Exactly 100 years after its inauguration, the Panama Canal may soon become one of two waterways linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In a move that would alter world commerce, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Chinese telecoms billionaire Wang Jing have announced plans to start construction on a $40-billion canal across Nicaragua this December.
Source: Jacobin Magazine Evo Morales’s administration has scored some successes, but it has failed to deliver on its more radical promises. Internationally, capitalism is in crisis. But in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country, it’s being […]
Source: Business Insider An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of […]
Source: Mother Jones Only a few months ago, Henry Kissinger was dancing with Stephen Colbert in a funny bit on the latter’s Comedy Central show. But for years, the former secretary of state has sidestepped judgment […]
“In the community you can’t tell that the military dictatorship is over,” Marisa Viegas, a lawyer with Justiça Global, one of the human rights groups that brought the complaints, told IPS. “The military continue to use repression against the local residents, who are unable to achieve minimal living conditions.”
Municipalidades del suroeste del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. 10 de enero, 2014. Fuente: Mi Mundo En febrero del 2011, un artículo en el diario Canadiense Business Financial Post declaró: “Colombia, cuyas reservas de oro fueran […]
Source: CISPES On Monday, January 3, Elliot Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, published an editorial in the Washington Post that brashly proclaimed that a Farabundo Martí National […]
In an already tense scenario unfolding in the south of Mexico, the presence of the Mexican Army is only producing more violence. Source: Socialist Worker In the southwestern state of Michoacán in Mexico, the armed […]
Born in Cuba, Carlos Zorrilla left the island when he was 11 and emigrated with his family to the United States. But the promised land did not live up to his expectations. Like many of […]
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