Militarism and Social Movement
By Raúl Zibechi
“Half of the country is in the hands of the paras,” Paula says by the candlelight in a bar in La Candelaria, the historic old town of Bogotá that has been declared a World Heritage Site. “Wherever they establish their domain, they impose strict rules on daily life and customs: the haircuts of the young [...]
Read more →Discerning the State of the World Social Forum After Five Years
By engler
It’s not Paris or Tokyo, Beijing or New York. Nor is it São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. Enthusiastic residents of Porto Alegre, Brazil will tell you that their modest city of 1.5 million people in the country’s deep South is “the last bastion of socialism and rock ‘n’ roll.” Indeed, stalls covered with black [...]
Read more →25 Years Reveal Myths of Privatized Federal Pensions in ChileLessons for Proposed U.S. Social Security Reform:
By riesco
The privatization of pensions in Chile enacted by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1981 has been hailed worldwide as a success story, and U.S. President George W. Bush recently said that it was "a great example" for social security reform in the United States. Some champions of Chile’s system make ideological arguments: It is [...]
Read more →Local Transparency Still Opaque for Many Mexican Communities
By mcvea
In June 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada responded positively to Mexican civil society and impressed the international community when he signed the nation’s first freedom of information act. Atypically crafted with input from non-politicians and approved unanimously by both chambers of Congress, the new transparency law is considered by many to be one of [...]
Read more →In the Crossfire: Mesoamerican Migrants Journey North
By pickard
The 16.6 billion dollar figure that Mexicans in the United States remitted home during 2004 is equivalent to US$45.5 million per day entering Mexico, overtaking the amount invested by foreign corporations, or income from tourism, or even net income from the sale of oil.7 Mexican migration to the United States is also broadening geographically. Today’s [...]
Read more →Federal Aquifer Bill Would Help Calm Troubled U.S.-Mexico Border Waters
By mchugh
Support on Capitol Hill for a new companion bill to a proposed U.S.-Mexico Trans-Boundary Aquifer Assessment Act (S. 1957) raises hopes of providing some $50 million over the next decade for the first effort to map groundwater resources flowing under the border. The bipartisan legislation promises to reduce widespread confusion over binational water management by [...]
Read more →CAFTA
The U.S. Congress and the Central American nations are currently considering the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Through CAFTA, Central American governments hope to attract new inflows of foreign direct investment. Washington promises that investment will start flowing if Central American governments agree to far-reaching investment rules. Central American governments want investment, and the U.S. [...]
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