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MEXICO - Sustainable Rural Cities, Dispossession and Counterinsurgency in Chiapas

Claudia Casal, Riley Pentico — 2015-01-04T20:10:30Z

“In the past, poverty divided Chiapans and confronted them; today poverty unites us, today poverty invokes unity, combining all the efforts to resolve the greatest challenges that Chiapas has.” Juan Sabines Guerrero, governor of Chiapas (2006-2012).
What are Sustainable Rural Cities?
Sustainable Rural Cities in Chiapas are new projects, small cities built expressly in the rural area, which offer the country's peasants a series of services (among them: electricity, water, sewage, (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / villes / ciudades, ressources naturelles / recursos naturales, México, développement durable / desarrollo sustentable, Chiapas, contre-insurrection / contrainsurgencia

UNITED STATES - Unstoppable Surge of Migrant Children

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-20T22:15:11Z

June 3rd 2014 – Central American leaders claim rights of children to be reunited with their parents, while US authorities assure that migrant children will be deported.
The surge of unaccompanied children and teenagers from Central America that are crossing the southern border of the United States have provoked an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Detention centers find themselves with serious problems of overcrowding and thousands of children arriving dehydrated and sick.
According to (…)

- United States / migrations / migraciones, enfance / infancia, droits humains / derechos humanos, United States of America, gouvernements / gobiernos, réformes / reformas

6th BRICS Summit: The Seeds of New Financial Architecture

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-13T21:51:06Z

June 30th 2014 - The day following the World Cup final in Brazil, the 6th BRICS Summit (initials for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will commence. Fortaleza and Brasilia will be the host cities of the meetings on July 14th, 15th, and 16th, which are to finally settle on a financial model with a new image under the slogan: "Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Solutions." Unlike the difference of Asian and South American initiatives of financial regionalization, the BRICS (…)

- Global / Global, politiques économiques / politicas economicas, finances / finanzas, banques / banca, BRICS

BRAZIL - Campaign Begins for Presidential Elections

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-13T21:47:21Z

The current president and candidate for reelection, Dilma Rousseff, will center her campaign under the phrase "With the power of the people". The main opposition, the social democratic senator Aécio Neves, will employ the simple action phrase of "Change Brazil".
This Sunday began, officially, the political campaign for presidential elections on the upcoming 5th of October. Nonetheless the main electoral candidate Dilma Rousseff, current president, has failed to perform any public acts. (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / élections / elecciones, Brasil, gouvernements / gobiernos, oppositions / oposiciones, partis politiques / partidos politicos

GUATEMALA - A Country Where the Defense of Rights Is Punished with Kidnapping, Imprisonment, Burial and Exile

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-06T23:38:39Z

This last 26th of June, in the northeast of Guatemala City, three leaders of the Committee of Rural Development (CODECA) were violently kidnapped by a group of people in normal dress that argued in the defense of the interests of ENERGUATE (brother to British ACTIS), distributor of electric energy in 19 regions of the country.
The kidnapped leaders are: Don Mauro Vay Gonón, co-founder and current coordinator of CODECA, Vice President Doña Blanca Julia Ajtun Mejía, and the organization's (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / justice / justicia, mouvements sociaux / movimientos sociales, Guatemala, entreprises / empresas, droit / derecho, paysans / campesinos

PARAGUAY - Natives Attain Restitution of Lands

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-06T23:37:57Z

June 3rd 2014 – Congress approved the expropriation 14,404 Hectares in favor of the Sawhoyamaxa community of the Enxet nation. The 21st of May added another historic day to the struggle of the Sawhoyamaxa community of the indigenous Enxet nation. That day the House of Representatives sanctioned the expropriation of law 14,404 Ha for the restitution of ancestral lands to the indigenous community in the region known as Loma Porã, the Western Region or the Chaco. The project had already been (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / peuples indiens / pueblos indígenas, droits humains / derechos humanos, Paraguay, État / Estado, pouvoir législatif / poder legislativo

LATIN AMERICA - The Need for a Sustainable Economy to Escape Underdevelopment

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-06T23:37:03Z

June 25th 2014 - We find it important to understand the new geopolitical reality in Latin America, immersed in a new level of history. In our previous article (not translated on this website) we spoke of the integration as an inherent reality to the changes in the region, where a new reality permits a unity in diversity, a political phenomenon that has allowed the isolation of the conflicts between nations, tripping up the plants of the US to try to intervene in the internal problems of (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / économie / economía, néolibéralisme / neoliberalismo, América Latina, développement durable / desarrollo sustentable, droites / derechas, Barómetro Internacional

PERU – The Grim Future of La Oroya

Riley Pentico — 2014-07-06T23:35:52Z

June 18th 2014 – Considered one of the most contaminated cities in the world, La Oroya depends on the mineral exploitation that has left grave effects on the population's health.
It all began one hundred years ago in 1922 when the La Oroya mine began to be exploited on a large scale. Since then this city has experienced a long history of contamination, fraud, indifference and manipulation. In 2012 Doe Run Peru (DRP), a US company owning the mind since 1997, opened its doors after three (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / Perú, ONGs, pollution / contaminación, État / Estado, mines / minería

GUATEMALA - When Mayans and Peasants Resist Dying for the Development of the “Developed”

Riley Pentico — 2014-06-28T21:14:51Z

The Mayans, equal to other aborigines of the world, are profoundly quiet and cozy, except when pain becomes too sharp. The contemplation, which is born from the interconnected silence with the environment, is a permanent act of the ever hospitable Mayan people.
This mysticism of the silent contemplation, was and is stigmatized by many as Mayan indolence, indifference and resignation. Guatemalan “Thinkers”, in their mental limitation and their obsession for “progress”, catalogued those and (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / peuples indiens / pueblos indígenas, Guatemala, capitalisme / capitalismo, « développement » / “desarrollo”, paysans / campesinos

CHILE - Shut the Gate to HidroAysén and Patagonia Celebrates

Riley Pentico — 2014-06-28T21:14:13Z

June 10th 2014 - On Monday the 10th, the Chilean government rejected HidroAysén's controversial project once and for all, after years of resistance from both environmental groups and affected communities that alerted the world of the destructive consequences to Patagonia. This project was to construct five central hydroelectric plants in the southern part of the country.
“It's a historic day”, affirmed Juan Pablo Orrego, an IPS international coordinator of Patagonia Without Dams, on (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / environnement / medio ambiente, énergie / energía, Chile, multinationales / transnacionales, gouvernements / gobiernos