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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 23:08 UTC

Tag: Prague

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Awkwardness surrounds Milei's presence in Prague

    “We are on the right path,” Milei insisted

    Argentine President Javier Milei Monday said from Prague that he would “probably” be awarded the Nobel Prize for “rewriting economic theory” with his administration's alleged achievements rescuing the South American country from hyperinflation and getting it back on track. Besides his political engagements with the Czech authorities, Milei's presence in town sparked another controversy regarding a new accolade he was presented after the organization allegedly behind the distinction said it had nothing to do with it.

  • Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:59 UTC

    Prague 1968: “Socialism with a human face” squashed by 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops

    The occupying forces with their tanks eventually totaled 500.000. “Operation Danube” was the largest military mobilization in Europe since the end of WW II

    More than 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalization, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.