La cobertura de la realidad política de EEUU por los medios de información españoles Una de las noticias que ocuparan mayor espacio mediático en España este año serán las elecciones presidenciales de EEUU. Estas elecciones se han iniciado con las primarias de los dos Partidos mayoritarios en aquel país, el Partido Demócrata y el Partido Republicano, que elegirán a sus candidatos a la presidencia de EEUU, culminando este proceso con las elecciones Presidenciales del gobierno federal que tendrán lugar a finales de año, en noviembre. Continueu llegint »

Los problemas existentes en la cobertura mediática de aquella realidad

La enorme influencia que Estados Unidos tiene en el mundo explica la gran atención mediática que están teniendo las elecciones primarias en los dos partidos que tienen representación parlamentaria en el Congreso de Estados Unidos, el Partido Demócrata y el Partido Republicano. De ahí la importancia de que se conozca bien lo que está ocurriendo en aquel país. Continueu llegint »

Published on Counterpunch, 2/13/08

I live on both sides of the Atlantic–part of the year in the where I was born. I had to leave Spain because of my active participation in the anti-fascist underground against the Franco dictatorship in the 1950s. I lived for a while in Sweden and Great Britain, and finally settled in the U.S.A., teaching (as I still do) at the Johns Hopkins University. I have been active in U.S. academic and political life for more than 35 years. I was senior advisor to Jesse Jackson Sr. during the Democratic Party primaries of 1984 and 1988. Continueu llegint »

The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access publicat el 4 de Juny de 2008

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Published on ww.counterpunch.org, Novembre 2007

In his article “The Hillarycare Mythology” (The American Prospect, October 2007, pp. 12-18), Paul Starr, a senior health policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and a leading figure in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House task force on health care reform, analyzes the origins, development, and final outcome of the Clinton administration’s health care reform–referred to by republicans as “Hillarycare.” Continueu llegint »

Published on www.counterpunch.org, Septembre 2007

According to conventional wisdom in Spain and in the U.S., in Spain’s transition from the Franco dictatorship to democracy, it was King Juan Carlos, with the assistance of the U.S. government (first the Ford administration, then the Carter administration),
who brought democracy to Spain. In this interpretation of events taking place from 1975, when the dictator died, to 1978, when the first democratically elected government was installed, the U.S. government actively supported the development of democracy in Spain.
The reality, however, was very different. As documented in a recent book by Nicolas Sartorins and Alberto Sabio, El Final de la Dictadura (The End of the Dictatorship), the U.S. government was not very keen on having full democracy in Spain. The primary, if not exclusive, concern of the U.S. government in Spain was to preserve its military and economic interests. Democracy in Spain was the least of its concerns. Continueu llegint »