TASK DEFINITION: You are given a sentence in Spanish. Your job is to translate the Spanish sentence into English.
PROBLEM: Para ello, la Stasi tenia 17 prisiones preventivas, una en cada distrito.

SOLUTION: For this, the Stasi owned 17 remand prisons, one in every district.

PROBLEM: Sin duda, impacto en la forma en que pensamos el futuro de TED, y tal vez, el futuro del mundo en general.

SOLUTION: It certainly impacted the way we think about TED's future, and perhaps the world's future overall.

PROBLEM: Un soldado vino y se paro en frente de mi, muy cerca. A un pie de distancia.

SOLUTION:
A soldier came up to me and stood, you know really, pretty close, a foot away from me.