Estos son los estados más frágiles del mundo en 2019
Hay algunas clasificaciones que ninguna nación quiere liderar. Yemen acaba de ser nombrada la nación más frágil en el Índice de Estados Frágiles de 2019 del Fondo para la Paz. El estado m...
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