On November 8 about a million people across the country took to the streets with a clear message: Argentina wants more freedom, an independent judiciary, free press, and an end to widespread corruption
Dec. 6.─ Seventy-one years ago this week, on December 7, 1941, the United States changed forever. What began as a tranquil day in a country that thought it could avoid the violence wracking the rest of the world ended with a bloody and unprovoked surprise attack. That "day that shall live in infamy" -- in President Franklin Roosevelt's famous words -- saw our country transformed from a growing but isolated nation into the military, technological and economic superpower that routed a vicious totalitarian Axis, then a brutal communist empire, and that has ensured peace and democracy in the world ever since.
On December 7, 2012, the people of Argentina will wake up to a different assault. The attack on its freedoms will not be a surprise and it will not come from a foreign empire. It will be a pre-announced offensive on freedom of expression, the most fundamental liberty of any democracy, and it will come from the increasingly despotic regime headed by Cristina Kirchner, a left-wing populist that, like most authoritarians, cannot abide an independent press.
It is often said that Argentines only protest when the economy hurts their pockets. If so, last November 8, was an exception to this rule.
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Naciones Unidas, Nov.27 (EFE).─ La Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas aprobó este martes por primera vez una resolución que condena la mutilación genital femenina y pide a los Estados miembros medidas de castigo y educativas para frenarla.
Nov. 24.─ In the Balkans the big news is who is out of jail, who is in and who is going to court. All the cases are high-profile and all have political fallout. The most significant was the acquittal on November 16th of two Croatian generals by the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. Croats were ecstatic, Serbs bitter.