Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Malena Reyes, her brother Elías and his wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped Feb. 7 in the municipality of Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were found two weeks later, in a case that is [...]
PERU: Fujimorismo Candidates Allegedly Tied to Drug Trade
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Congressional candidates nominated by the party of presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori to stand in the Apr. 10 elections in Peru failed to inform the electoral authorities that they are under investigation for drug trafficking and money laundering. The media [...]
MEXICO-US: Little Spillover of "Narco-Deaths"
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana and Aprille Muscara CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico/WASHINGTON, Mar 19, 2011 (IPS) – In the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas the media sounded the alarm: six murders committed in just two months, more than the 2010 total of five. Just across the Mexican border, in the [...]
INDIA: 60 Registered Rapes a Day
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K. S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Mar 1, 2011 (IPS) – It was just past 9 p.m. of Feb. 1 when guards of the Ernakulam-Shornur train found 23-year-old Soumya, an accountant, unconscious near the railway tracks at Vettikkattiri in Thrissur district, Kerala state. Soumya was her family’s breadwinner [...]
Bloggers Track Down China’s Lost Boys
March 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gordon Ross BEIJING, Mar 10, 2011 (IPS) – Peng Gaofeng spent three years looking for his abducted son, launching an Internet campaign that eventually drew 300,000 followers. Last month, Peng was reunited with his son, and the 34-year-old has vowed to help the thousands of Chinese parents [...]
MEDIA-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Bad Case of Quid Pro Quo
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – At first glance, the Dominican Republic appears to be a bastion of free information, with seven print dailies and seven national television stations. But journalists here say that more subtle means of coercion have become the norm. [...]
Time to Drag Sextortion into the Light
February 27, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cléo Fatoorehchi UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27, 2011 (IPS) – In their 2010 book "Half the Sky", Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write about a disturbing but not uncommon problem in Southern Africa – male teachers who trade good grades for sex with students. The authors [...]
ARGENTINA: Proposal to Go after Clients of Sex Trafficking Victims
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Feb 25, 2011 (IPS) – An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are [...]
ITALY: Berlusconi Gets ‘Automatic Justice’, for a Start
February 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sabina Zaccaro ROME, Feb 19, 2011 (IPS) – The trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of underage prostitution has just taken a turn that some commentators are calling an appropriate twist of fate: the trial, due to begin on April 6, will be adjudicated [...]
MEXICO: Narco-Sharks Replacing Drug Mules
December 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy* MEXICO CITY, Dec 2, 2010 (IPS) – Sharks are facing a new threat: they are being fished off the Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico and used to smuggle cocaine to the United States, through Mexico. This stretch of ocean and its coasts have [...]
