Month: October 2014
Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
Climate change is likely to impact mostly small and family farmers, who produce more than half the food in the region and have inadequate resources with which to deal with unpredictable weather. Despite this looming threat, strategies for sustainability are far from clear. Regional drivers of growth are export-oriented commodities, and while some sectors have advanced in added value, technology and innovation, natural resources exploitation is still the key of the whole regional boom.
Municipality in El Salvador Bans Mining in Binding Vote
10 more communities poised to follow After the all votes were counted on Sunday, September 21st, the municipality of San Jose Las Flores, El Salvador, in the Department of Chalantenango, became the first in the […]
Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath
Source: Al Jazeera In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a review of Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “World Order,” to lay out her vision for “sustaining America’s […]
Vaca Muerta, Argentina’s New Development Frontier
(IPS) – Production here has skyrocketed so fast that for now the installations of the YPF oil company at the Loma Campana deposit in southwest Argentina are a jumble of interconnected shipping containers. Argentina is […]
Uruguay: Environmental Analyst Eduardo Gudynas Dissects the Myth of President José Mujica
You have a government with a former guerrilla who spouts philosophy and liberalizes marijuana but wants to mine, calls for marriage equality, yet has been the principal promoter of genetically modified cultivation in the country, talks like a man of the people, but at the same time the ballet is flourishing in Montevideo for the cultural élite. […]
Brazil: Dilma or Marina—Or Luciana?
Source: New Politics A little more than year ago, Brazil was paralyzed by the enormous popular protests of the June Days of 2013 as, according to a highly regarded poling agency IBOPE, some 8.5 million […]
Massacre and State of Exception in San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Dispossession by Terror Translation provided by The Media Co-op The International Committee in Solidarity with San Juan Sacatepéquez has prepared this document to explain what is currently taking place in Guatemala. Men and women of […]
Another Massacre of Indigenous People in Guatemala
The Indigenous people of Guatemala have just lived through another massacre in their territories, which has led to the declaration of another state of emergency by the government of Otto Pérez Molina. The acts of violence started on the evening of September 19th, when, according to the communities, armed actors entered their territories and identified themselves as workers with Cementos Progreso, they opened fire and killed a member of the community delegation that was in the area, killing him.