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 [...]
POLITICS-BURMA: After 20 Years, Junta Picks November Poll Date
August 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Aug 13, 2010 (IPS) – By finally announcing the date of the country’s first general election in 20 years, Burma’s military regime has lived up to a promise it made in its seven-step "roadmap", a blueprint in its desperate quest for political legitimacy. "Multi-party [...]
ZAMBIA: Election Violence Could Mean Fewer Women Participants
August 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kelvin Kachingwe LUSAKA , Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) – There are growing fears that increasing numbers of women candidates and voters may not participate in the 2011 general elections because of an upsurge in election-related violence. Campaigning in the Chifubu constituency ahead of the Aug. 5 by-election [...]
Brazil Asked to Guard against Environmental and Security Risks
July 23, 2010 By
By J. Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – In run-up to the presidential elections next October in Brazil, in which Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is out of the contest due to constitutional law that allows presidents to run only two terms in a row, a new report praises achievements of South America’s largest country, [...]
SUDAN: Fear Campaign Reported Ahead of Referendum
July 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jul 20, 2010 (IPS) – With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan’s security services in "carrying out [...]
COLOMBIA: Future Holds More of the Same
June 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Javier Darío Restrepo BOGOTA, Jun 15, 2010 (IPS) – Few doubt that former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos will be the next president of Colombia, and that he will continue the policies of President Álvaro Uribe. Santos, as Uribe’s heir, will basically be more of the [...]
Like Colombia, Iconic City Remains a Place of Promise and Peril
June 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Michael Deibert* Medellín, COLOMBIA , Jun 3, 2010 (IPS) – The homes of the barrio of Comuna 13, tightly packed improvised brick and concrete structures that take on a semi- rural nature the closer one gets to the murky swift-moving Río Cauca, blanket the hills of the [...]
Amid Elections, Armed Groups Hold Colombian Town under the Gun
June 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Michael Deibert* CAUCASIA, Colombia , Jun 1 (IPS) – Rolling through this mountainous region of central Colombia, the brown waters of the Río Cauca wind through mist-shrouded hills before joining up with the larger Río Magdalena and emptying out into the Caribbean Sea. In this area, known as [...]
COLOMBIA: Presidential Results Due in June
May 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, May 31 (IPS) – Opinion polls on Sunday’s presidential elections in Colombia turned out to be correct in predicting a June runoff. But they pointed to a much smaller gap between the two leading candidates. Although no candidate secured half of the votes Sunday to [...]
BRAZIL: Presidential Candidates Not Risking Economic Surprises
May 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, May 28, 2010 (IPS) – Not the leftists, not the social democrats, not the greens. Ideological differences aside, the three leading candidates for the Brazilian presidency are singing the same tune on the economy: no surprises, no market shake-ups. For now, the [...]
