English-Spanish translation for "pillage"

pillage {noun}

to pillage [pillaged|pillaged] {v.t.} (also: to plunder)

Despite everything, the pillaging and killing simply continue.

Have the murders, expulsions, looting and pillaging in Kosovo stopped?

In the colonial past, pillaging was carried out in an open and shameless fashion.

It is not good in the countries where the communist guerillas are pillaging, raping and killing.

Remember the way the Nazis organized the pillage of works of art in the countries they occupied.

In a letter addressed to La Fayette, he remarked: ' The pillage of the peoples of Europe is part of the Revolution '.

During this period, my country was victim to a systematic pillage of works of art organised by revolutionary France.

In terms of fishing agreements, the Union pillages third-world waters, instead of encouraging local industries.

He agrees to hold meetings, but without an international mediator, and at the same time - just as he did in Bosnia - he is sanctioning murder and pillaging.

President Mugabe's militia, spurred on by envy and a taste for pillaging, are forcing white farmers into exile, at best.

At this point, I would like to mention the growing poverty, the pillaging of natural resources and the attempts to curtail and sell off national industries.

Mobutu's army is pillaging its own people and refusing to fight, while Kabila's army is advancing without resistance and should certainly reach the capital.

The fourth area of incoherence in the European Union's cooperation policy is this: how do you expect to help development by pillaging the natural resources of the people you are helping.

This is because it has been constantly pillaged and because France, its former colonial ruler, has never forgiven the country for winning independence by armed struggle and a slave revolt.

Today, Morocco is faced with factory ships which are coming to pillage its natural resources, and which the small vessels and small Moroccan industries are in no position to resist.

The longer the murdering and pillaging and the ethnic cleansing goes on among the Albanians, the stronger the support of the KLA will become, and the more the support of Rugova will decline.

The pillaging comes on top of a wave of break-ins last year at archaeological storehouses — and even at Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, the country's biggest repository of pharaonic artifacts.

We would also endorse the call made for the UN to deal with those profiteering from the pillage of natural resources, not least through the freezing of bank accounts and actions against companies.

They have an overwhelming responsibility for having ruined Africa through the trafficking of slaves, through colonialist pillaging and then through another form of pillaging, which continues today.

It will be up to the poor population of this country to settle its account with Mugabe and his regime, and certainly not the political servants of those who have grown rich by pillaging this country.