Mexican Environmental Journalists Improve Coverage
By Talli Nauman
Note to our readers: The Americas Policy Program is pleased to announce the launch of a new series of Citizen Action Profiles on successful grassroots communication projects, supported by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). This comprehensive report on environmental reporting in Mexico details the obstacles environmental reporters have faced in bringing to light [...]
Read more →Obama’s Latin America Policy, Bolivia’s Referendum, Regional Financial Institutions
By CIP Americas
Note to our readers: I’ll be in Denver to cover the Democratic National Convention next week. As many reporters abroad have noted, this is a global election because of what’s at stake, especially in foreign policy. We’ve certainly noted the interest among our partners in Latin America, who despite the language barrier are often remarkably [...]
Read more →Democracy and Conflict: Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly, Federal Government and Departmental Autonomy Statutes
By crespo
Popular mobilization since 2000 has opened up the possibility of political and social change in Bolivia, based on a political project envisioned by social movements. Their critique centers on the privatization process at the core of the political-economic model implemented in Bolivia since 1985, characterized by the structural reforms dictated by the International Monetary Fund [...]
Read more →What did Bolivian Society Say Through the Recall Referendum?
By aguilar
Last Aug. 10, Bolivia finally voted in the recall referendum that had held the country in commotion for at least three months prior. That day, for the first time ever all citizens were called to cast a ballot—not to elect their rulers, but to ratify or revoke them midway through their terms. The results confirm [...]
Read more →Would There Be Change in Obama’s Americas Policy?
The great debate on how much—or how little—Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere has the price of the Bush national security strategy been higher, as the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers and an estimated one million Iraqis attest. But a [...]
Read more →An Introduction to Regional Financial Institutions in Latin America
For many years now particular attention has been paid to the large International Financial Institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Their repercussions in Latin America as in other regions are notorious, ranging from financing various infrastructure projects with serious social and environmental impacts, to support for private investment; from [...]
Read more →Haiti, Mexico Violence and Plan Mexico, Paraguay
By CIP Americas
New from the Americas Policy Program Haiti’s Compounding Food and Health Crises By Rupa Chinai Haiti today is a tragic case study of how developing nations can lose the sovereign right to ensure access to healthcare when they lose their right to local food self-sufficiency under globalization. Both crises have the same roots: the loss [...]
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