04/07/2009
Call Out for Help from the International Community
Our emergency international delegation to Honduras, organized from the United States by CODEPINK, Global Exchange and Non-Violence International, began its fact-finding mission in the wake of the June 28 coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya. By Medea Benjamin (02/07/09)
Present and future impact of the crisis
We need another definition of growth, of development, of prosperity, of civilization. This affects the fundamental aspects of human life in the planet: relation with nature, production of goods and services for life, socio-political organization and meanings of life and ethics. By François Houtart. (30/06/09)
Coup d’état in Honduras elicits International Condemnation
Today’s events in Honduras are a stark reminder of the not so distant past in Central America, where military and business elites ran roughshod over democratic processes. However, the strong and immediate regional and international condemnation of today’s coup, including by the US government, sets a new precedent. By Tom Loudon. (28/06/09)
El Salvador: Promises, Perils and Reality
Funes has generated trust and hope among the public like no other Salvadoran president, the first vital step in “reinventing” El Salvador, as he proposes. El Salvador urgently needs radical transformations, but Funes has not specifically promised these types of structural changes. By Danny Burridge. (22/06/09)
Digital TV Takes the Stage
On June 13, just after midnight, the United States produced the so-called “analog blackout,” which the hype has framed primarily as merchandise. Far from being a mere technical matter, it represents for our countries a serious possibility to advance the democratization of communication. By Osvaldo León. (19/06/09)
Is Caricom at Risk?
If the Trinidad and Tobago-Eastern Caribbean initiative were at the expense of the wider scheme of Caricom integration, I would continue to be opposed to it. But it is not. The alternative right now is continued malaise in CSME completion and continued inaction on reform of Caricom governance. By Norman Girvan. (12/06/09)
IMF Could Get Hundreds of Billions for European Banks
The exposure of European banks to the region is astoundingly large relative to their economies. Austria is off the charts with about 64 percent of GDP lent in Eastern Europe; Belgium and Sweden both have more than 20 percent, and Switzerland and the Netherlands are in double digits. This is where the IMF comes in. By Mark Weisbrot. (09/06/09)
Blood at the Blockade Peru's Indigenous Uprising
International solidarity with the Aidesep struggle will be central in deterring the predatory advance of the government and capital. The defense of Amazonia, as Peruvian clergy pointed out, “is not of the exclusive concern of Peruvian citizens but of all humanity." By Gerardo Rénique. (08/06/09)
Who Will Listen To The Voices of The Victims?
Since the problem is planetary, the solutions should also be planetary. The only planetary organism that exists is the UN, and it is she who should coordinate the collective efforts to confront the crisis, not the G-20. They have not been designated to represent the other 172 countries, the victims of the global crisis, whose voices are not heard. By Leonardo Boff. (30/05/09)
How can development be remodelled?
"Those who question development are no longer seen as eccentric; meanwhile new alternative ways for achieving well-being are emerging. The "day after" development has begun and we are facing a key moment in which to illuminate those other paths". Edition No. 445 of the Spanish-language magazine América Latina en Movimiento. (29/05/09)
The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth
We now stand before a new paradigm, centered in the Earth and in life. We are no longer mired in anthropocentrism, which failed to recognize the intrinsic value of each being, independent of the use we made of it. By Leonardo Boff (11/05/09)
Colombia: Shielding the Recession
The rapid fall of industrial production and sales in the first months of 2009 has cracked the media shield behind which the Colombian government attempted to hide the reality of economic recession in Colombia.
In reality industry was in decline since May 2008. By the second semester of 2008 the economy had completed two consecutive trimesters of decline and was therefore formally in recession. By Hector Mondragon. (07/05/09)
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