Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues. Environmental conflicts over [...]
Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit’s draft final document, which aim to transfer its successful national social and [...]
Shale Gas May Be a Mexican Mirage
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – In spite of mounting scientific evidence about its negative aspects, Mexico is getting ready to intensify exploration for shale gas, natural gas found trapped in shale, a sedimentary rock. The state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is planning [...]
MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 23, 2011 (IPS) – Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women’s rights activists warn. "We have seen an increase in sexual harassment, groping, gang rape, [...]
EL SALVADOR: Giving Young Slum Dwellers a Chance
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – In a country where hard-line policies have failed to make a dent in soaring levels of violent crime, Salesian priest José María Moratalla has produced good results by offering educational and vocational opportunities to juvenile offenders and young [...]
Unique Mexican Oasis in Danger of Vanishing
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – A rare wetlands ecosystem in the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico that may hold key information about the origins of life on earth – and even about possible life on Mars – is in serious danger of disappearing [...]
ARGENTINA: Needs Outstrip Efforts to Build Affordable Housing
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – The Argentine economy has grown steadily since 2003, and hundreds of thousands of social housing units have been built. Nevertheless, the protests and conflicts that periodically break out make it clear that the solutions have failed to keep [...]
MEXICO: Activists Organise Against Spiralling Threats
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – "Open the door! Open the door, you SOBs!" Policemen dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and carrying "what I suppose were high-power rifles" broke down the door of the home of Efraín Bartolomé, a poet who lives on the [...]
BRAZIL: Small-Scale Land Speculators Contribute to Amazon Deforestation
July 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 28, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found. This on-the-ground reality and the [...]
