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...that his firm was going to have to spend a lot more time talking to NGOs. The journalist's response: "What's an NGO?" Let's hope he knows now. NGOs--nongovernmental organizations--have won significant influence over global companies. The demonstrations against global capitalism at the G-8 summit in Genoa were the latest manifestation of a trend that--mostly quietly and behind the scenes--is defining our age. From Home Depot (criticized for its use of tropical hardwoods) to Starbucks (attacked for the treatment of workers on coffee plantations), from Big Oil (a perennial target for environmentalists...
...that sense, it seems appropriate that King Juan Carlos - head of a nation with major investments in Latin America - got snippy at the Ibero-American Summit. The annual gathering was started in 1991 by then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who at the time was trying to convince the U.S. to sign a free-trade agreement, as a way to make Mexico and Latin America look like global players. Latin leaders still use if for that purpose - but this time the Spaniards may have been less willing to play along. Their frustrations with Latin America, and those...
...Venezuela, Chávez's weak political opposition is gleefully playing and replaying video of the summit exchange - especially delighted that the King used the informal, less respectful form of Spanish to address Chávez. They'll no doubt hope to use it to erode support for a raft of controversial constitutional reforms Chávez wants - including the elimination of presidential term limits - before a Dec. 2 referendum. Still, Chávez has come through past diplomatic outrages unscathed - in fact, just weeks after calling U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at the United Nations last year...
...behind the royal reprimand, much of the international media missed what may have set Chávez off in the first place. Chávez became visibly irritated at the summit when Spain's current Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - a socialist and Chávez ally - insisted that Latin America needs to attract more foreign capital if it's going to make a dent in its chronic, deepening poverty. Chávez blames "savage capitalism" for Latin America's gaping inequality and insists "only socialism" can fix it - hence his tirade against Aznar and other...
...rally deaths will complicate the task of Arab moderates, such as Saudi Arabia, who are trying to reunite the two warring Palestinian factions. Hamas opposes Abbas's plans to attend a U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Arab summit in Annapolis, Maryland, later this month. Ahmed Qurie, chief Palestinian negotiator with the Israelis, compared Hamas's reign in Gaza to the Israeli occupation inside the Palestinian territories. "The policy of silencing the other side will not win," he said. Meanwhile, a Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri blamed Fatah for provoking the latest Gaza shooting. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem