Biofuels and Small Farmers
By quintana
The biofuels boom is not just another trend or a passing fashion. It is the result of a new global food and energy cycle that entails very significant adjustments in our societies. The cycle of hydrocarbons as the almost exclusive source of energy is ending. So is the use of basic grains as a food [...]
Read more →Extending NAFTA, Venezuela, MST Congress, CAFTA
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas Extending NAFTA’s ReachBy Laura Carlsen Faced with opposition from the left and the right, George W. Bush, Felipe Calderon, and Stephen Harper met August 20-21 in Montebello, Canada to discuss the little-known second phase of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Declarations to the press acknowledged public concerns about [...]
Read more →The Persistent Confusion Between Growth and Development
Once again Latin America is confusing development with economic growth, and economic growth with increased investments and exports. These same ideas have come up again and again over the last 50 years, and although subjected to criticism to the point of losing credibility, they return again. To get beyond this confusion, it’s necessary to review [...]
Read more →Guatemala’s Kafta-esque Year
CAFTA went into effect a year ago in Guatemala and a number of regrettable things have happened since. To mention a few examples: 195 million Guatemalan Quetzals (equivalent to US$25 million) have been diverted from Ministry of Education funds to the civil aviation authority to extend an airport, which speaks volumes about the priority of [...]
Read more →Uruguay’s “Urban Landless” Fight for Housing Cooperatives
By Raúl Zibechi
Following almost four decades of struggle for urban land to build their houses, mutual-aid housing cooperatives confront the progressive government of President Tabaré Vázquez, which has criminalized occupations and bogged down loans. "We are facing people who know how to rule and know how to strike at unions," says secretary general of the Federation of [...]
Read more →Creating the Bases for a New World
By Raúl Zibechi
The largest social movement on the continent, and one of the most important in the world, held its 5th Congress in mid-June 2007 in Brasilia. Despite successful mobilization of masses of people and significant media impact, under Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government the movement faces strong challenges to activate its base against [...]
Read more →“NAFTA-Plus,” Migration, and the Future of North America
By lewis
This August 20th and 21st, President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderón will travel to the remote Canadian resort of Montebello, Quebec to confer with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the future of North America. Their agenda will be dominated by a little known "NAFTA plus" strategy they are calling the Security and [...]
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