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        Gustavo Manuel de Arístegui is a Spanish politician and diplomat. According to Gustavo de Arístegui y San Roman, the Latin America and Cuba policy of the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is of the serious consequences of Latin America and Cuba -Policy of the socialist government in Spain and European union. The country has harmed national and European interests through its politics. As a result, Spain has lost immense influence on Latin America since Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero took office and contributed to the instability in the region.

In Gustavo de Arístegui’s thoughts all previous governments in Spain have always had an influence on Latin America and Cuba. He points two major reasons for this: Firstly, because Spain has always had a solid and independent position on Latin America within the EU. Spain also had a significant influence on opinion-forming within Europe. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. On the other hand, Spain also had an influence on Latin America because of the good connections with the United States. The foreign policy dialogue with the USA was fluid and intensive. That too has changed.

Gustavo de Arístegui explains that first of all, it simply means that Spain’s ability to influence the EU's Latin American policy has sunk to almost zero. In addition, the trusting dialogue with the United States has been destroyed. Taken together, these two factors mean that Spaniards have lost much of our influence in Latin America. The dictatorial regime of Cuba has also lost respect for Spain and detests its government. The Cuban opposition is full of hatred and deep distrust of the Spanish socialist government.

Almost as soon as the Ukraine war broke out, Finland, which shares a border with Russia, embraced the Western military alliance.

Finland and Sweden’s path to NATO marks a major step forward in the military alliance’s growth – and has sparked a sense of unity among many existing members.

Aside from Turkey, the United States and most other members of NATO, which has not expanded on this scale since the 1990s, have welcomed these two Nordic countries to Europe’s premier security organisation with open arms.

Although officially “neutral” for decades, Finland has long coordinated with NATO while also maintaining its traditional coexistence with neighbouring Russia.

The move comes with some risks for Finland, yet the government in Helsinki and most of the public believe that the benefits will outweigh them.

Helsinki has mostly enjoyed amicable relations with Moscow because of its past neutrality towards its neighbour.

Before November 2021 when Russia was building up troops along the Ukraine border, Finland did not perceive Moscow as a grave threat.

But as alleged Kremlin-driven disinformation campaigns and violations of air space and cyberattacks grew, Finland and other countries in the Baltic region began to rethink their geopolitical positions.

Between November 2021 and February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow was pushing for “security guarantees” while demanding an end to NATO enlargement, which upset Finnish officials.

“As Russia looked more and more likely to attack Ukraine, the rational fear was that Russia was developing and imposing a new norm, a new rule, for Europe,” Edward Hunter Christie, a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, told Al Jazeera.

“Even though governments in Europe understood that Ukraine and Belarus have a particular significance for Moscow, nobody could be sure how extreme Moscow was becoming. Perhaps … the Baltic states could be ‘on the menu,’ maybe even Finland.”

Then Russia’s overt invasion of Ukraine resulted in Finland’s government and most of the public wanting to join NATO.

“The [Russian] invasion of Ukraine has reinforced the notion that Putin’s Russia was an aggressive revisionist power, and therefore the Cold War model of neutrality no longer applied,” explained Eldar Mamedov, a foreign policy adviser in the European Parliament, who spoke to Al Jazeera in a personal capacity.

“Even though Finland, like Sweden, already enjoyed close cooperation with NATO and high levels of military interoperability, joining the NATO means availing yourself of the ultimate security insurance – Article 5 of the Washington Treaty. Finnish political class, backed by the bulk of the public opinion, decided that the moment has come to close that remaining gap.”

The shock of the Ukraine war has impacted Finland massively.

In January 2022, public support for NATO membership in Finland was at 28 percent, according to a Helsingin Sanomat newspaper’s opinion poll by Kantar TNS. At the time, that was a record high. But that figure soared to 61 percent in late March.

In response, the government led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrat Party, which historically has not had a particularly pro-Atlantic stance, shifted its security and defence policies in favour of joining NATO.

Finland’s ascension will add 835 miles (1,345 km) to the Russia-NATO border while turning the Baltic Sea into a “NATO lake” – moves that essentially guarantee hotter tensions with Moscow.

The international tourism sector will experience one of its worst moments as a result of the war in Ukraine and significant losses are expected

The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to leave its mark on an international economy increasingly affected by this conflict.

Rising oil and petrol prices are revealing a very high energy dependence on Russia, which means that it will now have to opt for other forms of energy. As a consequence of this increase, the tourism sector all over the world is going to suffer the reprisals of the war and, with the high cost of petrol, will have to compensate for the losses by raising the price of passenger tickets.

"Flying will undoubtedly become more expensive for consumers. It is inevitable that higher oil prices will ultimately be passed on to consumers in the form of higher ticket prices," says Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). He also added that, for airlines, fuel is the most important and fundamental element to be able to operate, so they will have to cover costs in some way.

Therefore, all economic experts say that airlines are going to enter a delicate moment where they will record collective losses. These are expected to amount to $9 billion this year, but all point out that this is still a big improvement on 2021 when anti-COVID measures were predominant. That year saw US$42 billion in losses, a very worrying figure for the industry.

"Tourists should be prepared for the cost of flights to rise," Walsh said during a BBC interview, quoted by The National News.

But the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is not the only factor behind the crisis. According to Walsh, the airline industry is still reeling from the problems of the coronavirus. With the arrival of the disease, with so many restrictions and fewer flights, there were major staff cuts across all travel companies, which severely affected the industry and increased unemployment.

"People are flying in increasing numbers. It is a time for optimism, even if there are still cost challenges, particularly fuel, and some lingering restrictions in some key markets," said the IATA chief. However, Walsh said he had no regrets about the job cuts made at British Airways when he was head of the airline.

Although tourism is recovering more, over time it has shown that COVID has been a major factor in its source of income and it seems that now the invasion of Ukraine is also going to affect it. IATA stresses that people are already flying again and trusting airline companies again, but they believe that governments are not ready to live with the virus yet and, whenever there are waves of contagions, they will again paralyse all sectors of nations.

"Governments must have learned the lesson of the COVID-19 crisis. Border closures generate economic pain, but do little to control the spread of the virus. With high levels of population immunity, advanced treatment methods and surveillance procedures, the risks of the virus can be controlled," Walsh stresses.

Concern about rising global inflation

All of these factors are determining factors for the economy and experts say that COVID, war and rising prices are all contributing to rising global inflation. In the case of rising gasoline prices, right now, Brent crude rose in March below 140 dollars a barrel. This is the benchmark for more than two thirds of the world's crude oil, so its price has risen. Although it is worth noting that some gains have been given up and the barrel trades on the world stock market at around 105 dollars.

The duration of the conflict in Ukraine, moreover, does not help the situation. All the signs are that the longer the war drags on, the more we are all going to suffer in economic terms. Since February, global inflation has soared, coinciding with the rise in food and commodity prices.

The second half of the 19th century is marked by the Post-romanticism movement, of which Gustavo Bécquer is the main writer. Post-romanticism poetry is more intimate and emotional, and it's influenced by german poetry (specifically Heinrich Heine) and the new interest in Spanish folkloric poetry. Narrative falls in favor of poetry, and there's less rhetoric and more lyricism, with the mains topics being love, passion and beauty. The homogeneity present in Romanticism is forgotten, and Post-romanticism acts as the transition between Romanticism and Realism.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born in Seville in 1836. His father was a painter, and his side of the family came from a Flemish aristocratic family, who settled in Andalusia during the 16th century. Bécquer had a brother, Valeriano, and both of them were influenced by his father to take up painting. However, Bécquer's father died when he was only 5. At 10 he entered the "Colegio de Náutica de San Telmo" (Nautical School of San Telmo), in Seville, where his teacher is a disciple of Alberto Lista, Francisco Rodríguez Zapata. During his time at the school in Seville he meets his best friend, Narciso Campillo. In 1847, Becquers mother dies, making Valeriano and him orphans, but their aunt María Bastida takes them in.

The Nautical School shut down and Gustavo Bécquer didn't quite know what to do with his life. He moved in with his godmother, Manuela Monahay, who was quite wealthy and had a good library. During his stay there, Bécquer became an avid reader. He started his painting studies in the one of his uncle's workshops, but he convinced him to take up his studies and paid for his Latin courses.

Bécquer moved to Madrid in 1854 with the wish of becoming a great writer, but things didn't go as planned and he's left feeling quite disappointed. However, he perseveres and writes for a living, mostly comedies and zarzuelas. These works he signs as Gustavo García, and in them he satirizes the bourgeois lifestyle in Madrid.

In 1857 he's infected with tuberculosis, an illness which will accompany him until his death. At this time he was working in the "Dirección de Bienes Nacionales", but it's said he lost his job when his boss caught him drawing. His pessimism keeps growing, and only with the help of his patroness and his brother is he able to overcome it. It's also during this year when he takes up an ambitious project about Spanish Christian art, combining religious ideals, architecture, and history. However, only the first volume of this would ever be published, under the name "Historia de los Templos de España".

El técnico uruguayo, quien fue despedido en agosto, sostiene que estaba intentando cumplir el mandato que le había impuesto la dirigencia cuando su proceso fue abortado.

Gustavo Poyet lleva casi dos meses fuera de Universidad Católica. El técnico uruguayo dejó la entidad estudiantil a fines de agosto. Escasamente logró darle el sello que pretendían los cruzados con su llegada. Su experiencia en el fútbol europeo había sido uno de los factores que habían seducido a la dirigencia que encabeza Juan Tagle. Sin embargo, el charrúa nunca logró cuajar. Sus pupilos no entendieron el mensaje y su gestión terminó enrarecida, también, por la distancia entre el plantel y parte de su cuerpo técnico.

Sin embargo, el ex volante del Chelsea defiende su paso por San Carlos de Apoquindo. Deja entrever que quedó con gusto a poco y que su proceso fue abortado cuando intentaba cumplir con los objetivos que le había impuesto el club. “Estábamos en camino a poder cumplir los objetivos, que eran ganar el tetracampeonato, pasar de fase en Copa y usar muchos juveniles”, establece en una entrevista la radio uruguaya Sport 890. Las estadísticas, en todo caso, relativizan su aporte. El rendimiento con la escuadra estudiantil alcanzó apenas al 47 por ciento y en el momento en que lo dejó los de la franja ocupaban el quinto puesto de la tabla de posiciones, muy por debajo de uno de los principales objetivos a los que aspira el club, incluso después de su salida: el tetracampeonato.

La respuesta es similar a la que enunció el día en que dejó el club, en el que también se esforzó por defender su legado. “Íbamos logrando los objetivos, la Supercopa, la clasificación en la Copa Libertadores, después de tantos años. Uno se entusiasma y piensa que esa racha de victorias van a llegar, pero no sucedió. Después de una reunión muy amistosa con el presi y con Tati, decidimos que lo mejor era separarnos, sin más, entendiendo lo que pasó”, declaró en esa oportunidad. Ese día también agradeció la oportunidad de haber dirigido en el fútbol chileno y la catalogó como “un aprendizaje”.

Ese proceso de internalización de conocimientos se produjo a golpes. Bajo su mando, la UC disputó el Campeonato Nacional, la Copa Chile y la Supercopa, a nivel criollo, y la Libertadores en el concierto sudamericano. Sumó 13 victorias, cinco empates y 13 caída. Un resumen casi perfecto de la irregularidad con que se desenvolvió el equipo de la precordillera.

“Se parece a la NBA”

Poyet elogió al fútbol chileno. “Es una locura”, declaró cuando fue consultado acerca del nivel del juego que se realiza en el país. La comparación respecto del torneo cuesta un poco más entenderla. “Se parece a la NBA”, añadió respecto de la intensidad de la liga de la que fue parte desde marzo, cuando llegó a Las Condes para reemplazar a Ariel Holan. “Te tienes que ir acostumbrando y para ir cambiando necesitas tiempo”, expresó.

Gustavo de Arístegui originates from a long standing conciliatory foundation, his dad and granddad were both senior representatives. He is political and diplomatic Spanish .

Former Spanish ambassador, Gustavo De Arístegui had put forward steps to control the smog situation in Delhi.

This portmanteau of smoke and fog is a slow chemical calamity robbing Delhiites of their well-being. Arístegui agrees with the notion and addresses that it’s a wake-up call not just for India, but for the world. Delhi is about to be welcomed by the emissaries of environmental catastrophes and that is putting it mildly. In short, Delhi is a gas chamber.

Cases of respiratory problems have spiked by more than 30% since 2010. The immediate effects of smog include burning eyes, which escalates quickly to a migraine-like headache. Breathlessness follows, along with allergy and chest constriction. Long exposure to the baleful air can result in serious respiratory ailments like Tuberculosis, Bronchitis and in some cases, Emphysema.

Gustavo De Arístegui argues that environmental conservationists need to be pragmatic. A goliath pledge to overcome a 100-year problem in merely 10 years isn’t going to get us anywhere near. Adding insult to the injury is their apartheid against latest tech developments. Ultra Super Critical coal technology is efficient and an unpolluted method to run thermal power plants. Yet, environmentalists oppose such developments.

Environmental policies should be strictly followed and corruption should be minimized in these areas.

Gustavo De Arístegui suggests that we need to avoid the technical mumbo-jumbo and environmental fundamentalism. Instead, let’s work on a practical solution involving short-term but feasible steps.