Barely 72 hours after Christian Wulff announced his resignation as German president due to allegations of corruption when he was a state governor, the country has found a successor. Read the rest of this entry »

It all began this morning when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched his new personal Twitter account, hours prior to formally declaring on French TV tonight his intention to run for a second term as president. Read the rest of this entry »

This month, fifty years ago, the United States began the embargo on Cuba which is still on, something that nobody could have expected to last so long. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a popular joke among Spaniards these days, it says: “In what do you think Bolivia and Spain are similar? The answer is that Bolivia has a Department of the Navy but does not have coastline. Spain has a Department of Justice but not justice! In itself and in view of what is going on in the Spanish courts at the moment it is not so funny, but could be considered realistic. Read the rest of this entry »