Nordsprog.dk bruger cookies og EU har besluttet at du ønsker at vide dette. Info

50 ordspråk av Michael Shifter

Michael Shifter

Läs om Michael Shifter på Google eller Bing. Hitta foto...

There is powerful symbolism in what's happening in Costa Rica. Here is a country with enormous affinity with the United States, where there is a tremendous convergence of shared values ... and even they are not convinced that unquestioned support of the United States is in their best interests.

I think they're not as quick to dismiss his bluster as they used to be.

So far, it's a stage of exploration and posturing, and certainly could turn into something more serious. But it's very hard to predict right now.

At a moment when relations between the US and Latin America are at their lowest point since the end of the cold war, this fence proposal is viewed as a terrible affront.

He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is at record prices, and he's willing to spend both in Venezuela and in the region. But the question is, how much influence is he gaining?

The possibility we'll have another Chavez acolyte in Peru represents a serious challenge to the economic model and a threat to democracy.

Unless Flores embarks on ... social reform aimed at addressing the country's exclusion and inequality, political unrest could mount during her presidency.

With this move, he risks alienating natural and otherwise sympathetic partners like Brazil and Spain. Ordering the military to seize the natural gas fields is unnecessarily confrontational and antagonistic.

The question is, when it comes time to confront those policy decisions, whether that could create more violence or unrest.

The way Robertson's declarations will play in Latin America is that Chavez is right and that the U.S. is out to get him.

[Close observers of Latin American affairs both in Washington and in the region say Rice's finesse made possible a turnaround in U.S.-Latin relations.] She saw the problem, acted well and wisely, and cleaned up the mess, ... It repairs relations with key countries like Brazil and puts the United States in a much better position to play a leadership role going forward.

good theater and even better politics. He has been waging this battle in Latin America, in an effort to extend his political influence and build a counterweight to the United States, and now, in a display of great audacity, he is appealing directly to the considerable underclass in the United States.

Much in the way Fidel Castro did for a half century, he said what a lot of Latin Americans would like to be able to say about the United States in a public forum, but don't and can't afford to.

It's given new life, and of course great resources, to this fear that's hung around Washington for decades, of (Cuba) exporting revolution.

It's given new life, and of course great resources, to this fear that's hung around Washington for decades, of [Cuba] exporting revolution,

Sidan 2 av 4

<tidigare nästa>

1 2 3 4

Nordsprog.dk

Antal ordsprog er 1469560
varav 775337 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik

Michael Shifter proverb