now

CECILIA VALDEZ
The surprise caused by Milei's emergence speaks, without going any further, of tired silent majorities and a profound indifference with a politics that does not challenge them, something that the sociologist Leandro Barttolotta has been mentioning in his studies for some time and that, In his own words, it requires in-depth investigation rather than quick diagnoses. 

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What they don't tell us about October 7

JONATHAN COOK
A simple look at the remains of the various kibbutz communities that were attacked that day should raise questions in the mind of any good reporter. Were the Palestinian militants in a position to inflict physical damage of such magnitude with the type of light weapons they carried?

And if not, who else but Israel was in a position to wreak such havoc?
Another question that good journalists should ask themselves is this: What was the objective of such damage? What did the Palestinian militants hope to achieve with this?

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 Planet Gaza

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Beyond the cruel genocidal slaughter underway, the most terrible thing about what is happening before our eyes in Gaza is that it offers a perspective for the future. The attitude of Western governments, their media and propagandists, contains a clear warning about how the privileged part of this world can solve the dead end to which the capitalist system invented and defended by them has led us in this century.

The solution is the one used for centuries by those same powers that today fear being displaced from the command bridge: decimate populations and seize resources through war.

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