The Failed Border Security Initiative
By Tom Barry
Something isn’t working. In late 2005 Michael Chertoff, the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), launched the "Secure Border Initiative" as the umbrella program for border control and immigration enforcement. The announced goal of SBI, described as "a comprehensive multiyear plan to secure America’s borders and reduce illegal migration," was to gain [...]
Read more →Mr. President: Calderon is not Mexico
President Obama’s visit to Mexico has produced vague and contradictory statements, centered on worn-out strategies. Many people who had hoped for a new approach that would seek to redress the inequities of the binational relationship will find little in these declarations to pin their hopes on. Obama began by enthusiastically endorsing President Felipe Calderon. He [...]
Read more →Fighting to Save Mexico’s Mangroves
The mangroves of Mexico are under growing pressure. Photo: Greenpeace. Standing in front of the Vicente Guerrero Elementary School as the children played, Obdulia Balderas recalls when she came to Zihuatanejo in the state of Guerrero more than 40 years ago. A young schoolteacher from the Guerrero town of Taxco, Balderas was haunted by the [...]
Read more →G-20: Round Two
By phillips
Brazil’s Lula da Silva and China’s Hu Jintao met in Londonat the G-20 summit. Photo: Xinhua/Lan Hongguang. In early April, the executives of 19 countries and the European Union traveled to London to confront a common challenge: rescue the global financial system. Mortgage lending "exuberance," repackaged as "toxic" securities, had been pumped into the veins [...]
Read more →April Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program
By ruizmarrero
Dear Readers, We are pleased to present a new series of short reports on subjects concerning biodiversity in the Americas. These reports, written by Carmelo Ruiz, our long-time collaborator on environmental subjects and an expert on the region, bring together information on the most significant threats to biodiversity as well as on grassroots resistance to [...]
Read more →50 Years of the IDB; On-Site Analysis in El Salvador; Biodiversity Report; Mexico’s Community Radios
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas The IDB—50 Years, Zero Reflection By Laura Carlsen At the end of March, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) celebrated its 50th anniversary in Medellin. The occasion presents an opportunity to revise concepts and move toward a fairer development model. IDB-funded projects implicitly propose solving poverty by expelling the poor from [...]
Read more →Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Crime and Drug Wars
By Tom Barry
Introduction Part One: Making Criminals of Immigrants Part Two: Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security Part Three: Breaking the Connections, Ending the Wars President Bush’s "war on terror" established the ideological rationale for the immigrant crackdown. But the campaign to detain and deport immigrants got its policy legs from two previous (and continuing) [...]
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