25/05/2013
Declaration of the First Continental Assembly of Social Movements towards ALBA
From May 16-20, with the participation of more than 200 delegates from women's, campesino, urban, indigenous, student and youth movements, unions and agroecological organizations from twenty-two countries, the 1st Continental Assembly of Social Movements towards ALBA was celebrated. (Declaration). (23/05/2013)
Investment treaties: Nation-states on the tightrope
The May edition (485) of ALAI's Spanish language magazine América Latina en Movimiento examines investment treaties and the exorbitant demands that investor companies are filing against Nation States in arbitration tribunals; it also explores initiatives and proposals that are seeking to change this unfair system. (22/05/2013)
Three speeds of the crisis and its divergent paths
According to an IMF report, the crisis is becoming regionalized and moving from two to three speeds: 1) recession in Europe, 2) volatile rallying in emerging economies and 3) weak recovery in the United States. By Oscar Ugarteche Ariel Noyola Rodríguez (15/05/2013)
Brazil, the biggest extractivist in South America
Extractivism is the appropriation of huge volumes of natural resources or their intensive exploitation, most of them exported as raw materials to global markets. It seems to have gone unnoticed that by this definition the major extractivist in South America is Brazil. By Eduardo Gudynas. (12/05/2013)
The autumn of the Empire and of Capitalism
When the Empire is incapable of maintaining its hegemony by providing solutions to the systemic crises it has recourse to "exploitative hegemony" with all the violence and destruction that accompanies this. By Alberto Rabilotta (09/05/2013)
Guatemala: the state of siege, this time to protect Canadian investment
President Otto Perez Molina, a retired soldier, decreed, this past May 1, the second state of siege of his term in office. This time, it was to repress indigenous people, the Xinca, in Jalapa and Mataquescuintal and in Casillas and San Rafael Las Flores, and to protect the “investments” of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources. By Ollantay Itzamná. (08/05/2013)
WTO: Reuters attempts to disqualify Azevedo
Big Press is concentrated to serve global moguls on a global scale. The latest case is a Reuters dispatch from Brasilia, which tries to discredit Roberto de Azevedo, the Brazilian candidate that with the largest support reached the final round for the post of Director General of the WTO. By Umberto Mazzei. (03/05/2013)
Appraisal and outlook of the World Social Forum from Latin America
The first great spontaneous, popular rebellion at a national level against neo-liberal globalization was the Caracas Uprising of 1989. In 1992, a group of Venezuelan military rebels, led by Hugo Chavez, sought to give it a political expression. By Gustavo Codas.
(01/05/2013)
Guerrilla strategy of the right in Venezuela
The government of President Nicolas Maduro has to launch a political counter-offensive, centred on the area of public policies, ignoring the provocations and insults on the part of right-wing spokesmen and thus neutralizing the aggressive tactics. By Atilio Boron (30/04/2013)
WTO: The Road of de Azevedo
The WTO is in the process of electing a new director general, in a process that is far from transparent. The final candidates are the Brazilian Roberto de Azevedo and the Mexcian Herminio Blanco, who represent distinct interests. By Umberto Mazzei. (29/04/2013)
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