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Zacharias — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:00:52 EDT

Fotos de nuestra fotoblog sobre la visita de Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico:

Vela de Resultados!

Zacharias — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:33:33 EDT

Domingo, 1o de Junio

Pepin’s

4 p.m. Calle Loíza #2479, Punta las Marías, San Juan, PR 00913

Article en El Nuevo Dia: "Last Hurra

Zacharias — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:12:31 EDT

29-Mayo-2008 José Eugenio Hernández Mayoral Senador por el PPD “The Last Hurrah” “The Last Hurrah” es el título de una película del gran director estadounidense John Ford, quien fue pionero del cine narrativo y llegó a ganar cuatro premios de la Academia por mejor dirección. La misma fue inspirada por una de las novelas más exitosas sobre la política norteamericana escrita por Edwin O’Connor en el 1956. La trama del filme gira en torno a un veterano político de ascendencia irlandesa quien aspiraba a la reelección como alcalde por el Partido Demócrata. A sus setenta y dos años, ostentaba un buen récord de servicio público. Ello distaba de su contrincante, un candidato joven, apuesto, de buenos modales, veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial e inexperto políticamente. Durante la campaña afloraban los contrastes en términos de los viejos estilos de una maquinaria política y sus mentalidades arcaicas versus los deseos de cambio y nueva dirección del pueblo. El día antes de la votación se celebró una gran marcha alrededor del centro de la ciudad con pancartas que favorecían al alcalde. Esto le inspiró la confianza que sólo un ejército electoral verdaderamente listo puede brindar. Sin embargo, la noche de la elección el alcalde sucumbió ante la realidad, tras conocerse los resultados adversos en donde usualmente predominaba. En su interior, el alcalde sabía que había llegado al ocaso de su carrera política. Desde entonces, “The Last Hurrah” se ha convertido en una frase muy común en el idioma inglés cuando se alude a la última campaña de un político. El paralelismo de esta película con la realidad actual en la política estadounidense no puede ser más evidente y nuestro país será el escenario donde la senadora Hillary Clinton intentará buscar su último triunfo, aunque muy dentro de sí reconoce que ya no cuenta con las herramientas necesarias para lograr la nominación presidencial. Un líder joven, capaz e inspirador de nuevos cambios, le ha ganado la batalla. Ese líder joven es Barack Obama, quien promete ser el verdadero amigo que Puerto Rico no ha tenido en la Casa Blanca desde John F. Kennedy. Por eso, este domingo nuestro pueblo tiene una cita con el destino para lograr que ese sueño de cambio se haga realidad, votando por Obama.

Fotos de la Caminata con Barack Obama

Zacharias — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:27:07 EDT

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Caminata Slideshow

Zacharias — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:01:29 EDT

Aqui estan las fotos:

Video de Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico!

Zacharias — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:26:56 EDT

Aqui hay video de la visita de Michelle Obama en la isla:

Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico!

Zacharias — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:24:20 EDT

Aqui esta el video de la visita de Michelle en la isla:

OBAMAFEST at Hard Rock Cafe

Zacharias — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:51:53 EDT

Aqui tenemos los datos:

Nuestra celebracion de los resultados de OR y KY

Zacharias — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:13:54 EDT

Aqui estan los fotos:

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Zacharias — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:59:04 EDT

OP-ED IN THE CARIBBEAN BUSINESS MAY 15, 2008 BY RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO (1973-1976, 1985-1992) WHY OBAMA? Mainstream politics, now defined by the code words "Washington" or "inside the beltway", have ensnared the United States for the past forty years. In the bipolar world of the cold war and in the unipolar world in the after math of the cold war, this did not have serious consequences for the nation. The Bush administration, which from the sweep of history will be seen as the administration which the U.S. had at the time that the world transitioned from unipolarity to non polarity lead the nation into the war in Irak at the expense of the ideological or cultural soft power necessary to lead in the world. This has been a serious setback for the United States. Politics as usual Clinton or McCain will not do after Bush if the U.S. is to rise up to the challenges it face in leading the world. Joseph Nye, the political scientist, has pointed out that in the international level the U.S. plays out its interests in three interconnected chessboards: military power, economic power, and ideological or cultural soft power. The U.S. military present in one form or another in 100 countries around the world dominates at every level land, sea, air, space. The U.S. spends more than the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for almost 50 percent of global spending. Its economy is the world's largest: 14 trillion. It accounts for one quarter of the world's output. Its research and development are unmatched, as are its higher education institutions. It is the worlds most competitive economy, but others are catching up. New world and regional powers are on the rise. Over the past few decades, countries all over the world have been experiencing rates of economic growth that were once unthinkable. The distribution of power is shifting, moving away from U.S. dominance. Although, we are not entering an anti-American world, we are entering into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people. The flawed foreign policies of the Bush administration, which I have criticized from this column from the very beginning, have frittered away the ideological or cultural soft power which the U.S needed to exercise its leadership in the world disorder that is emerging. This has happened while the world has transitioned into what Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, calls the age of non polarity. As the 21st century unfolds the world is being increasingly dominated, not by one or two or even several states, but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exerting various kinds of power. Nation-state have lost their monopoly on power. Power is now found in many hands and in many places. The U.S. must get its political house in order so that it can lead within the present world context. The 2008 primaries and the general election will be a watershed in U.S. history. From the wellsprings values and political of American Democracy, the American people will have the opportunity to correct the dysfunctional politics that afflicts the nation. The system, as Fareed Zakaria editor of Newsweek International notes, has been captured by money, special interest, a sensationalist media, and ideological attack groups. The result in ceaseless, virulent debate about trivia politics as theater and very little substance, compromise, or action. A can-do country is now saddled with a do nothing political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving. Progress on any major problem health care, Social Security, tax reform will require compromise form both sides. It requires a longer-term perspective. And that has become political. It rest not just with the United States at large but with Washington in particular. The United States faces a choice as Zakaria says: it can stabilize the emerging world order by bringing in the new rising nations, ceding some of its own power and perquisites, and accepting a world with a diversity of voices and viewpoints. Or it can watch as the rise of the rest produces greater nationalism, diffusion, and disintegration, which will slowly tear apart the world order that the United States has build over the last 60 year. McCain's world view is stuck back in the days of the cold war substituting Islamic radicals for communists as the enemy. Clinton is trapped into not looking weak a cold war confrontational mind set. Obama is precisely the type of leader that the U.S. needs to guide it in the post American world. He is free from mind sets of the past and can relate better than any other to those that the U.S. must engage with due respect in order to bring about a world built on cooperation not on confrontation. He can elicit from the American people in this election the mandate to build such a world. The world is changing, but it is going the United States' way. The nation that are rising are embracing markets, democratic government (of some form or another), and greater openness and transparency. The United States has a window of opportunity to shape and master the changing global landscape, states Fareed Zakaria, but only if it first recognizes that the post--American world is a reality and embraces and celebrates that fact. In order to seize this opportunity the United States must be lead by a new generation which brings with it the passion for change in strategy and attitude. This is the generation that Obama leads bring into government with a mandate for change in specific policies such as energy or climate change. Business as usual will not do in the unipolar world, because the Bush administration has done away with the ideological and cultural soft power assets the U.S. had. In order to regain the high ground, just military, or economic initiatives will not do. Recapturing ideological and cultural assets takes a longer time, more patience, more prudence and diplomacy. It is a long term proposition more suitable to the idealism of new generations who will live to enjoy its fruits or suffer its failures, than to those who have held power in the past. * * *

Videos hecho por y para Puertoriquenos Con Obama

Zacharias — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:55:12 EDT

Michelle en la isla, Dia 2

Zacharias — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:28:33 EDT

Fotos de nuestra fotoblog sobre la visita de Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico:

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Zacharias — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:17:55 EDT

OP-ED IN THE CARIBBEAN BUSINESS MAY 15, 2008 BY RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO (1973-1976, 1985-1992) WHY OBAMA? Mainstream politics, now defined by the code words “Washington” or “inside the beltway”, have ensnared the United States for the past forty years. In the bipolar world of the cold war and in the unipolar world in the after math of the cold war, this did not have serious consequences for the nation. The Bush administration, which from the sweep of history will be seen as the administration which the U.S. had at the time that the world transitioned from unipolarity to non polarity lead the nation into the war in Irak at the expense of the ideological or cultural soft power necessary to lead in the world. This has been a serious setback for the United States. Politics as usual Clinton or McCain will not do after Bush if the U.S. is to rise up to the challenges it face in leading the world. Joseph Nye, the political scientist, has pointed out that in the international level the U.S. plays out its interests in three interconnected chessboards: military power, economic power, and ideological or cultural soft power. The U.S. military present in one form or another in 100 countries around the world dominates at every level land, sea, air, space. The U.S. spends more than the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for almost 50 percent of global spending. Its economy is the world’s largest: 14 trillion. It accounts for one quarter of the world’s output. Its research and development are unmatched, as are its higher education institutions. It is the worlds most competitive economy, but others are catching up. New world and regional powers are on the rise. Over the past few decades, countries all over the world have been experiencing rates of economic growth that were once unthinkable. The distribution of power is shifting, moving away from U.S. dominance. Although, we are not entering an anti-American world, we are entering into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people. The flawed foreign policies of the Bush administration, which I have criticized from this column from the very beginning, have frittered away the ideological or cultural soft power which the U.S needed to exercise its leadership in the world disorder that is emerging. This has happened while the world has transitioned into what Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, calls the age of non polarity. As the 21st century unfolds the world is being increasingly dominated, not by one or two or even several states, but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exerting various kinds of power. Nation-state have lost their monopoly on power. Power is now found in many hands and in many places. The U.S. must get its political house in order so that it can lead within the present world context. The 2008 primaries and the general election will be a watershed in U.S. history. From the wellsprings values and political of American Democracy, the American people will have the opportunity to correct the dysfunctional politics that afflicts the nation. The system, as Fareed Zakaria editor of Newsweek International notes, has been captured by money, special interest, a sensationalist media, and ideological attack groups. The result in ceaseless, virulent debate about trivia politics as theater and very little substance, compromise, or action. A can-do country is now saddled with a do nothing political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving. Progress on any major problem health care, Social Security, tax reform will require compromise form both sides. It requires a longer-term perspective. And that has become political. It rest not just with the United States at large but with Washington in particular. The United States faces a choice as Zakaria says: it can stabilize the emerging world order by bringing in the new rising nations, ceding some of its own power and perquisites, and accepting a world with a diversity of voices and viewpoints. Or it can watch as the rise of the rest produces greater nationalism, diffusion, and disintegration, which will slowly tear apart the world order that the United States has build over the last 60 year. McCain’s world view is stuck back in the days of the cold war substituting Islamic radicals for communists as the enemy. Clinton is trapped into not looking weak a cold war confrontational mind set. Obama is precisely the type of leader that the U.S. needs to guide it in the post American world. He is free from mind sets of the past and can relate better than any other to those that the U.S. must engage with due respect in order to bring about a world built on cooperation not on confrontation. He can elicit from the American people in this election the mandate to build such a world. The world is changing, but it is going the United States’ way. The nation that are rising are embracing markets, democratic government (of some form or another), and greater openness and transparency. The United States has a window of opportunity to shape and master the changing global landscape, states Fareed Zakaria, but only if it first recognizes that the post--American world is a reality and embraces and celebrates that fact. In order to seize this opportunity the United States must be lead by a new generation which brings with it the passion for change in strategy and attitude. This is the generation that Obama leads bring into government with a mandate for change in specific policies such as energy or climate change. Business as usual will not do in the unipolar world, because the Bush administration has done away with the ideological and cultural soft power assets the U.S. had. In order to regain the high ground, just military, or economic initiatives will not do. Recapturing ideological and cultural assets takes a longer time, more patience, more prudence and diplomacy. It is a long term proposition more suitable to the idealism of new generations who will live to enjoy its fruits or suffer its failures, than to those who have held power in the past. * * *

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Zacharias — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:36:29 EDT

OP-ED IN THE CARIBBEAN BUSINESS  MAY 15, 2008  BY RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON  GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO  (1973-1976, 1985-1992)      WHY OBAMA?

Mainstream politics, now defined by the code words "Washington" or "inside the beltway", have ensnared the United States for the past forty years. In the bipolar world of the cold war and in the unipolar world in the after math of the cold war, this did not have serious consequences for the nation. The Bush administration, which from the sweep of history will be seen as the administration which the U.S. had at the time that the world transitioned from unipolarity to non polarity lead the nation into the war in Irak at the expense of the ideological or cultural soft power necessary to lead in the world. This has been a serious setback for the United States. Politics as usual Clinton or McCain will not do after Bush if the U.S. is to rise up to the challenges it face in leading the world.

Joseph Nye, the political scientist, has pointed out that in the international level the U.S. plays out its interests in three interconnected chessboards: military power, economic power, and ideological or cultural soft power. The U.S. military present in one form or another in 100 countries around the world dominates at every level land, sea, air, space. The U.S. spends more than the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for almost 50 percent of global spending. Its economy is the world's largest: 14 trillion. It accounts for one quarter of the world's output. Its research and development are unmatched, as are its higher education institutions. It is the worlds most competitive economy, but others are catching up.

New world and regional powers are on the rise. Over the past few decades, countries all over the world have been experiencing rates of economic growth that were once unthinkable. The distribution of power is shifting, moving away from U.S. dominance. Although, we are not entering an anti-American world, we are entering into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.

The flawed foreign policies of the Bush administration, which I have criticized from this column from the very beginning, have frittered away the ideological or cultural soft power which the U.S needed to exercise its leadership in the world disorder that is emerging. This has happened while the world has transitioned into what Richard Haass, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, calls the age of non polarity. As the 21st century unfolds the world is being increasingly dominated, not by one or two or even several states, but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exerting various kinds of power. Nation-state have lost their monopoly on power. Power is now found in many hands and in many places.

The U.S. must get its political house in order so that it can lead within the present world context. The 2008 primaries and the general election will be a watershed in U.S. history. From the wellsprings values and political of American Democracy, the American people will have the opportunity to correct the dysfunctional politics that afflicts the nation.

The system, as Fareed Zakaria editor of Newsweek International notes, has been captured by money, special interest, a sensationalist media, and ideological attack groups. The result in ceaseless, virulent debate about trivia politics as theater and very little substance, compromise, or action. A can-do country is now saddled with a do nothing political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving. Progress on any major problem health care, Social Security, tax reform will require compromise form both sides. It requires a longer-term perspective. And that has become political. It rest not just with the United States at large but with Washington in particular.

The United States faces a choice as Zakaria says: it can stabilize the emerging world order by bringing in the new rising nations, ceding some of its own power and perquisites, and accepting a world with a diversity of voices and viewpoints. Or it can watch as the rise of the rest produces greater nationalism, diffusion, and disintegration, which will slowly tear apart the world order that the United States has build over the last 60 year.

McCain's world view is stuck back in the days of the cold war substituting Islamic radicals for communists as the enemy. Clinton is trapped into not looking weak a cold war confrontational mind set. Obama is precisely the type of leader that the U.S. needs to guide it in the post American world. He is free from mind sets of the past and can relate better than any other to those that the U.S. must engage with due respect in order to bring about a world built on cooperation not on confrontation. He can elicit from the American people in this election the mandate to build such a world.

The world is changing, but it is going the United States' way. The nation that are rising are embracing markets, democratic government (of some form or another), and greater openness and transparency. The United States has a window of opportunity to shape and master the changing global landscape, states Fareed Zakaria, but only if it first recognizes that the post--American world is a reality and embraces and celebrates that fact.

In order to seize this opportunity the United States must be lead by a new generation which brings with it the passion for change in strategy and attitude. This is the generation that Obama leads bring into government with a mandate for change in specific policies such as energy or climate change.

Business as usual will not do in the unipolar world, because the Bush administration has done away with the ideological and cultural soft power assets the U.S. had. In order to regain the high ground, just military, or economic initiatives will not do. Recapturing ideological and cultural assets takes a longer time, more patience, more prudence and diplomacy. It is a long term proposition more suitable to the idealism of new generations who will live to enjoy its fruits or suffer its failures, than to those who have held power in the past.

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Zacharias — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:39:59 EDT

Videos hecho por y para Puertoriquenos Con Obama

Zacharias — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:13:11 EDT

Michelle en Puerto Rico, Dia 2

Zacharias — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:09:21 EDT

OP-ED by Governor Hernandez Colon

Zacharias — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:09:13 EDT

OP-ED IN THE CARIBBEAN BUSINESS
MAY 15, 2008
BY RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON
GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICO
(1973-1976, 1985-1992)

WHY OBAMA?

Mainstream politics, now defined by the code words “Washington” or “inside the beltway”, have ensnared the United States for the past forty years. In the bipolar world of the cold war and in the unipolar world in the after math of the cold war, this did not have serious consequences for the nation. The Bush administration, which from the sweep of history will be seen as the administration which the U.S. had at the time that the world transitioned from unipolarity to non polarity lead the nation into the war in Irak at the expense of the ideological or cultural soft power necessary to lead in the world. This has been a serious setback for the United States. Politics as usual Clinton or McCain will not do after Bush if the U.S. is to rise up to the challenges it face in leading the world.

Joseph Nye, the political scientist, has pointed out that in the international level the U.S. plays out its interests in three interconnected chessboards: military power, economic power, and ideological or cultural soft power. The U.S. military present in one form or another in 100 countries around the world dominates at every level land, sea, air, space. The U.S. spends more than the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for almost 50 percent of global spending. Its economy is the world’s largest: 14 trillion. It accounts for one quarter of the world’s output. Its research and development are unmatched, as are its higher education institutions. It is the worlds most competitive economy, but others are catching up.

New world and regional powers are on the rise. Over the past few decades, countries all over the world have been experiencing rates of economic growth that were once unthinkable. The distribution of power is shifting, moving away from U.S. dominance. Although, we are not entering an anti-American world, we are entering into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.

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Michelle Obama en Puerto Rico!

Zacharias — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:44:23 EDT

Aqui esta un photoblog del primer dia de la visita de Michelle Obama a la isla:

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Llega a la isla Michelle Obama

Zacharias — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:04:15 EDT

Esta en la isla Michelle Obama!

Aqui esta una entrevista que dio al Nuevo Dia “El cambio surge de abajo.”

Co-Presidente de la Campaña Barack Obama en la Isla, Pedro Pierluisi exhorta a los jovenes a votar.

Zacharias — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:44:42 EDT

El licenciado hizo un llamado hoy a los jovenes para que salgan a votar en la primaria del 1ro de junio, durante un encuentro en los cuarteles del comité de Barack Obama.

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“Puedo entender las razones por las que los jóvenes se identifican cn Barack Obama. Es un candidato fresco, con visión, con una promesa de cambio, que ha inspirado a milliones de personas. Barack Obama ha despertado interésen gente que jamás se había interesado en la política porque es genuino”, sostuvo Pierluisi.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/writezach/PressConferencesPuertoRicoConObama/photo#5198913103729168034"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/writezach/SCY_7D3mjqI/AAAAAAAAAkg/MhNlVBjMQ5M/s144/IMGA0170.JPG" /></a>

“La casa de Barack Obama es grande y todo el mundo está bienvenida” concluyo.

Rueda de prensa en la sede de Barack Obama el 7 de Mayo

Zacharias — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:56:41 EDT

Lideres de ambos partidos se reunieron en la sede del Senador Barack Obama en Puerto Rico para una rueda de prensa despues los resultados de ayer en Carolina en Norte y Indiana.

"Segun los resultados de ayer—luego de la gran victoria de Obama en Carolina de Norte y de la contienda tan cerrada en Indiana—la campana esta basicamente definida... Tim Russert dijo anoche que ya sabemos quien es el candidato democrata ... Es hora de hablar de planes de Obama como planes para Puerto Rico" dijo el licenciado Andrés W. López, Co-Director de la camapana del Senador Obama en Puerto Rico.

"En cuanto al area de la salud, Barack Obama quiere hacer una restructuración grande para mejorar la salud en toda la nacion, incluyendo a Puerto Rico. El Senador Obama vino a Puerto Rico a escucharnos sobre esta tema, y incorporó nuestras ideas en su plan. Eso es diferente del Washington típico, y es lo que distingue al Senador Obama de la Senadora Hillary Clinton." dijo el licenciado Luis A. Avilés, miembro del Comite Asesor del Senador Obama.

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Zacharias — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:40 EDT

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Good Morning Philadelphia Voters

Zacharias — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:40:39 EDT

Obama supporters showed up bright and early on the corner of 15th and Market in downtown Philadelphia to greet commuters and passers-by on their way to work.