Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin [...]
HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti’s capital city, the sun is already up. It’s the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She’s [...]
VENEZUELA: Opposition Hopes to Make a Comeback
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The campaign for Venezuela’s Sept. 26 legislative elections is officially on, and the opposition, which boycotted the last vote five years ago, is back in the running, hoping to win enough seats to act as a counterweight to President [...]
CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov’t Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption. The aim is to recover 323 million dollars — the total amount that the [...]
MEXICO: Threats Against Journalists: "You’re Vulnerable, and It’s Hard to Accept"
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) – "The threats change your whole life," said Jade Ramírez, a journalist who has been living for months with that burden, which also hangs over a growing group of her colleagues in Mexico. "You adopt safety procedures that you [...]
MEXICO: Capital Badly in Need of Urban Regeneration
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – Is urban regeneration feasible in Mexico’s capital city? This is a question asked by planning experts and by a large proportion of the city’s population. Some projects currently underway indicate that the answer could be yes. Ecological architectural [...]
PERU: Woman Candidate Breathes New Life into Left
August 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 18 (IPS) – The campaign for the October municipal elections in Peru has brought new hope to the badly weakened left, in the form of Susana Villarán, who has shot up from the ”other candidates” category to third in the polls in the race [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
August 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Silvana Silveira* MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) – "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the [...]
DEVELOPMENT: China Wants Business with Latin America
August 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Aug 18, 2010 (IPS) – China, now the world’s second largest economy with a ferocious appetite for resources, is aggressively strengthening relations with Latin American countries, but this has not been without roadblocks. According to a report by the Economic Commission for Latin America [...]
Q&A: ‘Corruption is an Extraordinary Danger’
August 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Patricia Grogg interviews Cuban political scientist ESTEBAN MORALES HAVANA, Aug 16 (IPS) – ”I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger” to the country, as its ”corrosive power” makes it a matter of ”national security,” said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after [...]
