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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OBSTÁCULO

La palabra obstáculo procede del latín obstacŭlum.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OBSTÁCULO IN SPANISH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBSTÁCULO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
interjection
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Obstáculo is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OBSTÁCULO MEAN IN SPANISH?

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Definition of obstáculo in the Spanish dictionary

The definition of obstacle in the Spanish dictionary is impediment, difficulty, inconvenience. Another meaning of obstacle in the dictionary is also in some sports, each of the difficulties that a track presents. La definición de obstáculo en el diccionario castellano es impedimento, dificultad, inconveniente. Otro significado de obstáculo en el diccionario es también en algunos deportes, cada una de las dificultades que presenta una pista.

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SPANISH WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OBSTÁCULO


báculo
·cu·lo
cenáculo
ce··cu·lo
espectáculo
es·pec··cu·lo
espiráculo
es·pi··cu·lo
habitáculo
ha·bi··cu·lo
infernáculo
in·fer··cu·lo
invernáculo
in·ver··cu·lo
jáculo
·cu·lo
oráculo
·cu·lo
pináculo
pi··cu·lo
propugnáculo
pro·pug··cu·lo
receptáculo
re·cep··cu·lo
sáculo
·cu·lo
signáculo
sig··cu·lo
sustentáculo
sus·ten··cu·lo
tabernáculo
ta·ber··cu·lo
tenáculo
te··cu·lo
tentáculo
ten··cu·lo
umbráculo
um·brá·cu·lo
vernáculo
ver··cu·lo

SPANISH WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBSTÁCULO

obsoleto
obstaculización
obstaculizar
obstancia
obstante
obstar
obstetra
obstetricia
obstétrico
obstinación
obstinadamente
obstinado
obstinante
obstinar
obstrucción
obstruccionismo
obstruccionista
obstructor
obstructora
obstruir

SPANISH WORDS THAT END LIKE OBSTÁCULO

artículo
cálculo
círculo
crepúsculo
cubículo
culo
currículo
fascículo
folículo
mayúsculo
minúsculo
montículo
músculo
recitáculo
ridículo
testículo
tubérculo
vehículo
versículo
vínculo

Synonyms and antonyms of obstáculo in the Spanish dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OBSTÁCULO» IN SPANISH

The following Spanish words have a similar or identical meaning as «obstáculo» and belong to the same grammatical category.
Spanish synonyms of obstáculo

ANTONYMS OF «OBSTÁCULO» IN SPANISH

The following Spanish words mean the opposite of «obstáculo» and also belong to the same grammatical category.
Spanish antonyms of obstáculo

Translation of «obstáculo» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OBSTÁCULO

Find out the translation of obstáculo to 25 languages with our Spanish multilingual translator.
The translations of obstáculo from Spanish to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «obstáculo» in Spanish.

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障碍
1,325 millions of speakers

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obstáculo
570 millions of speakers

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obstacle
510 millions of speakers

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बाधा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator Spanish - Arabic

عقبة
280 millions of speakers

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препятствие
278 millions of speakers

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obstáculo
270 millions of speakers

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বাধা
260 millions of speakers

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obstacle
220 millions of speakers

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halangan
190 millions of speakers

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Hindernis
180 millions of speakers

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障害物
130 millions of speakers

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장애물
85 millions of speakers

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alangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

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chướng ngại vật
80 millions of speakers

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தடையாக
75 millions of speakers

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अडथळा
75 millions of speakers

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engel
70 millions of speakers

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ostacolo
65 millions of speakers

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przeszkoda
50 millions of speakers

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перешкода
40 millions of speakers

Translator Spanish - Romanian

obstacol
30 millions of speakers
el

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εμπόδιο
15 millions of speakers
af

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hindernis
14 millions of speakers
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hinder
10 millions of speakers
no

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hindring
5 millions of speakers

SPANISH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY

obstáculo
obstáculo 
  encumbrance ; handicap ; hurdle ; impairment ; impediment ; rough spot ; wall ; barrier ; bottleneck ; hindrance ; obstacle ; inhibition ; obstruction ; stumbling block ; bar ; blockage ; roadblock ; block.
 Meanwhile we are asked to accept encumbrances that will needlessly impair the effectiveness of our catalogs for an indefinite time to come.
 A high exhaustivity of indexing, then, is beneficial where a thorough search is required, but may be a handicap when only a few highly relevant documents are sought.
 Schoolchildren, students, and other whose native language is written in a non-Roman script may find alphabetical order according to Roman characters an almost insurmountable hurdle in the use of catalogues and indexes.
 A well-designed multimodal application can be used by people with a wide variety of impairments.
 It may be decided that the practical impediments to the distribution and assignment of such numbers outweigh their potential usefulness.
 But despite the many catalog worlds, and herein lies the rub - or at least a rough spot - we have been proceeding on the assumption that the catalog exists in the form of the data distributed by the Library of Congress.
 In the map library, the electronic medium is shaking the foundations of cartographic communication and threatening the bring the walls crashing down.
 While the number of projects proposed was innumerable, 3 barriers remain: red tape; hard currency; and Western barriers to providing high technology to the Eastern bloc.
 A number of research groups have investigated the use of knowledge-based systems as a means of avoiding this bottleneck.
 The overall effect of the labels and signs is not so much help but hindrance through information overload.
 Conversely, an unsympathetic principal can be the greatest obstacle to library development within a school.
 This has been a major source of inhibition to the development of British efforts to create a bank of microcopy versions of theses accepted.
 Harmonization of technical standards is one of the Community's principal goals in creating a common market devoid of obstructions to the free movement of goods.
 These stumbling blocks can often be bypassed in the initial stages of OSI implementation by choosing applications that do not require close integration with existing library systems.
 Publications describing or revealing an invention can be a bar to issuance of a patent.
 The problem in relation to communication is probably the most difficult of them all, as the blockage lies in people rather than with the library.
 The roadblock to increasing book translations into English is not that there is insufficient funding but that few publishers know about grant schemes that are available.
 Emotional blocks to reading can be formed by an unsatisfactory relationship with a teacher.
ayudar a eliminar obstáculos  
clear + the path
clear + the way
 All of this was intended to clear for the reader his/her path in the catalog, to obviate anything that might distract his/her attention or otherwise retard his/her progress, and to facilitate in every way possible his/her search in the catalog.
 Last night's decision by the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the government-backed transaction to take place immediately.
campo de obstáculos 
obstacle course
 Oh well, I could either stand here like a fart in a colander or I could haul my sorry ass up this obstacle course.
carrera de obstáculos  
steeplechase
obstacle race
 Internet training is accelerating at sometimes dizzying speeds and, like a steeplechase, the hurdles are there, and one jumps them as best one can at these speeds.
 I've found training for obstacle races has been a great way to stay fit over the summer and has been a lot of fun.
constituir un obstáculo 
constitute + an obstacle
 Although the number of such individuals who actually require community information represents a minority of officials, this does not constitute an obstacle for the library.
creación de obstáculos 
fence building
 Where one finds the defensiveness and fence building in libraries for the blind, they are almost all run by men.
eliminar los obstáculos 
bring down + barriers
 They seek to bring down barriers to enterprise and trade, in order to achieve a world of opportunity, peace and prosperity.
eliminar obstáculos  
clear + the path
clear + the way
 All of this was intended to clear for the reader his/her path in the catalog, to obviate anything that might distract his/her attention or otherwise retard his/her progress, and to facilitate in every way possible his/her search in the catalog.
 Last night's decision by the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the government-backed transaction to take place immediately.
eliminar un obstáculo   
remove + barrier
sweep away + obstacle
remove + obstacle
 1992 will bring the Single European Market in which many of the existing barriers to European integration will be removed.
 The author surveys the Canadian political scene showing that freedom of information is a force but is not sweeping away all obstacles in its path.
 I believe it is the duty of every politician to serve the people by removing the obstacles in the way of these ambitions.
encontrarse con un obstáculo 
face + an obstacle
 Results of a survey are discussed and show that chemistry departments face major obstacles in implementing information instruction.
enfrentarse a un obstáculo 
address + barrier
 According to Newman (1992), there are four approaches to addressing the barriers to Internet use: retrieval, indexing, search, and organization.
obstáculo insalvable 
insurmountable obstacle
 There is thus every reason to anticipate that the 'insurmountable obstacles' to achieving collaboration in subject cataloguing will be overcome, as they have been with author cataloguing.
obstáculos  [Tiene su origen en los atascos de troncos en su descenso por los ríos]
logjam [log-jam]
 In this section, we're going to discuss strategies you can use to break up some of the political logjams that might be hindering your IT projects.
pista de obstáculos 
obstacle course
 Oh well, I could either stand here like a fart in a colander or I could haul my sorry ass up this obstacle course.
poner obstáculos 
cramp
 They used schools as a buttress of a caste system designed to subordinate blacks socially, to cramp them economically under a rigid job ceiling.
preparación del terreno eliminando todo tipo de obstáculos 
land-clearing
 The 37 relief projects involved the building of aerodrome, landing fields, barracks, a training camp, and a land-clearing project.
presentar un obstáculo 
pose + obstacle
 Each Fellow's experience was unique and posed exciting and unusual challenges as well as unforeseen obstacles.
que pone obstáculos 
obstructive
 This obstructive attitude can be traced throughout the centuries and manifests itself in the field of modern information science, too.
reducir un obstáculo 
lower + barrier
 Unfortunately, we are not plenipotentiary but there is no country in the world where librarians cannot make some small progress toward lowering the barriers which separate cultures.
remover un obstáculo  
remove + obstacle
remove + barrier
 I believe it is the duty of every politician to serve the people by removing the obstacles in the way of these ambitions.
 1992 will bring the Single European Market in which many of the existing barriers to European integration will be removed.
salvar un obstáculo 
overcome + obstacle
 However, what American libraries mean by advocacy is 'Work to overcome obstacles that the enquirer encounters in trying to secure help from outside resource agencies'.
ser un obstáculo  
stand in + the way (of)
stand in + Posesivo + way
 It may be objected that a direct experience of the country by visiting it does not ensure a true picture, in fact that it may even stand in the way.
 We support Mr. Radcliffe's artistic decision - if he wants to perform fully clothed, we'd never stand in his way.
sin obstáculos    
unchecked
unhindered
unimpeded
unobstructed
 The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
 The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
 No existing library provides users with unimpeded access to bibliographical information held in remote databases.
 From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
sin obstáculos de por medio 
uncluttered
 Google, the search engine, became popular because of its efficiency, simple structure uncluttered by advertising and its non-commercial look and feel.
sortear un obstáculo 
go (a)round/past + obstacles
 Electrons behave like waves, and waves, unlike particles, can go past obstacles in their path rather easily.
superar un obstáculo   
overcome + obstacle
jump over + hurdle
conquer + barrier
 However, what American libraries mean by advocacy is 'Work to overcome obstacles that the enquirer encounters in trying to secure help from outside resource agencies'.
 If you do not enter it exactly under that name, you are creating a hurdle the reader has to jump over.
 If any improvement arrives, it will come from a resilient individual conquering the barriers of the collective.
vencer un obstáculo  
surmount + obstacle
conquer + barrier
 This article considers the obstacles that needed to be surmounted such as situation and layout of the library.
 If any improvement arrives, it will come from a resilient individual conquering the barriers of the collective.

Trends of use of obstáculo

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBSTÁCULO»

The term «obstáculo» is very widely used and occupies the 6.463 position in our list of most widely used terms in the Spanish dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OBSTÁCULO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «obstáculo» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «obstáculo» appears in digitalised printed sources in Spanish between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the Spanish literature, quotes and news about obstáculo

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6 SPANISH QUOTES WITH «OBSTÁCULO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word obstáculo.
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Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
El hombre se descubre cuando se mide con un obstáculo.
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Gustave Flaubert
La necesidad es un obstáculo indestructible; todo lo que sobre ella se lanza se estrella.
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Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle
Esperar una felicidad demasiado grande es un obstáculo para la felicidad.
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Josep Pla
El dinero no da la felicidad, ciertamente; pero tampoco es un serio obstáculo.
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Thomas Carlyle
El ideal está en ti; el obstáculo para su cumplimiento también.
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Alejandro Dumas
En política, querido mío, y vos lo sabéis tan bien como yo, no hay hombres, sino ideas; no sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino se allana un obstáculo.

10 SPANISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBSTÁCULO»

Discover the use of obstáculo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to obstáculo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Spanish literature.
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El derecho como obstáculo al cambio social
Las críticas al derecho rara vez han ido más allá de censurar algunas instituciones o normas concretas.
Eduardo Novoa Monreal, 1980
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La pasión del obstáculo: poemas y cartas
These works will surely become required reading for anyone attempting to understand the workings of subjectivity - especially, but no only, regarding women - during the Latin American fin-de-sicle .
Francisco Morán, 2005
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Si quieres puedes...: Potencia tu energía positiva y supera ...
Filled with ways to inspire confidence and build self-esteem, this enlightening handbook shows how to live life to its fullest potential and enjoy each day.
Daniel Day, Patricia Day, 2010
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METODOLOGÍA Y TÉCNICAS DE ATLETISMO
Joan Rius Sant. El atleta llega sobre el obstáculo poco doblado; con poca flexión de la pierna de apoyo. Esto perjudicará la fase posterior. La marcha atlética. LA TÉCNICA DEL OBSTACUUSTA (por Rafael Sánchez) Los 3.000 m obstáculos ...
Joan Rius Sant, 2005
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El Plata científico y literario: Revista de los Estados del ...
Resulta de ahi, que ese hombre ve la causa inmediata do su riqueza en el obstáculo que hace profesion de combatir por cuenta de otro. Cuanto mas grande, serió y vivamente sentido es ese obstáculo, tanto mas dispuestos se hallan sus ...
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Revista de los estados del plata sobre legislacion, ...
Eesulta de ahí, que ese hombre ve la causa inmediata do su riqueza en el obstáculo que hace profesión de combatir por cuenta de otro. Cuanto mas grande, serio y vivamente sentido es ese obstáculo, tanto mas dispuestos se hallan sus ...
Miguel Navarro Viola, 1854
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Sofismas economicos
mmediato en la continuacion y hasta en la extension del obstáculo especial que ha escogido como objeto de sus tareas. Los teóricos, al conocerlo , fundan un sistema sobre sus sentimientos individuales, y dicen : la necesidad es la riqueza;  ...
Frédéric Bastiat, 1859
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El Plan de marketing personal
Análisis y evaluación de los obstáculos Cuando usted haya detectado un obstáculo es importante que lo someta a un proceso de análisis y evaluación a fin de definirlo con exactitud y poder establecer la real importancia del mismo. Para este ...
Claudio L. Soriano, 1989
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La formación del espíritu científico
CAPÍTULO VI EL OBSTÁCULO SUSTANCIALISTA I El obstáculo sustancialista, como todos los obstáculos epistemológicos, es polimorfo. Se compone de la reunión de las intuiciones más alejadas y hasta las más opuestas. Por una ...
Gaston Bachelard, 2000
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Tratado teórico-práctico de las enfermedades del corazón, de ...
El obstáculo ó la causa primera de la dilatación es por lo común un obstáculo mecánico, visible ó latente, existiendo un uu punto cualquiera del tubo dilatable: estas son generalmente las lesiones .valvulares; Corvi- sart, Laemiec y otros han  ...
Charles-Polydore Forget, Isidore Bricheteau, Leon Bassereau, 1853

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBSTÁCULO»

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Velocidad excesiva o un obstáculo en la vía, dos posibles causas ...
Entre las víctimas mortales está el maquinista. Descarriló en una recta con visibilidad. Una velocidad excesiva o un obstáculo en la vía son dos posibles causas ... «ABC.es, Sep 16»
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Los empresarios de América Latina ven en la informalidad un ...
... tanto en el ámbito empresarial como laboral, que existe todavía en la región latinoamericana supone un obstáculo para que el conjunto de la sociedad pueda ... «Yahoo Finanzas España, Sep 16»
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Nadal dice que no hay "obstáculo" al autoconsumo, frente a las ...
"El pacto habla de autoconsumo eficiente, para quitar los obstáculos si los hubiera. Yo no tengo duda de que la regulación actual no tiene ningún obstáculo al ... «elEconomista.es, Sep 16»
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Papa Francisco: “Esforcémonos en no ser obstáculo de la ...
Por otro lado, el Pontífice alertó sobre el cometer escándalo que significa “obstáculo”. En concreto, recordó que “Jesús advierte sobre un particular peligro: si el ... «Agencia SIC, Sep 16»
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PP y Ciudadanos no ven ningún obstáculo insalvable pero ...
Pero a la vez se ha mostrado muy optimista respecto a la posibilidad de alcanzar un acuerdo: «No hay obstáculo insalvable». El vicesecretario popular ha ... «ABC.es, Aug 16»
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El Obstáculo Tibisay
El CNE en el show mediático del 09/08/2016 se muestra como obstáculo para desalentar y confundir a más de ocho millones de venezolanos que reclaman la ... «Informe21.com, Aug 16»
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Cada día, un nuevo obstáculo
No pasa una semana sin que los expertos (Ken Robinson, Marina...) nos digan que el sistema educativo no funciona, que hay que cambiarlo todo. En esta ... «EL PAÍS, Jul 16»
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Ignacio Aguado (C*s): "No seremos obstáculo para que haya ...
El portavoz de Ciudadanos (C's) en la Asamblea de Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, ha afirmado este jueves que su partido "no será obstáculo" para que se constituya ... «Te Interesa, Jul 16»
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La pasión por los obstáculos
En Looking at obstacles, One way and another: New and selected Essays, (Penguin Books, 2013) aborda la relación entre el deseo y los obstáculos. «El Financiero, Jul 16»
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El ELN último obstáculo para poner fin a 50 años de guerra en ...
El ELN, la guerrilla inspirada en la revolución cubana, último gran obstáculo para poner fin a 50 años de guerra en Colombia. Desde el anunció el 30 de marzo ... «euronews, Jul 16»

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