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secrecy

Spanish translation: secretismo

03:25 Feb 23, 2014
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Journalism
English term or phrase: secrecy
Hola, mi duda es saber si es correcto traducir secrecy por secretismo en este texto, gracias.
But his administration’s actions have too often contradicted Obama’s stated intentions. “Instead,” New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote earlier this year, “it’s turning out to be the administration of unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press.”

Pero los actos de su administración con frecuencia contradicen las intenciones que Obama ha declarado. "Por el contrario", escribió Margaret Sullivan, defensora del lector en el New York Times, a principios de este año "ha resultado ser una administración de secrecía sin precedentes y de ataques sin paralelos contra la prensa libre.”
asesorfernan (X)
Spain
Spanish translation:secretismo
Explanation:
that's the nuance exactly

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Note added at 5 mins (2014-02-23 03:30:23 GMT)
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as a sort of philosophy they practice

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Note added at 10 mins (2014-02-23 03:36:08 GMT)
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El secretismo es una tendencia a actuar ocultamente respecto a asuntos que deberían manifestarse. Es, además, una conducta común de quienes procuran eludir responsabilidades, esconder comportamientos reprobables o buscar ventajas que no se las consiguiera si se conociera la verdad. El secretismo, al fin, es uno de los signos de las autocracias populistas.
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David Hollywood
Local time: 09:46
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5 +5secretismo
David Hollywood
4hermetismo
Luis Javier Salvador Willberg (X)


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
secrecy/secretismo
secretismo


Explanation:
that's the nuance exactly

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Note added at 5 mins (2014-02-23 03:30:23 GMT)
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as a sort of philosophy they practice

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Note added at 10 mins (2014-02-23 03:36:08 GMT)
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El secretismo es una tendencia a actuar ocultamente respecto a asuntos que deberían manifestarse. Es, además, una conducta común de quienes procuran eludir responsabilidades, esconder comportamientos reprobables o buscar ventajas que no se las consiguiera si se conociera la verdad. El secretismo, al fin, es uno de los signos de las autocracias populistas.


David Hollywood
Local time: 09:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carlos Blanco, B.Sc. in Chemistry
34 mins
  -> gracias Carlos :)
agree  Rafael Molina Pulgar
1 hr
  -> gracias Rafael :)
agree  Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
5 hrs
  -> gracias Beatriz :)
agree  Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
9 hrs
  -> gracias Alejandro :)
agree  JohnMcDove
1 day 2 hrs
  -> gracias John :)
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3 days 9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
hermetismo


Explanation:
Otra sugerencia.

Luis Javier Salvador Willberg (X)
Spain
Local time: 14:46
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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