Clinton se disculpa por celebrar el trabajo de Nancy Reagan contra el sida

Hillary Clinton se disculpó el viernes después de haber afirmado que Nancy Reagan, fallecida el domingo, estaba comprometida en el combate contra el sida en Estados Unidos, cuando su esposo, el expresidente Ronald Reagan, tardó varios años en financiar el combate contra ese virus.

Hillary Clinton gana con holgura las primarias demócratas de Carolina del Sur

Hillary Clinton gana con holgura las primarias demócratas de Carolina del Sur frente al senador independiente por Vermont Bernie Sanders. Con su triunfo, el tercero tras imponerse en Nevada y Iowa, la exsecretaria de Estado y exprimera dama estadounidense llegará con un mayor respaldo al próximo martes, cuando votarán 11 Estados.

Bill Clinton digs into Sanders in last-ditch pitch before New Hampshire vote

By The Guardian

The frustrated former president delivered laundry list of attacks on Bernie Sanders as Tuesday primary could threaten Hillary Clinton’s place as frontrunner

Hillary Clinton lobbied by Cherie Blair to meet Qatari royal, emails reveal

By The Guardian

Cherie Blair repeatedly pressured Hillary Clinton to meet a leading Qatari royal when Clinton was US secretary of state, according to newly released emails that raise fresh questions about the lobbying activities of all three political families.

Hillary Clinton, en la pista de despegue para la campaña de 2016

Vía El Mundo

Jefa de la diplomacia en el primer mandato de Barack Obama, Senadora por Nueva York, primera dama de Estados Unidos y de Arkansas, activista por los derechos de la mujer, madre, abuela, esposa de Bill Clinton... Hillary Rodham Clinton (Chicago, 1947) ha sido la primera en muchas cosas y ha ocupado relevantes cargos en la política estadounidense.

Hillary Clinton launches presidential bid

By The Washington Post

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday officially launched her presidential campaign, an effort which has been running behind the scenes for months and picks up where her failed 2008 White House bid left off.

"Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times. But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion," Clinton said in a video released Sunday. "...So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote. Because it's your time, and I hope that you'll join me on this journey."

Hillary Clinton anuncia que será candidata a las elecciones de 2016

Vía El País

Hillary Rodham Clinton apretó este domingo el botón de reinicio, dando paso a Hillary 2.0. Admitiendo por fin lo evidente, que quiere ser presidenta de Estados Unidos, la ex secretaria de Estado intentará de nuevo lo que no logró en 2008, cuando un joven senador negro de Illinois le arrebataba la nominación demócrata a la Casa Blanca.

Hillary Clinton Faces Test of Record as Women’s Advocate

By Amy Chozick, to New York Times

It was supposed to be a carefully planned anniversary to mark one of the most important and widely praised moments in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career — and to remind the country, ahead of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, about her long record as a champion for the rights of women and girls.

 

Instead, as Mrs. Clinton commemorates her 1995 women’s rights speech in Beijing in back-to-back events in New York, she finds herself under attack for her family foundation’s acceptance of millions of dollars in donations from Middle Eastern countries known for violence against women and for denying them many basic freedoms.This was not how she intended to reintroduce herself to American voters.

 

Mrs. Clinton’s glide path to a likely April announcement that she will seek the presidency was built around women’s issues. Advancing women has been her central life’s work, as she and her admirers say proudly; she made it a priority as secretary of state and focused on it as a philanthropist. But that focus also allowed Mrs. Clinton, who played down her gender in 2008, to frame her second attempt at the White House in what could be one way to make it special and new: as a shot at history for her and for all women.

 

And for someone who has so long been lampooned, and demonized on the right, as overly calculating, playing up her gender as a strength would also allow her to demonstrate her nurturing, maternal — and newly grandmotherly — side to voters whom she may have left cold in the past.

Even her most strident critics could not have predicted that Mrs. Clinton would prove vulnerable on the subject.

 

But the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation has accepted tens of millions of dollars in donations from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Algeria and Brunei — all of which the State Department has faulted over their records on sex discrimination and other human-rights issues.

 

The department’s 2011 human rights report on Saudi Arabia, the last such yearly review prepared during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure, tersely faulted the kingdom for “a lack of equal rights for women and children,” and said violence against women, human trafficking and gender discrimination, among other abuses, were all “common” there.

 

Saudi Arabia has been a particularly generous benefactor to the Clinton Foundation, giving at least $10 million since 2001, according to foundation disclosures. At least $1 million more was donated by Friends of Saudi Arabia, co-founded by a Saudi prince.

 

Republicans quickly zeroed in on the apparent contradiction. Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief, told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month that Mrs. Clinton “tweets about women’s rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights.”

 

And on Wednesday, the Republican National Committee released a biting video showing President Obama calling political donations from foreign sources “a threat to our democracy” — and Mrs. Clinton smiling next to several Middle East leaders.

 

On Saturday, Mrs. Clinton’s husband, the former president, felt compelled to defend the foundation’s fund-raising. At an event at the University of Miami, where Mrs. Clinton and the couple’s daughter, Chelsea, discussed “No Ceilings,” the foundation’s project measuring the advancement of women and girls, he defended the charity’s acceptance of foreign donations, pointing to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in particular.

“Do we agree with everything they do? No,” Mr. Clinton said. “You’ve got to decide when you do this work whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country,” he added.

The “No Ceilings” report, to be unveiled Monday, finds that “there has never been a better time to be born female,” but catalogs a host of problems and obstacles — legal, economic and social — that persist. One section has particular resonance for Mrs. Clinton: “Almost twice as many women hold political office today compared to 20 years ago, but they still are very much a minority,” the report says, adding that “the pace of change in women’s leadership has been far too slow.”

 

“There’s a lot of unfinished business,” Mrs. Clinton said Saturday of the report’s findings. A foundation official said no foreign governments had contributed to the “No Ceilings” effort. “Anyone that supports the Clinton Foundation does so knowing we work to empower girls and women around the world,” said Maura Pally, its acting chief executive.

 

Reports of Mrs. Clinton’s use of only a private email account while she was secretary of state, meanwhile, have cast a new light on efforts by outside groups to obtain access to her correspondence with the Clinton Foundation during her tenure at the State Department — about donations or anything else.

That correspondence, if it exists, would most likely have taken place on Mrs. Clinton’s private email address, putting its accessibility — to journalists, scholars or political adversaries — in doubt. Already, Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, has made 16 appeals under the Freedom of Information Act for State Department correspondence mostly related to Mrs. Clinton and foundation donors.

 

The donations from countries with poor records on women’s rights, however, presented a difficult appearance problem for a candidate running in part as the embodiment of women’s aspirations to equality. “It’s a perfect example of the conflict of interest here,” said Richard W. Painter, a White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. “The United States has at least two issues that are very important with Saudi Arabia,” he said. “One is continuing to fight terrorism, and the second is the rights of women.”

 

Mrs. Clinton’s ramp-up to a candidacy built around women’s issues continues in New York on Monday, when she and the philanthropist Melinda Gates unveil the “No Ceilings” report. The next day, Mrs. Clinton will be the keynote speaker at a United Nations gathering on women’s empowerment.

 

Both events explicitly invoke Mrs. Clinton’s forceful speech in Beijing as first lady in 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, when she gave a devastating litany of abuse afflicting women around the world and declared: “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.”

 

The Beijing speech has been a touchstone for Mrs. Clinton since she stepped down as secretary of state in early 2013. But the more she recalls it, the more Republicans seek to diminish it. “She made one statement in Beijing that wasn’t very profound — that women are human beings,” said Bruce Fein, a lawyer and supporter of Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.

 

At the State Department, Mrs. Clinton emphasized how empowering women and girls could also enhance economies, national security and the overall progress of a country. She appointed a close aide, Melanne Verveer, as the first United States ambassador at large for global women’s issues.

 

Some of that work was behind the scenes, however. In her memoir, “Hard Choices,” Mrs. Clinton tells of quietly intervening when Saudi Arabian courts refused a mother’s pleas to block the marriage of her 8-year-old daughter to a 50-year-old man. “Fix this on your own, and I won’t say a word,” she recalled telling the Saudis. A new judge, she wrote, quickly approved the divorce.                       

Joe Biden Says 'There's A Chance' He'll Challenge Hillary

Vía Bussines Insider

Vice President Joe Biden claims he might enter the 2016 fray. 

Biden insisted Wednesday morning the contest is "wide open" for both Democrats and Republicans, despite polls showing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is by far the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

"Yes there's a chance," Biden replied on ABC's "Good Morning America"when directly pressed on whether he would challenge Clinton. "But I haven't made my mind up about that."

Biden said his focus is on his duties as vice president and "getting implemented what the president talked about" in the annual State of the Union address Tuesday evening. The vice president further argued he doesn't have to make a final decision on the 2016 race until the summer of this year. 

"We've got a lot of work to do between now and then; there's plenty of time," he said. "I don't think you have to make up your mind until the summer. I think this is wide open on both sides."

The vice president wasn't eager to take any shots at Clinton, however, and offered nothing but praise for her.

"Secretary of Clinton is a really competent, capable person — and a friend. The person who is going to be the next president of the United States is the one who is going to be able to articulate the clearest vision to the American people where they're going to take the country," he said.

Biden ran for president twice before — in 1988 and 2008 — but has yet to give any indications he's forming the national operation that would be necessary to mount a successful 2016 campaign. In contrast, Clinton has been quietly laying the foundation for a White House bid.