Guatemala and Costa Rica: In and Out of CAFTA
"Foreign exchange for traditional exports is increasing" announced the Periódico de Guatemala on April 25. It reported that the Bank of Guatemala announced an increase of 11.8% in traditional exports—sugar, coffee, bananas, cardamom—up to US$551.4 million. Furthermore, exports of industrial products—with added value—to Central America, grew by 43.8%. Finally, "the revenue of foreign exchange from [...]
Read more →Chile’s Mapuche People Struggle to Defend Land and Culture
By Raúl Zibechi
The Mapuche people, history, culture, and struggles have long been blanketed in silence. The few news items from southern Chile are almost always linked to repression or the Chilean government’s denunciations of "terrorism." The Mapuche suffer social and political isolation, and are left with few options beyond an arduous struggle for survival in rural areas [...]
Read more →Americas Program moves to CIP, Bad Immigration Bill, Bank of the South, Zoellick to the WB, Venezuela RCTV
By CIP Americas
Americas Program moves to the Center for International Policy Dear IRC Friends and Supporters, After nearly three decades of working to "make the United States a more responsible global leader and partner," the International Relations Center (IRC) has shut its doors. We are a little sad to see such a long run come to a [...]
Read more →Bank of the South: Toward Financial Autonomy
By Raúl Zibechi
The launch of the Bank of the South is an ambitious and strategic gambit in regional integration, one that could result in a truly regional development bank. Despite Brazilian concerns, this new institution is ready to be launched. "Positive," Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, concluded in a recent speech to the Argentine business association [...]
Read more →RCTV in Venezuela: The Power of the Media and Freedom of Expression
By navarro
When there’s a confession, you need no proof. On April 11, 2002—just a few days after the failed coup d’état against Hugo Chávez—Vice Admiral Víctor Ramírez Pérez, one of the organizers of the conspiracy, declared to the Venevisión television channel: "We had a lethal weapon: the media." He wasn’t lying. The media played a fundamental [...]
Read more →Brazilian Government Moves to Dam Principal Amazon Tributary
By switkes
In recent weeks, the Brazilian government has turned to the difficult task of building giant hydroelectric dams in the Amazon River. The project presents President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a major contradiction—between his ambitious economic development plan based on large-scale infrastructure, and the enormous social and environmental costs of the dams. On the [...]
Read more →Senate Bill a Step Backwards for Immigrant Rights
By Oscar Chacon
As I write this article, the U.S. Senate is engaged in a major policy debate about how to reform the obsolete, unjust, and deeply dysfunctional immigration policy currently in effect in the United States. Unfortunately, the proposal being debated, entitled "Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007," falls far short of what [...]
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